Hello

Somebody developed a Home Assistant integration for monitoring and managing sourdough starters

What timing, this came out yesterday: Louis Theroux’s 20 best documentaries: from Savile and Scientology to prisons and painkillers

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/10/louis-theroux-20-best-documentaries

I think he would agree with you that many don’t have good choices

He said the food available on high streets in places like Wigan or Blackpool was “completely different” to equivalent towns in France and it was not the fault of people living there when presented with “wall to wall” junk food.

The danger being raised with the licensing is that you can’t license something if you’re not considered to be the author. There are growing examples of courts and lawmakers determining AI output to be public domain:

The US Supreme Court recently refused to reconsider Thaler v. Perlmutter, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn a lower court decision that he could not copyright an AI-generated image. This is an area of ongoing concern among the defenders of copyleft because many open source projects incorporate some level of AI assistance. It’s unclear how much AI involvement in coding would dilute the human contribution to the extent that a court would disallow a copyright claim.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/

This is an evolving, global situation and hard to know what to do right now. I think what you’ve got is fine though - you’ve made it clear your intention is to license with AGPL. It’s just that depending on the jurisdiction it might be public domain instead.

This is another reason to be clear about the use of AI in the README so your users can make an informed decision.

I was curious how this is run, nice to see a clear explanation:

BigSwitch.eu is fully open-source. All data and code are hosted transparently on Codeberg. We encourage the community to contribute by submitting new tools, updating existing information, or improving the platform itself. Visit our Community Hub to learn how to get involved.

And

In the spirit of digital sovereignty, BigSwitch.eu is proudly hosted on Hetzner servers located in Finland.

The platform is developed and maintained by Sabrina Zaki, a Danish woman passionate about European tech independence.

Sounds good!

Bought during process of administration though, seems important but not in the headline. What a mess:

The way in which senior management have conducted themselves throughout this sales process has been nothing short of a national disgrace

Have you tried comaps? Once you login to OSM via settings it’s not too bad to edit places directly.

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-media-endorsements-guidance-for-content-creators/social-media-endorsements-being-transparent-with-your-followers

I’m not an expert but from this link it would appear to be covered by either the asa or the cma.

More here and new law since 2025 looks to be tougher:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/reviews-and-social-media-endorsements-what-businesses-and-content-creators-must-know

https://www.asa.org.uk/about-asa-and-cap/the-work-we-do/what-we-cover.html

They do already don’t they? There are some caveats but broadly speaking it seems you can complain to them.

The config file has some settings that might help

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/config/default.cfg

Such as

scale = 1.0                       ; GUI scaling factor, for improved compatibility with 4K displays

And maybe

; Enable Hi-DPI where supported, currently working only for testing.
hidpi = false

Finally

; Force a particular resolution. (If these are 0, the default is
; to keep the current desktop resolution in fullscreen mode or to
; use 1024x768 in windowed mode.)
xres = 0
yres = 0

Cave Story NX

https://gitlab.com/coringao/cavestory-nx/

It’s on flathub

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.gitlab.coringao.cavestory-nx

What happened?

https://strudel.cc/

What can you do with Strudel?

• live code music: make music with code in real time
• algorithmic composition: compose music using tidal’s unique approach to pattern manipulation

Interesting, some effort required to keep it on track:

Claude can be very persistent when it really wants to do something. I’ve seen Claude run the contents of a make command when make itself is blocked, or write a Python script to edit a file it’s been told it can’t edit. But hooks at least offer better enforcement than prompting alone.

The author assesses both Tidal and Spotify to be no longer under European influence:

To be clear from the beginning, Spotify was founded in Sweden but now operates within financial structures that place it firmly inside the global Big Tech ecosystem.

Similarly, Tidal was founded in Norway, but it now holds a marginal European market share of less than 1% and is controlled by American capital.

Both now operate within financial and corporate structures that place them outside the European sphere of influence. The cultural and economic centre of gravity is no longer European for these companies.

You’re not wrong to call them out, they have a plan to migrate:

Without meaning to, we would be contradicting the spirit of this newsletter. Something similar happened when we chose to host Choosing Europe on Substack. Regarding that subject we are still working on our own solution which is getting closer. It will likely be ready later in February or in early March.

There was a moment in time where maybe it was qmail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail

Ten years after the launch of qmail 1.0, and at a time when more than a million of the Internet’s SMTP servers ran either qmail or netqmail, only four known bugs had been found in the qmail 1.0 releases, and no security issues.

More on how it was accomplished:

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/17/some-thoughts-on-security-after-ten-years-of-qmail-1-0/

Wow that’s bad. The original idea of standing up, I understand, was to keep the meeting short through physical discomfort and only speak of blockers to progress or ask for help. It is not meant to report status, which can make people feel like they have to continually justify themselves and their work.

nmcli to support wireguard peers, nice

Don’t encrypt the drive, encrypt the backups and put your keepassdb alongside. Use restic or similar that encrypts backups.