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.
Heute wieder mal einen alten Laptop mit Linux wiederbelebt. ๐ง
Das Ding wรคre sonst im Elektroschrott gelandet โ jetzt lรคuft es schneller als vorher mit Windows.
Manchmal ist die beste Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie einfach: frische Software drauf, neues Leben drin.
Danke an alle, die freie Software bauen, damit wir Hardware nicht wegwerfen mรผssen. ๐
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"France Is Ditching Windows for Linux"
Video by Mental Outlaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThTJAlYGqkE
Could this be an early sign of an emerging "Post-American Internet" like the one envisioned by @pluralistic ?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! ๐ฉ
To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.
Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).
Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:
https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux
Rhythmbox is a multimedia application that supports ripping a audio CD to FLAC, Opus, and Vorbis formats.
FLAC: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/112290839593673304
Opus: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/115298082186792263
Vorbis: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/115298106978513801
Rhythmbox is included in Debian and Fedora software package repositories, a convenient and secure method of installation.
Website: https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox
#Rhythmbox #Linux #Multimedia #Audio #AudioCD #FLAC #CD #Music #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Opus #MP3 #Vorbis #Debian #Fedora
The thing with Linux is that it's neither a democracy nor a meritocracy, but actually, functionally, an oligarchy. :(
Whoever has the money to dedicate programming resources gets to determine what the #Linux user space will look like, and more often than not, they resort to REALLY FORKING UNDERHANDED tactics to get their way when there's pushback and meritocratic resistance.
The BSDs are more like somewhat democratic (to varying degrees) monarchies. A limited number of people get to make the decisions, like it or lump it. But there isn't so much cloak & dagger crap.
Not debating whether the law is wrong or not.
- Projects that will refuse any age verification/attestation.
- Projects that'll preemptively comply using some simplistic age bracket eval.
- Projects that are still deciding what to do.
OK, I'm taking a risk now.
Is anybody interested in beta-testing Gitte? I'm looking for a few people. If you are interested, send me a DM.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social
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My new printer stopped working under #LinuxMint the other day. Re-adding it resulted in a general error message.
Finally found the solution:
In the printer's "location" field, I had specified "Mein Bรผro" ("My office" in German). And Cups does not like umlauts in that field. ๐ถ
After removing the "รผ", the printer worked.
Maybe this information will be helpful to someone, at some point. ๐
it's getting cereal
#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #comic #ai #mastoart #fediart #foss
Linux 7.0 released
Version 7.0 of the Linux kernel has been released, marking the arbitrary end of the 6.x series.
Significant changes in this release include the removal of the "experimental" status for Rust code, a new filtering mechanism for io_uring operations, a switch to lazy preemption by default in the CPU scheduler, support for time-slice extension, the nullfs filesystem, self-healing support for the XFS f
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๐ REPLAY DISPO : https://youtu.be/0yTZG0IPSc0
รpisode 2 : L'OPTIMISATION ! ๐ณโก๏ธ
On booste l'installation de Phoronix sur Alpine Linux. Au programme : config d'un volume de cache Docker pour ne plus attendre sur ce bon vieux Raspberry Pi 1. ๐ ๏ธ๐ฅ
Hm.. Little Snitch fรผr #Linux. Also ich bin definitiv kein Experte in der Ecke, aber das Tool fรผhlt sich ganz nett an.
รpisode 2 : Dรฉfi Multi-arch ! ๐ณ
On continue les benchmarks sur Raspberry Pi 1. Objectif : build une image Docker/Podman Phoronix Test Suite compatible ARMv6, ARM64 et AMD64. ๐ ๏ธ
Le vieux RPi 1 va-t-il tenir le choc ?
Direct ici : https://www.twitch.tv/ahp_nils
Something that I'd love to be able to do, but haven't figured out how, yet:
You can run somecommand 2>&1 > log.txt to get STDOUT and STDERR together, but you won't know which is which.
You can run somecommand 2>err.txt >log.txt to get STDOUT and STDERR separate, but you won't know the timing, or which error messages happened between which STDOUT messages.
I'd like to figure out some way to combine both, so you end up with a file like this:
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
2: this was a STDERR message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
2: this was a STDERR message
Any ideas? @mirabilos?