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Coach insists he is ‘proud’ of Valverde and Tchouaméni
France defender is in squad for game at Barcelona
Álvaro Arbeloa insisted Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni should be given the chance to “keep fighting for the badge” after a second dressing-room bust-up in two days left the Uruguayan on the floor and needing to be taken to hospital for stitches in his head.
The morning after Real Madrid fined the players a record €500,000 each for the incident and the morning before they face Barcelona in the clásico, the coach gave an extraordinary press conference in which he claimed the dressing room was “healthy”, said that he was “proud” of his footballers and insisted that he would not allow them to be “burnt at the stake” for what they had done, saying that everyone makes mistakes, even the club legend Juanito who famously stamped on Lothar Matthaus’s head. He also said he had seen worse, recalling the night in 2007 that Craig Bellamy attacked his Liverpool teammate John Arne Riise with a golf club.
Continue reading...Mohamed Bulbul arrested in Mogadishu after covering case of woman allegedly being tortured in prison
A journalist who covered the case of a woman who said she was being tortured in prison was detained and beaten with pistols by Somali authorities, along with two others, for his reporting for the Guardian.
Mohamed Bulbul was arrested with the journalists Abdihafid Nor Barre and Abdishakur Mohamed Mohamud on Friday evening while in a restaurant in the centre of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. They said they were assaulted by members of Somalia’s US-trained counter-terrorism police unit and taken to be questioned by police. All three were released in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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The next major release of macOS looks likely to remove Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) support, stopping Time Capsules from working… but life FOSS, uh, finds a way. The current version of macOS "Tahoe" 26.4 already has network Time Machine issues, especially for folks using Apple Time Capsules. It looks like macOS 27 may completely remove the network protocol they need. However, the Time Capsules run NetBSD under the hood, and that means that the FOSS world has been able to come up with a workaround. It's called TimeCapsuleSMB, and it aims to keep older Time Capsules usable with modern macOS. It's eight months since Apple released macOS 26, and the company's annual release schedule means that macOS 27 is looming. Although Cupertino hasn't told the world much about it yet, it is warning sysadmins to "prepare your network environment for stricter security requirements." Reading the bulletin, we found it rather clixby: while it firmly warns that security checks will become stricter, it doesn't spell out what products will change or how. Happily, there are elder Mac gurus out there who interpret Apple's sometimes Delphic utterances, and Howard Oakley is one of the greatest. In a post about networking changes coming in macOS 27, he translates that it will require TLS 1.2 or above. (The Register explained TLS back in 2002, and version 1.2 appeared about six years later.) However, he also warns that it could mean the end of AFP, which is basically Appletalk-over-TCP/IP version 3.4. AppleTalk was the Mac network protocol for file sharing from System 6 onward. In 2013, OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" made Microsoft's SMB the default file-sharing protocol in place of AFP, and it looks like AFP now faces the ax: it was officially deprecated in macOS 15.5. To be fair, macOS 26 Macs started displaying a warning to Time Capsule users nearly a year ago. Apple introduced the first model of Time Capsule in 2008, and the fifth-generation version in 2013. The company discontinued the whole AirPort product line in 2018. All generations only support AFP and SMB version 1. That’s the original version that appeared with LAN Manager in 1987, and we reported on Samba dropping SMB1 back in 2022. The good news is that even if Apple kills its original file-sharing protocol next year, the FOSS community is on the case and won't let working kit die. The Time Capsule hardware is essentially a box containing a Wi-Fi access point and a hard disk, and an Arm chip with just enough software to share that HDD as network-attached storage. Apple didn't write this software from scratch: it picked up and customized NetBSD for the job. The first four generations of Time Capsule (flat square boxes) run NetBSD 4, and the fifth-gen devices – the tall tower-shaped models from 2013 onward – run NetBSD 6. That gave Microsoft's James Chang an opening. Since the devices run NetBSD, it's possible to compile a newer version of Samba, and copy it somewhere that the tiny embedded Arm computer can find it. Teaching such old kit a new trick is never that easy, though, and he faced a number of challenges, which he details in the design section of the project README. Among them are machines that only have about 900 KB of available disk space – less than 1 MB – and a tiny 16 MB RAMdisk. He settled on Samba 4.8, which dates back to 2018, the same year Apple discontinued the product line, but which includes the necessary Time Machine support, via a module named vfs_fruit. The TimeCapsuleSMB docs are worth a read. We found his descriptions of how he worked around the hardware's very significant limitations impressive. Notably, on the early models, you'll need to manually reload the software every time you reboot the Time Capsule. The final model can do this automatically. Don't fret at the thought of backing up to such an elderly spinning hard disk: iFixit has descriptions of how to replace the drive in both the early models and the later ones too. ®
