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[?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Still playing about with aka on and I'm finding / reporting some bugs but I'm still not sure how I feel about stacking window managers?
Who here still uses fvwm and why?
Even better share with us your fvwm desktop screenshots.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow


    [?]Camille Roux » 🌐
    @camilleroux@mastodon.social

    Termix : alternative open source à Termius pour gérer ses serveurs via SSH, accès bureau à distance (RDP, VNC), tunnels, édition de fichiers distants et conteneurs Docker/Podman, le tout self-hosted. ⬇️
    github.com/Termix-SSH/Termix

    📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → l.camilleroux.com/veille-6Bc

      [?]Camille Roux » 🌐
      @camilleroux@mastodon.social

      pdf-brain : une base de connaissances locale pour indexer vos PDF et fichiers Markdown, avec recherche sémantique par vecteurs et enrichissement LLM (résumé, tags, concepts). Tout tourne en local via Ollama, sans frais d'API. ⬇️
      github.com/joelhooks/pdf-brain

      📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → l.camilleroux.com/veille-NSC

        [?]Camille Roux » 🌐
        @camilleroux@mastodon.social

        brolly.sh : météo en plain text dans le navigateur, avec prévisions heure par heure, UV, qualité de l'air et pollen. ⬇️
        brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8

        📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → l.camilleroux.com/veille-5ei

        Capture d'écran du service de prévisions météo en texte brut **brolly.sh**, affichant les conditions météorologiques pour **Montpellier, France**, avec un ciel dégagé à 21,7°C au moment de la consultation (dimanche 26/07), ainsi qu'un tableau des prévisions hebdomadaires et horaires détaillées.

        Alt...Capture d'écran du service de prévisions météo en texte brut **brolly.sh**, affichant les conditions météorologiques pour **Montpellier, France**, avec un ciel dégagé à 21,7°C au moment de la consultation (dimanche 26/07), ainsi qu'un tableau des prévisions hebdomadaires et horaires détaillées.

          [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
          @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right – Umair Khurshid | Klara Systems

          <klarasystems.com/articles/jail>

          Containers play a major role in modern infrastructure, but they are not the right answer for every workload. This article explores how FreeBSD jails provide purpose-built isolation, predictable security boundaries, and deep ZFS integration—making them ideal infrastructure-grade services where stability is essential. …

          Via <billboard.bsd.cafe/post/857> | <reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/>

            Alex Markley boosted

            [?]Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 » 🌐
            @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

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            [?]Finn » 🌐
            @finn@social.0x520.eu

            Hey Linux bubble, please help me out...

            Should I ditch Arch Linux and install the good old Debian on my desktop PC instead?

            Clock is ticking, last backup is running, boost would be nice...

            #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux

            Yes, install Debian:71
            No, keep Arch Linux:28
            Something else (comment please):10

              [?]Sohrab Behdani :freebsd: » 🌐
              @sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              Today I talked about GNU Guix at MashhadLUG, our local Linux User Group. I’ve published the presentation files on GitHub. (Sadly, GitLab is unavailable for my country due to sanctions, and Codeberg is blocked by the Iranian government, otherwise I would have preferred to host them there.)

              I’m a big fan of Emacs and Org mode. This presentation was written in Org and delivered using org-tree-slide. It was a really enjoyable experience :)

              github.com/behdanisohrab/prese

              emacs with my presentation

              Alt...emacs with my presentation

                [?]Mark Stosberg » 🌐
                @markstos@urbanists.social

                To devs who celebrate time zone bugs getting fixed:

                An almost decade-old bug in systemd's handling of Daylight Saving changes is getting fixed:

                github.com/systemd/systemd/iss

                Before timers (cron jobs) scheduled to run during the transition could get stuck.

                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
                  A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
                  The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.

                  So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.

                  The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.

                   

                    [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
                    @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                    Just using sed to make indexes for books. This art of writing awk or sed from scratch is now vanishing. Sharing just in case if you love reading such stuff about and CLI/scripting

                    pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt

                      [?]Akseli [Any pronouns (lizard, not dragon)] » 🌐
                      @aks@scalie.zone

                      Union QtWidgets update:

                      It looks broken, but it's getting there. At least now it's mostly reading data from Union and standing on it's own: It's not just modified Breeze QtWidgets style anymore, but actually reading the CSS and trying it's best to look similar.

                      There are a lot of things still missing. Some elements here are wrong size or are using the QCommonStyle items, which is basically "unstyled Qt" because I have not yet created drawcalls for them. For example scrollbars and tabs.

                      But it's slowly shaping up. I have had to tear this apart and rebuild multiple times due to there not being good information on how to create a QStyle out there. A lot of trial and error and investigating what Breeze is doing.

                      It will need more time. But I really really hope I can get it for 6.8. No promises, but I am really trying.

                      Screenshot of Dolphin with quite broken but still somewhat working Union styling

                      Alt...Screenshot of Dolphin with quite broken but still somewhat working Union styling

                        #netbsd boosted

                        [?]JdeBP » 🌐
                        @JdeBP@tty0.social

                        @cks

                        The sad thing is, as I was saying last year, all of this is unnecessary. The kernels, , , , and , all maintain almost all of the stuff that 'who' needs, and have done since the switch to POSIX sessions and process groups in the 1980s.

                        There aren't any needs for a parallel database outwith the kernel. A few sysctl/procfs extensions for reading the kernel's own list of sessions, and we'd be away.

                        tty0.social/@JdeBP/11450544357

                        @ariadne @ska

                          [?]Leanpub » 🌐
                          @leanpub@mastodon.social

                          [?]Leanpub » 🌐
                          @leanpub@mastodon.social

                          NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Learn Linux TV, Author of Switching to Linux: A Practical Guide for Windows and Mac Users

                          youtu.be/dBJ-PvUJHaw

                            [?]Pete Orrall [Pete/Pete] » 🌐
                            @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            So for the folks in the room:

                            What do you run for a and what projects are you working on?

                              #netbsd boosted

                              [?]vermaden » 🌐
                              @vermaden@mastodon.social

                              Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

                              vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07

                              Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07

                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                  Liam Proven boosted

                                  [?]Lobsters » 🤖 🌐
                                  @lobsters@mastodon.social

                                  [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
                                  @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                  The death and rebirth of my home server

                                  sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-serve

                                    [?]David Culley » 🌐
                                    @davidculley@hachyderm.io

                                    RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924

                                    Linus Torvalds has repeatedly said that LLMs are "clearly useful" and "just a tool" and that the kernel maintainers will use LLMs for Linux development.

                                    He fails to acknowledge that LLMs are based entirely on the theft of intellectual property and that they are destroying our habitat and the future of our species as a whole.

                                    I find this extremely frustrating, coming not just from some random tech bro but the man who controls arguably one of the most important pieces of software in the world.

                                      [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
                                      @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                                      In light of all the drama lately, I thought I'd glance at what are the equivalents to the various software I use.

                                      Well, the network configuration story is very not good. You know how Linux has NetworkManager? On FreeBSD, if you want to configure network interfaces by GUI, you…run a GUI app as root via sudo.

                                      github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr

                                      Which then shells out to sysrc to apply configuration settings:

                                      github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr

                                      You've got to be kidding me. That all's insecure as hell.

                                        [?]OSNews » 🤖 🌐
                                        @osnews@mstdn.social

                                        Follow the money, especially in open source

                                        Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and git, is employed by the Linux Foundation. This Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to, as the name obviously implies, the promotion of Linux. The primary use of the funds it collects is to "help fund the infrastructure and fellows, including Linus Torvalds, who help develop the Linux ker

                                        osnews.com/story/145548/follow

                                          [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
                                          @jchyip@mastodon.online

                                          "I realize that some people really dislike , but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

                                          is not one of those anti-#AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the thing and fork it."

                                          lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CA

                                            [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                                            @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                                            @glyph

                                            If wins in the case and Vizio complies with the & , we should have the bare components ready to build an alternative firmware that can run something like Kodi instead on their TVs (aka their computers with a giant display attached).

                                            I wonder if LG's are still -based? I did an enforcement action about 15 years ago and they were back then, and were in compliance, so you could rebuild & install the base operating system.

                                              Liam Proven boosted

                                              [?]jbz » 🌐
                                              @jbz@indieweb.social

                                              [?]Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: » 🌐
                                              @onepict@chaos.social

                                              "Open source by definition keeps the door wide open, legally to boot. But a fork only gives you the code. An open source project is more than its code, it's the sum of its maintainers, infrastructure, trademarks, dependencies, and trust. You can copy the code in seconds, the rest you would need to rebuild from scratch in most cases. The people invoking the right to fork already know this."

                                              - @tarakiyee

                                              tarakiyee.com/fork-it-or-walk-

                                              H/T @jbz

                                                [?]Rik Viergever » 🌐
                                                @rikviergever@mastodon.social

                                                Wie kan mij in contact brengen met developers in de @Rabobank@mastodon.nl en Funda? Beiden werken sinds kort niet meer op het grootste Europese mobiele OS, /e/OS (>100.000 gebruikers en snel groeiend). We komen graag in contact met de ontwikkelaars van deze apps, want dit is absoluut niet nodig (voor veiligheid of andere redenen) en we zouden hen graag hen een guide toesturen die deze alternatieven beschrijft.

                                                @rabobank

                                                @murena

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                                                  [?]yoasif » 🌐
                                                  @yoasif@mastodon.social

                                                  Is in a social [justice] warrior project, or is it simply better technology?

                                                  Please boost for reach! 😉

                                                  Open Source in Linux is about technology:8
                                                  Open Source in Linux is about freedom:79
                                                  Show me the results:7

                                                    [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                    @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                    #Linux #Meme #Memes

                                                    "Wojack" "Gaussian Curve" meme

Dumb left-of-curve guy is saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has logos of steamos, valve proton, and bazzite around him.

Middle-intelligence uptight guy is saying, "Nooo! You have to do serious programming and self-hosting!!!"

Smart monk-looking guy on the right of the curve is also saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has screnshots of NetHack and Netrek around him.

                                                    Alt..."Wojack" "Gaussian Curve" meme Dumb left-of-curve guy is saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has logos of steamos, valve proton, and bazzite around him. Middle-intelligence uptight guy is saying, "Nooo! You have to do serious programming and self-hosting!!!" Smart monk-looking guy on the right of the curve is also saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has screnshots of NetHack and Netrek around him.

                                                      #netbsd boosted

                                                      [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
                                                      @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                      @radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

                                                      All of the major ⁠s allow AI code. Even . codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open

                                                      In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

                                                        Lisi Hocke boosted

                                                        [?]Brage Fuglseth » 🌐
                                                        @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

                                                        RE: sunny.garden/@bragefuglseth/11

                                                        Because of the recent paragraphs that have surfaced from the kernel mailing list, I feel inclined to bring this 2 days old post up again.

                                                        People need to stop viewing Linus as some kind of figurehead for the Linux desktop / free software. Not because of his recent statements in particular, he's entitled to his own opinions, but because he generally just has never represented the values or mindset everyone seems to think he has.

                                                        He oversees an important technical component of the desktop stack, but that component is used in so many other places as well, and he probably couldn't care less about the success of Linux on personal devices in particular. He's not coming to save any of you from the technological apocalypse or whatever.

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