STOP DOING SWAP PARTITIONS

HARD DRIVES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE RAM

YEARS OF LINUX SYSADMINNING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going beyond CLOSING A FEW TABS

Wanted to avoid the OOM killer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ZRAM

"Yes please give me a dedicated 64GB logical volume of SWAP. Please give me unresizable block devices trapped at the end of my disk." - STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

LOOK at what Neckbeards have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fdisk and GParted Live USBs we built for them. (This is REAL PARTITIONING, done by REAL LINUX USERS):

# mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
# echo  /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
# swapon -a

"Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open."

They have played us for absolute fools.

#linux #sysadmin

Advanced Programming the #UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX History

We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and #Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.

https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw

Scroll along through it all here: https://levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

If you build software for #Linux that can easily work as a portable executable, just distribute it as an appimage. Don't just make a .deb (or, rarely, .rpm) package and call it a day.

htmx : quelques attributs HTML pour ajouter AJAX, transitions CSS, WebSockets et Server Sent Events sans écrire de JavaScript. Un bouton avec hx-post et hx-swap suffit à déclencher une requête et remplacer le contenu par la réponse serveur. Successeur d'intercooler.js. ⬇️
https://four.htmx.org/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran du site htmx présentant une petite bibliothèque JavaScript qui ajoute des attributs HTML pour transformer le web en outil moderne et dynamique. L'exemple montre un bouton utilisant les attributs hx-post et hx-swap pour déclencher une action AJAX directement en HTML.

Stephen presenting the Linux emulation in NetBSD, a really interesting topic!

#NetBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #Linux

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Emeraldian ouvre votre vault Obsidian dans le terminal. Vous lisez et écrivez vos notes en Markdown, avec les liens entrants, un graphe et 18 thèmes. Il lit vos fichiers tels quels, sans import ni base de données. Vous pouvez garder Obsidian ouvert en même temps. ⬇️
https://github.com/iamrohithrnair/emeraldian

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-401/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Late Night Linux artwork

A simple RAM wipe isn't enough in high-risk scenarios.

Forensic tools can extract data remanence.

But... Let's talk about how PH4NTXM stealthily does the job in the background.

The RAM Seeding Engine runs continuously as a background daemon, locking just 1% of the total system memory via mlock. The magic lies in how it exploits kernel page recycling. By strategically timing allocations and forcing the kernel to cycle through dirty pages, that 1% footprint actively overwrites freed memory segments with live cryptographic noise and dummy network fragments.

You get active anti-forensics protection against cold-boot attacks and memory dumps, with zero lag.

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

Guys, for the sake of the story, PH4NTXM is the first Greek "hacking" distribution. Focused on security, privacy and op-sec.

If we have any Greek friends here around PH4NTXM, I'd love to put up some engagement!

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

https://codeberg.org/Izder456/exfetch/issues

just opened up a few codeberg issues on my exfetch project with things i haven’t gotten around to fixing or implementing.

take a look, I’d love to get some contributions.

#linux #bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd

Omarchy is another example of the community defining the Linux distro, for better or for worse..

#Linux #Omarchy

The debate over whether you can slap some rebranding and change a few custom defaults and themes and call it a distro ended way back with Hannah Montana Linux. That bar is very low. The community reflection behind the project is far more important and telling.

Conway's Law is very much alive and kicking.

#Linux #Omarchy

Curl runs everywhere!

You can learn a lot about it if you read in everythingcurl

cURL (pronounced like "curl",[6] /kɜːrl/) is a free and open-source computer program for transferring data to and from Internet servers. It can download resources identified by URLs from a web server over HTTP and supports a variety of other network protocols, URI schemes, multiple versions of HTTP, and proxying. The project consists of a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl), which have been widely ported to different computing platforms. It was created by Daniel Stenberg, who is still the lead developer of the project.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

https://everything.curl.dev/index.html

#curl #programming #filetransfer #Linux #freeBSD #OpenBSD #netBSD #win64 #mac

🚀 #Gitte 0.10.0 is out!

* Side-by-side diffs in the working copy & history
* Git LFS setup & tracked pattern management
* Add, update, configure & remove submodules
* Manage remotes & delete remote branches
* Per-repository commit & tag signing configuration
* Much faster startup, commit graphs & staging

Plus light & dark mode settings, UI improvements, and lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.10.0+132
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

You can say whatever but writting a shell script that works on 8 shells and with busybox, toybox and gnucoreutils makes me happy.
#Unix #BSD #linux

Any gotchas I should look out for migrating from #Linux to #NetBSD? Or suggestions for helpful guides?

For desktop primarily.

#AskFedi

I just lost my job today, so here we go..

I'm a ~30 years Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.

Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")

Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.

I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.

Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.

Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.

I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.

I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.

If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.

#getfedihired #unix #linux

i surely need to shift my focus on some computer related stuff: most of my (really limited) energy is lately being spent worrying about this or that technology being enshittified with #ai/#llm (even #linux now, the first weapon i wielded against big tech in the past)

i will try to focus my energy towards actionable steps and technologies that don't are better for the planet and me

as soon as i will have a small break from some personal stuff, i think i will try some #netbsd or #haikuOS

linux-android : transforme un vieux téléphone Android en desktop Linux accéléré GPU (XFCE4, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE) ou en serveur Home Assistant. Fonctionne via Termux, sans root, sans PC, sans cloud. Le script détecte le GPU et installe Firefox, VLC, SSH, Wine. ⬇️
https://github.com/mayukh4/linux-android

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Ce schéma illustre comment transformer un ancien téléphone Android en bureau Linux accéléré par GPU ou en serveur domotique à l'aide de Termux, présentant deux chemins d'utilisation possibles : l'un pour un environnement de bureau complet et l'autre pour contrôler des appareils connectés via Home Assistant.

@KingmaYpe @clickhere @GrapheneOS @e_mydata @murena Yes, and #Linux is very happy with #AI code contributions. /e/OS is based on #LineageOS, also happy with AI code contributions. So if you want to avoid AI, you need to use a different operating system.

https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

https://github.com/LineageOS/charter/blob/main/ai-coding-assistants.md

Introduction interactive au Spanning Tree Protocol : élection de la racine, rôles des ports, propositions et accords. RSTP tourne dans le navigateur via MSTPD, implémentation libre en espace utilisateur, simulations pas à pas incluses. ⬇️
https://vincent.bernat.ch/fr/blog/2026-spanning-tree

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Do you use #OpenZFS? Do you ship a product or service with #ZFS in it? Do you work on a storage- or filesystem-related project and are interested in how ZFS could make it better? Are you interested in the future of software-defined storage?

If any of these are you, you should consider presenting at the OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026! Our CfP is open until September 11, and we'd love to hear from you!

https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_User_and_Developer_Summit_2026

#Linux #FreeBSD #illumos #NAS #homelab

@mason

Maybe it's just the same history as with #Linux ?
#FreeBSD has its own foundation but, as with Linux, both are US based. These foundations have their sponsors. Some of them are US #bigtech. And they are basically pushing towards LLMs.

Time to stop using anything that comes from US ? Fork ?

Honestly I'm not surprised. I even expected this to happen sooner or later.

OpenAnalytics : alternative open source à Google Analytics, sans cookies ni profils cross-site, ... Self-hostable via Docker, ClickHouse et Postgres, avec serveur MCP et CLI. ⬇️
https://github.com/OpenLabs-so/openanalytics

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Présentation du projet OpenLabs-so/openanalytics, une plateforme d'analyse web open-source, respectueuse de la vie privée et sans cookies, avec attribution des revenus et serveur MCP. Le projet affiche 5 contributeurs, 0 problèmes signalés, 458 étoiles et 41 forks sur GitHub.

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

OpenWhispr : alternative open source et gratuite à WisprFlow, dictée vocale et transcription de réunions. Transcription locale via Whisper ou NVIDIA Parakeet, audio qui ne quitte jamais la machine, diarisation des locuteurs en local. ⬇️
https://github.com/herotools/open-whispr

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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OpenWhispr est une application open-source de dictée vocale en texte, alternative gratuite à WispFlow et Granola, offrant une transcription respectueuse de la vie privée sur macOS, Windows et Linux. L'application utilise des modèles d'IA locaux ou cloud pour convertir la parole en texte avec support des agents IA, transcription de réunions et prise de notes.

heise+ | So archivieren Sie alternde und zerkratzte Audio-CDs für die Ewigkeit

Audio-CDs bitgenau und verlustfrei konservieren: Wir zeigen schnelle und gründliche Wege für Linux, macOS, Windows und Stand-alone-CD-Spieler.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/So-archivieren-Sie-alternde-und-zerkratzte-Audio-CDs-fuer-die-Ewigkeit-11418989.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #IT #Linux #macOS #Windows #news

OpenLUNIC logo/mascot

#openbsd #linux #nomarchy

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OpenLUNIC mascot logo a big thick floaty penguin

Btop - das bessere htop für das Terminal

hyperblog.de/hoergen/posts/202…
#demhoergen #hyperblog #btop #systemmonitor #terminal #linux #macos #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

Eine detaillierte Einführung in btop, den ressourcenschonenden Systemmonitor mit Spiel-Menü-System und GPU-Unterstützung.

Told someone I'd rip their book of music CDs for them... and discovered my ripper software is unusable. It rips a track or two and crashes. Fan-fucking-tastic. Alright, with Audex out of comission, I'm open to suggestions. I'd prefer something that fits nicely in to KDE, but getting this project done is higher priority.
I have k3b, but I can't find where to change the format and location of the ripper.
#Linux

#NetBSD #Debian #Linux #noai #antiai #antillm #runbsd #humanintelligence

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Image of sun tzu with quote "He whose repository rejects the machine's illusions, beneath the shield of human craft, shall watch his enemies compile automated ruin willingly."

Slackware has upgraded its toolchain to GCC 16, and in preparation for the next stable release of Slackware 16.0, we’ve completed a full world rebuild.

So, how long does it take to build Slackware AArch64 with 76 cores? Let’s find out!

https://youtu.be/6X6LYxTxyIo

#slackware #linux

Un an de podcast IFTTD passé au crible : 40 épisodes, 370 transcriptions lues, 6 apprentissages. Agents produisant plus de code que relisible, juniors moins recrutés, retour des fondamentaux (typage, tests, archi).
Livre blanc gratuit, verbatims sourcés. ⬇️
https://bilan.ifttd.io/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Couverture du livre blanc "If This Then Dev - Saison 25-26" présentant 40 conversations avec des professionnels explorant les nouvelles façons de produire du code, regroupant 36 entreprises et 6 apprentissages clés résumés en 3 minutes.

LibreOffice 26.8 dépasse le million de téléchargements en une semaine, probablement grâce à sa position sans IA générative par défaut : exécution contrôlée par l'utilisateur, zéro télémétrie, aucune dépendance à un vendeur unique. ⬇️
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Capture d'écran de LibreOffice Writer montrant un document expliquant les styles de formatage. L'interface affiche un diagramme comparant le formatage direct et les styles, avec un panneau de navigation sur le côté listant les chapitres du document.

#FreeBSD, but make it #Unixporn!

#Unix #Linux #i3wm #i3 #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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A desktop screenshot showing a customized FreeBSD setup. On the left, a web browser displays the FreeBSD Handbook's “Wired Networks” section. On the right, a terminal runs fastfetch, showing system information over a dark forest wallpaper, with a colorful cmatrix terminal visualizer occupying the lower-right area.

Surprised how difficult it is to add a network tap to a #Linux host. Searched for documentation and got help from someone on IRC and we still couldn't make it work. This was much easier on #NetBSD.

How Mastodon are you? (4th Round)
Pick ALL that apply to you!

BTW There 50 choices ... So make sure you click on 'Read more >' to see the rest!

Please BOOST ... polls work better if more people see them.

#food #biking #autism #LGBTQ #Linux #photography #bloomscrolling #writing

RE: https://ieji.de/@parchlinux/117235093021008906

HI!
I'm one of the developers behind Parch Immutable. Been building this for months and today it finally hit public alpha.

Built on bootc, so the whole system ships as a bootable OCI container image. Read-only root, atomic updates, instant rollbacks if anything breaks. No more praying an update doesn't nuke your system. Podman and Distrobox handle anything that's not on Flatpak, so you're never locked out of an app just because the base is immutable.

Native Plasma login replacing SDDM, atomic bootloader updates through bootupd, and the whole image is already trimmed down by several GB. This is early, it's alpha, things will break, but it's real and it's usable today.

If you write about Linux or FOSS, I'd genuinely appreciate a look. And if you just think this is cool, a boost goes a long way for a project like this trying to get in front of the right people.

#ParchLinux #Linux #ImmutableLinux #FOSS #OpenSource #bootc #KDE

#NetBSD 9.5 schließt Sicherheitslücken – und beendet Support | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/NetBSD-9-x-erreicht-das-Support-Ende-11444156.html #Linux #OpenSource #Patchday #NetBSD9 #EoL #EndOfLife

#NetBSD GSoC 2026 Testing Compat #Linux: Syscall testing

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2

Idée à contre-courant du .gitignore classique : au lieu d'ignorer les fichiers indésirables, tout ignorer par défaut (*) et n'autoriser explicitement que ce qui doit être versionné. Fini les .env ou node_modules commités par erreur. Bonus : lazygit comme TUI Git à tester. ⬇️
https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Un écran d'ordinateur portable affiche un terminal avec du code source Git et une interface de gestion de repository, montrant un projet nommé "lazygit" avec des fichiers et des branches visibles, dans un environnement de développement sur un bureau avec des plantes en arrière-plan.

Les événements tech français sont en difficulté. Sponsoring, billets, adhésions : tout recule.
L'AFUP lance une lettre ouverte, on l'a cosigné pour Human Talks.
Si ces rencontres comptent pour vous, sponsorisez, prenez les places tôt, adhérez aux assos et relayer la lettre ! ⬇️
https://lettreouverte.afup.org/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Human Talks appelle à soutenir les événements tech français en signant une lettre ouverte adressée à 33 associations et communautés. Le visuel invite à sponsoriser, inscrire ses équipes ou adhérer via lettreouvertc.afup.org pour assurer la pérennité de ces événements.

#penguins #linux #humor

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Two photos taken by the same camera. The top photo shows the interior of a tent with a man asleep in a thick sleeping bag. The tent door is open and reveals a snowy landscape outside, possibly in Antarctica since there is a curious penguin just outside the tent looking in at the man. The penguin is captioned saying "Mother of God, he's asleep!" The second photo shows the same scene, but now there are 6 penguins and they have come inside the tent to look around while the man sleeps. The caption on this image reads "Come in, quick, install Linux on all his devices!"

True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡

On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️

RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)

#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm

Ever fancied a Framework laptop but you bought a MacBook instead?

Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with the M3 series SoC

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/asahi-linux-now-officially-supports-macs-with-the-m3-series-soc/

#AsahiLinux #Macs #Apple #AppleSilicon #Linux #OperatingSystem #OpenSource #Hardware #Tech

Hey #FreeBSD folks! 🐡

I recently, as of yesterday, installed FreeBSD on my ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, and will document my journey coming from Debian GNU/Linux over to something that is BSD.

I’ve had some knowledge of FreeBSD from past interactions here on Mastodon, as well as from YouTube and other social media platforms. My ThinkPad also has two ssd drives, so I decided to wipe one of them and install FreeBSD, and using it as my daily driver.

I used to be on kolektiva.social a while back. Not sure how long I’ll stick around on this one either, but I came across bsd.cafe while reading through some FreeBSD documentation and figured I’d join.

Feel free to boost me if you remember me, or not, no worries!

Also, here are some relevant and useful links to check out:

https://www.freebsd.org/
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#BSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #Unix #Linux #Midtsveen

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Screenshot of the LXQt desktop environment with a fullscreen terminal window displaying the output of fastfetch, a command-line utility that shows system information such as the operating system, hardware, kernel, and desktop environment.

Hi #FreeBSD, how’s development going on the MediaTek MT7921 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) driver? Is there currently any progress toward getting it supported?

#Wifi #Unix #BSD #OpenBSD #Linux #MediaTek #MT7921

Slackware AArch64 world rebuild ongoing, across 76 cores.

#slackware #linux

WebGPU Benchmark Report mesure les capacités brutes de la carte graphique directement dans le navigateur, sans installation : bande passante mémoire, FLOPS fp32/fp16/int8 et autres métriques bas niveau, pratique pour comparer des devices sans profiler natif. ⬇️
https://web3dsurvey.com/benchmark

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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