Today the last patent for MPEG 4 Part 2 Visual finally expired.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_Visual_expired_yet%3F

#NoSoftwarePatents #OpenCodecs #MPEG4

Hey, everybody? I get that it's frustrating when Codeberg is down. But please remember that it's a community project, and that the expectation of "everything is up 100% of the time" was created by exactly those tech companies that were killing off communities for the past 20 years. 100% uptime was never true before Facebook/Google/etc. came around, not even close.

And it's even more difficult to keep things up nowadays; there is *so much more* malicious traffic coming from the internet now than back then, especially since the rise of LLM scrapers.

So if you want Codeberg to be down less often, might I suggest reaching out to them about volunteering instead? Not right now, because they're probably pretty busy getting things back up, but once things have been stabilized a bit. Then you yourself can help improve the uptime!

#Codeberg

Who’s responsible for bug reports on old software versions?

pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions

Consider this hypothetical: An operating system (OS) ships version 1.5 of a piece of software. Meanwhile, the latest version of that software is 3.0. A user on that OS experiences an issue in version 1.5, or has an idea for a new feature. Who should they…

@domi This reminds me of Microsoft servers trying to scrape my website by trying to lookup weird urls: https://berkeley.edu.pl/notice/B3TdAoZFIHjCJa2dTE

so i look into why my logs are so enormous. i shouldn’t have left them as verbose for 1.5 months but they also shouldn’t have grown to EIGHT GIGABYTES. and most of my recent log lines are something like

Jul 04 13:36:22 msg="Limit of simultaneous TCP connections reached - raise max-tcp-connections" prio="Warning"

this, but 15 times a second… Which usually means that we’re under attack. but it’s a very lousy attack, i can’t even see it on the graph, so they’re only really causing some disruption to TCP connections, not UDP. and most of DNS is UDP, that’s why I’m only noticing right now.

anyways. ss -tulnap | grep 53 shows a lot of connections with addresses that begin with 2a03:2880. | wc -l says 273, from maybe 5-6 different hosts. and, my dear comrades, can you guess who owns 2a03:2880::/32?

inet6num:       2a03:2880::/40
netname:        PRN
country:        US
admin-c:        RD4299-RIPE
tech-c:         RD4299-RIPE
status:         ASSIGNED
mnt-by:         fb-neteng
mnt-by:         facebook-neteng
created:        2020-03-11T00:33:38Z
last-modified:  2020-03-11T00:33:38Z
source:         RIPE

that’s right! facebook! and after a preliminary check, we’ve seen this same exact thing on at least one other #SERVFAIL nameserver

in “completely unrelated news”: i “slipped” in my kitchen and executed ip6tables -I INPUT -s 2a03:2880::/32 -j DROP as root on sakamoto i’m so sorry (not sorry). and through the power of ip6tables… suddenly my TCP limits aren’t reached anymore. CURIOUS

if you didn’t have enough reasons to hate meta: FUCK META

@kde @kde Does the TV run kde plasma bigscreen? :P

@aks @baralheia And also against the fact that 99% of their models are trained on stolen material

@aks @baralheia hah a friend has once made her own AI model trained exclusively on her IRC logs (with names scrubbed of course). It wasn't useful, but it was fun, kept doing funny jokes from what I recall.

Really, I'm not against the *technology* itself. I'm against the AI companies trying to takeover the world with this.

@noisytoot It's an eventually consistent blockchain

@aks oh yeah he's just a troll, with history of pretending to be a flatpak maintainer and basically creating drama, thinking it is funny to do so.

Today I got compared to RMS, what a world: https://scalie.zone/@aks/116857138145245913

Just to make it clear, I do not eat my own toe skin.

Yes, I blocked them now, I am just bit saddened by this whole thread. I did not expect someone more "prominent" like that just outright start trolling.

@fossdd you have the entirety of aports installed on your computer, no wonder it's 40 gigs :P

@longnoserob @fun Indeed, you can. Looks like there was a misconfiguration and everything under /pub was removed; it is now being restored. https://lwn.net/Articles/1081015/

@lwn @longnoserob Thank you LWN :)

Step 1: Tell Claude to rewrite a project in Rust for literally no reason
Step 2: Tell Claude to write a post about it because you no longer know how to
Step 3: Bask in the glory of the achievement

It’s so hard to turn off Apple Intelligence with macOS 27 and iOS 27.

You can’t turn off Apple Intelligence with one switch. You can turn off “reply suggestions” on macOS, but not on iOS. Things you type with “smart event details” turned on (default) in Calendar may not make it into the event.

I used to be able to create a new event, and typing would match against prior events. A past event named identically would inherit the same time. Now, it doesn’t!

Now that’s what I call “intelligence”!

For some reason the entirety of kernel releases got nuked from cdn.kernel.org?

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel used to host kernel release tarballs. Now it's a 404.

Someone emailed helpdesk@kernel.org and they said they're resyncing, but does anyone know what happened there?

LoongArch Pi Zero, absolute cinema

Had a user come into #nouveau today, because colors were oversaturated, very bright green (using Mate)

A bit back and forth, and we found it was the TV switching to a "vivid" color profile

As a thank you, they told a little story:

Back in the days they were working in a TV shop and there was this customer complaining about a "green tint" on their home cinema system. Customer brought it back into the store. Tried with a demo DvD, perfect colors. Turns out, the customer was watching the matrix