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[?]Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: »
@atoponce@fosstodon.org

Red Hat announces RHEL 10.

However, they should fire the AI that's writing their press releases. That post reads like nothing but a bunch of buzzwords.

> "Durable foundation for IT innovation fuels more intelligent hybrid cloud operations with AI-powered Linux management"

WTF does that even mean?

redhat.com/en/about/press-rele

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    [?]jack »
    @jack@mastodon.sdf.org

    is here. And after the infinite joys of , it looks like we're now entering... the age of the vibe ?

    redhat.com/en/technologies/lin

    Red Hat AI creating a new user for you. Or telling you how to do it. Or... whatever.

    Alt...Red Hat AI creating a new user for you. Or telling you how to do it. Or... whatever.

      Stefano Marinelli boosted

      [?]Pete Orrall »
      @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

      I've been meaning to write about the state of support in for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.

      As a of a child with , as well as being a and professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.

      As much as I am an advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, has, unquestionably, the best support. has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.

      One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet still treats it as a project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like and nor is there any kind of unified API.

      It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.

      theregister.com/2025/05/18/app

        [?]Stefano Marinelli »
        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

        A client sends me an email:
        "Do you remember that internal backup server you set up a few years ago? Could you log in and check if everything’s okay? I’m not seeing any errors, but I’m not sure if it’s actually working properly".

        I have a vague memory of it - I’m guessing “a few years ago” is quite a high number.
        They send me the credentials and I log in:

        08:46:41 up 2957 days, 18:01, 1 user, load average: 7.09, 2.34, 1.50

        And, surprisingly, no errors.
        Everything is working correctly, backups are present, and the disks show no issues whatsoever.
        Debian.
        Boot date: 14/04/2017.

        Impressive.

          Federico Mena Quintero boosted

          [?]Cassidy James :gg: :fh: »
          @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family

          If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: foundation.gnome.org/membershi

          Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!

          The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.

            [?]Brian Sletten »
            @bsletten@mastodon.social

            In addition to open sourcing WSL at 2025 Build, Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot and… <checks notes> a command-line text editor that isn’t emacs, vi, vim, Neovim, ed, edlin, nano, pico, e3, JOE, micro, Kakoune, mcedit, mle, Yi, Tilde, sublimious, ne, slap, multitextor, Mg, vis, or any other terminal editor from the last 50 years.

            Sounds like somebody vibe-coded themselves a new application!

            techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/micr

              [?]Cool AF Doc Brown »
              @jcrabapple@dmv.community

              What's the new hot distro? I'm bored and I want to fuck up my laptop.

              Anyone who says Nix OS is getting a middle finger emoji.

                🗳
                Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
                I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk

                Please boost

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                  [?]Stephen Borrill »
                  @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk

                  And of course, as it's Cambridge, the beer festival is sponsored by a debugging tool.

                    [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                    @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    KDE keyboard shortcut note:

                    Goto

                    system settings > shortcuts > kwin

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

                    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

                    Alt...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

                      [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                      @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      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

                      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

                      Alt... 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

                      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

                      Alt...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

                        [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                        @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                        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

                          [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                          @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          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

                            [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                            @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            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

                            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

                            Alt... 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

                              [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                              @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                                #netbsd boosted

                                [?]vermaden »
                                @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                  Stefano Marinelli boosted

                                  [?]vermaden »
                                  @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                  Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                    [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                    @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                    Can't stand those people who insist on telling you every single detail of their day, no matter how boring or repetitive.

                                    Stupid log files.

                                      [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                      @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                      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: cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-multiple

                                      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).

                                      Alt...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).

                                        [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                        @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                        Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/

                                        i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)

                                        Alt...i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)

                                          [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                          @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                          This is what real nightmares are made of: the error "ssh: connect to host ec2-bastion-host-your-public-ip port 22: Connection refused."

                                            hubertf boosted

                                            [?]Dr. Brian Callahan »
                                            @bcallah@bsd.network

                                            A wild post appears!

                                            I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

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

                                            briancallahan.net/blog/2025051

                                              dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

                                              [?]Larvitz :fedora: :redhat: »
                                              @Larvitz@burningboard.net

                                              Linux containers (OCI Containers) are ephemeral by design, except the volumes, you mount into them. In large scale environments, that can be useful (cattle vs pets argument). But that also introduces new challenges and makes it more complex to manage them.

                                              For my personal environments, I like the approach of FreeBSD jails more. They are just a directory (or ZFS Dataset) with their own, persistent copy of the OS, easy to manage and the networking capabilities are flexible (bridged, vnet, they can be routed, firewalled, etc).

                                              Jails are well aged, are around since FreeBSD 4 back in 2000, the non-ephemeral approach (and the absence of overlay file systems etc) makes them more feel like individual virtual servers than modern Linux containers but with extreme levels of flexibility.

                                              Tools like jmore(8) (by @vermaden) and Bastille (Jails “Templates”) makes them even easier to manage.

                                                [?]Larvitz :fedora: :redhat: »
                                                @Larvitz@burningboard.net

                                                I use Jails with Ansible to automate their creation, their lifecycle management and automation of the jailed applications and I highly enjoy, how comfortable and easy it is.

                                                No immutable images, no “Dockerfiles”, no weird volume mounts or image registries and no constant re-creation of images and new deployments just to update something. Just some simple, well isolated operating systems to run my applications in 🙂

                                                I don’t say that Linux containers are bad. There’s for sure situations, where they shine. Just for my personal use-case, they are more effort in comparison to BSD jails and I’m a fan of “using the right tool for a task”

                                                And the idempotent nature of Ansible automation makes it easy to describe them in a declarative way and manage them at scale.

                                                  [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                                  @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                                  vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux/BSD/UNIX, logging usage hourly, daily, and monthly on the server or router

                                                  * Linux installation
                                                  cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-insta or cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-redha

                                                  * FreeBSD installation cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-inst

                                                  Alt...vnstat command demo showing daily, monthly and yearly traffic keeping on your Linux or FreeBSD or Unix machines.

                                                    Stefano Marinelli boosted

                                                    [?]r1w1s1 »
                                                    @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                    Improving network filtering performance with Bpfilter
                                                    (free link) https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017705/ca0af831379ca794/

                                                    From servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices communicating on a network will eventually have to filter traffic, whether for security or performance reasons. Bpfilter is a project that allows packet filtering to be done with BPF, which can be faster than other mechanisms. Even small performance improvements in this area can lead to significant gains.


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