Upgrade complete! We can now build pmOS #duranium images for more devices. Starting slow to monitor builder scalability, so only going to add a few more initially.

More devices mean more chances to try immutable #Linux on phones. More testers means faster bug spotting & feedback ❤

Which device do you want to test? Only pmOS supported devices with EFI boot can be added. Have another in mind that's not in the poll? Let us know!

The current list of devices/images is here: https://duranium.postmarketos.org/

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl/117200282565531061

My fav Linux launcher / menu tool has a new release.

I contributed IME support for easier input of alternate character sets.

#Linux #Fuzzel

@purple

Some people say they were ditching @debian, just like before after our #systemd #GR. But I where are they migrating to? #Linux distributions are out, if it's about #LLMs. Hurd? BSD? Haiku?

#Debian #AI

ah la la la #linux #mao
https://www.tone3000.com/plugin

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écran de dl pour linux du nouveau plugin tone3000

can i allow a program running as another user to connect to my jackd? #lang_en #linux #linuxAudio

(this is a question about realistic possibility and methods, not theoretical possibility)

Whats the standard procedure for Manual pages that reference an old email that clearly no longer works in the Author section? Yes, it was the authors email at the time of the commit, but the domain is no longer theirs.. Just leave it be, track down the email they use now, remove it for security reasons? #FreeBSD #Linux #InfoSec

Dear #Linux,

SIGINFO is incredibly useful, especially when capturing packets with tcpdump.

Continuously annoyed,

He who has been spoiled by the BSDs

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟯𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/08/31) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/valuable-news-2026-08-31/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

What are the remaining maximally useful alternatives to #Linux / #Debian with a strict #noAI policy?

What are the most important selection criteria for you and how do they do against those?

Please answer both parts 🙏

No #LLM #FOSS

Not my first #Linux material but the oldest I could find that survived my several movings.

#Slackware CD from 1995. I had no Internet access at that time. Just the provided binaries, sources and documentation.

EDIT: I found an online archive 😍 https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=109&num=8503&album=oui

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A photo collage showing to sides of a CD-ROM and its cover. Content of the CD is listed. In all those, one can see a Slackware Linux reference.

Packman to be discontinued? From the mailing: After 25 years, the time has come for us to hand over the Packman project. If no one is found who wishes to continue Packman, we will discontinue the project on 31/12/2026.

https://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2026-August/018314.html

#linux

FIND yourself a a linux distribution or BSD that does reject AI; use it and donate to it.

If you can't move your daily driver move a secondary machine. Tinker with it, fit it into your life where it makes sense.

YEAH the linux kernel has slop. Most programming languages have slop. Most desktop environments have slop, you will have dependencies that are still slop. This is a big problem; there is no magic off switch to fixing this overnight.

We are in the early days of dealing with a contaminate that polluters are actively dumping into our digital environment.

It is going to take a long time before anyone can truly be slop free.

But support, and invest in the folks doing that hard work which will build a slop free future.

Starlight Network maintains a list of slop rejecting operating systems and distros here: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #floss #AntiAI #linux #bsd #netbsd #elementaryos #gentoo

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:

Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.

AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

#aislop #debian #gnulinux #linux #distribution

#Debian was structured as a democracy of developers (maybe technically a platonic aristocracy, but it does not matter here).

Thanks to this, it got trust that turned it into a fundamental building block for #Linux users (most used distro are Debian derivatives).

Unfortunately, such trust also attracted commercial interest.

Now most of Debian Developers (just like most of #Linux kernel's devs) are corporate employees that would not be assigned to Debian development if they would oppose corporare interests.

So ultimately Debian cannot be trusted anymore: the vote on #LLM is just an evidence of this fact.

To people who use it since decades (I started with Potato because of its focus on #freedom), it's a pain.

Right now I'm slowly moving to #NetBSD.

@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @freshstart@hachyderm.io @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Mailflare : client email self-hosted avec domaine personnalisé, basé sur Cloudflare (Email Routing, Workers, D1, R2). Gestion de boîtes mail, pièces jointes, notifications temps réel, et un agent IA qui résume, priorise et propose des réponses. Déploiement en un clic. ⬇️
https://github.com/hieunc229/mailflare

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-EB8

New bugfix release of Exosphere, my simple, agentless CLI and TUI driven patch reporting application for remote UNIX-like systems.

Documentation refresh and cleanup, and fixes a few edge case issues, especially on Python 3.14.

With the non stop flurry of kernel and CVE updates across all supported platforms, it has sure been dogfooded extensively, and I continue to hope the tool can be of use to people.

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v3.0.1

#exosphere #linux #freebsd #openbsd #homelab #SRE

@annantidote Take a hard look at #FreeBSD. No, it's *not* #Linux and that's a good thing.

Boop : une alternative self-hosted gratuite et opensource à Sentry qui tourne avec 8 Mo de RAM. Vos apps envoient l'erreur, le serveur la pousse direct sur votre iPhone via une app iOS open source.
Pas de Slack, pas de Telegram, pas d'abonnement.
Gratuit et open source. ⬇️
https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-xkW

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Interface de Boop, une application d'inbox de notifications self-hosted pour développeurs, affichant une liste de notifications organisées par projets (Personal DB, Uni, FPLXI) avec différents statuts (Success, Info, Error) et timestamps. L'application permet de gérer et filtrer les notifications provenant de diverses applications et services.

OOOOHHH I get it now.
In m4, by default, you quote stuff like this:
`QUOTED'.
That's a grave accent and an apostrophe.
I thought that was really weird....

Later I was looking at the original m4 manual from 1977 and I found out WHY they chose those symbols.

The apostrophe was stylized as an acute accent before ASCII was later updated. So it looked right back then.

I include a picture from the 1977 ASCII standard (same year lol) where you can see it was indeed meant to look like ´ instead of ' . But at some point it changed.
#linux #unix

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page -2- of https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5891909/page/n1/mode/1up

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page 8 of https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-1977.pdf

I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.

This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.

The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:

- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects

Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.

Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.

It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.

This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.

I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.

Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!

NEVER SLOP

#ai #antiai #antislop #linux #cat #kitto #comic #art #mastoart #fediart #tutorial

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NEVER SLOP KITTO #neverslop

so, we have a winner, it seems: Proposal E

I actually am rather surprised while at the same time being not surprised: this is the option that says "keep the status quo but call whatever you do 'responsible'". A very #Debian thing, indeed.

It even mentions that slop is probably breaking copyright (while at the same time carefully wording to not even actually state that).

(edited to add: if you look at the Graphviz result, you’ll see that, after this option, the pro-slop ones have landed over the pro-life ones; this (it’s preferential voting) makes me sad)

So, what does that mean?

No rage-quitting, at least. (This is very much in the interest of the users.) But also no improvement. But also no official sanctioning of slop.

I cannot believe I am saying this, but I’m actually rooting for… Helene Fischer, the GEMA, and the german Medienanstalten… to save us, by getting courts to recognise these issues.

I cannot believe I am writing the above. This timeline is bizarre.

The bubble is also already bursting, but not fast enough, which is raising the collateral damage each minute it has not yet burst. (Here I mean financial, trust, etc. but for #FOSS specifically, it also means that LLM-extruded digital asbestos gets added to more and more codebasēs in growing quantities, which will be hard to recover from.)

What I would like to know is why such an important topic has, what, under 40% voting participation. smh

(the preliminary automated report by the voting tool does not give the numbers; the project secretary will do so within days, so this is a guesstimate)

Practically, what can we do?

Pretty much only this:

Ride out trixie without rsyslog (and without backports) until the end of its #ELTS, grudgingly installing kernel security updates. Avoid LPNs (npm, composer, pip, cargo, go get, etc.) at all cost (this is not new but now more important than ever). Use third-party repos only after manually checking for slop policies for both the repo and the softwares contained within (I had to split my own repo, I added a non-free component for ensloppified tomcat9 but kept the last one from before in the component with the main policy).

Check out unensloppified OSes as alternatives in parallel (seems to have only NetBSD as contender, among OSes capable of running similar enough use cases). Prepare to switch to unensloppified OS at any time, around 2035 at the latest. Do not hope that by then all the slop will be reverted from core system components (if it is, I will be pleasantly surprised, but right now, #Linux is dying).

Reduce computers and compute in your life.

And, if you can, fight this on useful levels. Not copyright licences, they ignore these and consent anyway. But: On a political level, up to and including guillotines, if you must. On an educational level, with friends, family, and even pupils/students. The younger generations are not lost. Make a worthwhile future, including human art, craft, crocheting, knitting, music, painting, woodworking, what have you. Doesn’t matter if it’s not good: it’s yours. Read books (from before 2020 or so). Go out, make train trips, cycle, garden, including fruit and vegetables. Care for your cats and other loved ones. And say no to fashtech.

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https://github.com/vercel-labs/vgpu

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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I am disappointed.

My list of boycotts keeps growing.
Fascism, consumption, waste.
We should be living with the conservation and sustainability of all things at the base of our decisions.

Our habitat, environment, air, water, food, forests, all life, and our energy! Electricity is a precious commodity that should not befall capitalist consumerism.

I boycott #GAFAM, Airbnb, MacDo, Nestlé, and LLMs,...

Now the #Linux kernel has decided to use LLMs. Slop aside it is not an ethical choice for its consumption and ties to fascism.
Debian too.

The Nazis in #FOSS, DHH, Omarchy, Hyprland, and #NeoVim. Framework computer!

Fascism is alive and well in FOSS.

X Chat Agents : des comptes bots programmatiques créés depuis votre projet, avec user id, @handle et nom d'affichage, mais ni mot de passe ni login.
Le bearer token est le seul moyen d'agir, et chaque bot affiche un label "Automated by @owner".

Je sais pas quoi en penser 🤨 ⬇️
https://docs.x.com/xchat/bots

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-xpm

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗼 𝗫𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 [UPDATE 1 - Lenovo XClarity One] to the article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm#UPDATE1

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #linux @lenovo #one

I run gkrellm everywhere. Even on closed Source operating systems. The dashboard is designed in such a way that I can just glance and know if something is wrong, if some process pulls way too much, and then I get in with htop to granularly see what's going on

@rl_dane

#gkrellm #Linux #BSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #win64 #dashboard

My Friend Lunic: #omarchy

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My Friend @khm helped me draw this picture. It would not exist without him.

#linux #art #comic #fediart #mastoart #arch @nixCraft #unix_surrealism

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it's been 3 days already, but my friend Lunic is still talking about some weird distro from a dude who made an email service that doesn't work with email clients. I think he went stupid. Lunic: omarchi omarchi omarchi omarchi

Linus Torvalds banishes Linux bug with a bot – Liam Proven | The Register

<https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/24/linus-torvalds-banishes-linux-bug-with-a-bot/5291784> @lproven

"… There are several points of interest here. One is that the fix is from Linus himself. Another is the unusually discursive comment. The third and perhaps the most important is that he used a bot to find the bug. He also used it to write the bug report, …

It’s a good example of how coding bots are a legitimately useful tool for developers. It looks like he didn’t use the bot to write the fix – that wasn’t needed, it’s a one-line fix – but the bot wrote 42 chunks of test code that enabled Linus to find the bug. …"

I wondered about his choice of AI, Claude could not tell us: <https://claude.ai/share/d161d4d5-b56f-4bfa-be2f-c95a741d10a5>.

#AI #Linux #Torvalds