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Has anyone tried Amber for writing bash scripts? Would you recommend it?

In short, Amber is a programming language with Rust like syntax that compiles down to bash. More details here: amber-lang.com On the surface, it seems nice. Cleaner syntax, types, compile-time safety checks, etc. So you get to write in something nicer than bash but get the portability of bash. My wonder is if there are pitfalls that make it worse than instead writing it in something like Python or even bash itself. I’d guess the generated bash code probably isn’t the prettiest to look at or...

Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Roadmap: Building toward Ubuntu 28.04 LTS

Some of the more interesting points: transition from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker package-agnostic App Center simplified installation experience that dramatically reduces complexity during partitioning and storage configuration new onboarding experience that moves personalization and system setup into a dedicated first-boot experience. Rather than asking users to make every decision during installation on-device speech-to-text engine integrated as a native desktop input method, providing a found...

EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/61432212 95% of Plasma 6.6 users use Wayland!

labwc 0.20.0 Released

Sway 1.12 Released

Single-Click Code Execution Exploit for Evince, Atril, and Xreader

Why are Flathub downloads so slow sometimes? (Blog Post)

This is a follow up to: barthalion.blog/flathub-internals-cdn/ The blog was not loading for me earlier, so here’s a copy: It’s probably not your fault. On a cache miss, there are two things a reverse proxy (which Fastly is to us) can do. It can make the client wait until the proxy itself fetches the requested content and then serve it, with subsequent requests being served from the cache. From a user’s perspective, it means staring at “hung” process, and people tend not to be understandin...

Managing System Extensions with sysextmgrcli

How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer

Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use

ssh-keysign-pwn - Read root-owned files as an unprivileged user

Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

More info: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056110

Automatic brightness in Plasma - Xaver's blog

plasma-login-manager: Weaknesses in plasmaloginauthhelper (CVE-2026-25710)

The fix: invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/…/127

Union: Spring 2026 Update | Quantum Productions

KeepSecret 1.1 | Mart (the new password management application / Secret Service / kwallet replacement)

Ubuntu/Snap Permissions Prompting: A Deep Dive

Monthly News – April 2026 – The Linux Mint Blog

Here's an easy way to handle multiple Firefox profiles on Linux

On my system, I wanted Firefox profiles to feel like their own browser instances. Meaning, their own app icons and to not be grouped together. Almost like how it is on MacOS. To do this, I had to make multiple .desktop files. Here are the contents of that file. This targets flatpak, but it should work for traditional Firefox installs too. I called this profile “Personal”. Note that this says –profile “/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal”. In this, “...

plasma-login-manager: Weaknesses in plasmaloginauthhelper (CVE-2026-25710)

The fix: invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/…/127

Three years of Rusty sudo - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting - Analysis of Rust Coreutils (uutils) Bugs

I’m not writing this to criticize the uutils team. Quite the contrary; I actually want to thank them for sharing the audit results in such detail so that we can all learn from them.

What’s New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora Linux 44 - Fedora Magazine

Fedora Asahi Remix 44 is now available - Fedora Magazine

Sealed Fedora Atomic Desktop bootable container images - Fedora Magazine

The Fedora Linux 44 Release is Here! - Fedora Magazine

The future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager (VP Engineering)

Progress Report: Linux 7.0 - Asahi Linux

Automatic brightness in Plasma - Xaver's blog

This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency

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