Andrés Morales

Playa Phone is a real phone booth installed at Burning Man that replaced coins with VoIP: anyone can dial the public number and talk for free for 5 minutes with a stranger. We break down how it works internally and how to replicate the idea with open source software.

OpenShot 4.0 adds a Color View with wheels, curves, and LUT support, plus a Recording View that captures screen, camera, and audio separately. The open source editor also introduces local AI-powered masking and ten new effects. The update was announced on August 30, 2026.

A blog rescues rs1n’s Super Metroid guide, written in the late 90s without any software, where every line of monospace text closes exactly at the margin. We look at why justifying monospace text remains a problem poorly solved by software, and how to test it with your own script.

Haiku released R1/beta6 on August 26, 2026, nearly two years after beta5 and just a week after the project turned 25. The anyboot image is ready to install or try out in a virtual machine.

Kernel.org revealed that fourteen CPU cores, across five distinct nodes, are dedicated to rendering Linux commits into HTML just to satisfy AI crawlers. The Anubis proof-of-work proxy contained the problem for months, until the bots learned to solve even its hardest challenge.

QSB-118 fixes a flaw in qvm-copy-to-vm that allowed a compromised qube to inject arbitrary commands into Qubes OS’s dom0. The patch ships in qubes-core-dom0-linux 4.3.22 for Qubes 4.3.

California unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting Linux and software under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from its new digital age verification law. The amendment also fixes a drafting error that classified every device owner as a minor.