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Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, has published a proposal for OSC 7501, a new terminal escape-sequence protocol that would let command-line programs report structured status information, such as progress and running tasks, to terminal emulators in a standardised way. The idea has drawn attention from developers interested in better tooling for long-running terminal programs and in standardising how software communicates with terminals.

Alper Atmaca has discussed the difficulties facing the free software movement in Turkey, in a conversation published by the Association for Progressive Communications. The discussion covers the obstacles activists and developers encounter while promoting free and open-source software in the country, including legal, economic and organisational pressures on the local community.

Commenters are arguing that for many disabling medical conditions, technology developers focus too heavily on software while hardware is often the core of the problem. The claim is that treating software as the main solution neither advances accessibility nor addresses what actually limits disabled users, and that meaningful progress requires attention to physical devices and infrastructure instead.

A new open-source tool has been released that automates the simulation of pitting corrosion monitoring in pipelines. Pitting corrosion is a major cause of pipeline failures, and simulating its progression typically requires significant manual effort. By automating these simulations, the tool could help operators and researchers assess pipeline integrity more efficiently and at lower cost.