AOL announces it’s ending its dial-up internet service
AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer softwa...
Windows Settings and Control Panel: 13 years and counting
Remember the old Windows Control Panel? It’s still there, in your up-to-date Windows 11 installation, as a number of settings still cannot be changed in the “new” Settings application. In the latest Insider Preview for Windows 11 in the Dev Chann...
HandBrake 1.10 is Out with Discord-Friendly Conversion Presets
A new version of the powerful, and perennially popular open source video converter HandBrake is now available. In the seven months since the HandBrake 1.9 release delivered, among other changes, lossless VP9 encoding, the team building this free media ...
HandBrake 1.10 Released with Discord-Friendly 10MB Presets
HandBrake 1.10 adds Discord-friendly 10MB presets, fixes metadata passthru issues, and misc encoder improvements for Linux, Windows & Mac. You're reading HandBrake 1.10 Released with Discord-Friendly 10MB Presets, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RI...
“Why I prefer human-readable file formats”
Choosing human-readable file formats is an act of technological sovereignty. It’s about maintaining control over your data, ensuring long-term accessibility, and building systems that remain comprehensible and maintainable over time. The slight overh...
