The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #Linux #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Android #Ios #Technology #Politics

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/

Heads up for local Olympia folks. Tomorrow at 2pm at the Lacey Library, I'll be giving a talk and workshop about computer upcycling, and giving away AT LEAST 10 laptops, and will have some hands on demos.

If you're in the area and curious, please check it out. And please feel free to re-share!

https://timberland.bibliocommons.com/events/69b09e6f6724c63d00f800e3

#olywa #nixbook #linux #upcycle

Does anyone know a tool that will create a directory tree of hashes with modification dates and can later Be used to detect bitrot or content changes? #duckduckFedi #homelab #askfedi #linux #nas #homeserver

Für BackupPilot werden weitere Tester gesucht.

BackupPilot ist ein Linux-Frontend für den Proxmox Backup Client mit Unterstützung für mehrere Backup-Profile, Zeitpläne, Verschlüsselung und Wiederherstellung.

Aktuell stehen .deb, .rpm und Flatpak Pakete zur Verfügung.

Proxmox Forum:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/erste-testuser-f%C3%BCr-backuppilot-gesucht.183740/

#Linux #Proxmox #Backup #OpenSource #SelfHosted #GNOME #KDE #Flatpak #RPM #Debian #RHEL

QEMU: all aarch64 FreeBSD guests no longer boot.

Virtual Machine Manager, Kubuntu 26.04.

#QEMU #FreeBSD #Kubuntu #Linux

Alt...

Screenshot: five virtual machines. Some show 'Display output is not active', other show 'Guest has not initialized the display (yet)'.

Alt...

Screenshot: Virtual Machine Manager.

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! 🌱

A diverse ecosystem is a strong ecosystem. In the tech world, NetBSD brings vital diversity by proving that clean, portable, and secure code can run on virtually any architecture. This adaptability keeps computing open and accessible to everyone.

Let's keep the digital ecosystem diverse. Consider supporting the NetBSD Foundation today by contributing code, writing documentation, or making a donation! 💻🚩
#NetBSD #BiodiversityDay #OpenSource #TechDiversity #FOSS #RetroComputing #Sustainability #Linux #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489

We booted Debian and FreeBSD 15 using QEMU accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone for the FreeBSD community and beyond ! : r/freebsd

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tk0eja/we_booted_debian_and_freebsd_15_using_qemu/> – Mario Zio.

＂Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is a storic moment....we can use another hypervisor. This time in cooperation with the storic and mature QEMU. FreeBSD is second to none.

This success has been possible thanks to the competence of Abhinav Chavali who started this project for the GSOC 2025 ; thanks bro.

It's built on top of dumrich's work. …＂

#FreeBSD #bhyve #QEMU #Linux #Debian

@freebsd

SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU - FreeBSD Wiki — <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU>

Cc @stefano @dexter @seanwbruno @dch

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Ed Maste » 🌐 2026-05-18
@emaste@mastodon.social

Interesting #FreeBSD Forums post:

> We have booted Debian with qemu accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/we-have-booted-debian-with-qemu-accelerated-with-bhyve-vmm-for-the-first-time-this-is-an-epic-milestone-for-the-community.102735/#post-760324

Okay. So question for #linux or #security folks.

I want to set up a #nixbook (#nixos) computer set up as a public access computer.

I know how to harden the OS to avoid tampering. But how can I filter content? I'm already getting questions like, how can we prevent people from looking up inappropriate things?

How would you do it?

OK, real talk real quick? If you have to transfer large amounts of photos from your Android phone to your Linux computer (as when, you know, you do your regular *local* backups, wink wink), get a USB cable and use android-file-transfer.

Yes, Martha, a USB cable!

Because when every other option to transfer the damn files wirelessly to computers I control has been sabotaged by the Android OS (I mean, why would they do want to do that, right? If not, for, I don't know... their cloud services?!), I guess no other way except going old school. Luckily, though, the application is super freaking fast and well done. Not once with me did the transfer drop because the phone went to sleep or due to some other esoteric error like it happens with "native" MTP.

So, yeah that was a nice discovery to end the night.

#android #linux #backup

I have announced the winner of the third weekly giveaway:

https://retroedgetech.substack.com/p/unexpected-xfce-thinkcentre-tiny

#Linux #NetBSD #computer #giveAway #TinyMiniMicro #xfce

Deutsche Bahn: „Keine generelle Sperre einzelner Betriebssysteme“

Die Webseite der Deutschen Bahn sperrt Linux-Webbrowser mit Fehlermeldung von der Verbindungssuche aus. Das diene der Sicherheit.

https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-Keine-generelle-Sperre-einzelner-Betriebssysteme-11302305.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DeutscheBahn #IT #Journal #Linux #Mobilität #news

[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit

The OpenPGP Email Summit is an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related topics. The tenth installment of this meeting took place in March 2026 and the minut [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1072870/ #LWN #Linux #security

Just announced the winner of the third weekly giveaway:

https://substack.com/@retroedgetech/p-198645760

#Linux #NetBSD #computer #giveAway #TinyMiniMicro

@justine

I think it's great that you pursue the problem consistently until a solution is found.
#OpenBSD is enjoyable, even the installer is well thought out.
However, it's not my first choice personally.
At the moment I mainly use #FreeBSD, less #Linux, and I keep an eye on OpenBSD. I would like to test #NetBSD and NixOS more thoroughly when I have time, for now I'm very satisfied with FreeBSD.

🥳 Gitte 0.4.0 is out!

Highlights:
- New mainline concept, „Sync with mainline"
- Revert commits directly from Gitte
- Partial staging for untracked files, stage/unstage via context menu, Enter or double-click
- New additive line selection mode
- Warning when pushing to a remote that is ahead
- Ignore whitespace in diffs

Plus UI polish, overhauled menus, and macOS fixes.

Linux: https://flathub.org/en/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.4.0+20
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #rust #gnome #linux #macos

@navi @wizzwizz4 @kimapr SystemD organizes daemons as services and adds quality of life features like granular #logs via #journalctl.

- Once you get i.to the position of herding 10.000+ VMs on 1000+ servers in 3 datacenters each, you gotta embrace that when you have to find out why something is broken.

Or the harshest critic on #SystemD I'd say is that systemd is a #LaunchD (#macOS's #init system!) clone that is swapping #mac-isms for #Linux-isms…

Again: I recommend Benno Rice's talk on that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

🟢 That green light glowing in the dark is a mesh radio, GPS receiver, AI assistant, and emergency communications terminal — all running on battery inside a weatherproof aluminum box I built from scratch.

Meet the Cochrane Device — S/N 001.

After Hurricane Maria knocked out communications across Puerto Rico for months, I wanted a way to keep my family connected when everything fails. No cell towers. No internet. No power grid.

So I built one.

📦 Inside the IP66 aluminum enclosure:
→ Meshtastic LoRa mesh radio — encrypted, 15km range per hop
→ GPS with 3D fix in 18 seconds
→ WiFi hotspot so your phone becomes a node
→ Linux computer running full service stack
→ AI assistant that writes scripts on demand in the field
→ Remote access via Tailscale from anywhere on earth
→ 6-8 hours battery, solar chargeable

This is S/N 001 — the prototype. Every lesson learned here makes the next one better.

🖖

#Meshtastic #LoRa #EmergencyComms #PuertoRico #OffGrid #Linux #Maker #DIY #HamRadio #OpenSource

@stefano Revisiting this post. While I've largely used #ChatGPT and some #Gemini when researching #Linux and #FreeBSD stuff, I'd say #AI has come a long way. Are they perfect? No. Is it a replacement for man pages and the Handbook? No. Can they provide more info, context, and real world examples when the official #documentation falls short? That's a resounding yes.

It's been a while since I've seen AI give utterly incorrect info relating to FreeBSD. I am far from being the FreeBSD god I want to be and even I recognized the incorrect info at those particular times. But this was also a good 1.5 years ago.

I can't speak for #Illumos as I don't use it.

I just came across another upcoming bee game made by another #Linux-based game dev. Looks very cool! #WorldBeeDay
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4106600/Pollinate_or_Die/

I remember reading one for a some time a few years back, but have lost track of it.

If you write a tech blog and have had a post or two on Slackware in the past, feel free to recommend yourself.

#Linux #slackware #blog #TechBlog

Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a drawing for the winner of my weekly computer giveaway.

The model for this week is a ThinkCentre M710q Tiny with Intel i3-7100T processor, 8GB memory and 120GB storage.

Linux will be pre-installed. One of the reasons I am doing this is to bring attention to Linux distros like:

• Artix
• Devuan
• Void
• Slackware
• NetBSD (which is not Linux)

For a chance to win, just be a subscriber of my email newsletter.

https://retroedgetech.substack.com/

#Linux #Lenovo #ThinkCentre #TinyMiniMicro #NetBSD #artix #slackware

[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions

Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system&mdash;and contributing to open source&mdash;at a tender age, often well before their 16th birthday. Thus, a rece [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1072689/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #SUSE

You charge your laptop to 100%. The applet says “9 hours remaining”. You sit down to work and the thing dies in 4. Sound familiar?

https://forum.linuxrenaissance.com/t/measuring-battery-endurance-on-real-data/46

#Linux #battery #ThinkPad

RAM prices explained.

#RAM #tech #Linux #AI #LateStageCapitalism

Alt...

The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn’t really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.

Ok #linux nerds, I have Ubuntu 24.04, and I'd like to install a virtual machine and potentially install Slackware and OpenBSD. Which virtual machines should I look at?

@ParadeGrotesque

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found - thanks to AI https://zdnet.com/article/third-major-linux-kernel-flaw-in-two-weeks-found-by-ai/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet & @sjvn

#AI is exposing #Linux security holes almost faster than developers can patch them.

How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer

There is one specific way in which the non-corporate open source projects typically document how their infrastructure work: not at all, and Flathub is no different. The full picture likely lives only in my brain, and while it could be sorted out by anyone (especially in this LLM age, yay or nay), why should it only be me thinking at

https://www.osnews.com/story/144978/how-does-flathub-even-work-the-cdn-and-caching-layer/

#Linux

The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys https://zdnet.com/article/qualys-flags-a-linux-kernel-security-issue-that-could-lead-to-stolen-ssh-keys/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet & @sjvn

Here we go again. Another day, another #Linux bug.

Ok Linux people. I need your help. How the hell do I make it talk! Managed to get Orca installed but it only speaks for a few seconds then nothing. Help! #Linux #blind

Finally people are starting to see the light and seeing that relying on Big Tech is a bad idea. In this case this is about Oslo, but governments all across the world are seeing the same thing. Being reliant on Big Tech is a bad idea and you should move on to smaller companies with better values.

Thus, we at Vivaldi are getting plenty of requests at this time. It is not a fast process, but there is an understanding that it is time and it is urgent!

You should do the same. Your company should do the same. Take the steps you can take. Ready to change OS? Browser? Search engine? Mail provider?

My recommendation is to at least switch to Vivaldi! 😀

#Windows #Linux #Microsoft #BigTech #Google #Apple #Meta #Facebook #Politics #EU #Europa #Norway

https://www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/Pdv6Be/oslo-kommune-trapper-opp-kampen-mot-it-giganter-usa-styres-av-en-gal-mann

🐞 Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

“So just to make it really clear: If you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too. If you actually want to add value, read the documentation, create a patch too, and add some real value on *top* of what the AI did. Don't be the drive-by ‘send a random report with no real understanding’ kind of person. OK?”
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633

#ai #linux

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633 😂

FYI, the Linux kernel officially allows AI-assisted code https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html This is all big tech who are members of Linux foundations forced AI assisted code inside the Linux kernel. Now what's the point of crying about it?l

#linux #opensource

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/05/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/valuable-news-2026-05-18/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/05/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/valuable-news-2026-05-18/

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

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

«Je ne donne jamais les clefs du camion à quelqu'un d'autre. Sur les technos critiques dont je ne peux me passer, je m'adjoins des compétences et ressources externes françaises pour former des équipes mixtes : à tout moment je dois être capable, soit de changer d'industriel, soit de me passer de lui.»

Rien à ajouter.

#Logiciellibre : la #gendarmerie a quitté #Microsoft pour #Linux il y a 20 ans, ses économies sont spectaculaires - Les Numériques
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/logiciel-libre-la-gendarmerie-a-quitte-microsoft-pour-linux-il-y-a-20-ans-ses-economies-sont-spectaculaires-n255825.html

Webブラウザを使って日本語 #Mastodon をするうえで、 #Windows (ここには #macOS #Linux #NetBSD #FreeBSD などが入り得ると考える) が使いやすいという人が居る認識

(log in)
WARNING: a linux kernel update is available
$ uptime
 15:23:05 up 19:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.49, 0.46, 0.60
$ ll -rat /var/log/apt/history.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18,530 May 16 19:25 /var/log/apt/history.log
$ 

*sigh*

2026 is 2026ing WAY too hard right now.

Thanks a million, slop-"researchers"

#Linux #Kernel #Vulnerabilities #CVE

I'll be speaking at NYC*BUG on June 3. So... show up? You can show up online, no expensive flight to Manhattan needed.

https://www.nycbug.org/

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #Solaris #Illumos

Why Germany Is Paying €1 Million to Make #KDE Bulletproof (Hint: It’s Not About #Linux Fans)

https://linuxstans.com/germany-invests-e1m-in-kde-as-big-tech-alternative/

#AI Just Found Another #Linux Zero-Day and Security Researchers Are Freaking Out

https://linuxstans.com/ai-just-found-another-linux-zero-day-and-security-researchers-are-freaking-out/

Debian 13.5 is out! #debian #gnu #linux

Alt...

Debian 13.5 xfce desktop

THE FEDIVERSE САМИЗДАТ MAY 2026

#unix_surrealism #linux #news #art #fediart #veilid @VeilidNetwork #telegram #foss #mastoart #comic #9front @clock

Alt...

THE FEDIVERSE SAMIZDAT: MY SEO GUY TOLD ME NOT TO CALL IT THAT MAY2026 "PETER THIEL LEAKED MY BROWSER HISTORY. I'M WORTH 4.2 MILLION DOLLARS NOW!" 9MM CLASSIC: TO KILL A CONTENT CREATOR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A 9FRONT DEVELOPER: "lol" EUROPEAN UNION'S WAR ON ELON MUSK: "WE PAID THE SEXTORTION RANSOM AND ALL WE GOT WAS A STUPID T-SHIRT" SOME YOUTUBER: "I WISH I GOT TO FUCK GTK2 WHEN IT WAS STILL YOUNG"

@nixCraft

#LinuxMint isn't boring ... 🤭

#Linux

Debian 13.5 reminds Linux users why boring distributions still win https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/debian-13-5-linux-security-update/

#linux #opensource

My turn to do an #introduction

My name is Erika, and I'm a programmer and general fan of computers. Currently, I'm most interested in all things #kubernetes, #rust, and #linux. I'm an avid Linux ricer, who's fallen in love with #niri and writing my own shell.

In my free time, if I'm not tinkering with my computer, I practice #taekwondo, in which I also have a black belt.

By day, I'm a software engineer working on cloud-native microservice architecture in software supply chain security

Super happy to be part of the fedi!

Just one Go codebase.

Built from Linux.

Targeted Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, across multiple architectures.

No dual-boot.
No spinning up a dozen machines.
No installing every target OS just to compile for it.

Go cross-compilation still feels like cheating in the best possible way. 🚀
#linux
#freebsd
#openbsd
#netbsd
#windos
#code
#golang

Linux distros. Which one do you like? #linux #NixOS #archlinux

https://www.hellotux.com/

Alt...

Linux swag

One of Slackware's early developers and co-author of the Slackware book, David Cantrell, on what things were like before Slackware became the longest running Linux distro still standing. Different times. Great watch.

https://youtu.be/t9ivC2eOg1w

#slackware #linux #foss #technology

UNIX/*BSD discussion on Reddit is just weird. Its just a bunch of LLM posts talking past one another and hallucinating things in a way that I don't really see on the Linux subreddits. And then there's the thing where they repost old screenshots from since deleted accounts as their own to get karma. Just...weird. And not fun any more. #reddit #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #Unix #vintageunix #Linux #reddit #Solaris