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Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan

Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...

We haven't written up this one. Phoronix has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Hands-On With the Apple Watch Series 12

The Apple Watch Series 12 came out today, and we picked one up to get a look at the new feature set. There are no major external changes, but Apple updated the device's internals and health sensors.

Bookmarks for Your Terminal

If you use Linux and spend a decent amount of time in the terminal, zoxide is one of those little tools that's absolutely worth trying if you haven't already .

  • Zoxide is terminal navigation tool
  • Automatically creates bookmarks based on frequent visits
  • Simplifies directory jumping in Linux

Replacing Basic Auth with JWT and OAuth2 in Spring Security

Basic auth was always the placeholder. It worked, but sending credentials on every single request never sat right — no real session, no expiry, no way to log someone out without changing their…

  • Replaced Basic Auth with JWT and OAuth2 in Spring Security
  • JWT exchanges credentials once, includes user identity and role claims
  • OAuth2 login added alongside JWT, maps to existing role system

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