schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
#Linux #btrfs
OH LE BOULET.
Je viens de me rendre compte que j'avais oublié de mettre le répertoire de torrents de mon NAS en NOCOW. Duh.
Correction:
- fermer le client torrent.
- créer un répertoire vide, le mettre en NOCOW (chattr +C nouveau)
- copier l'ancien répertoire dedans (cp -r -v --reflink=never ancien nouveau) (sinon ça gardera les blocs de données qui sont déjà en mode CoW)
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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise
https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/ by @sjvn
The #Linux desktop has finally taken off.
I think I've gotten further with this #FreeBSD #wine issue, knowledge-wise. The program I run for it does some live patching in memory (basically reads in a .dll and binary patches it in memory)
This all runs just fine in #Linux but fails in FreeBSD.
The system call I could find for it in WINE debugging was: KERNEL32.ReadProcessMemory
I also get this dreaded message:
wineserver: file_set_error() can't map error: Cannot allocate memory
This is FreeBSD 14.3, wine-devel 10.12.
Have tried disabling ASLR, enabling W^X (which I know is bad), have tried both 64-bit and 32-bit (WINEARCH=win32) prefixes. Same problem happens.
Is FreeBSD preventing WINE programs from reading each others' memory? I don't even know if it even got to the write part, it couldn't read it at all.
Please boost far and wide and many thanks in advance to anyone in the FreeBSD gaming community who might know the answer here (or a friendly FreeBSD dev?)
Dream come true yesterday!
I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.
Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.
Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)
New #blog post:
"'Here's what I do' versus 'You should'"
A bit of a gripe about people who tell others what they *should* do.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/08/heres-what-i-do-versus-you-should/
I recently had to do some Docker related things which meant that it was time to retry Linux. My first idea was to install Debian SID and Void Linux - using dm-crypt and LVM on a spare laptop, and I wanted to tell the story of my time using each, as maybe you can get something out of it. Let'a get on with the story now.
# 1. Setting up Debian
I had no idea if the GUI installer for Debian was going to cause an issue, so I went for the next best thing: a KDE image and debootstrap. I was pretty confused by a lot of things, examples of which being setting rd.luks.uuid, locales, and I thought I install systemd in the initramfs as if it were Arch but I eventually gave up and used /etc/crypttab with it working. I had a Debian with full KDE setup in 2 days.
# 2. Setting up Void
I also set up Void while booted into Debian because I had prepared LVM for that when setting up Debian. I had to variate from the Void Linux disk encryption setup because using LUKS1 just felt weird. But I did borrow the crypttab setup from Debian which worked with a caveat: I had to decrypt twice. This was fixed by someone in the voidlinux libera channel thankfully. I had a nearly fully working Void with KDE setup at the end.
# 3. Issues with Void
With everything setup so that PipeWire could start with D-Bus, it did not start. I had another issue related to wireplumber and pipewire-pulse because I forgot to link their configs to `/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d`. Other than that, no notable issues with Void.
# 4. Issues with Debian
I really like packaging things, and thought of adding a package I really wanted to Debian, but I really cannot wrap my head around packaging for Debian. I get it somewhat, use the `dh-*` set of tools to make a package for Meson, cargo, etc. but I'm still kind of stumped outside of that. I really like FreeBSD ports, NixOS packages and XBPS templates from Void as they are really simple to work with. I won't say that it's awful to work with Debian's packaging as I really have not had enough time to understand it.
# 5. Next stop, NixOS
I was previously a NixOS user, and I really need to revisit it as I used to really like it and haven't used it in a while. Additionally, I am also a maintainer for a few nixpkgs packages myself, so it would probably be a good idea for me to use NixOS to have the nicities of it while also contributing back to nixpkgs more. I like it for the same reasons as everyone else.
# 6. Why not FreeBSD
I love FreeBSD, and would like to put it on everything I own, but I had to use Docker. Installing Docker in FreeBSD looks really messy. I had no choice other than to set up Linux, on thankfully a spare laptop and not my main machine. I'll be honest, if I didn't need Docker, I would just use FreeBSD on that laptop.
# 7. The End
That's my chaptered semi-rant about my journey with 2 Linux Distributions, and any options I may also pick. Honestly, FreeBSD is not as complicated in my opinion due to documentation, tooling and ease of use of said tooling. Jails, bhyve and other nicities are also pretty cool. Tha ks for reading.
Debian 13 "Trixie" released with official support for riscv64, HTTP boot support, 64-bit time_t ABI, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.1, Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/index.en.html
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My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.
#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #Debian #Throwback #Memories #Vintage #OldPhotos #OldTimes #OldNerd #OldMe #VintageSetup
#MultipathTCP on #Linux. I'm not expert enough to know how exactly that works or what it's doing, but it seems to be making one of the protocols on the bedrock of the #Internet more resilient, which is always a good thing 📡
https://nlnet.nl/project/MPTCP-C-Flag/
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Dans les choix de laptop (pour #linux) je vois encore le concours : intel versus amd. La différence est forte aujourd'hui ?
"backdoor" is the new "virus" in overused and wrongly applied terminology.
Over at the facesite I came across a piece (Not linking to that sh*t) about "Linux malware PLAGUE" which describes a piece of software that is useful *post-compromise* to whoever wants to hide their tracks.
Not a backdoor because it requires already established access. #cybercrime #backdoor #security #linux #fluff
@marcoarment I'd been using Apple hardware since 1993 and made the decision to exit the Apple ecosystem back in February and I'm glad I did. Anyone can do it. Same for Google and Amazon. Didn't use Microsoft.
Computing is entirely possible without them. It takes a bit of effort to detangle from iCloud, etc but it's well worth it.
GNU/Linux is much better than I'd previously thought. It's actually been fantastic.
Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 - 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲 [UPDATE 2 - Sensors Available in Ports Tree] to 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [Sensors Information on FreeBSD] article.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/sensors-information-on-freebsd#ports
Hey guys, do you know of any apps similar to "sdelete" for Linux? Of the ones I found on Google, none have the option to wipe the hard drive's empty space. In sdelete, the command is "sdelete -z C:". I have a Linux server in a VM, and wiping the empty space helps compress the hard drive in VMware.
Netmaker uses WireGuard to create secure, scalable virtual networks (VPN) that connect data centers, clouds, and edge devices including home routers. It's highly customizable and can be configured for a variety of use cases, from small businesses to large enterprises. https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker
NetBSD 11.0 sắp ra mắt! 🚀 Bản cập nhật này tập trung cải thiện khả năng tương thích Linux và hỗ trợ RISC-V. Hứa hẹn nhiều điều thú vị cho người dùng NetBSD!
#NetBSD #RISCV #Linux #opensource #netbsd11 #mãnguồnmở
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html
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TIL about wcurl, a wget/BSD fetch-like wrapper that's included with curl https://curl.se/wcurl/
/via @yaakov and https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/114965266421438259
I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods
This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.
@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.
Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.
I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that @stefano has made, who also makes great contributions in Open Source
Without the work of these incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props
There would not be any Open Source Operating Systems, plural, driving the displays.
Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully Modulated Pulse of Energy, through the Universe to everyone.
I am thankful to you all
#OpenSource #programming #GNU #GPL #license #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Proxmox #thankful #thanks #FediVerse #Love #UniversalLove