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We are the European Society for Environmental History! Our society encourages the comparative study of European #EnvHist and fosters communication between all who share our interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment. You can read more about us on our About page: eseh.org/about-us/mission/
Our next conference will take place in Uppsala in August 2025: eseh2025.com #PinnedForReference #update #repost

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#Pinion #MGU #Ebike
Software Update Info Mail.
Pinion trötet leider nicht.

🚲 Für Pedelecs (25 km/h): Spürbar besseres Ansprechverhalten der MGU – sowohl beim Anfahren als auch beim erneuten Antreten während der Fahrt.

🛵 Für S-Pedelecs (45 kmh): Nachlauffunktion der Pinion MGU (nur über die #FIT E-Bike Control App aktivierbar).

🪳 und allgemeine #Bugfixes.

Das #Software #Update kann nur ein Händler ins #Fahrrad laden.

pinion.eu/#mgu

@mastobikes_de @fedibikes_de @pedelec_news

PinionPINION | Die Revolution der FahrradschaltungPinion Getriebe schalten die besten Fahrräder der Welt. Eine zuverlässige und wartungsarme Schaltung für dein Fahrrad: Im E-Bike, MTB, Trekking- oder Reiserad.
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#Update I'm now officially housing insecure.

Due to the kindness of a stranger I now have an affordable, stable, private space for the next couple months. This should allow me to focus a bit more cash and mental energy towards court in the short term.

This brings me within spitting distance of getting a high quality lawyer, can you donate a few bucks to help me over this first major hurdle?

Having a lawyer is a CRITICAL step to ensuring my right to a fair trial.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 1 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS enters ESM

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa was released on April 23rd, 2020, to give you an improved desktop experience. Since then, newer versions of Ubuntu, including Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin, were released to further improve the desktop environment and to enhance user experience.

We are sad to announce that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa has reached the end of standard support, which means that there will be no more package updates to be accepted to the main Ubuntu 20.04 package archives. This happened as of May 29th, 2025, when it was announced a month ago that this was the final date.

Canonical has started the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) program for Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa by extending the support date for security updates up to April 2030, further enhanced with the legacy support that spans two more years, which means April 2032. You can check the release cycle here.

In order to benefit from extra 5 years of security maintenance support, you’ll have to have a Ubuntu Pro subscription tied to your Ubuntu One account that your computer uses.

#2004 #2004LTS #news #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2004 #Ubuntu2004LTS #update

#Security fixes and other updates will be “orchestrated” by Redmond’s own #update tool.

#WindowsUpdate keeps #Windows updated (well, duh). It can also update some “other #Microsoft products,” if you let it. Soon, it’ll be able to do the same for other companies’ apps.

But WHY must #Microsoft misuse the concept of #orchestration to describe it? Messy musical metaphors aside, this seems like a good idea. In #SBBlogwatch, we wave a baton.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/ $MSFT

Security Boulevard · Microsoft Opens Windows Update to 3rd-Party AppsA breath of fresh air: Security fixes and other updates will be “orchestrated” by Redmond’s own update tool.

Samsung Galaxy A05s gets the One UI 7 update!

We are excited to announce that starting from today, users can now download the One UI 7 update to their Galaxy A05s smartphones as Samsung has finally released this exciting version of One UI. Your Galaxy has now become more powerful, amazing, and gorgeous as One UI 7 brings more powerful features and a redesigned appearance consisting of a simple, impactful, and emotive design.

Please note that only Thaliand and Vietnam have been selected as the first countries to obtain this update. However, the rollout will expand soon. This is going to be the last update for this phone series.

Please refer to news sources, such as SamMobile and Sammy Fans, for more rollout news for further devices (we will only cover A55, A35, A25, and A05 [A04e, A04, and A04s are not eligible]).

The firmware information states:

  • Galaxy A05s: DYE5

You can see the overview of what One UI 7 brings in the above linked article at the bottom section. Meanwhile, you can see a two-minute video trailer for One UI 7 highlighting its biggest features here.

https://youtu.be/P4AEIu3V6F4

To obtain the update, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Settings app
  2. Navigate to Software Updates
  3. Tap on Download and Install
  4. Wait until you see One UI 7 at the top of the page, then tap on Download
  5. Wait for the download to complete, then tap on Install

After you perform the above steps, your phone will be running One UI 7 based on Android 15, and you can enjoy its new features and with many improvements on place. This makes sure that your experience gets improved.

If you still didn’t get the update for your device, wait for a few days or a few weeks, then check for updates again. If you still see “Your software is up to date,” this means that the update didn’t reach your region yet.

Note that the update process may take 15 to 20 minutes, and this can vary from device to device. The download process may incur extra charges if you’re using the cellular network as the update size is around 5 GB, depending on the device, so we recommend downloading it through Wi-Fi. Never interrupt the update process in any way, or problems may occur. Make sure that your phone gets charged before you initiate the installation process.

Samsung updates the Galaxy Ring!

The smart rings that Samsung have introduced last summer have been updated again to the May update, which was released on May 26th in different regions, such as India. This happened after a week of releasing the same update to Korean units. You can identify the update with the following build number:

  • SM-Q50x: Q50XWWU2AYD1

To install the update to your smart ring, open Galaxy Wearable, navigate to your ring settings, and navigate to software updates. After that, you should be able to see information about this software update. The following changes were made:

  • Samsung Health
    • Support for “Activity consistency” to Energy Score. By properly managing your activity levels, you can maintain your energy.
    • Support for sleep environment management and report. Check your sleep report to set up your home into a better environment for healthy sleep. Use SmartThings to automatically control smart devices and create the optimal sleep environment. Update the Samsung Health app to the latest version (6.29.5).
  • Stability and reliability
    • The stability has been improved.

Make sure that your ring is fully charged before you attempt to do this update. Don’t turn off your phone, your Bluetooth, or your ring during the update process, or you might experience issues with it later. Your internet connection should be stable to avoid issues when updating your ring software.

One UI 8 Beta Program is now open!

One UI 8 has made a significant appearance, with new features and other improvements. We are very thrilled to announce that Samsung has recently opened the One UI 8 Beta Program in the following countries:

  • Korea
  • United States of America
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • India
  • Poland

This gives us a hint that the Beta Program is now open. Users should be able to try out One UI 8 in its earliest shape and form on their Galaxy S25 devices, including the base model, the Plus model, and the Ultra model.

Please note that Samsung might not have opened the Beta program in your country yet, even if your country is eligible for beta testing. In this case, you’ll have to wait for the beta banner.

To join the Beta Program, you must have the latest version of Samsung Members installed. You can get the latest version through either the Galaxy Store or the Play Store. Once done, you should be able to join the program if you have an eligible device.

Linux 6.16 yields improved EXT4 performance!

As part of the changes that are done in Linux 6.16, there are some of the very interesting changes that are done to the EXT4 filesystem. Those changes yield improved performance, causing you to have a faster EXT4 filesystem compared to the recently released Linux 6.15.

Those changes have been made to improve the filesystem performance, which will be pushed to the v6.16 development branch from this PR, including:

  • Fast commit performance improvements
  • Multi-fsblock atomic write support for bigalloc file systems
  • Large folio support for regular files

The large folio support for regular files was, in itself, a factor of the improvements, along with all other changes, which yielded over 37% performance increase according to the kernel test robot that made this report you can see here. According to the test robot, it has reported that it had noticed a 37.7% improvement on fsmark.files_per_sec.

The large folio support for regular files has been added with this patch, which checks for the following conditions in the ext4_should_enable_large_folio() function before enabling such support:

  • If i_mode on an inode is a regular file using the S_ISREG() macro
  • If either the data flags on the superblock or the inode flags has the journal data flags
  • If the superblock has no verity and has no encryption support

Also, Linux 6.16 fixes some corruption bugs on an EXT4 file system caused by race conditions in the extent status tree. Those race conditions were potentially manifested from the heavy simultaneous allocation and deallocation to a single file.

Expect the first release candidate of Linux 6.16 in the next two weeks!

AlmaLinux 10 follows RHEL 10!

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, AlmaLinux have followed the lead by releasing the newer version based on that version of RHEL, called AlmaLinux 10 “Purple Lion.” It utilizes the infrastructure of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to give you a popular community Linux OS alternative. Now, AlmaLinux is more secure and powerful with the latest packages on the way.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 requires your processor to be at the x86_64-v3 baseline, but AlmaLinux 10 doesn’t seem to require this baseline. Those who have an old PC with at least an x86_64-v2 processor can use AlmaLinux 10.

AlmaLinux 10 is fully compatible with RHEL 10, which is good news. Additionally, ARM computers can now enjoy UEFI Secure Boot, which makes your computer more secure. You can still use SPICE in this version of AlmaLinux, despite RHEL 9 deprecating it.

For developers, you can now use AlmaLinux 10 with frame pointers to improve your software development experience, especially when it comes to application debugging and diagnosis. You can now profile the application performance in real time to find performance bottlenecks in any workload.

More devices have been supported in AlmaLinux 10, which went unsupported in RHEL 10. Anyone with such devices can now use this version of AlmaLinux to continue using those devices.

Are you excited for AlmaLinux 10? Download it now!

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As much as I love all the improvements that come with Mill 1.0.0-RC1, I think we really fucked up the migration experience.

I'm really sorry about that! If you are in trouble when migrating your build from an older Mill version, please reach out and I (we) try to help you.

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Mill is a fast JVM build tool that supports Java, Scala, Kotlin and many other languages. 3-6x faster than Maven or Gradle for common workflows, Mill aims to make your project’s build process perfo...
GitHubmill/changelog.adoc at main · com-lihaoyi/millMill is a fast JVM build tool that supports Java, Scala, Kotlin and many other languages. 3-6x faster than Maven or Gradle for common workflows, Mill aims to make your project’s build process perfo...