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Today, we’re excited to share more details about a feature coming to American Truck Simulator in Update 1.60 - Players’ Company Paint Jobs!
For quite some time, our teams have wanted to expand and improve the way players can represent their in-game trucking companies. After over a year of development as a passion project created especially for the ATS community, we’re happy to finally reveal the results.
With Update 1.60, players will be able to customize their trucks and trailers with a brand-new collection of company-themed paint jobs inspired by the selectable company identities available when creating a driver profile. These designs bring a more cohesive and professional visual style to your fleet while still fitting naturally into the world of American Truck Simulator.
One of the biggest focuses during development was ensuring that every paint job feels unique, depending on the type of trailer it is applied to. Rather than simply stretching one design across all trailer models, our teams carefully adapted each company's paint scheme to match the specific shapes and details of different trailer types.
Whether you’re hauling cargo with a tanker, transporting material in a dumper, or pulling a traditional box trailer, each variant features its own tailored details and layout. Our designers paid close attention to every surface, curve, and accessory to make sure the final result feels authentic and visually balanced across the entire fleet.
Players familiar with the feature in Euro Truck Simulator 2 will also feel right at home with the customization options included in ATS. Every company paint job comes with four pre-made color presets, giving players multiple styles to choose from right away while maintaining a consistent company identity.
We can’t wait for you to hit the road with your newly branded fleet when Update 1.60 arrives for American Truck Simulator. Whether you’re starting a brand-new company or giving your current operation a fresh identity, we hope these new paint jobs help make your journeys feel even more personal.
Until then, be sure to stay connected with us on our social media channels on X/Twitter, Facebook, BlueSky, YouTube, and Instagram, and by subscribing to our newsletter so you don’t miss any future updates! Stay safe and happy truckin'!
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In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as a coach to help review
my new ffs package for GNU Emacs as I worked on preparing it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA, as well as discussing other Emacs- and
life-related topics.
UPDATE 2026-05-23 22:39:15 -0400: Prot also published an article about our session on his website: https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-05-23-life-issues-and-philosophy-amin-bandali/
In our nearly 2-hour conversation, we discussed at length and in depth various aspects of life in the current times. For instance, feeling overwhelmed in the face of innumerable things happening at once, with technology changing our perception and making events feel proximate and imminent.
We talked about seasonality and rhythms in life, including in relation to burnout and knowing our own limitations, and descriptive vs prescriptive thinking when reflecting on the expectations we may place on our self when comparing our self to others through the lens of our necessarily-incomplete impressions and glimpses of their lives. We discussed absence or loss as a dual to presence or persistence in the process of life. How with our memories and through embodying the philosophy and teachings of departed loved ones their essence and legacy continues to live on within us. But also loss in the sense of us losing parts of our self in life-defining moments while preserving other parts and gaining new ones, being liberated of some of the burdens of our past self and in effect becoming someone else in the process.
In being true to our self, we talked about humans as multi-faceted beings and the importance of expressing and giving a voice to these different aspects of our self, and keeping alive that child-like sense of awe and wonder. To live a life where the pace and rhythms of our environment are in sync with our internal rhythms, and to not give others undue power over us or our happiness through trying to live according to their prescribed standards or expectations.
I also learned more about Prot's practical philosophy of situational awareness in life, not merely as a means for survival, but also as a way of appreciating all of the beauty that surrounds us, and a method for gaining the knowledge and skills to apply what we learn from patterns in one area of life to other areas.
We concluded our session with a mention to the concept of sanctity, to set aside a sacred time or place for our self wherein no distractions are allowed, where we can unwind, rest, and recharge for whatever comes next.
Here is the video recording of our session, which I share with Prot's permission:
You can view or download the full-resolution video from the Internet Archive.
Like Prot, I am invigorated and inspired to live a full, honest life. To do my best, do what I do in earnest, and make the best of what I have.
Take care, and so long for now.
ffs provides a minor mode for simple plain text presentations in
Emacs, where the slides are separated using the page-delimiter, by
default the form feed character (^L).
I wrote ffs in early 2022 for my LibrePlanet 2022 presentation the
Net beyond the Web, and earlier this year decided to polish it towards
being a proper package and submit it to GNU ELPA. The manual still
needs some more work, but the overall package is in pretty good shape
so I submitted for inclusion in GNU ELPA.
Log inffs
ffs and I owe a debt of gratitude to Protesilaos for rounds of
code review and feedback for improving and polishing the package in
preparation for submission to GNU ELPA. You can watch videos of these
sessions posted earlier on my website:
Further, inspiration for parts of ffs's implementation was
gratefully drawn from Protesilaos's Logos package for Emacs.
Dedicated to the loving memory of Farangis Yousefinia.
Below are the release notes.
First release of ffs on GNU ELPA.
The attempted build of ffs 0.2.1 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed
with an Error: void-function (org-texinfo-kbd-macro) due to use of
#+macro: kbd (eval (org-texinfo-kbd-macro $1)) in ffs.org for better
formatting of key sequences in the exported Texinfo copy. This seems
to have happened for the specific case of generating a plain text
README using ox-ascii where ELPA didn't load ox-texinfo. To try
and mitigate this, a README.md has been added for use as the package
README instead of ffs.org. If not sufficient, a Texinfo copy of the
ffs manual will be shipped instead of the Org one in the next release.
ffs 0.2.2 also includes small fixes and improvements throughout
ffs.el from Stefan Monnier, and additional feedback to be addressed
in future releases.
The attempted build of ffs 0.2.0 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed with a "Cannot include file" error on the "#+include: fdl.org" in the manual. So, as a workaround, we switch to using the official Texinfo copy of the GNU FDL license rather than an Org copy.
First release of ffs intended for GNU ELPA.
After a few years of inactivity, in early 2026 I decided to dust off
ffs.el, polish and document it, and offer for inclusion in GNU ELPA
as a proper package.
ffs-default-face-height changed to nil
To minimize unexpected and/or unnecessary changes out-of-the-box, the
default value of ffs-default-face-height has been changed to nil.
ffs-edit-buffer-name demoted from user option to variableThis is not an important user-facing setting, so to help avoid overwhelming users with many options, this has been demoted from a user option to a variable.
ffs's behaviour
As part of the effort to bring ffs more in line with the conventions
of other existing Emacs packages, the mechanisms for toggling various
parts of Emacs's interface to minimize visual clutter were changed
from being minor modes to being customizable user options. These are
the replacement new user options, with a default value of nil:
ffs-hide-cursorffs-hide-mode-lineffs-hide-header-line
Their value is buffer-local, and may be set globally using
setq-default. See the sample configuration in the manual for an
example of how to customize them.
The new ffs-page-delimiter user option defines the page delimiter
inserted by ffs-edit-done when inserting a new slide. Emacs's
page-delimiter regexp should be able to match ffs-page-delimiter's
value, so if you use a custom page-delimiter be sure to customize
ffs-page-delimiter accordingly.
The new ffs-echo-progress user option controls whether to display in
echo area the progress through the slides. When non-nil, changing
slides will also display the progress through the slides in the echo
area. The format of the displayed progress can be customized using
the new ffs-echo-progress-format user option.
The new ffs-edit-display-buffer-alist user option may be used to
control the Window configuration for the ffs-edit buffer. By
default, it will display the ffs-edit buffer in the same window.
The new ffs-edit-done-hook user option may be used to define hooks
to be run at the end of ffs-edit-done after returning to the main
ffs presentation buffer.
Lastly, a new ffs-find-speaker-notes-function variable was added to
allow customizing the find function used for opening the speaker's
notes file, defaulting to find-file-other-frame.
Initial publication of ffs.el as part of my personal configurations
for GNU Emacs.
My first attempt at this concept was a now-archived ffsanim.el,
a major mode implementation that used Emacs's animate library to
animate slide texts onto the screen. Shortly after realizing the
shortcomings of that approach, I abandoned it in favour a minor mode
implementation and published version 0.1.0 of what is now ffs in
my personal configs repository.
I used this implementation for presenting my LibrePlanet 2022 talk, The Net beyond the Web.
I picked "ffs" as the package name, the acronym for form feed slides.
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA.
UPDATE 2026-05-15 08:50:10 -0400: Prot also published an article about our session on his website: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-05-15-emacs-amin-bandali-ffs-display-buffer-org-capture/
Today we had our third session where we started by reviewing and
talking about my recent changes to ffs, then ventured to other
Emacs-related topics with the overarching theme of the flexibility
and extensibility of GNU Emacs, including display-buffer-alist,
keyboard macros, defining a custom ox-bhtml Org export backend
derived from Org's ox-html for ultimate flexibility when exporting
my site's pages from Org to HTML, Org capture, plain text files and
Emacs's diary and how it compares to org-agenda, and keeping a
journal with the help of Emacs.
Here is the video recording of our session, which I share with Prot's permission:
You can view or download the full-resolution video from the Internet Archive.
Lastly, here is the snippet Prot shared for having Isearch treat space as a wildcard, helpful for more easily matching multiple parts of a line:
(setq search-whitespace-regexp ".*?")
(setq isearch-lax-whitespace t)
(setq isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace nil)
Take care, and so long for now.
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA.
Yesterday we had our second session focused on ffs, which I recorded
and share publicly with everyone with Prot's permission, so that
others can also benefit from Prot's insights and experience as we
discuss various aspects of Emacs package development with the concrete
example of ffs.
Here is the video recording of our session:
You can view or download the full-resolution video from the Internet Archive.
I addressed most of Prot's feedback about ffs from our first
session, and I'll be working on the changes we discussed in this
session in the next days.
In the last third of the video we switched topics to discuss a few
Emacs-related tangents including adding a 'padding' effect for the
mode line and its constructs, and distilling and separating the
easily-reusable package-like parts of one's Emacs configuration from
the actual configuration of those parts (e.g. the distinction of
prot-lisp and prot-emacs-modules in Prot's Emacs configuration).
For mode line padding, here is the snippet I'm using with Prot's
doric-themes:
(doric-themes-with-colors
(custom-set-faces
`(mode-line
((t :box (:line-width 6 :color ,bg-shadow-intense))))
`(mode-line-inactive
((t :box (:line-width 6 :color ,bg-shadow-subtle))))
`(mode-line-highlight
((t :box (:color ,bg-shadow-intense))))))
Take care, and so long for now.
Yesterday I joined Sacha Chua for a new episode of her Emacs Chat
podcast, where we talked about Emacs and life. I gave a quick tour
of my Emacs configuration, discussing at length my configurations for
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) among other topics like Emacs's facility
for visually indicating buffer boundaries in the fringe by setting
indicate-buffer-boundaries and my convenience configuration macros.
The above video is provided with closed captions and the below transcript courtesy of Sacha with minor fixes and formatting by me. I've included some of Sacha's screenshots from our chat, you can see the rest on the episode's page on Sacha's blog.
A few links from our chat:
ffs (Form Feed Slides) package for simple presentationsIt was a lot of fun - thanks again for having me, Sacha!
Take care, and so long for now.
For the full transcript please see: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/emacs-chat-202605.html
yarn build for dev modules in docker #4177Full Changelog: v4.3.3...v4.3.4
Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1].
The Register has an informative article about the threat that management systems built in to Intel and AMD CPUs pose to data sovereignty in EU owned cloud providers [4]. But this is just the first stage of building sovereign clouds, all significaant cloud services run at least 2 types of CPU and adding EU manufactured CPUs at a future time will be easy.
Michael Prokop wrote an interesting blog post about debugging input event problems on Linux which turned out to be due to an analogue headphone connection [8]. This gave me some useful pointers to investigating an input device problem which is probably very different.
Tianon Gravi wrote an informative blog post about containers, Debian, and Docker options [12]. We need a lot more work on these sorts of things in Debian.
Related posts:
Today, we are happy to give you a glimpse at the upcoming 1.60 update for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator with the Expanded Rest Mechanic feature, which will change how the fatigue system in our games works, so let's take a look!
We are implementing the Expanded Rest Mechanic into our games after a lot of requests from our #BestCommunityEver for this feature. This new feature gives players greater control over their rest periods by allowing them to choose how long they want to sleep and exactly when they want to wake up, instead of being limited to a predefined rest duration.
The Rest State, symbolised by a bed icon, will now gradually deplete rather than recover over time. Extended periods of driving will steadily reduce the Rest State, while resting will restore it at a faster rate. Players will receive a warning notification when their Rest State becomes critically low, and microsleep events will begin occurring once it reaches exhaustion.
In American Truck Simulator, drivers can stay on the road for up to 14 hours before they must take a mandatory break, requiring 10 consecutive hours of rest afterward. In Euro Truck Simulator 2, drivers may drive for up to 10 hours before taking a mandatory break, which requires 9 consecutive hours of rest.
Don't forget to stay tuned for more news from the upcoming 1.60 update by following us on our X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, and YouTube. We would also really appreciate it if you could sign up for our newsletter. Until next time, safe travels!
Docker images have been built and pushed:
Docker Hub:
alexta69/metube:latestalexta69/metube:2026.05.30GitHub Container Registry:
ghcr.io/alexta69/metube:latestghcr.io/alexta69/metube:2026.05.30
Hi,
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 24.10 stable series.
This release fixes several security issues, including security fixes in dnsmasq and the Linux kernel. We recommend everyone to upgrade.
The OpenWrt 24.10 series is in security maintenance (only security problems are fixed), with end of life (EoL) projected for September 2026. We recommend migrating to OpenWrt 25.12 before then.
Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:
Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
Only the main changes are listed below. See changelog-24.10.7 for the full changelog.
Linux kernel:
dnsmasq:
TLS/crypto libraries:
Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 23.05 to 24.10, and configuration will be preserved in most cases.
For for upgrades inside the OpenWrt 24.10 stable series for example from a OpenWrt 24.10 release candidate Attended Sysupgrade is supported in addition which allows preserving the installed packages too.
Sysupgrade from 22.03 to 24.10 is not officially supported.
There is no configuration migration path for users of the ipq806x target for Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X SoCs because it switched to DSA. You have to upgrade without saving the configuration.
''Image version mismatch. image 1.1 device 1.0 Please wipe config during upgrade (force required) or reinstall. Config cannot be migrated from swconfig to DSA Image check failed''
User of the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200 running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier will need to run installer version v1.1.3 or later in order to reorganize the UBI layout for the 24.10 release. A detailed description is in the OpenWrt wiki. Updating without using the installer will break the device. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade.
Users of the Xiaomi AX3200 aka. Redmi AX6S running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier have to follow a special upgrade procedure described in the wiki. This will increase the flash memory available for OpenWrt. Updating without following the guide in the wiki break the device. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade.
Users of Zyxel GS1900 series switches running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier have to perform a new factory install with the initramfs image due to a changed partition layout. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade and is not possible. After upgrading, the config file /etc/config/system should not be restored from a backup, as this will overwrite the new compat_version value.
Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.7
In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.7#known_issues
For a detailed list of all changes since 24.10.6, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/changelog-24.10.7
To download the 24.10.7 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.7/targets/
Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=24.10.7
As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters and supporters.
Have fun!
The OpenWrt Community
To stay informed of new OpenWrt releases and security advisories, there
are new channels available:
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other announcement channels (such as RSS feeds) might be added in the
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The Stable channel has been updated to 149.0.7827.53/.54 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.
You can find more details about early Stable releases here.
Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
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Google Chrome
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is widely used by (currently) 1272 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 46.6 million times (per the partial logs from the cloud mirrors of CRAN), and the CSDA paper (preprint / vignette) by Conrad and myself has been cited 693 times according to Google Scholar.
This versions updates to the 15.2.7 upstream Armadillo release made today. The package has already been updated for Debian, and built for r2u. As the upstream was modest, we for once skipped reverse-dependency checks. That bet paid off as CRAN found no issues among the over 1270 reverse dependencies. However, one package referenced a package archived today, hence ‘invisible’ to CRAN and triggered a (false positive) NOTE of ‘reference to non-existing package’. We came close. Anyway, the package made it CRAN shortly thereafter following the standard brief email exchange explaining the false-positive nature of the NOTE.
All changes since the last CRAN release follow.
Changes in RcppArmadillo version 15.2.7-1 (2026-05-29)
Upgraded to Armadillo release 15.2.7 (Medium Roast Deluxe)
- More efficient checks for aliasing
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a diffstat report relative to previous release. More detailed information is on the RcppArmadillo page. Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the Rcpp R-Forge page.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub. You can also sponsor my Tour de Shore 2026 ride in support of the Maywood Fine Arts Center.
I just tweeted about this, but here’s the blog post version:
I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://paint.net is now the website for Paint.NET! Well, once I get content migrated and redirects set up, etc. For the moment it’s just a “hey go over here to getpaint.net” redirect page.
Read the tweets for the rest of the story
