The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests.

Gentoo announced today they now have a presence on Codeberg and are welcoming code contributions there as an alternative to GitHub. Initially it's their ebuild repository being hosted on Codeberg while eventually all Gentoo GitHub repositories will be migrated. Codeberg is based on Forgejo and hosted in Germany as a non-profit.

Bottles, an open-source tool built on Wine that lets users run Windows applications and games on Linux with a user-friendly GUI, has released version 62.0.

A key fix improves GPU detection for devices categorized as “Display controller.” Previously, some graphics hardware in this category was not properly detected. Version 62.0 corrects this, improving compatibility across more systems.

The release also adds support for the Dynamic Launcher portal, which allows sandboxed applications to create and manage application launchers (.desktop entries) on the host system. This improves integration with desktop environments, especially in Flatpak setups.

I have a love-hate relationship with MOBAs, but Deadlock—after its new Old Gods, New Blood update—has dragged me back to the genre kicking and screaming. I've got over 2,400 hours in Dota 2 from my misspent uni years, and I'm currently sitting on 183 hours with Valve's latest and counting.

I'm having a good time, and by "good time", I mean I am magnetically attracted to this dopamine machine and cannot pull away, even while I learn about all the fun new slurs I can be called by strangers online. But that comes with the territory. I'm deep in the paint enough that I've been viciously consuming voicelines, lore, and worldbuilding when I'm not playing.

And yet, I can't shake off this sense of malaise—a feeling of "what if", and I think it's that worldbuilding to blame. Not because it's bad, but because it's very, very good.

Deadlock might be one of my favourite videogame settings in a while. It's placed within a fantastical 1950s America where magic is not only real, but it's become a heck of a lot more real within the past few decades.

An event, called the Maelstrom, opened a bunch of Astral Gates across the world—including one right above New York, dubbed the Cursed Apple. The reason it's a MOBA is because there are two patrons trying to manifest fully in this magic-flooded planet, and you've gotta stop them.

Valve's character artists and writers have taken this concept and run with it. In no particular order, here are some of my favourite facts about this setting:

• There's a governmental agency that invades people's dreams called the Sandmen.
• The Vatican has supersoldier exterminators.
• 'Hell', actually another realm called Ixia, has been permanently connected to the Earth, and also South Ixia is a member of the United States.
• Ixians have been a part of human society for so long that the game's newest character has a conversation about identity and diaspora with the New York-born Ixian Infernus.
• There's an entire Vampire: The Masquerade-style society of vampires with their own baronies.
• There's a thieves guild of time-jumpers called Paradox whose literal goal is to just put priceless items on display at pop-up museums.
• The souls of the dead power machines of war.
• New York has a Municipal Coven of witches.
• There's a Lovecraftian entity who got so bored he decided to join the service industry.
• The Djinn want part of Wyoming. This is an actual plot point.
• Jacob Lash is an asshole.

This is a game, need I remind you, which has an incomplete roster—some of whose models are also deeply unfinished (my poor Vyper), but when Valve's polish does apply, it's been cooking up some of its best designs ever, and the map is getting downright pretty, too. I whisper a quiet "hell yeah" to myself whenever I romp through The Hidden King's subwoofer-drowned base.

Which is why I'm a little sad, because, well—it's a MOBA. As we all know, introducing your friend to a MOBA (and worse, getting them into one) is a sin that will mean your soul will never see the light of heaven. But it's also, by its very nature, a pretty constraining setting.

It's three lanes and a single map—we might get a little more from Valve in the form of animated shorts and comics a la TF2 (indeed, there's already a visual novel in the works) but that's it. Deadlock's setting is worthy of its own singleplayer game—be that an RPG or a first-person shooter.

Heck, there's enough juice here where I'd subscribe to a Deadlock MMO, or merrily run my own Deadlock TTRPG campaign (maybe I still could, with Blades in the Dark's new sci-fi supplement? Oh man, don't give me ideas).

I wanna meet other agents of the OSIC. I wanna run errands for the Municipal Coven. I wanna see what Ixia and the rest of the Baroness look like. I want to chase a time thief through a Paradox exhibit. I wanna get caught in a turf war between the vampire baronies. I want a terrifying boss fight with a Venator that has express permission from the Pope to stake me.

… Ah, crap. This is what League of Legends players feel like waiting on that Riot MMO, huh.

These are, to be clear, pie-in-the-sky dreams: But they're the kind of games I think about through the tiny windows of the game that Deadlock actually is—Deadlock has an ocean-deep skill ceiling and incredible complexity, true. But it's also an infinitesimal slice of a much more interesting world I wish we could see more of.

Which, hey—it's a good problem for Valve to have, right? I salute you, artists and writers under Gabe Newell's employ: You have cooked hard enough to leave me hungry for more.

If you had to pick a good love story, you might think of something classic, like Jane Austen's Emma or Casablanca. Or maybe tragic, like Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin or Romeo and Juliet. Or possibly cozy, like Heated Rivalry or Netflix's Nobody Wants This. What probably doesn't come to mind is a video game love story, and there's a good reason for that. Despite the appearance of variety, video game romances only come in one type. And it hardly even counts as a romance.

Games are still young as a storytelling medium, so the lack of memorable love stories compared film or literature is hardly surprising. What is surprising is just how little romance has changed in over three decades. In 1994, Konami's Tokimeki Memorial made popular the idea of dating in video games. It was hardly what you might call romantic, with its stat-based progress and checklist approach to relationships. But it set a precedent for how to Do Romance in games, and later titles, like Harvest Moon, built on that formula. By 2000, the likes of Baldur's Gate 2 added a stronger element of personality, with more complex characters who played important roles in bigger stories, but not necessarily in each other's lives. Relationships consisted of saying the right thing at the right time and then, like magic, love occurs. 26 years later, game romances are still written like they were in 2000, with obvious exceptions like (usually) not being as sexist anymore and occasionally being decent enough to show more than one type of love.

A review of the modpack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0MIbo2aQqs

Chaser: 📺 ¡Nunca Pensé! featuring Mariachi Arcoiris

Here’s something that’s both surprising and, in a way, not surprising at all, especially after yesterday’s announcement from KaOS, a distribution long known for its deep commitment to the KDE Plasma desktop, that it plans to move away from it. The main reason cited was KDE’s reliance on systemd in a specific component.

As expected, the news quickly gained traction, prompting KDE to clarify its dependence on systemd and which parts of the desktop environment rely on it. In a post on KDE’s Reddit community titled “A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk ‘the KDE is forcing systemd!’ hoax“, the contributor described the claims as misinformation and provided a short FAQ clarifying the project’s position.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Feb. 15, 2026

Also:

• ‘I would never do it again’: Inside the struggle to enter and leave Gaza
• Released into exile, Palestinian prisoners navigate freedom on Israel’s terms
• A Palestinian influencer spent 27 months in Israeli prison — for social media posts
• To confront Israeli fascism, we need a new Jewish-Arab party
• The false symmetry of Jewish-Arab partnership
• PODCAST: Documenting the settler takeover of the West Bank

Today we’re releasing Vulnerability-Lookup 4.0.0, and this is a big one.

🔄 Remote Instance Synchronization

This version is paving the way for federated deployments of Vulnerability-Lookup instances. You can now synchronize multiple Vulnerability-Lookup instances and share:

• 💬 Comments
• 📦 Bundles
• 👁️ Sightings
• 🚨 KEV entries (GCVE BCP-07)

This introduces a true federated model for vulnerability intelligence sharing.

Full breakdown available here:

👉 https://www.vulnerability-lookup.org/2026/02/16/vulnerability-lookup-4-0-0/

Let’s take a look at all the notable changes.

🔁 Remote Instance Synchronization – What’s Inside

This release introduces a complete sync engine designed for reliability, transparency, and operational control.

A local instance can now pull objects — including bundles, comments, sightings, and KEV entries — from configured remote Vulnerability-Lookup instances via their public APIs.

The synchronization engine includes:

• Remote instance management with per-object-type synchronization controls
• Timestamp-based update detection to keep data consistent
• Asynchronous scheduler with graceful shutdown support
• CLI command and systemd service template for automation
• Administrative controls to trigger synchronization manually
• Visual indicators in the interface to clearly identify synchronized objects

🔌 Feeder Improvements

Expanded data ingestion:

• New RustSec OSV feeder
• New OSS-Fuzz feeder (with YAML support in OSV)
• More generic CSAF and OSV templates

This strengthens Vulnerability-Lookup’s position as a correlation hub across heterogeneous vulnerability sources.

🎨 UI Improvements

• Redesigned global dashboard layout for better visibility and structure.

More details:

👉 https://www.vulnerability-lookup.org/2026/02/16/vulnerability-lookup-4-0-0/

If you're running Vulnerability-Lookup and interested in interconnecting instances across organizations or teams — this release is for you.

🔗 Project: https://www.vulnerability-lookup.org/ 📦 Code: https://github.com/vulnerability-lookup/vulnerability-lookup

Feedback, experiments, and federated setups welcome.

Feel free to create an account on the instance operated by CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg):

https://vulnerability.circl.lu/

💶🇪🇺 Funding

Vulnerability-Lookup is co-funded by CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg) and by the European Union via the hashtag hashtag#NGSOTI project. More information on the page from Restena Foundation: https://www.restena.lu/en/project/ngsoti

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