Happy International Pi Day! Celebrating the infinite possibilities of clean code and extreme portability.

What a better day to remind everyone: Of course it runs NetBSD! 🚩

#NetBSD #PiDay #PiDay2026 #OpenSource #RetroComputing #RunBSD #linux

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116218353347856328

Oh no, systemd started using LLMs. 🙁

Every mainstream Linux distribution from Ubuntu to Arch uses systemd as far as I know.

So just as users are migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux, we are hit with the slop.

#linux #systemd #GenAI

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) boosted

Christine Lemmer-Webber » 🌐 2026-03-12 / 2026-03-13
@cwebber@social.coop

EDIT: See later in thread, it seems like the good news is at least that it's not having auto-merging on, which is where the security risk comes in. I still have other concerns.

Looks like they're also using Claude for PR review https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9a70fdcb741fc62af82427696c05560f4d70e4de

Which probably means systemd is now the most attractive target in FOSS for an AI prompt injection attack to insert a backdoor

EDIT: It does seem that they don't have auto-merging of PRs from the review bot, which is an improvement over the situation (and mitigates the primary security risk, hopefully it stays that way), and AI contributions are asked to be disclosed. That said, it seems like the issue is closed, and they are firmly in the "we will accept AI contributions, as long as disclosed" camp.

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/ #LWN #Linux

Well shit
I blew up my Slackware install thanks to the internet blowing up during a major update earlier today.I think it destroyed my startup for good since all I get now is LIL then blinking cursor.
Just as well ,I want to reinstall using KDE this time.It was XFCE before.
Fk you very much Xfinity for the hour long outage today.
#linux
#pc
#slackware

pwning #NetBSD -aarch64 (ARM)
#RunBSD #Linux #unix

https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20260308_1932.html

self-report - take 2

take 1: https://analognowhere.com/_/ratmrg/

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #vim #openbsd #linux

Alt...

Fish: "So, this is everyone who thinks you're cool for using vi over vim." There's a million penguins around.

The #Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and #Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-linux-kernel-will-soon-be-mit-licensed-and-copyleft-will-be-dead-within-5-years/

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/

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

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

I have a #linux question for the class.

I have this jailbroken Intel Chromebook running #debian 13. The screen is broken and I wanted to try and run with no screen, just HDMI (like a pi 500)

When the eDP is installed the HDMI works and screens mirror. And I can even unplug the eDP and it continues to run.

However, it won't even post or get to a pingable status when trying to start it up with no edp LCD installed.

Any ideas why?

Alt...

Laptop plugged into a TV with the xfce desktop

Episode 7 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e7.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #opensource #freesoftware #linux #linuxfromscratch #grapheneos #budgiedesktop #cinnamondesktop #linuxmint #libvirt

Can recommend https://openwhispr.com for text entry by speach in any app on #Linux. #Whisper

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116176791660236896

This post explains the value of enforcing a one week pause between a new package is published and when most people can install it.

The practice follows the "safe by default" principle, allowing a smaller group of people a week to notice if the package contains an exploit before wide distribution.

Much like how beta releases have been used or other kinds of phased rollouts.

#Linux

Jason Yip » 🌐 2026-03-05
@jchyip@mastodon.online

Package Managers Need to Cool Down https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html

Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.

I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!

Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource

Alt...

Asus Chromebook booting up to Postmarket OS

I love the idea of using #Linux instead of Windows on our laptops, and it __might__ be possible for us to do that. I need to find some time to test some things out. I would love to limit any money given to Microsoft, but I fear that might be tricky with how integrated we can get with some large corporate clients that more or less require interfacing with Microsoft products.

Curious to hear from folks that manage small deployments of #Linux laptops in business settings. My small window perception tells me that #Fedora is often the go to for situations like this, but it's also the ecosystem I'm least familiar with. Curious to hear others opinions on this or if you are aware of resources that speak to this topic, I'd appreciate the pointer. Thanks!

Found that #NVIDIA released new #Beta Branch of their #drivers 595.45.04.

For #FreeBSD:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/265311/

#Linux counterparts:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/265309/

Note that this won't appear in #FreeBSD #ports, as it's "Beta".
"-devel" variants in ports are for whichever the newer of "New Feature Branch (NFB)" or "Production Branch (PB)" of drivers.

Investigating for future NFB or PB upgrades, FreeBSD native driver ports should work by overriding version as usual.
But Linux counterparts (installed by overriding version of x11/linux-nvidia-libs{-devel}) need some fixes.

Beware! This version does NOT work on pre-Turing generations of GPUs, just as 590 series.

nvi    5184 KB
neatvi 1960 KB

#vi #neatvi #nvi #unix #suckless #linux #slackware

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

One day, I suddenly wondered how to detect when a USB device is plugged or unplugged from a computer running Linux. For most users, this would be solved by relying on libusb. However, the use case I was investigating might not actually want to do so, and so this led me down a poorly-documented rabbit hole.
↫ ArcaneNibble (or R)

And Arc

https://www.osnews.com/story/144551/hardware-hotplug-events-on-linux-the-gory-details/

#Linux

#Linux #réseau #geoblocage
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Ancienne adresse: https://github.com/herrbischoff/country-ip-blocks
Nouvelle : https://herrbischoff.com/code/me/country-ip-blocks

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