@funkylab

For #FreeBSD (on that same box), I found a shell script that uses sysctl to get the ACPI name for the battery, and runs acpi_call from ports to set the thresholds, which survives a reboot.
On #OpenBSD, I believe you set the thresholds directly through sysctl.
On #Linux, you set it with something like echo 80 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold

So far for June's carnival, I got only ... @rl_dane 😔

Any #vim #neovim user that would like to write about it?

#opensource #linux #CLI #Shell #editors #mastodon #fediverse #bsd #programming #terminal

5 Easy Steps To Crop An Image in Inkscape

Step-by-step instructions on how to use Inkscape to crop an image whether you are a beginner or advanced user.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-crop-image/

#blog #inkscape #linux #windows #macOS #100DaysToOffload

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An elegant serif title of 'Inkscape Crop Images' stands next to a Inkscape logo shape cropped out of a blue coloured mountain landscape.

Sure everyone knows you can compile a .c file into a .so library

TIL you can compile a .so library back into a .c file

🤯

#programming #Linux

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Two gcc commands, one compiling autofile/_move.c into autofile/_move.so, immediately followed by one compiling autofile/_move.so into autofile/_move.c. The second command is shown to complete successfully (with code 0).

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/valuable-news-2026-06-15/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/valuable-news-2026-06-15/

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

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

The periodic between 1960s and 1990s was the Cambrian Explosion of #CPU architecture and #OS.

A single manufacturer, DEC, alone, had RSTS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSX-11, VMS, Ultrix, OSF/1, and several other OSs I no longer recall. And DEC had a slew of different CPU architectures, and they each ran many other OSs made by various software companies. Also, there were loads of other hardware makers, large and small, each with a flock of different CPUs and a gaggle of different OSs.

In those days, we bitterly protested against this excess of “diversity”, on the grounds of software incompatibility, development impedance, and investment cost.

Finally, we now have that much-vaunted “uniformity” we always desired: Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, SUSE Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Arch Linux, NixOS Linux, SELinux, …, @$&*#Linux, and they all run on the #x86.

😞 #progress 😖

The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-security-situation-with-the-arch-linux-aur-got-a-lot-worse/

#Linux #ArchLinux #Security

Got my hands on an old Mac Mini 6,1 from 2012. First time ever attempted to install #Linux on #Apple hardware… Vanilla #Debian, everything, including wifi when selecting proprietary firmware… #Xfce just being so much faster than the latest MacOS update that machine received. Blown away.

🚀 #Gitte 0.7.0 is out!

- Visual commit graph with color-coded per-branch colors
- Greatly overhauled layout
- Rename detection in diffs
- Drop multiple commits at once
- Show word-based diffs more often
- Toggle recursing into untracked directories
- Shortcut (Ctrl+D) to switch between staged & unstaged

Plus many performance improvements & lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.7.0+36
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

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Idle power usage of my desktop on linux is significantly lower than on windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u4lnm4/idle_power_usage_of_my_desktop_on_linux_is/

Is anyone surprised by this? #linux

RE: https://floss.social/@VolkerKrause/116741489331797800

"… Regardless of how this will eventually materialize, the direction is clear, Android isn’t going to be a viable long-term platform for FOSS software, not even in its Google-free form. I have mostly considered it a stop-gap solution until Linux on the phone is ready anyway, so this is another reason to increase the effort into that direction."

https://volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/13/kde-android-news-june-2026.html#outlook

#Linux #Google #Android #KDE #FOSS

cc @lproven

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?

Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.

It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.

Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.

Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp

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

We really do.

We're happy to announce we have our first fellows — Sophie Herold and Peter Eisenmann!

Thank you to all the donators who helped make this happen🩷 It wouldn't be possible without your financial contributions.

Read the announcement here👉 https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/06/11/announcing-our-first-fellows/

#GNOME #Fellowship #linux

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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/

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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.

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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I think we're only a few decades away:

"First rewrite Xlib, Xft, and all the Linux kernel dependencies." :)

#suckless #dwm #linux

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