We need a #slop-free #Linux #distro.

We really do.

CLI tools can be faster for commonly-used commands .

My favorite dotfile manager to sync personal config files between machines is YADM... because there's so little to learn. It's basically `git` for dotfiles, where the files are edited in place. There's no extra symlinking or deploy step, just yadm commit/push/pull. Easy!

For edge cases of different settings on different machines, it supports templates and alternates.

https://yadm.io/

#CLI #Linux

An unsupervised agentic AI system working through compromised devs credentials (account) successfully altered bugs & pushed unverified code into multiple open source projects, including Fedora #Linux Anaconda installer. This rogue AI agent appears to have used a trusted open source contributor account over to submit bugs with backdoor & overwhelming maintainers & increasing the risk of deliberate supply chain compromises on FLOSS

AI agent runs amok in Fedora & elsewhere https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

Alt...

Source: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/ Title: AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere [LWN subscriber-only content] Author and Date of publishing: Joe Brockmeier | June 10, 2026 Description: Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways: reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the Anaconda installer. It also submitted a number of pull requests (PRs), some accepted, to several upstream projects. The Fedora account associated with the agent has had its group privileges revoked and the messes have been mopped up, but the motive behind the agent's actions is still a mystery. Go here https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/ to read full story.

I might have brain space to install linux on that spare laptop 🥰 What’s your favourite? I am going to use it to play movies and music on my tv - so not for work #linux

Change Default Linux/Unix Image Viewer Application

Use this complete guide to change the default image viewer application for a graphical desktop environment on a GNU/Linux or Unix operating system.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/change-default-linux-unix-image-viewer/

#blog #KDE #XFCE #GNOME #linux #unix #tech

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Rays of light scatter down and outward through the blue and purplish water in the background. The foreground is made up of a group of three polaroids spread out like playing cards each with their own image viewer logo in the centre along with a strong title of 'Set Your Default Linux/Unix Image Viewer'.

By the way, our first two publications on evaluating #OpenBSD mitigations are out. Both of these papers evaluate some amd64 anti-ROP mitigations: specifically changing the register selection order and semantically equivalent rewriting of instructions that may produce a potential polymorphic gadget instruction. This tracks a paper by mortimer@ back in 2019 at AsiaBSDCon.

The TL;DR is "OpenBSD can shrink binaries a little and gain a little performance without any security loss simply by reverting these mitigations." The mitigations did not hold up to independent evaluation.

The first paper did an exact 1:1 port of these mitigations to FreeBSD and found that register reallocation eliminates only about 0.3% of unique gadgets, for a 0.5% increase in binary size (mortimer@ claimed 6% reduction and "entirely free"). It is useless at best but more likely actively detrimental, as it produces a false sense of security. It also found the instruction rewriting reduces unique gadgets by about 3.5% with a binary size increase of about 1.8% (mortimer@ claimed 5% reduction with 0.15% binary size increase).

We then did a separate implementation of the instruction rewriting mitigation to GCC in the second paper. Our GCC implementation does the older <xchg; op; xchg> dance, as that's what mortimer@'s paper described. This is way worse; producing about a 3% performance hit for no security benefit at all.

The only part of both mitigations worth saving is for basic arithmetic, OpenBSD LLVM now takes advantage of the fact that basic arithmetic has two forms. For example, the newer instruction rewriting mitigation turns
addq %rax, %rbx (48 01 c3)
into
{load} addq %rax, %rbx (48 03 d8)

The new instruction rewriting mitigation is genuinely free in terms of binary size and execution speed, but doesn't move the security needle, so this one can stay as it is harmless. Other rewritings still have the flaw of increasing binary size and reducing performance for no security benefit.

Anyhow feel free to read the papers:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11458911
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405728967_A_Final_Return_for_OpenBSD_Anti-Return-Oriented_Programming_Mitigations

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #security #cybersecurity

Gambonanza masterfully combines Balatro and chess and it's out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/gambonanza-masterfully-combines-balatro-and-chess-and-its-out-now/

#Gambonanza #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Dear #Linux,

It is frustrating not having SIGINFO when troubleshooting network problems.

Annoyed,

Someone who prefers a much better networking stack

Why is #Linux like a religion? Everyone thinks their distro is the one true path, and they’ll die on that hill usually mid `apt upgrade`

*** Repost on new instance ***

Hello Fediverse,

I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.

FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.

Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/valuable-news-2026-06-08/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/valuable-news-2026-06-08/

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

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

22 Uhr Abends, und mir fällt auf: `tldr` statt `man` ist wie der Unterschied zwischen "ich erkläre dir die ganze Philosophie des Befehls" und "hier sind die 5 Beispiele, die du wirklich brauchst".

`tldr tar` hat mir mehr Lebenszeit gerettet als jeder Energy-Drink. Endlich entpacke ich Archive ohne im Kopf nach der richtigen Buchstabensuppe zu kramen. 🗜️

Installiert via Paketmanager, gibt's für fast alles.

#Linux #CLI #FOSS

So I've been using Shotwell as my photo organizer for many years. But it's old, creaky and only barely supported.

What should I use instead? What do you use? I need:

* Photo management (sorting, ranking, deleting)

* Handles 10k+ images fine

* edit with external editor (gimp)

* RAW support

* Runs locally on Linux

* Ideally, import from camera

* Ideally, export to Flickr

* Ideally, a way to export from shotwell/import to the new organizer

Any ideas?

#fedihelp #photography #linux

@paul

There's also the part where you discover the Linux Documentation Project and the joy of doco that is convincing but a quarter century or more out of date when you check all of the version numbers of the stuff that it tells you about. (-:

@rl_dane
#Linux #LinuxDocumentationProject

xterm.vt100.translations: #override \
    Ctrl Shift <Key> equal: larger-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

xterm(1) on #Linux or #BSD doesn’t support easy font resize and CUA copy-paste? uhh.

How to add things such as wget and apt to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in Linuxulator on FreeBSD?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1tz7dln/how_to_add_things_such_as_wget_and_apt_to_ubuntu/

What's the easiest way to install apt, in the absence of wget?

Alternatively: what's the easiest way to install wget, in the absence of apt?

#FreeBSD #apt #Linux #Linuxulator #Ubuntu

The NetBSD 🚩 Foundation wrapped up its 2026 AGM! 🚀 Quick recap of milestones & future plans:
📦 NetBSD-11 (RC4) is on the horizon.
🌳 The massive migration from CVS to Git/Mercurial is officially complete!
🎓 #GSoC2026: 5 students onboarded (working on Wi-Fi stack upgrades, porting the #Enlightenment desktop @E , and more).
🛡️ Security: Onboarding as a MITRE CNA, preparing for the EU CRA, and enforcing "Anti-Slop" (no unreviewed AI code) protocols.
🔬 Long-term: Long-term plans to use formal verification tools, with Core open to funding active code audits.

Full log: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/annual_general_meeting_2026

#NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #GSoC #Security #Linux #antiaislop #FormalVerifcation

Don't tell me you think #Linux #Documentation is adequate.

Go install CachyOS and somehow manage to change both the console font in Limine, and upon bootup, and then tell me the documentation is adequate.

I give up. I'll just squint while logging in. You'd think stuff would be smart enough to say "Gee, the screen is 1080p, maybe let's not use an 8x16 console font. 🤦‍♂️

Have you already enrolled on the Chat Mail service of BSD Café?

## No?

Go read enroll, have fun!

I've already enrolled / applied

Compliments of @stefano who did a massive amount of work to make this a full BSD experience from the server side.

This Café also runs in a BSD Jail

https://chatmail.bsd.cafe/index.html

#BSD #Café #Chat #Mail #service #programming #Linux #no #OpenSource #POSIX #fun #UniversalLove

Hello, BSD and Linux friends!

Don't miss @jana 's great presentation later today: "How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?"

The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal

The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/ZSNZ89/

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

OK ... #Linux help needed.

I'm trying to update my 20.04 machine to 22.04, thence to 24.04. I've run:

$ apt update
$ apt upgrade

But I'm getting :

E: The repository 'https://repo.skype.com/deb stable Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

Then when I try:

$ do-release-upgrade

I get:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

Help?

Should I somehow work to expunge all knowledge of skype (and I'd be more than happy to do that) or should I somehow force the upgrade?

TIA