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Wed 04 March 2026

Today: Host Europe gets rid of IPv6 – converting LGPL to MIT via Claude? – new ThinkPads 10/10 on iFixit – Prodigy wins second Emmy – 10 % of Firefox crashes are faulty hardware – Toad sings Chandelier – new Archive album

  • Host Europe is migrating users to cPanel and takes away IPv6:

    IPv6 is not available on the cPanel platform, so this feature is not available.

    People are telling me that this isn't actually true and cPanel does support IPv6. I've never used cPanel and can neither confirm nor deny this. 🤷‍♂️ (via Fink)

  • Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's chardet character detection library, had Claude rewrite the project's entire codebase to make it MIT- instead of LGPL-licensed (starting from version 7). Yeah, right, because LLMs aren't a GPL violation. I've ranted on Mastodon about this, if you're interested. (via Morten Linderud)

    Update: The original author chimes in.

    Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank the current maintainers and everyone who has contributed to and improved this project over the years. Truly a Free Software success story.

    However, it has been brought to my attention that, in the release 7.0.0, the maintainers claim to have the right to “relicense” the project. They have no such right; doing so is an explicit violation of the LGPL. Licensed code, when modified, must be released under the same LGPL license. Their claim that it is a "complete rewrite" is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code (i.e. this is not a "clean room" implementation). Adding a fancy code generator into the mix does not somehow grant them any additional rights.

  • Lenovo's new T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 laptops score 10/10 on iFixit's repairability score. This is great news, not just since Framework started snuggling up to the Nazis.

  • Star Trek: Prodigy has won its second Emmy, this time for its animation. It already won a production design Emmy in 2022. Additionally, it was nominated for outstanding writing, and Kate Mulgrew was nominated for outstanding multiple role voice performer. It's an underrated show, it's not just for kids, and I hope Paramount reinstates the cancelled show.
  • Mozilla developer Gabriele Svelto built a heuristic to estimate how many Firefox crash reports are actually bit flips because of faulty hardware, and he estimates that it's "up to 10%".
  • Toad sings Chandelier (4 min). YouTuber melancholiaah! might have destroyed his vocal chords for this, but it was worth it.
  • Archive's new album Glass Minds (on platforms, MusicBrainz) is pretty nice. Powerful and quiet and sometimes loud. The vocals by Pollard Berrier and Lisa Mottram are amazing (strong Fever Ray vibes from her, which is a good thing), but so is the whole post-apocalyptic instrumental atmosphere. I'm in love with the reverbs. If you don't want to listen to the album, check out at least Glass Minds, Patterns, Wake Up Strange, When You're This Down and Look At Us.