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HTTP 308 Error – What It Is and How to Fix It

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HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect indicates that the resource the client is trying to access has been permanently moved to a new URL. When faced with an HTTP 308 error, the client should use the same request method and body when requesting the resource from the new URL.

This is in contrast to the 301 Status code “Moved Permanently,” where, if the initial request was POST, the browser can redirect the request to GET, for example. If this was not intended, then data can be lost from the POST method.

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[$] Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

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Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves
a range of power dynamics. Companies, developers, and users are all
concerned with the power to influence the direction of the software — and,
often, to profit from it. At the 2025 Open
Source Summit Europe, Dawn Foster talked about how those dynamics can
play out, with an eye toward a couple of tactics — rug pulls and forks — that
are available to try to shift power in one direction or another.

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements

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With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it’s looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.16 stable kernels.

Volla Phone Quintus Running Ubuntu Touch: Introduction to the Series

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This is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. In this series I’m going to explore the phone, and in particular, focus on its operating system in detail. I’ll explore the things I love about Ubuntu Touch as well as things that could be improved.

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Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release

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Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases. This indeed appears to have effectively spelled the end to their AMDVLK driver with Mesa’s RADV taking the cake…