In the Everlasting search for clients and servers Federated, detached from corporate underlords, connected to the masses I learned about the following client server duo

Client: Delta Chat
Servers: Chat Mail servers

One thing that jumps immediately into attention, is the fact that when you download the client, select a server, you get a QR code

When you've configured your client, you will immediately notice that you do not need to enter a password for your client. The system is passwordless by default.

You do not need to enter a multi-factor authentication code it doesn't need it.

What you need to do is be careful with, is who you share your link with. Go and play with it, see if it something for you

https://delta.chat/en/

#Federated #FediVerse #OpenSource #POSIX #Chat #Mail #Secure #encryption #programming #underlords

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The image shows a screenshot of a mobile device displaying the Delta Chat website. The top section of the screen features a dark gray bar with the text "Home Download Blog Contribute FAQ Forum" and a logo with a speech bubble containing the letter "D." The time is 02:43, and the battery is at 91%. Below the bar, the main content area is black with white and blue text. It states, "Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app." The features listed include reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support, the option to sign up for secure fast chatmail servers or use classic e-mail servers, interactive web apps in chats for gaming and collaboration, and audited end-to-end encryption safe against network and server attacks. The text also mentions that Delta Chat is FOSS software built on Internet Standards, avoiding xkcd927. At the bottom of the screen, there is a search bar with the URL "delta.chat/en" and a number "28" in a square, indicating notifications. The navigation bar includes a home icon, a lock icon, and a menu icon.

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The image displays a smartphone screen with a dark background. At the top, there is a status bar showing the time as 02:42, a battery level of 91%, and a 4G signal. Below the status bar, there is a text section that provides information about Chatmail servers. The text explains that Chatmail servers offer a privacy-preserving and speedy messaging experience, interoperable with chatmail and classic email servers. It instructs users to tap a chatmail server link to see the home page and then tap the QR invite code. The text lists several Chatmail server links, each with a brief description: "nine.testrun.org" is the default onboarding chatmail server for Delta Chat apps and has been stable since the December 2023 Chatmail announcement. "mehl.cloud" is geared towards German-speaking users. "mailchat.pl" is geared towards Polish-speaking users. "chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space" and "chatmail.culturander.it" are focused on Italian-speaking users. "chika.aangat.lahat.computer" operates in the US. "tarpit.fun" is hosted in Germany. At the bottom of the screen, there is a navigation bar with a home icon, a search bar displaying "delta.chat/en/chat," and a number "28" indicating unread notifications. The navigation bar also includes options for "webxdc apps," "bots," and "cosmos." Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 2.305 Wh

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The image shows a smartphone screen displaying the settings menu of an application with avatar"Radio Azureus." The screen is predominantly black with white text and icons. At the top, there is a status bar showing the time as 02:30, a Wi-Fi signal, full battery at 82%, and a temperature of 24 degrees. Below the status bar, the word "Settings" is displayed in white text, with a left-pointing arrow icon. The settings menu includes several options: "Chats and Media" with "Read Receipts On," "Notifications" turned on, "Appearance" set to "System default, Wallpaper Default," "Add Second Device," "Connectivity" with "Connected," and "Advanced." At the bottom of the screen, there are two additional options: "Donate" with a heart icon and "Help" with a question mark icon, indicating the version of the application as "Delta Chat 1.58.4." The profile picture next to the name "Radio Azureus" shows a scenic image of a blue sky and water.

Some of the best things in life are free, such as #openbsd

Case in point: "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #opensource #libresoftware #networking #security #sanecomputing #sovereigntech

So, what do people think of #Elegoo going #OpenSource with their #RFID solution for filament tracking?

https://www.elegoo.com/blogs/news/elegoo-rfid-ecosystem-feedback-solicitation

#3DPrinting

So someone here did a poll so we can have some numbers about people who know about #BSD and their age:

https://fosstodon.org/@linux_mclinuxface/114356643693779995

It seems most BSD people are old. 71% have chosen "over 35 and know about BSD".

But a another good poll could be that how many #Linux users know about BSD. Maybe I should do one?

PS: I'm under 35 myself.

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FOSS #OS #OperatingSystem #opensource #freesoftware #opensourceOS #poll

Proxmox in Enterprises: I'm often asked, 'Can we use our Active Directory, LDAP, or OIDC with Proxmox?' Yes, you can!

Let's have quick dive into installing and configuring Authentik and configure Proxmox VE to use OIDC as an additional authentication realm.

#Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #opensource #Authentik #OpenID #OpenIDConnect #OIDC #EntraID #enterprise #homelab

https://gyptazy.com/proxmox-authentik-oidc-install-configure-and-connect-authentik-to-proxmox-ve/

RockyLinux Official Support for RISC-V in RL10! https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv

#linux #opensource

With keen interest I studied the following blogpost by @stefano

You have to read the blog post carefully, if necessary, read it twice, because there are things said between the words and the lines that should resonate with you

One major lesson is extremely important know when to cut and leave; never ever deviate from your course afterwards

When politics, corruption and deviousness are involved, you have to make absolutely certain that both your integrity and your health remain at your primary interest

A lot has been learned by me from this article

Thank you for sharing it with us Stefano

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/21/the_day_glusterfs_tried_to_kill_my_career/

#IT_Notes #NotesFromTheCrypt #LessonsLearned #OpenSource #programming #filesystem #POSIX

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The image shows a mobile device screen displaying a webpage from "IT Notes." The page features a dark background with white and red text. The headline reads "The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career," indicating a humorous or dramatic account. Below the headline, the article is described as a "7 min read" and authored by Stefano Marinelli, dated 21/05/2025 at 12:55:00. The article is categorized under "Honor" and includes tags such as "server," "horrorstories," "ownyourdata," and "data." The first paragraph mentions a visit to a healthcare facility to replace hard drives, with a budget constraint leading to the maintenance of an outdated and unreliable system. The webpage's navigation bar includes a home icon, a lock icon, and a search icon, with the URL "it-notes.dragas.net" visible in the address bar. The battery level is at 88%, and the time is 21:15. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.245 Wh

people are always bitching about #dotnet #OpenSource

I just want to say: thank you to all maintainers! @ddoomen @bradwilson @simoncropp and many more...

Just had an issue fixed again within a day, this is so fantastic!

What is digital sovereignty, data sovereignty and digital governance? Why should you care? How does it impact marketers?

Have a read of my latest article which accompanies today's @openuk webinar:

https://ruthcheesley.co.uk/blog/digital-sovereignty/understanding-digital-sovereignty-your-key-to-marketing-freedom

Got any questions or topics you'd like to know more about in this area? Just drop me a message!

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalGovernance #DataSovereignty #OpenSource

This morning I installed Alpine Linux (one of my favourite Linux distributions) on my little N150 (which I got for 124 euros), replacing OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I hooked it up to the new monitor (4K, although the N150 only handles 60 Hz) and worked on it all day.
It took me ten minutes to install Alpine Linux, KDE Plasma, and all the apps I needed.
Everything ran beautifully, without a single issue. A 124-euro MiniPC. Suspension to ram worked out of the box, hibernation just required to add "resume=swap device" to the grub configuration.

My only regret: FreeBSD doesn’t run on it yet - but I’m fairly confident things will improve soon, given the recent progress.
Most of us don't need a multi thousands euro devices to work comfortably.

#AlpineLinux #MiniPC #Linux #OpenSource

Saksassa julkishallinto on tehnyt päätöksen että 2027 mennessä ei jaeta enää mitää MS-formaatissa (siirtyvät #LibreOffice ) ja tehneet periaatepäätöksen että siirtyvät #OpenSource yhteistyösoftiin (pois #teams ja sisään #nextcloud ). Aikataulu nextcloud siirtymälle tulee syksyllä.
Nyt Tanskan toiseksi suurin kaupunki Aarhus päätti että kaikki MS lähtee, #Azure vaihtuu #Hetzner ja yms.
Samaan aikaan #Microsoft tukema #AI-firma kaatuu konkurssiin.
Olen hyvin iloinen.

Oh joy github is tightly integrating more LLM features that encourage people browsing projects to do drive by vibe coding.

The new features have no optout and are not optin. GitHub is encouraging users to submit bug reports fully written by AI and to fix bug reports using fully AI written PRs.

A lot of maintainers of open source projects big and small really do not want this turned on by default.

#AI #GitHub #VibeCoding #LLM #opensource

I'm happy to announce that we're @credativde hosting the 5th #PostgreSQL User Group meeting in #NRW, #Mönchengladbach.

If you're into #opensource, #databases & #PGSQL - we're happy to see you :-)

Date: 2025-06-03
SignUp: https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nrw/events/307792609/

Finally, for now:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/src/framebuffer.rs#L32

It is sad to see that the author has gone to the lengths of having an 18-entry colour palette that is theme-able, but has provided no option to just bypass all of this and use the 16 ECMA-48 and AIXTerm colours (SGR 30-37,40-47,90-97,100-107).

Because that option would allow users to use the colour themes that are set up in their terminal emulators *anyway*. (Almost all GUI terminal emulators can theme the 16 ECMA-48/AIXTerm colours.)

When #WindowsTerminal nowadays comes with a whole range of themes, it is a shame that #Microsoft 's #edit makes users duplicate all of that.

#OpenSource

Plus:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/src/framebuffer.rs#L554

Close but no cigar, here. The correct ITU T-416 sequence has another parameter before the RGB parameters. This was spotted some years ago, and most of the terminal emulators, that support this control sequence at all, have corrected it.

And strictly, those semi-colons separating the numbers should be colons, as they are sub-parameters to SGR 48 and SGR 38.

#Microsoft #edit #OpenSource

I've been looking at the source code of #Microsoft 's new #edit tool after @bsletten mentioned it.

This comment saddens me:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/src/framebuffer.rs#L72

It's untrue in two ways.

First, #VIM, and its predecessors, very much *did* work this way, and have done since the 1980s.

It's how #ncurses works. Anything using ncurses works this way, and even most full-screen programs that just use termcap/terminfo directly do things this way.

It was an important thing to do back in the days of 9600 BPS terminals. If one didn't, one's full-screen program was painfully unusable. *Of course* programs did things this way.

Second, reading further down the code shows that the comment is exactly backwards. It is in fact Microsoft's new EDIT that writes the unnecessary stuff; lots of it, especially if your terminal window is a wide one.

Getting it to do limited updates (of less than entire screen lines at a time) is a to-do item:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/src/framebuffer.rs#L430

#OpenSource

KDE keyboard shortcut note:

Goto

system settings > shortcuts > kwin

Check out the actions which can be bound to keyboard shortcuts.

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The screencap shows a screenshot of the "Shortcuts" settings in the system settings kwin application, likely from a KDE-based Linux distribution. The left sidebar is labeled "Shortcuts" and includes options such as "Applications," "System Settings," and "Custom Shortcuts." The main area displays a list of shortcuts, with the "Switch to Desktop" shortcuts highlighted. These shortcuts are labeled from 1 to 17, 18 to 20 are not visible There are corresponding key combinations like "Ctrl+Shift+F1" for Desktop 1 and "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5" for Desktop 17. The "KWin" section is also visible, indicating the window manager being used. The interface has a dark theme, and the "Apply" button is visible at the bottom right. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.168 Wh

The KDE team has created a wonderful Network for your Androids it's called Konnect (actually KDE Connect) and the things that it can do are so various that I'll just show you one of them in the included photographs

The ease with which I can control a music 🎵 player that works on one Android from all my devices which run Konnect opens up possibilities which are just marvelous for a sound engineer like me

@kde

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The photograph composed in warm light portrays two smartphones placed on a red fabric with a floral pattern. The phone on the left has a lock screen displaying the time "23:05" and the date "Tue, Apr 29." The background features a vibrant image of a red flower with green leaves. The phone is charging, with a battery level of 82%. A music player widget is visible, showing the song "13_18_21_aug_2021_19Lyntr" by "RadioAzureus (Musicolet)" with a play button and a progress bar. A notification from Mastodon is also visible, mentioning the user by Luca Sironi. The phone on the right shows a similar time "23:05" and date "Tue, Apr 29." The background is dark blue, and the music player widget displays the same song and artist. The weather widget shows "26°C MonPlaisir" with "Clear" conditions. The battery level is also 82%, and the phone is connected to "GSM provider." Both phones are displaying the same time, indicating they are synchronized. The Android on the right is in slight Bokeh due to the shallow DOF because of the wide aparture Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.266 Wh

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The image shows a mobile device screen displaying Konnect "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is dark, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast. At the top, the time is shown as 23:06, with various status icons indicating Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and battery level at 84%. The main title "KDE Connect Devices" is prominently displayed, followed by a message stating that other devices running KDE Connect in the same network should appear here. Below this, there is a section titled "Connected devices," listing four devices: "SM-A260G," "Xiaomi Redmi A2 Blakka," "Galaxy A2 Core Lucã," and "Krasiwati," each accompanied by a device icon. The "Remembered devices" section follows, listing three devices: "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," and "Polawiri," each with a corresponding icon. The interface is designed for easy navigation, with a menu icon on the left and a back arrow on the right, indicating the ability to return to the previous screen. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

At this moment I'm roughly tuning a very nice FluxBox Desktop in an OpenSource POSIX driven OS.
I'm working on tuning my Desktops Environments in such a way that it doesn't matter whether I run them in Linux or *BSD

That way I'll just fire up the Operating System inject my own configuration for the desktop environment fire up X.org and then start working

FluxBox has been a favorite window / desktop manager of mine a couple of decades ago.

Since it has been written efficient it's blazingly fast
I combine tools that I love from Xfce with FluxBox so that my muscle memory for shortcuts can be used in a super smooth manner

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

Since this command...

`xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`

...segfaults in fluxbox atm I did not bother with a screenshot, because xfce4-screenshooter rocks way too much to use another one

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

I've been able to configure KDE to my liking so that I feel at home again in the K Desktop Environment.

This is critical because it means that everything from way back in the beginning, decades ago when KDE was released, is still in the current new and fresh version of the K Desktop Environment

It means that the teams which have worked on KDE for the past decades have kept the core of KDE alive

It means that we have an excellent group of programmers, before and current, who have worked on KDE and who have kept KDE beautiful fantastic and magnifique for a wide range of people all over the globe

@kde

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The photograph composed in total darkness shows an IPS LED computer screen displaying the K Desktop Environment with a dark blue theme. The screen is divided into two main sections: the top section shows a settings menu with various options such as "Audio and Sound," "Display and Monitor," "Input Devices," "Hardware and Devices," "Network," "Settings," "Connections," "User Feedback," "Online Accounts," "Accessibility," "Region and Language," "Notifications," "Personalization," "Search and Shutdown," "Shortcuts and Startup," "Workspace Behavior," and "Appearance." The bottom section features a wallpaper of a gorgeous woman standing in a room with a wooden floor and a window in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a black skirt with a lace pattern, and she is smiling. The screen also shows a sidebar with options like "General," "Global Themes," "Connections," "Appearance Style," and "User Style." The time displayed on the screen is 22:38, and the date is the 15th of May. The overall image is in subtle Bokeh, because of the translucent effect programmed in KDE The screen is surrounded by a dark background, and has been captured with a puny Android analogue sensor smaller than the tip of my Pinky nail Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

I've easily & smoothly configured KDE Konnect to work in Fluxbox WM

#FluxBox #KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #KDEKonnect #Android

Do you make backups? Do you run ZFS? Do you use Bacula? Do you use dd?

Your method is important for you. What's also important is testing how a restore works.

I lost a partition less than 30 minutes ago. I have a simple tgz backup of the important data on another drive, not an SSD, no a HDD.

I lost zero bytes of data.

Please make sure your backup and restore systems work.

When your recovery tool says the partition is lost, only your backup will save you.

Mine did

#OpenSource #Backup #Restore #Data #Recovery

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The image shows a terminal window displaying the output of the TestDisk 7.1 data recovery utility. The utility is running on a Linux system The top of the window contains the utility's name, version, and copyright information, along with the author's email address and website. Below this, the utility is analyzing a hard disk identified as /dev/sdb, which is reported to have a capacity of 250 GB, but the utility suggests it might be 232 GB, 323 GB, or 300 GiB. The utility notes that the hard disk size seems too small and suggests checking the hard disk size, HD jumper settings, and BIOS detection. The output lists three partitions that cannot be recovered, all labeled as "MS Data" and formatted as NTFS with a block size of 4096. The partitions are shown with their start and end sectors, and their sizes in sectors. The first partition starts at sector 488392703 and ends at sector 630994935, with a size of 142602233 sectors. The second partition starts at sector 488396792 and ends at sector 631003120, with a size of 142606329 sectors. The third partition starts at sector 488396799 and ends at sector 631003127, with a size of 142606329 sectors. The total size of these partitions is 73 GB, but the utility notes that it is 67 GiB. At the bottom of the window, there is a prompt asking the user to "Continue," indicating that the user can proceed with the recovery process or exit the utility. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.410 Wh

Multiplexing will boost your SSH connectivity or speed by reusing existing TCP connections to a remote host. Here are commands that you can use to control multiplexing when using OpenSSH server or client on your Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Unix-like systems. Not sure what SSH multiplexing is? Learn how to set it up and use it to speed up your SSH sessions with our handy guide: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-multiplexing-control-command-to-check-forward-list-cancel-stop-connections/

#linux #unix #freebsd #opensource #openssh #macos

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List of ssh command to control an active connection multiplexing process on Linux or Unix such as: Valid commands are: “check” (check that the master process is running), “forward” (request forwardings without command execution), “cancel” (cancel forwardings), “exit” (request the master to exit), and “stop” (request the master to stop accepting further multiplexing requests).

“The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully #OpenSource, #federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support.”

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

#linux #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #aix #ibm #solairs #illumos #pkgsrc #opensource #freesoftware

Some reflections from my recent retreat on the first precept of 'do no harm' and its application when leading open source projects: https://ruthcheesley.co.uk/blog/buddhism/cultivating-non-harm-and-kindness-in-open-source-leadership

#Dharma #Buddhism #FirstPrecept #Ahimsa #OpenSource #Triratna #Ethics #BuddhistEthics

I'm a co-maintainer of the popular #nodejs config module "node-config".

It's just had a new release that adds support for ".mjs" files and fixes some bugs.

https://github.com/node-config/node-config/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Thanks to new co-maintainer Jason Marshall for taking the lead on this release!

#opensource #typescript #javascript

If #AI is so good at coding … where are the #OpenSource contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/