cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/59281975

The Thinkpad x140e has an AMD 16h family chip codenamed “Kabini”. These chips have a PSP despite the 15h.org landing page statement:

…“It enforces no firmware signing (allowing things such as coreboot), can be booted entirely with free firmware (including memory initialization), and it requires no privileged management coprocessor (such as the Platform Security Processor or Management Engine, found on newer AMD and Intel platforms respectively).”…

How is it that this 16h machine can run coreboot-15h? My theory is that perhaps the PSP in the 16h chips was so new that it did not yet become a dictator of what firmware may boot. But I would rather not guess.

There's been a severe disruption in jio network since yesterday evening.

As a consumer of jio services, which is the most competitive provider of internet all over India, l should like to look at the options of moving out of the clutches of the big corps.

service-lookup lets you automatically port forward all the required Kubernetes pods that you need for local testing and updating your URIs in property YAML files recursively.

It is now also configurable, lets you automatically revert the files after cleanup, and caches namespaces for performance improvement.

The privacy-first Google Forms alternative to create and share surveys, without sharing your data with unwanted third-parties.

ZEReader is an open-source hardware and software E-Reader platform. Originally developed as my bachelor’s thesis in electrical engineering, it has since evolved into a dedicated hobby project. The goal is to create a hackable and customizable, microcontroller-based E-Reader platform.

Release: 9.7 [10 Apr, 2026] New features

Annotations browser: Allow grouping results by any field E-book viewer: Handle native pinch to zoom gesture on touchpads the same as the pinch to zoom on touchscreens. Default action is to change font size. Content server: Implement full offline mode when using HTTPS connections to the content server

Bug fixes

E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused annotations/last read information to not be saved in e-book files

Closes tickets: 2146912 AI: Make the GitHub backend a bit more robust

Closes tickets: 2147495 AI: OpenRouter backend: Fix reasoning level "auto" disabling all reasoning

Closes tickets: 2147008 Content server: Read book: Fix regression causing error during searching

Closes tickets: 2147261 Content server: Fix opening results from full text search not working

Closes tickets: 2146829 Fix a couple of minor regress in the new Full text search view introduced in the previous release MTP driver: Linux: Fix a rare crash when connecting devices with large collections Fix cover not being set when adding files to existing book records with no cover

New news sources

Cenital by Rodrigo Pazos

Improved news sources

The Week The Age Financial Times Mint

Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.

see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

Is this open source just in the context of Europe? Title and sidebar leave this up in the air.

Warm up your Z-machines, folks.

A fully Java-compatible superset language offering modern safety and expressiveness. With JPlus, you can enhance your Java code’s safety and expressiveness without rewriting it, while fully leveraging existing Java libraries and tools.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38271574

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.

For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47925046

90 Prozent aller Windows-Spiele laufen mittlerweile auch unter Linux