Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 907 for the week of August 24 – 30, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here. In this issue we cover: Questing Snapshot 4 released Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Other Meeting Reports Upcoming Meetings and Events Discover the Pre-UbuConLA 2025 Agenda – Now Available […]| Ubuntu Fridge
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 906 for the week of August 17 – 23, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.| Ubuntu Fridge
Water scarcity is a real and daunting problem in many parts of the world. It comes as no secret that making clothes requires water, leaving the textile industry in a bit of a bind to address this issue.| HBI Sustainability
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 905 for the week of August 10 – 16, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here. In this issue we cover: Questing (to be 25.10) now in Feature Freeze Ubuntu Release Management Newsletter – August 2025 Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Rocks Public Journal; 2025-08-12 […]| Ubuntu Fridge
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.| Ubuntu Fridge
Just a short post, because I thought this was pretty remarkable. Below, I have screenshots showing the CPU utilization of two AWS instances in us-west-2 which are running an identical workload. The…| Ardent Performance Computing
"This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found."| Writers Review
HBI volunteers in Costa Rica clean up more than 600 pounds of plastic, glass and other non-biodegradable materials at Tivives Beach, a protected natural area known for abundant vegetation along its coastline.| HBI Sustainability
More than 50 HBI volunteers contribute to the reforestation of the Chanmico Protected Natural Area located in San Juan Opico, El Salvador.| HBI Sustainability
As part of our ongoing commitment to protecting our local communities and ecosystems, almost 100 volunteers from our Dos Rios facility in the DR joined forces to clean the dam area, filling more than 200 bags of waste in two days.| HBI Sustainability
What we see on our screens is inextricably linked to their constituent components, even though these are opaque to us. Tracing the materiality of the red pixel to expose the infrastructures and policies of the digital and ecological transition connects abstract technological consumption and deferred toxicities, geopolitical control and contested ecosystems. Europium,Symbol, Euatomic number, 63metal […] The post From the Pixel to Rare Earths appeared first on CCCB LAB.| CCCB LAB
What if the root cause of our current crises were the disconnect between humans and the Earth? In recent times, the Gaia Theory has gained scientific and social traction. This hypothesis, proposed by James Lovelock, views the planet as a living, self-regulating system. This would mean our survival requires a planetary consciousness that recognises the […] The post Out of the Bunker appeared first on CCCB LAB.| CCCB LAB
Faced with a mute, sleeping world, another form of resistance emerges – the resistance of body, rhythm and memory.| CCCB LAB
Last Updated on July 16, 2025 by Avia Unless you’ve been living under a rock (no judgment. My secondary address is under a sweet piece … The post Symbolic and Spiritual Meaning of Planetary Alignments appeared first on Whats-Your-Sign.com.| Whats-Your-Sign.com
A few tips to show how I manually compile stuff.| Felipe Contreras
Adopting the perspective of a wild boar can help us to understand our current socio-ecological situation and rethink how we live alongside other species.| CCCB LAB
There are many myths about X and Wayland, here I debunk the most common ones.| Felipe Contreras
I ask Enrico Weigelt — the maintainer of the new XLibre fork — a couple of questions about the status and future of Xorg/XLibre.| Felipe Contreras
Policies for integrating nature into cities are often developed with health in mind. But the creation of urban green spaces tends to favour certain aesthetic and social ideals while leaving out unexpected or marginal forms of nature. Beyond domestic greenery, a multi-species city must embrace coexistence with diverse forms of life. In his book The […] The post More-Than-Green Cities appeared first on CCCB LAB.| CCCB LAB
Collation torture test results are finally finished and uploaded for Debian. The test did not pick up any changes in en_US sort order for either Bullseye or Bookworm 🎉️ Buster has glibc 2.28 so it …| Ardent Performance Computing
The digital age has brought unprecedented convenience for photo storage. Yet, many environmentally conscious individuals still value the tangible experience of physical photo collections. Creating a sustainable photo book offers a responsible way to preserve cherished memories while minimizing environmental impact. Whether documenting a nature retreat, celebrating milestones in an eco-friendly home, or capturing sustainability […] The post 7 Eco-Conscious Approaches to Creating Sustainabl...| Sustainable Review
On February 25, 2025 Christoph Berg committed the patch: This closed Debian bug 927182 which had been opened in April 2019 by Laurence Parry. That bug had raised concerns over the significant size increase of adding LLVM as a requirement to support Postgres JIT functionality. Postgres supports packaging LLVM as a separate optional package without … Continue reading →| Ardent Performance Computing
Many enterprise workloads are being migrated from commercial databases like Oracle and SQL Server to Postgres, which brings anxiety and challenges for mature operational teams. Learning a new database like Postgres sounds intimidating. In practice, most of the concepts directly transfer from databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Transactions, SQL syntax, explain plans, connection management, … Continue reading →| Ardent Performance Computing
There are four major components to being a good benchmark engineer: Apparently it’s benchmark week in the Postgres world. I only have two data points but that’s enough for me! First data point: I’m visiting Portland. This Thursday Aug 22, the Portland Postgres Users Group (PDXPUG) is having a meetup where Paul Jungwirth is going … Continue reading →| Ardent Performance Computing
TLDR: I was starting to think that the best choice of default DB collation (for sort order, comparison, etc) in Postgres might be ICU. But after spending some time reviewing the landscape, I now think that code-point order is the best default DB collation – mirroring Db2 and Oracle – and linguistic sorting can be … Continue reading →| Ardent Performance Computing
PostgreSQL “extensions” are a big part of what makes this database special. The developers building the core Postgres database are amazing. But many people don’t realize just how much of a “data platform” Postgres is (borrowing this phrase from something Craig Kerstiens recently posted online) and just how decentralized the development is for PostgreSQL’s capabilities. … Continue reading →| Ardent Performance Computing
This option didn’t seem super widely documented from my initial searches online; it should be able to basically enforce layer 4 ingress/firewall rules at the individual service level. This is…| Ardent Performance Computing
Straws are back in the spotlight, with Donald Trump’s #backtoplastic proclamation, just when the University of New Mexico detects quantities of microplastics in the human brain equal to the content of a tablespoon. 1) Plastics and microplastics The serial use of plastic materials in single-use applications – from cups, straws and packaging (food and non-food) […]| FoodTimes
I explain why !p isn’t just a nitpick in C: it’s idiomatic.| Felipe Contreras
The possible inclusion of Ukraine in the EU raises a big question mark with respect to the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC).| FoodTimes
I’ve had a wish list for a few years now of observability-related things I’d love to see someday in community/open-source Postgres. A few items from my wish list: Wait event counters an…| Ardent Performance Computing
Ο πλανήτης είναι το δώρο της φύσης σε όλα τα πλάσματα που κατοικούν σε αυτόν. Πρέπει να τον αγαπάμε και να τον φροντίζουμε, γιατί χάρη σε αυτόν υπάρχουμε εμείς και οι επόμενες γενιές. Είναι στην πραγματικότητα το σπίτι μας, το σπίτι που μας φιλοξενεί και θα συνεχίσει να φιλ...| When Helen Cooks
HanesBrands is proud to announce it has surpassed its Science-Based Targets (SBT) for carbon emissions seven years ahead of schedule. The company set ambitious near-term SBT goals to reduce greenhouse gas and has achieved those goals.| hbisustains.com
During HanesBrands’ first-ever Tivives Beach Cleanup Day, more than 1,500 pounds of non-recyclable waste and 100 pounds of recyclable waste were gathered from the shore.| hbisustains.com
As Joe Drumgoole said a few days ago: so many Postgres providers. Aiven, AWS, Azure, Crunchy, DigitalOcean, EDB, GCP, Heroku, Neon, Nile, Oracle, Supabase, Tembo, Timescale, Xata, Yugabyte… 🤯…| Ardent Performance Computing
Fermi’s Paradox is a huge problem at the heart of our understanding of the universe. Aliens should be everywhere, but as Fermi said: “Where is Everybody?”| Historic Mysteries
All programmers use the modulo operator, but virtually none have stopped to consider what it actually is, and that’s why one of the most powerful features of it doesn’t work in most pro…| Felipe Contreras
Millions of people around the world will be pledging to do their part for our planet this month by signing up for "Plastic Free July". But in fast-paced, hyper-urbanised cities is living plastic-free actually possible? Read on for a practical guide to living sans plastic. In July 2022, India bans 19 single-use plastic items to| greenisthenewblack.com
You can cut-and-paste the following commands to quickly get a new & clean dev environment for working with PostgreSQL source code. This includes Michael Paquier’s powerful script kit for …| Ardent Performance Computing
These space theme number sequencing worksheets will capture your students’ imagination and have them mastering number order 1 to 20 in no time. Grab your cut and paste worksheets now! Read the full post: Number Sequencing Worksheets to Countdown (Or Up!) Into Outer Space| Kool Kids Games
The new tablet UI for Firefox on Android is now available on Nightly and, soon, Aurora! Here’s a quick overview of the design goals, development process, and implementation.| Lucas Rocha
I am really excited to announce that I’m joining Facebook in January! I’ll be bootstrapping Android UI efforts—frameworks and user-facing stuff—in the London office. There are still a lot of details to sort out but that’s the general plan.| Lucas Rocha
I joined Mozilla 3 years, 4 months, and 6 days ago. Time flies!| Lucas Rocha
Up until now, Probe relied on dynamic view proxies generated at runtime to intercept View calls. Although very convenient, this approach greatly affects the time to inflate your layouts—which limits the number of use cases for the library, especially in more complex apps.| Lucas Rocha
I’ve always been a big fan of Picasso, the Android image loading library by the Square folks. It provides some powerful features with a rather simple API.| Lucas Rocha
We’ve all heard of the best practices regarding layouts on Android: keep your view tree as simple as possible, avoid multi-pass layouts high up in the hierarchy, etc. But the truth is, it’s pretty hard to see what’s actually going on in your view tree in each UI traversal (measure → layout → draw).| Lucas Rocha
With all the recent focus on baseline grids, keylines, and spacing markers from Android’s material design, I found myself wondering how I could make it easier to check the correctness of my Android UI implementation against the intended spec.| Lucas Rocha
What if writing custom view recycling layouts was a lot simpler? This question stuck in my mind since I started writing Android apps a few years ago.| Lucas Rocha
If you ever built an Android app, you have definitely used some of the built-in layouts available in the platform—RelativeLayout, LinearLayout, FrameLayout, etc. They are our bread and butter for building Android UIs.| Lucas Rocha
One of the biggest highlights of the Android KitKat release was the new Transitions framework which provides a very convenient API to animate UIs between different states.| Lucas Rocha
By Luke Powers The planet now known as TOI-3785 b was observed in 2019 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS observed periodic dips in the star’s brightness (known as a transit)…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
The TESS Mission For the past five years, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed the sky searching for new planets orbiting our closest stellar companions. To accomplish t…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
The Discovery For the past four years alongside the HPF survey to discover new exoplanets, we have also been using HPF to follow-up on planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Su…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #014 is about PostgreSQL Events, and it’s a great time to give an update about the Seattle Postgres User Group where I’ve been working together with lon…| Ardent Performance Computing
A couple of weeks ago, satellite imaging company Planet launched a flock of 48 ‘Doves’, their low cost imaging satellites. They managed to capture imagery of the launch from one of the Doves already in orbit: Read more about it on the Planet blog. As far as we know, this is a satellite imaging first. […]| Google Earth Blog
Hello, let me introduce myself. Today, we’ll pretend that I’m a linguistics researcher. I don’t know much about databases, but I do know a lot about the Balti language of northern…| Ardent Performance Computing
My recent ban shows how Codes of Conduct easily turn a community authoritarian.| Felipe Contreras
