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	<title>jake &#8211; Noise</title>
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		<title>[$] Hash-based module integrity for reproducible distributions</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/10/21/hash-based-module-integrity-for-reproducible-distributions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We last looked in on hash-based integrity
checking for kernel modules just over a year and half ago.  Since that time,
the patch
set has undergone multiple revisions.  At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference
(LPC),  Thomas Weißschuh described the need fo...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>[$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/10/14/collaborating-with-out-of-tree-tracers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a
bit trapped in something of a catch-22.
At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference
(LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to
collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>[$] Python&#8217;s two modules for random numbers</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/10/06/pythons-two-modules-for-random-numbers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Python's random
and secrets
modules both include utilities for obtaining random values, but only one of them is suitable for generating passwords and security tokens.
For much of Python's history, random was used for passwords and tokens anyway, despit...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/30/comparing-chromium-development-at-google-and-igalia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser
and now works on it at Igalia.  On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a
presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing and
contrasting the ways the each...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Tuesday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/29/security-updates-for-tuesday-303/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit-image-builder, expat, ipa, kernel, kernel-rt, resteasy, ruby, ruby4.0, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (dovecot, flatpak, glance, kernel, libdbi-perl, lxml, rsync, swift, and wordpress), Fedora (c...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Git v2.56.0 released</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/28/git-v2-56-0-released/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Version 2.56 of the Git distributed
version-control system has been released.  It has 748 non-merge commits
since Git 2.55 was released back in
June; those commits came from 104 developers, 39 of whom are first-time
contributors.  New features include ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Monday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/28/security-updates-for-monday-303/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, ipa, kernel, libxml2, perl-DBI, python-cryptography, thunderbird, and unbound), Debian (chromium, evolution-data-server, exim4, ghostscript, incus, lemonldap-ng, libheif, nodejs, php8.4, ruby-oj,...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Tuesday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/22/security-updates-for-tuesday-302/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://lwn.net/Articles/1096022/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util, corosync, curl, freerdp, gstreamer1-plugins-base, libarchive, libtiff, libxml2, openexr, openssh, rsyslog, sudo, tomcat, unbound, webkit2gtk3, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), D...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Igalia celebrates &#8220;Twenty-Five Years Upstream&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/21/igalia-celebrates-twenty-five-years-upstream/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an
announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects
for its clients.  The list of projects the company has worked on is rather
eye-opening: WebKit, mobile-browser rendering (on Ma...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Three new stable kernels</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/21/three-new-stable-kernels-10/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.2.7,
6.18.53, and 6.12.111 stable. As is usual these days, they are
quite large; also no surprise is that they provide many important fixes
throughout the kernel tree.  Users of those kernels are advised to update.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Monday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/21/security-updates-for-monday-302/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, perl-Net-DNS, sudo, tomcat, and tomcat9), Debian (chromium, gimp, libde265, libevent, linux-6.12, ruby-jwt, and unbound), Fedora (asterisk, chromium, doctl, dovecot, evolution, firefox, forgejo, f...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc4</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/21/kernel-prepatch-7-3-rc4/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3-rc4
kernel prepatch.  It is, unsurprisingly at this point, large: "We all know the drill by now: 'it's big, yadda yadda'".]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>[$] Ways to encrypt data on servers</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/16/ways-to-encrypt-data-on-servers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the 2026 edition of FOSSY, Romeo
Solano gave a fast-paced, humorous presentation on what could have been a
rather boring topic: server encryption.  There are a number of threats that
we face in today's world, from criminals, government overreach, es...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Typst makes big strides</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/09/typst-makes-big-strides/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Typst is a system for typesetting documents
into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at
handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last  looked
in on Typst a year ago, wh...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/04/deterministic-testing-for-multithreaded-python/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably over
the last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language.  But
testing multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because the
underlying host syst...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/26/an-ongoing-3d-printer-agpl-violation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At FOSSY 2026, several people from the
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC),
which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing
violation of the Affero General Public
License version 3 (AGPLv3).  Bradley Kühn, Karen Sandler, and Denver
...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Representing Python paths using pathlib</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/19/representing-python-paths-using-pathlib/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the outset of his PyCon US 2026
talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing
filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib
instead.  That's kind of a tall order, at least for longtime Python users,
since string-based ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Bootstrappable builds: how and why</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/17/bootstrappable-builds-how-and-why/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year's edition of the Free and Open
Source Software Yearly conference, better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the
beautiful (and enormous) campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC)
in Vancouver, Canada from its home for the three previou...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] FUSE status and plans</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/05/fuse-status-and-plans/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://lwn.net/Articles/1086336/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Filesystem in
Userspace (FUSE) maintainer Miklos Szeredi led a birds-of-a-feather
(BoF) discussion about the subsystem at
the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit.  In it, he talked about
maintenance challenges, proposed fe...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Buffer sizes for FUSE io_uring</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/03/buffer-sizes-for-fuse-io_uring/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://lwn.net/Articles/1085618/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The Filesystem in
Userspace (FUSE) subsystem provides a way to service filesystem
requests from a user-space server, which moves the format-handling code out
of the kernel.  The FUSE server can use the io_uring
facility for better performance, but Bern...]]></description>
		
		
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