Intro
Hello everybody. This is Episode-24 of FalseTrue Digest.
Its being a while since I’ve posted last time. This is new set of of interesting articles I’ve found on internet since then. I’ve updated projects page on my blog https://falsetrue.io/projects/,
Stories
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/ - Blog post lamenting the loss of computing’s openness and agency, sparking wide debate on locked-down devices vs. earlier eras of transparency
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ - Vintage Computer Festival East 2026 themed “Dawn of the PC” features Ken and Roberta Williams of Sierra Online as keynote guests
https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/computer-history-museum-names-new-fellows-to-honor-lifetime-achievements-in-computing-3/ - Computer History Museum names 2026 Fellows including the Palm team, FM synthesis inventor John Chowning, and Brewster Kahle
https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/ - FOSDEM 2026 recap highlights open source sovereignty, the Cyber Resilience Act’s impact on maintainers, and Europe’s push for digital independence
Programming
https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future - Greptile argues economic incentives will push AI toward writing good maintainable code rather than low-quality slop
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding - Why vibe coding breaks down at scale and the case for shifting to spec-driven development over conversational prompts
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/java26-released/ - Java 26 released with 10 JEPs including structured concurrency, HTTP/3 client, and lazy constants
https://blog.herlein.com/post/programming-languages-intersection/ - Evaluating languages across popularity, job demand, LLM code-gen quality, concurrency, and deployment complexity
Emacs
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/04/07/stealing-from-the-best-emacs-configs/ - Survey of the best community Emacs configurations and useful tweaks to borrow from them
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/org-mode-tangle-emacs-config-snippets-to-different-files-and-add-boilerplate/ - Org Mode technique for tangling config snippets to multiple files with automatic boilerplate
https://github.com/krvkir/org-mindmap - org-mindmap: new package for creating simple inline mind maps directly inside Org buffers
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/04/06/the-many-faces-of-flet/ - Deep dive into cl-flet, cl-labels, and cl-letf for dynamic and lexical function binding in Emacs Lisp
https://github.com/CsBigDataHub/popterm.el - popterm.el: new package combining posframe with terminal emulator for quick popup shells in Emacs
AI
https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/state-of-os-hf-spring-2026 - State of Open Source on Hugging Face Spring 2026: users, models, and datasets all close to doubling year-over-year
https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/glm-5 - GLM-5: China’s first public AI company ships a frontier-class open model
https://dev.to/pooyagolchian/local-ai-in-2026-ollama-benchmarks-0-inference-and-the-end-of-per-token-pricing-32e7 - Local AI in 2026: Ollama hits 52M monthly downloads, benchmarks show local models closing the gap with cloud APIs
https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026 - Stanford’s AI Index for 2026 shows the rapidly narrowing gap between open and proprietary models
https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3 - One year since the DeepSeek moment: the future of the global open-source AI ecosystem
Security
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/critical-nginx-ui-vulnerability-cve.html - Critical nginx-ui authentication bypass (CVE-2026-33032, CVSS 9.8) allows unauthenticated full server takeover via exposed MCP endpoint
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/ - Feds disrupt Kimwolf IoT botnet that spread to over 2 million devices for massive DDoS attacks
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/adobe-patches-actively-exploited.html - Adobe patches actively exploited Acrobat Reader zero-day allowing malicious JS execution via crafted PDFs
https://www.picussecurity.com/resource/blog/cve-2026-3055-cve-2026-4368-inside-the-netscaler-citrixbleed-3-memory-overread - Deep dive into CitrixBleed 3, a critical unauthenticated memory overread in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway
Unix, Linux, BSD and free software scene
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.4-Released - FreeBSD 14.4 released with OpenSSH 10.0p2 post-quantum key exchange, OpenZFS 2.2.9, and bhyve p9fs sharing
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20260319125859 - OpenBSD PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier with 64-bit HFSC scheduler patch enabling traffic shaping up to 999 Gbps
https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-april-2026-iso-ships-with-kernel-6-19-and-systemd-260/ - Arch Linux April 2026 ISO ships with Linux kernel 6.19, systemd 260, and Archinstall 4.1
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Starts-Codeberg-Use - Gentoo begins migrating from GitHub to Codeberg over Microsoft Copilot objections
https://discoverbsd.com/p/6d0a33470d - NetBSD 11.0 RC2, OpenBSD 7.9-beta with delayed hibernation for amd64, and FreeBSD Linuxator CUDA support
Marginal, Indie, Selfhosted
https://fulghum.io/self-hosting - 2026 is the Year of Self-hosting: CLI agents like Claude Code now make self-hosting on home servers practical for regular users
https://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit - Rybbit, an open-source privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative with cookieless tracking, hits 11k GitHub stars
https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep - Karakeep (formerly Hoarder), a self-hosted bookmark-everything app with local LLM integration for auto-tagging
https://osmosetech.com/the-best-new-self-hosted-software-to-try-in-march-2026/ - New self-hosted software roundup: Docmost (Notion alternative), Beszel (server monitoring), BentoPDF (PDF toolkit)
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-01-21-what-is-the-web-revival-movement - The Web Revival Movement: grassroots indie web reviving link lists, 88x31 buttons, and personal shrines as alternative to algorithm-driven social media