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Search results for tag #linux

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

New post: shell tricks that aren't exactly secret, but aren't always taught either.

Split into two sections: what works on any POSIX sh (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Alpine...) and what's Bash/Zsh-specific. Because not everyone is on Linux with bash as their login shell.

Things like CTRL+W, $_, pushd/popd, fc, set -euo pipefail caveats, and more.

blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-

    [?]GaryH Tech » 🌐
    @garyhtech@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    NEW VIDEO - The UNIX Lawsuit That Almost Killed the Internet (Birth of FreeBSD)

    youtu.be/wK2fBr2G38c?si=fL8_sK via @YouTube

      [?]Fedora Project » 🌐
      @fedora@fosstodon.org

      We are now officially using @forgejo! The Fedora Forge is ready for contributors to start migrating to. Cutoff for switching from Pagure is by Flock to Fedora 2026.

      New chapter :)

      ➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.or

        [?]sebsauvage » 🌐
        @sebsauvage@framapiaf.org


        Bon... je crois que tout ce que j'ai pu lire (et ce que certains m'ont dit sur le Fedivers) me confirme dans l'usage du swap compressé (zram vs. zswap):
        - zram UNIQUEMENT si vous n'avez pas de swap disque.
        - si vous avez du swap disque, ZSWAP ET RIEN D'AUTRE.

        Et : Si vous avez une forte pression sur la RAM, préférer swap disque + zswap, car zram se comporte mal dans ces cas là (les MRU sont envoyés sur disque, ce qui n'est carrément pas ce qu'on veut).

        Sam Cranford boosted

        [?]LWN.net » 🌐
        @lwn@fedi.lwn.net

        Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths

        lwn.net/Articles/1064478/

          [?]matthew - retroedge.tech » 🌐
          @matthew@social.retroedge.tech

          Just talked with a customer who will be buying two refurbished computers from me with Linux.

          He had already been using Linux for years. Had an older ASUS desktop with a hard disk drive (HDD) and Ubuntu 18.04

          He requested a replacement with a slightly newer ASUS desktop and an SSD. He does want to stay with Ubuntu, so will be installing the latest release of that.

          He will also be buying a refurbished ThinkPad T560, also with Ubuntu 25.10

          #Linux #business #ThinkPad #T560 #ubuntu #ASUS

            [?]Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 » 🌐
            @killyourfm@layer8.space

            My mom just gave me some cool retro tech I never knew she had!
            I think this iBook G4 was released in 2003? It was last updated sometime in 2007. Been in a closet for years. Still works!

            Obviously, I have to discover if I can slap on it! I have zero experience with Macs of this era, OR Linux distros of this era.

            The image shows the side view of a laptop held by a hand, featuring various ports: RJ11 telephony jack for fax-modem, & a single RJ45 port, USB ports, and a headphone jack among others. The background is a neutral, soft-colored surface.

            Alt...The image shows the side view of a laptop held by a hand, featuring various ports: RJ11 telephony jack for fax-modem, & a single RJ45 port, USB ports, and a headphone jack among others. The background is a neutral, soft-colored surface.

            An old iBook G4 laptop is shown, with a closed lid displaying a blank screen. The device is white, featuring a keyboard and trackpad, and is placed on a beige sofa with a brown cushion in the background.

            Alt...An old iBook G4 laptop is shown, with a closed lid displaying a blank screen. The device is white, featuring a keyboard and trackpad, and is placed on a beige sofa with a brown cushion in the background.

            Image of an Apple iBook G4 laptop displaying the Apple logo on a gray screen. The keyboard is visible below, featuring white keys. The background appears to have a decorative element.

            Alt...Image of an Apple iBook G4 laptop displaying the Apple logo on a gray screen. The keyboard is visible below, featuring white keys. The background appears to have a decorative element.

            An About This Mac window displaying Mac OS X version 10.4.11. It lists the processor as 933 MHz PowerPC G4 and memory as 256 MB DDR SDRAM, with the Apple logo at the top. The background features

            Alt...An About This Mac window displaying Mac OS X version 10.4.11. It lists the processor as 933 MHz PowerPC G4 and memory as 256 MB DDR SDRAM, with the Apple logo at the top. The background features

              [?]Root Moose » 🌐
              @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him...

              Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd? A man of your talents?

              Galen: It's a peaceful life.

              Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him...

Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd?

Galen: It's a peaceful life.

              Alt...Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him... Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd? Galen: It's a peaceful life.

                [?]Root Moose » 🌐
                @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                Sometime around 2017 (IIRC) I got nostalgic for a little "netbook" type computer and decided, for some reason, that an HP Stream 14 would scratch that itch.

                These are really low spec machines, even for 2016-2017. It came with Windows 10 and the first Windows Update basically filled the disk and effectively bricked the device. LOL!

                I installed Linux on it after that (ofc) but didn't really use it much. So slow....

                I was digging around in my service manuals library this evening and stumbled over it in a drawer of files... for some unknown reason it was in the drawer.

                I started it up thinking it was still running Arch from back before Covid and might be entertaining to try to get it to update to the present.

                Hmm, Alpine 3.21 boots console but sway is installed. Weird, no recollection of doing anything with this machine 12-18 months ago. "I'm not saying it's aliens..."

                Ok, Alpine updates to 3.23 without issues. I'm not much of a tiling window manager person so I installed Plasma. Bad idea! With 4GB of ram and an afterthought of a CPU and storage it doesn't run very well at all.

                Installed LXQt with labwc and it runs great! Tweaking and themeing to come. (Hi @Tionisla 👋 )

                Not sure what I'm going to do with this machine but currently it is pretty usable for simple stuff. Screen and keyboard sucks, pretty close to e-waste. Lesson: ~$200 (retail) laptop is about as good as you would expect a $200 laptop to be. Ha.

                Fastfetch output:

chris@blue
----------
OS: Alpine Linux v3.23 x86_64
Host: HP Stream Laptop 14-ax0XX
Kernel: Linux 6.18.19-0-lts
Uptime: 49 seconds
Packages: 1157 (apk), 7 (flatpak)
Shell: sh
Display (LGD0508): 1366x768 in 14", 60 Hz [Built-in]
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: Reversal-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Sans (9pt) [GTK2/3], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: /dev/pts/0
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N3060 (2) @ 2.48 GHz
GPU: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Int]
Memory: 611.66 MiB / 3.74 GiB (16%)
Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 7.05 GiB / 24.06 GiB (29%) - ext4
Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.86.16/24
Battery (Primary): 100% [AC Connected]
Locale: en_CA.UTF-8

                Alt...Fastfetch output: chris@blue ---------- OS: Alpine Linux v3.23 x86_64 Host: HP Stream Laptop 14-ax0XX Kernel: Linux 6.18.19-0-lts Uptime: 49 seconds Packages: 1157 (apk), 7 (flatpak) Shell: sh Display (LGD0508): 1366x768 in 14", 60 Hz [Built-in] Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] Icons: Reversal-dark [GTK2/3/4] Font: Sans (9pt) [GTK2/3], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK4] Cursor: breeze (24px) Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N3060 (2) @ 2.48 GHz GPU: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Int] Memory: 611.66 MiB / 3.74 GiB (16%) Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 7.05 GiB / 24.06 GiB (29%) - ext4 Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.86.16/24 Battery (Primary): 100% [AC Connected] Locale: en_CA.UTF-8

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

                  When you visit archlinux32.org/ and it gets blocked due to stupid laws. They blocked visitors from Brazil and California.

                  Soon, pretty much all you will get this message on many such Linux and open source projects.

                  You get "Access Restricted" message on Arch Linux 32 which read as follows:

Direct access to archlinux32.org has been suspended for your region.

Due to legislative changes - specifically Brazil Law No. 15.211/2025 (ECA Digital) and California AB 1043 - the project cannot provide services in certain jurisdictions. It notes that as a community run Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project, they lack the legal and financial resources to implement the mandated "auditable age assurance" and "identity verification" mechanisms. To avoid catastrophic fines that could close the project globally, they have implemented a regional block.

What this means for you:

                  Alt...You get "Access Restricted" message on Arch Linux 32 which read as follows: Direct access to archlinux32.org has been suspended for your region. Due to legislative changes - specifically Brazil Law No. 15.211/2025 (ECA Digital) and California AB 1043 - the project cannot provide services in certain jurisdictions. It notes that as a community run Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project, they lack the legal and financial resources to implement the mandated "auditable age assurance" and "identity verification" mechanisms. To avoid catastrophic fines that could close the project globally, they have implemented a regional block. What this means for you:

                    [?]Neil Brown » 🌐
                    @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                    My 2026 Linux experience:

                    External display: just works

                    Screen rotation: just works

                    Webcam (internal, external): just works

                    Audio (internal, external, Bluetooth): just works

                    Bluetooth: just works

                    Wi-Fi: just works

                    Ethernet: just works

                    WWAN (integrated cellular modem): just works

                    Printing: just works

                      [?]António Manuel Dias » 🌐
                      @ammdias@masto.pt

                      @iaruffell

                      Because it's not a single state, not even a single country. I think this video about systemd is elucidating:

                      youtube.com/watch?v=-5AcreFk40U

                      Watch until the end, because the last message is important.

                        [?]Super Owl » 🌐
                        @gtsadmin@wiseowl.club

                        @ramsey @Npars01 @iaruffell @ammdias The #Linux Foundation has truly lost its soul. It can't defend its own interests from #Meta. It can't defend its own identity. It can't defend its own relevancy. It can't remain true to its own original audience and followers, and their values.

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

                          Slackware has always been a fantastic environment for development, and officially adding QEMU 10.2.2 to -current just confirms that! 🐧

                          ap/qemu-10.2.2-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
                          Recompiled against libcacard-2.8.2, libslirp-4.9.1, spice-0.16.0,
                          and usbredir-0.15.0.
                          Thanks to Daedra.
                          ap/qemu-guest-agent-10.2.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
                          l/graphviz-14.1.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
                          l/libcacard-2.8.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
                          Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
                          Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
                          l/usbredir-0.15.0-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
                          Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
                          Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
                          n/libslirp-4.9.1-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
                          Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
                          Thanks to Vijay Marcel.
                          n/spice-0.16.0-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
                          Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
                          Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
                          n/spice-protocol-0.14.5-noarch-1.txz: Added.
                          Needed by spice-0.16.0.
                          Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
                          Think about it: a clean, solid base system, LXC for containers, and now native QEMU for full virtualization. Everything a developer needs, no fluff, straight from the core tree.

                          Slackware doesn't make noise. It just delivers. 💪


                            [?]Jon 🇨🇦 » 🌐
                            @SamuraiSakura@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            When it used to be fun and no age verification required.

                            Linux kit for the Sony PlayStation 2.

                            Alt...Linux kit for the Sony PlayStation 2.

                              [?]Herz++ » 🌐
                              @herzenschein@furry.engineer

                              I did a cool dumb thing using (openSUS) and (fedorable)

                              openSUS is not an original idea, but I didn't see anyone make a good shareable version

                              fedorable is an original idea using the floof emoji from @volpeon

                              A screenshot of the Fedora logo covered with the floofBlep emoji with fedorable written below instead of fedora.

                              Alt...A screenshot of the Fedora logo covered with the floofBlep emoji with fedorable written below instead of fedora.

                              The openSUSE logo modified to use the Among Us visor with openSUS written below instead of openSUSE.

                              Alt...The openSUSE logo modified to use the Among Us visor with openSUS written below instead of openSUSE.

                                Cassandrich boosted

                                [?]Robert Kingett » 🌐
                                @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

                                I just boosted a question, but I have a slightly reworded question. Why is Linux and FOSS tripping over themselves to comply with Fascism surveillance capitalism instead of the long established international and national accessibility laws and accessibility guidelines and disability inclusion guidelines? Surely, one thing is better than the other, no? And it ain't Fascism surveillance capitalism that's the better option.

                                  #netbsd boosted

                                  [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                  @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                  Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

                                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03

                                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

                                    Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

                                    vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03

                                    Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                      [?]$nyx: paw-socks sysadmin » 🌐
                                      @nyx@cathode.church

                                      hi! linux/systemd/alt question: is there any stable and usable alternative to systemd that can do well at least

                                      • log management
                                      • having the existence of a file as startup dependency (ie when trying to start, stay in a pending state until a file appears at a certain path)
                                      • hardening (at least the basic stuff like permissions..)

                                      and i know it probably won't be possible with that following one but let's put it as a side note for alternatives for specifically this: an alternative to systemd timers (ie crons but that aren't shit and janky as fuck)

                                      boosts greatly appreciated on this one, thanks!

                                        Sam Cranford boosted

                                        [?]It's FOSS » 🌐
                                        @itsfoss@mastodon.social

                                        Systemd recently introduced a new change that you might want to take note of.

                                        itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-v

                                          #agile boosted

                                          [?]Toms Gedankenblog » 🌐
                                          @tomsgedankenblog.social@tomsgedankenblog.social

                                          #LINKSDERWOCHE | 11 + 12/2026: Produktivität, Lean, Agile, Management und Leadership

                                          Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

                                          Leider mussten letzte Woche die „Links der Woche“ ausfallen. Dafür gibt es diese Woche deutlich mehr Lesestoff.

                                          PRODUKTIVITÄT

                                          Nein-Sagen | Positive Weg Nein zu sagen

                                          Mir ist ein offenes und ehrliches „Nein” deutlich lieber als ein „Ja”, auf das ich mich nicht verlassen kann. Ich habe auch kein Problem damit, wenn jemand Nein sagt. Besonders, wenn es auf wertschätzende Art und Weise mit einer kurzen Begründung erfolgt. Dan Rockwell zeigt in seinem Beitrag einige Möglichkeiten auf, wie man ein „positives” Nein zum Ausdruck bringen kann, ohne jemanden vor den Kopf zu stoßen. Das würde ich mir als Alternative zu einem unverbindlichen Ja deutlich öfter wünschen.

                                          https://leadershipfreak.blog/2026/03/10/5-positive-ways-to-say-no/

                                          Linux-Stick | Installation, Konfiguration und mehr

                                          Für Personen, die viel unterwegs sind und Beruf und Privatleben sauber trennen möchten, könnte ein verschlüsselter Linux-Stick eine gute Lösung darstellen. Es gibt sicherlich noch weitere Anwendungsbereiche. Wie man einen solchen Stick einrichtet, verschlüsselt usw., ist Gegenstand einer dreiteiligen Blogartikelserie von Herbert Hertentrampf. Die ersten beiden Blogartikel der Serie sind bereits veröffentlicht. Der dritte Teil steht noch aus.

                                          Teil 1 Installation: https://digital-cleaning.de/index.php/ein-verschluesselter-linux-stick-fuer-die-arbeit-unterwegs-teil-1/

                                          Teil 2: Konfiguration https://digital-cleaning.de/index.php/verschluesselter-linux-stick-teil-2-konfiguration/

                                          Konflikte | Wofür streiten wir

                                          Eine spannende Erkenntnis aus dem Blogartikel von Stephanie Huber zum Thema Konflikte war für mich, die Frage „Wofür“ in den Fokus zu stellen. Das „Wofür“ eignet sich im Konflikt sehr gut für die Lösungsfindung, da es der Bedeutung nachgeht, die etwas für die Konfliktparteien hat. Dies trägt wiederum dazu bei, den Konflikt beizulegen. Die Frage nach dem „Wofür” führt zu den Bedürfnissen und Werten und weg von Argument und Gegenargument.

                                          https://t2informatik.de/blog/was-konflikte-verraten/

                                          Optimierungswahn | Selbstmanagement-Methoden relfektiert verwenden

                                          Ich habe im Laufe meines Lebens schon viele Selbstmanagement-Methoden ausprobiert und mit Sicherheit eine ganze Bibliothek an Literatur aus diesem Bereich gelesen. Irgendwann ähneln sich die Methoden, sodass ich nur noch wenige neue Erkenntnisse mitnehme. Es sind alles Hilfsmittel, die reflektiert eingesetzt werden wollen. Wie Michael Schenkel treffend schreibt: „Selbstmanagement bedeutet deshalb nicht, sich möglichst konsequent an Methoden zu halten. Es bedeutet, Methoden bewusst einzusetzen und ihre Grenzen zu kennen.” Mit anderen Worten: Methoden sind Werkzeuge, die reflektiert genutzt werden wollen. Nur dann machen sie Sinn und führen nicht in den Selbstoptimierungswahn.

                                          https://t2informatik.de/blog/vom-selbstmanagement-zum-optimierungswahn/

                                          Obsidian | Web Clipper mit neuer Lesefunktion

                                          Für Obsidian-Nutzer gibt es den sogenannten „Web Clipper”. Ich muss zugeben, dass ich ihn noch nicht oft genutzt habe. Früher, zu meinen Evernote-Zeiten, habe ich viele Artikel über den Web Clipper gespeichert und gesichert. Das mache ich schon länger nicht mehr, da ich sie lieber online aufrufe, statt sie aus meiner Wissensdatenbank zu öffnen. Bei Thomas Mathoi lese ich jetzt, dass der Web Clipper von Obsidian eine Lesefunktion spendiert bekommt. Das finde ich jetzt allerdings interessant und bin dadurch verleitet, doch mal wieder einen Blick auf den Web Clipper von Obsidian zu werfen.

                                          https://www.mathoi.at/2026/03/19/leseansicht-fuer-den-web-clipper/

                                          LEAN

                                          Kaizen | Es mehr als KVP

                                          Ich bin ein großer Freund von Kaizen und finde es immer wieder schade, wenn es auf „kontinuierlicher Verbesserungsprozess” reduziert wird. Es steckt deutlich mehr dahinter. Einen kleinen Einstieg ermöglicht Mark Graban in seinem Blogartikel, der viele Aspekte von Kaizen gut widerspiegelt. Kaizen ist mehr als ein Vorschlagswesen und ein Prozess. Auch Agilisten können einiges mitnehmen. 😉

                                          https://www.leanblog.org/2026/03/what-is-kaizen/

                                          Kein Problem ist ein Problem | Weshalb wir hellhörig werden müssen, wenn es keine Probleme gibt

                                          Im Arbeitsleben bin ich öfter damit konfrontiert worden, dass meine aktive Suche nach „Hindernissen” negativ ausgelegt wurde. Wer will schon von Problemen hören, die es zu lösen gilt? Dabei sollten wir genau das schätzen. Denn keine Probleme zu haben, ist das größte Problem. Das klingt für viele vielleicht seltsam, aber wie Christoph Roser zeigt, ist es wirklich so. Wenn wir keine Probleme entdecken, woher soll dann das Innovations- und Verbesserungspotenzial kommen, mit dem wir uns und unsere Organisationen weiterentwickeln können? Mein Fazit lautet daher schon lange, dass ich hellhörig werden muss, wenn es heißt, es gäbe keine Probleme. Denn dann haben wir ein viel größeres Problem.

                                          https://www.allaboutlean.com/no-problem-is-the-biggest-problem/

                                          Über Probleme sprechen | Wenn Probleme zwar gesehen werden, aber nicht darüber gesprochen wird

                                          Ein weiterer interessanter Artikel von Mark Graban beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, weshalb in vielen Organisationen wenig über Probleme gesprochen wird. Interessanterweise wird viel in das „Sehen” und „Lösen” von Problemen investiert, während das „Reden” über Probleme häufig stiefmütterlich behandelt wird. Dies ist in der Tat ein Aspekt, der mehr Aufmerksamkeit benötigt. Laut Graban ist es oft nicht die Frage der psychologischen Sicherheit, die daran hindert, ein Problem anzusprechen, sondern die Frage, ob es sich um ein lohnenswertes Problem handelt und ob daraus tatsächlich Konsequenzen folgen.

                                          https://www.leanblog.org/2026/03/problem-seeing-eyes-are-everywhere-problem-speaking-mouths-are-rare/

                                          AGILE

                                          Kanban | Selbstorganisationen fördern und ausbauen

                                          Tim Themann greift eine Beobachtung auf, die ich auch schon seit Längerem mache. Und das nicht erst dank Microsoft Planner. Auch dank Trello und anderer Werkzeuge. Viele Teams starten überraschenderweise mit „Kanban”, die Verfügbarkeit von Planner macht es allerdings einfacher. Die echten Kanban-Enthusiasten mögen darüber lächeln, denn eine Workflow-Visualisierung ist noch lange kein Kanban-System. Dennoch ist der Anfang gemacht und es ist kontraproduktiv, jetzt in die Selbstorganisation einzugreifen. Es ist ein Ausgangspunkt, von dem aus man im Sinne der Kanban-Prinzipien beginnen kann, das zarte Pflänzchen evolutionär weiterzuentwickeln. Der Anfang ist gemacht, jetzt gilt es, die Lernreise auf die nächste Stufe zu heben und die evolutionäre Entwicklung zu befördern und zu stärken.

                                          https://die-computermaler.de/microsoft-planner-selbstorganisation-foerdern-und-weiterentwickeln/

                                          Lieferzusagen | Weshalb Komplexiät und verlässliche Voraussagen schwer zusammenpassen

                                          Kann man bei komplexen Themenstellungen verlässliche Lieferzusagen treffen? Diese Frage würde ich klar verneinen. Wie auch? Komplexität bedeutet, dass viele Einflussgrößen unbekannt sind und wir sie gar nicht kennen können. Sonst wäre es nicht komplex. Am Beispiel der Softwareentwicklung, wie von Simon Flossmann aufgezeigt, lässt sich das gut belegen, auch wenn nicht alles direkt auf andere Bereiche übertragbar ist. Wenn wir etwas „neu” entwickeln, dann kennen wir eben noch nicht jeden einzelnen Faktor, der auftreten kann. Das macht es ja komplex.

                                          https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/warum-lieferzusagen-reines-glucksspiel-sind-5-wahrheiten-die-it-manager-nicht-wahrhaben-wollen-und-was-das-kostet

                                          Scrum Master | Die eigene Wirskamkeit reflektieren

                                          Ich reflektiere auch regelmäßig meine eigene Wirksamkeit. Lebe vor, was du von anderen wünschst. Das tut gelegentlich auch mal weh, weil ich mich dabei auch selbst hart ins Gebet nehmen muss. Erstens bin ich nicht frei von Fehlern und sicherlich alles andere als perfekt. Die von Simon Flossmann als „Scrum-Master-Score-Karte” vorgestellten Fragen finde ich dabei hilfreich und sinnvoll, zumindest was die Reflexion der Wirksamkeit als Scrum Master betrifft.

                                          https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-master-score-karte-5-reflexionsfragen-bist-du-mehr-als-nur-ein-meeting-moderator

                                          Product Owner | Was der Alltag über die Organisation verrät

                                          Die Produktwerker werfen einen interessanten Gedanken auf: Der PO fungiert als ein „Seismograph“ der Organisation, über den sich deren „Schwächen“ erkennen lassen. Das ist ein interessanter Gedanke, wobei sicherlich auch andere Rollen in die Betrachtung einbezogen werden sollten. Denn an der Art und Weise, wie Rollen in Organisationen gelebt werden, lassen sich Indizien für formelle und informelle Strukturen sowie deren Wirkung ableiten. Und in der Tat ist die Rolle des POs ein geeigneter Anknüpfungspunkt, da er eine zentrale Schnittstelle zwischen Team und dem Rest der Organisation bildet.

                                          https://produktwerker.de/der-po-als-seismograph-was-dein-alltag-ueber-deine-organisation-verraet/

                                          Backlog-Management | Facilitation-Methoden zur Förderung der Zusammenarbeit

                                          Das Backlog ist nicht einfach nur eine priorisierte „Liste” mit Anforderungen, sondern das zentrale Dokument, aus dem heraus wir die Arbeit in agilen Teams steuern. Daher sollten wir ihm deutlich mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen als wir es im Alltag tun. Es gibt einige sehr gute methodische Ansätze, mit denen man dabei arbeiten kann. Sechs dieser Ansätze stellt Mary Iqubal im Folgenden dar. Sie zeigt auch auf, wann die jeweiligen Ansätze sinnvoll sein können. Das heißt, ihr erhaltet auch eine gute Orientierung, in welchem Kontext sie bei euch passen könnten. So wird das Backlogmanagement zu einer kollaborativen Angelegenheit, bei der man auch die Stakeholder aktiv einbinden kann.

                                          https://www.rebelscrum.site/post/product-backlog-facilitation

                                          Refinement | Das Wichtigste zusammengefasst

                                          Mike Cohen fasst in seinem Beitrag das Wichtigste zum Product Backlog Refinement zusammen. Ich halte den Beitrag für Einsteiger sehr gut geeignet, aber auch für „alte Hasen” wertvoll, gerade weil sehr viele Aspekte des Refinements beleuchtet und viele der häufig auftretenden Fragen dazu gut widergespiegelt werden.

                                          https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/user-stories/product-backlog-refinement

                                          Systembedingte Hindernisse | Wie Systemelemente das Lernen als Organisation behindern

                                          In seinem Blogpost geht Ilia Pavlichenko möglichen Quellen von Hindernissen nach, die durch das Organisationssystem verstärkt werden. Er betrachtet dabei die Handlungsfelder: Struktur, Prozesse, Belohnungen und Messung sowie Menschen und Entwicklung. Und wieder einmal zeigt sich, dass man das gesamte System betrachten muss, um Hindernisse aufzulösen, statt sich, wie häufig der Fall, ausschließlich auf das Team zu konzentrieren. Zur Erinnerung: Organisationen sind komplizierte bis komplexe Systeme, die aus Subsystemen bestehen, die sich gegenseitig beeinflussen. Es ist also nicht zielführend, sich nur ein Team anzuschauen, da es sich nie vollständig unabhängig von den anderen Systemen und dem Gesamtsystem verhält.

                                          https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-learn-and-help-each-other-doesnt-work

                                          Organisationsentwicklung | Das Star-Modell

                                          Zum Beitrag von Ilia Pavlichenko passt auch der Podcast von Marc Löffler zum „Star Model” von Jay Galbraith sehr gut. Ich muss zugeben, dass ich das Modell vorher nicht kannte. Zur Erinnerung: Es ist ein Modell. Das heißt, Modelle sind „vereinfachte” Darstellungen der Wirklichkeit, die dabei helfen, Zusammenhänge zu verstehen. Bitte denkt also daran, dass die Realität etwas komplexer ist und es hier um eine Einordnung geht, die nicht die komplette Realität abbilden kann. Trotzdem ist es interessant und ich werde die Anregung aufgreifen, mich mit dem Modell näher zu befassen.

                                          https://marcloeffler.eu/2026/03/10/organisationsentwicklung-mit-dem-star-modell-von-jay-galbraith/

                                          Transformation | 3 Stellhebel mit Wirkung

                                          Lebendige Organisationen verändern sich durch evolutionäre Anpassung beständig und permanent. Gelegentlich ist jedoch ein großer Sprung notwendig: eine radikale Transformation der Organisation. Wie wir alle wissen, ist das eine Herausforderung, die nicht einfach zu meistern ist. Organisationen sind komplexe soziale Gebilde, die sich nicht einfach per Anordnung umkrempeln lassen. Jan Fischbach versucht, drei Hebel zu benennen, die bei einer Transformation hilfreich sein können. Zumindest sind sie hilfreich. Sie sind, das muss man dazu sagen, keine Erfolgsgaranten. Denn, wir erinnern uns, Organisationen sind komplex.

                                          https://www.teamworkblog.de/2026/03/transformation-ist-machbar-wenn-man-wei.html

                                          LEADERSHIP UND MANAGEMENT

                                          Führung als Prävention | Wie Führung Leid im Arbeitskontext verringern kann

                                          Rudolf Gysi wirft einen interessanten Gedanken in die Runde. Führung kann Rahmenbedingungen gestalten. Das ist ihre Aufgabe. Sie kann auch erheblich dazu beitragen, dass die grundlegenden Bedürfnisse für psychisches Wohlbefinden nicht untergraben werden. Während Therapeuten den Schaden reparieren müssen, kann die Führung – zumindest was das Arbeitsleben betrifft – sicherstellen, dass der Schaden gar nicht erst entsteht. Es geht darum, dass Mitarbeitende die Kontrolle über ihre Arbeit behalten, motiviert bleiben, gute Beziehungen eingehen können und einen wertschätzenden Umgang erleben. Das ist kein Hexenwerk. Dennoch hat es eine große Wirkung.

                                          https://agilereflection.org/grawe-hatte-recht-warum-warten-wir-auf-den-schaden/

                                          Verantwortlichkeit | Fünf tägliche Aufgaben der Führung

                                          Auch wenn ich mit Dan Rockwells Unterscheidung zwischen Führungskraft und Manager nicht ganz einverstanden bin – ich sehe es genau andersherum: Manager verwalten, Führungskräfte führen – kann ich seinen fünf Verantwortlichkeiten im Sinne von Aufgaben, die er „Managern” mitgibt, einiges abgewinnen.

                                          https://leadershipfreak.blog/2026/03/19/5-daily-responsibilities-of-managers/

                                            [?]\~Rye~/ ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬ » 🌐
                                            @rye@ioc.exchange

                                            ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                            What is a useful speech to text tool for Linux, with Wayland. ?

                                            I want the software to be easy to start and stop recording and insert the items spoken where the cursor is located.

                                              p4bl0p3rn0t boosted

                                              [?]Yogthos » 🌐
                                              @yogthos@social.marxist.network

                                              Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Everything runs locally on your hardware.

                                              * Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix
                                              * Offline maps via OpenStreetMap
                                              * Calculators, reference tools, resource libraries
                                              * Local AI models via Ollama
                                              * A management UI

                                              Runs headless as a server so any device on your local network can access it.
                                              Minimum specs to run the base system: dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 5GB storage.

                                              github.com/Crosstalk-Solutions

                                                [?]Sean 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 » 🌐
                                                @seanwbruno@infosec.exchange

                                                @dvl Is there a reference lying around somewhere that uses to instantiate and configure jails on ? Been doing too much stuff lately and I feel rusty.

                                                  [?]Dawn Ahukanna » 🌐
                                                  @dahukanna@mastodon.social

                                                  Related - mastodon.scot/@iaruffell/11627

                                                  “OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

                                                    benz boosted

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

                                                    New post alert!

                                                    I muse about research some of my grad students and I did around independently evaluating some anti-ROP mitigations, and I bid farewell to being an OpenBSD developer.

                                                    briancallahan.net/blog/2026032

                                                      [?]Raven » 🌐
                                                      @raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                      Today I've stumbled across old screenshots from my distro hopping adventures I made 4-6 years ago and remembered when I first learned about the differences between distributions and also between Linux and BSD.

                                                      Here are two of them that I've made from two i3wm setups, one on FreeBSD and one on Gentoo.

                                                      FreeBSD 13.0 with the i3 window manager and two open terminals side by side, one showing a neofetch output and the other the cmatrix program.

                                                      Alt...FreeBSD 13.0 with the i3 window manager and two open terminals side by side, one showing a neofetch output and the other the cmatrix program.

                                                      Gentoo with the i3 window manager and three open windows, a terminal, the Vivaldi web browser, and a terminal file manager.

                                                      Alt...Gentoo with the i3 window manager and three open windows, a terminal, the Vivaldi web browser, and a terminal file manager.

                                                        [?]Dark Blue Project » 🌐
                                                        @r1os@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                        [?]It's FOSS » 🌐
                                                        @itsfoss@mastodon.social

                                                        Don't say Copilot. ☠️

                                                        If you were given a chance to add a feature to Linux, what would it be?

                                                        Alt...If you were given a chance to add a feature to Linux, what would it be?

                                                          Cassandrich boosted

                                                          [?]Isabel Ruffell » 🌐
                                                          @iaruffell@mastodon.scot

                                                          OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

                                                            [?]Iswyrm » 🌐
                                                            @iswyrm@mastodon.uno

                                                            The worst disgrace for Linux is have seen Red Hat aspiring to become the new Microsoft, and everybody "oh cool. Everything fine here!".

                                                            Who's behind SystemD? Pulseaudio (that took years before working seriously)? Wayland? Pipewire?
                                                            Guess who: Red Hat.

                                                            And who brought Red Hat?

                                                            IBM.

                                                            Yes, Wayland and Pipeware are promising, but the pressure to push aside well tested software is what Red Hat is doing.

                                                            And they are making life harder for evertybody isn't in their boat.

                                                              [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                              @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                              Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?

                                                              Why, say it ain’t so!

                                                              Alt...One of the Olsen twins mock fainting dramatically.

                                                                [?]Safigo » 🌐
                                                                @safigo@c.im

                                                                @purpleidea @miekg I remember FreeBSD used to be used for routers and other networking solutions due to more efficient optimizations.

                                                                But is there use cases when FreeBSD is still better than Linux?

                                                                * FreeBSD, OpenBSD, any bsd kernel-based.

                                                                  [?]Terence Eden » 🌐
                                                                  @Edent@mastodon.social

                                                                  New laptop day! Go on, Fedifriends, which distro should I put on it?

                                                                  I usually use Pop / Ubuntu / Debian - but happy to try anything modern and supported.

                                                                  (Chuwi Minibook X N150 if it makes a difference.)

                                                                    [?]Terence Eden » 🌐
                                                                    @Edent@mastodon.social

                                                                    Pop OS *mostly* works. Touchscreen on Cosmic is flawless.
                                                                    No screen rotation detection.
                                                                    Folding it into tablet mode doesn't disable the keyboard.
                                                                    Pretty sure both can be fixed 😄

                                                                      [?]Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 » 🌐
                                                                      @zekjur@mas.to

                                                                      Signal Boost: If you are willing to fix any of the related issues I describe in michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/20, I am willing to sponsor the hardware you need for it, e.g. high-res monitor, GPU, PC, etc. and/or pay a bounty for the fix itself.

                                                                      See lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/wayland_set for details and reach out; thanks in advance.

                                                                      My goal is that works better, but I can’t do it alone. Let’s improve it together!

                                                                      screenshot of a lobste.rs discussion regarding Wayland

                                                                      Alt...screenshot of a lobste.rs discussion regarding Wayland

                                                                        [?]Nick @ The Linux Experiment » 🌐
                                                                        @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

                                                                        Here is this week's and News show!

                                                                        youtu.be/c1PluBjD1v0

                                                                          [?]Adam Demasi » 🌐
                                                                          @kirb@hachyderm.io

                                                                          I didn’t think this needed to be said, but don’t make up conspiracy theories about Linux projects complying with the age verification laws. You’re frustrated like we all are, but you’re directing it at the party that has little power other than to implement it as minimally as possible.

                                                                          Instead, contact the lawmakers that passed this without listening to groups such as the EFF, who warned them about how it affects platforms other than Apple and Google’s. There’s still time before the laws come into effect.

                                                                          eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1

                                                                            [?]Juan Pablo Ugarte » 🌐
                                                                            @xjuan@mastodon.social

                                                                            Cambalache's First Major Milestone!

                                                                            After more than 5 years,  1780 commits and 20k lines of handcrafted, artisanal Python code I am very pleased to announce Cambalache 1.0 !!!

                                                                            Cambalache is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool that allows you to create and edit user interfaces for Gtk 4 and 3 applications.

                                                                            Read more about it at blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2026/03/20

                                                                            @GTK @gnome

                                                                              [?]Akseli :quake_verified::kde: » 🌐
                                                                              @aks@scalie.zone

                                                                              Installing Bazzite to my friend: Yay!

                                                                              The Finnish translations clearly being autogenerated (slop tier): Not yay!

                                                                              I gotta be honest, I'd rather have text just left in English if you can't translate it.

                                                                              "Password" was translated to different word in same page of the installer. Both were completely wrong.

                                                                              Then there were words that made no sense: the context was in English but it was very literally translated, so it kept the English context but with Finnish words.

                                                                              Look I know this is volunteer work but please just don't run your translations through google translate or whatever, because the quality was very much that. Just keep it in English if you don't know how to translate it, a lot of Finns speak English anyway. These complex wrong translations will just confuse users, even seasoned ones like me!

                                                                                [?]sebsauvage » 🌐
                                                                                @sebsauvage@framapiaf.org

                                                                                :linux:
                                                                                Bon ben par la force des choses, j'ai migré mon vieux Linux Mint (noyau 6.8) sous le dernier Mint (noyau 6.17) par réinstallation complète.
                                                                                Pas trop galère, en fait.
                                                                                Juste les logiciels à réinstaller, et j'ai dû migrer mes script Caja en scripts Nemo (juste une variable à changer et déplacer les fichiers au bon endroit 🙂).
                                                                                Firefox, qBitTorrent, Thunderbird et compagnie on tout de suite retrouvé leurs petits, y compris le cache et les mots de passe. J'adore.

                                                                                  dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

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

                                                                                  Great by @garyhtech on why will never own the cloud.

                                                                                  owns the and frankly I'm fine with that. doesn't need to compete with Linux in this area. It may not have the massive ecosystem, but given its strengths, it functions just fine for back end , in general and niche use cases.

                                                                                  People frequently tout FreeBSD for and but honestly I think and are huge selling points

                                                                                  youtube.com/watch?v=XWf1z1ifjOc

                                                                                    ICM boosted

                                                                                    [?]Lorry » 🌐
                                                                                    @lorry@infosec.exchange

                                                                                    I am happy with this DECSystem-10 MUD system for now; it's been a 35-year task.

                                                                                    If anyone is bored enough to be curious!

                                                                                    31 January 1991: Essex University's DECSystem-10 closes, meaning that MIST and ROCK, and the dodgy version of MUD we had on there, had to close. I had a mostly working VMS system that would run it with some extra programming, but I'd already sent out AberMUD to Vijay, and he'd sent it out to the world, and TinyMUDs were becoming common. MIST was losing its captive audience, and it needed that level of addiction and co-dependence to run, so I decided to let it die in its prime, rather than become a sad old relic that nobody played.

                                                                                    Sometime in 2004/2005 and the next 20 years: I decided to build a TOPS-10 system on a VMS machine and install MIST/MUD and ROCK. Got quite a long way, and then discovered there was no BCPL compiler existing anywhere in the known world. A few years later, Richard Bartle told me that Paul Allen (I think) had found one. So this became possible, and Quentin (dot-co-dot-uk) took a great stab at it with some really old code, and Viktor Toth had BL running, so I figured that was enough. Sometime in this period, Bletchley Park got something that looked like a PDP-10, and they suggested that I go and put MUD onto it for the museum. It wasn't a PDP-10, but I did look into putting it onto a VAX for a while, but the management of Bletchley, as it turned into The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), was getting more corporate and boring, so I gave up bothering.

                                                                                    19th Feb to 22nd Feb, 2026: I decided to build a PRIMOS machine on a Simh emulator for no apparent reason. It went fairly smoothly, so I wondered again about a DEC-10. I was missing TOPS-10 anyway, so why not? Proof of concept, setting up some test systems, seeing where TOPS-10 emulators were at these days and seeing how far Quentin had really got and how much extra work was needed. Realised I am going to have to start from scratch, mostly, using a prebuilt Steuben distro of TOPS-10 7.03 as the base.

                                                                                    Took a couple of weeks off to ponder whether the rest was worth it, but decided my $200 a month ChatGPT Pro subscription may as well pay for itself with background research, so I decided to go ahead.

                                                                                    9th March 9 to 18th March, 2026: A long spring, and I mostly got it all working. 92 hours of concentrated swearing and about 15 hours of destroying the planet with GPT Deep Research mode later, after at least 2 false starts and complete wipes. I got a system I am relatively happy with. Somewhere in there is about 4 hours of relearning TECO and fighting with getting ROCK working on code it was never meant to work on. There's still more to do, but that's just maintenance now.

                                                                                    BUT I FOUND ROCK! I thought it was lost forever. Somehow, that's my major victory in all this. Building the setup was hard, tedious, and very frustrating work. It probably did need somebody who knew a lot about both DEC and Unix systems management, and the MUD engine, to guide it, but it was still mostly a matter of putting together things that already existed and forcing them to work together. ROCK, though, I genuinely thought was 100% lost.

                                                                                    It's taken a hundred plus concentrated hours, two new dedicated hosts, a small town's water supply, and probably a few megawatts of power in the background. But this is the final re-creation of the systems I closed at the start of the 1990s.

                                                                                    MIST (and MUD and ROCK) will still probably end up as relics that nobody properly plays, but this project is not pretending to be anything other than an interesting throwback and museum piece now, which, 35 years after I closed it down, seems a fitting end. It also means I can resurrect Duncan Rogerson's arch-wizard, and that seems right, somehow. I will leave it up and running now.

                                                                                    Old Man Yells At Cloud (Abe Simpson shaking his fist at the world)

                                                                                    Alt...Old Man Yells At Cloud (Abe Simpson shaking his fist at the world)

                                                                                    A 1970 brochure showing the typical layout of a DECSystem 10. Showing 17 large cabinets, and a console. There's no chair or hatstand in here to throw the tape rings at, it doesn't seem realistic.

                                                                                    Alt...A 1970 brochure showing the typical layout of a DECSystem 10. Showing 17 large cabinets, and a console. There's no chair or hatstand in here to throw the tape rings at, it doesn't seem realistic.

                                                                                      [?]Chris Hanson » 🌐
                                                                                      @eschaton@mastodon.social

                                                                                      ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                      Since systemd-260 and later have been tainted by the slopmongers, and Linus won’t ban LLM-laundered contributions to the Linux kernel, I guess it’s time to resume hacking on the “initd” that I started putting together for NetBSD…

                                                                                        [?]Radio_Azureus » 🌐
                                                                                        @Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange

                                                                                        Why I love freeBSD

                                                                                        Additional data

                                                                                        I love FreeBSD because it doesn't rename my network interfaces after a reboot or an upgrade.

                                                                                        I shall dwell on what Stefano may mean as I have experienced this nightmare on the Linux path countless times

                                                                                        • using the if tools ifconfig ifup ifdown route and others on a LAN local network I repeat on a LOCAL network
                                                                                        • these tools were depreciated due to many issues with them, decades later (IIRC)
                                                                                        • no linux distro ever told me as a user that I needed to use replacements like ip
                                                                                        • I install a new version of a random distro (was on an ESR) and could not address the NIC's no iftools
                                                                                        • names of the NIC's were also replaced with cumbersome cryptic names, again, no fucks given no warning, I should have read the remarks in the GNU tool sources?
                                                                                        • WTF?!?

                                                                                        In that period I needed to enter the world of freeBSD
                                                                                        it was a chilibox experience with three main factors. Great docs, consistent tools logic and control governed by a central body of all, no guerilla tool changes which could disrupt server up keep flow. Just rest, ease and stability

                                                                                        Mind you I know BSD from before the chilibox, in fact I've played with BSD way before even Linux was in the balls of though of Torvalds

                                                                                        TLDR;

                                                                                        • choose BSD for your servers if you need consistent OS behaviour for decades
                                                                                        • choose Linux for bleeding edge changes and chances of breaking server (VMs) at regular updates
                                                                                        • choose win64 for love of being tortured
                                                                                        • choose mac to give away your aurum to the mac overlords
                                                                                        • choose the abacus for absolute stability

                                                                                          [?]Terminal Tilt » 🌐
                                                                                          @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social

                                                                                          The Macbook Neo gaming benchmarks YouTube videos are pure comedy. Watching people celebrate 30 FPS at 720p in Cyberpunk is wild when we have handhelds and even Android phones pushing more efficient numbers. With a non-upgradeable 8 GB RAM ceiling, this isn't a good machine. It is a ticking clock for a landfill.

                                                                                          There are better ways of spending $600+. Like a used Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 or 4 that lets you change your storage, RAM, and even repair other parts of the computer.

                                                                                          The Neo's memory bandwidth caps at 60 GB/s. In case you don't understand just how small that is, even older entry level PC's have caps above 400 GB/s. It is slower than a 2020 Macbook M1.

                                                                                          Hardware sovereignty starts with specs that can actually survive the remainder of the decade.

                                                                                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                                                                            [?]Paul SomeoneElse » 🌐
                                                                                            @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                                                                                            All you people.
                                                                                            The sky is not falling.

                                                                                            BSD was carrying you in the sand this whole time.
                                                                                            (well maybe not FreeBSD :P)

                                                                                            The developers of tmux and ssh don't use LLM.
                                                                                            And honestly tmux and ssh are the best things about "linux".

                                                                                            \o/ one of us , one of us ...


                                                                                              [?]input » 🌐
                                                                                              @feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com

                                                                                              🐧 GitHub (Microsoft), Microsoft, and OpenAI (Microsoft) Give Money to 'Linux' Foundation for Public Relations After Attacking Free Software With Plagiarism

                                                                                              "$1.25T invested in slop generation, 1 milli-percent on ameliorating the damage"

                                                                                              📰 Source: Tux Machines
                                                                                              🔗 Link: https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/03/18/GitHub_Microsoft_Microsoft_and_OpenAI_Microsoft_Give_Money_to_L.shtml

                                                                                              #Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

                                                                                                [?]Peter H. Fröhlich » 🌐
                                                                                                @phf@dmv.community

                                                                                                I only just got started on this, but maybe someone else is further along? I am trying to find out what the last commit of the Linux kernel is that's most likely free of LLM-generated slop. I am "militant" in this, so I don't care if it was "reviewed by a human" before it went in, that doesn't make it better in my view. The quick deductions I was able to make earlier today:

                                                                                                - Sep 4 2025, commit 913e65a2fe1a16fa253c4a016e2306b2cf9ffef8 has the first "official" aka "documented via Assisted-by:" LLM slop

                                                                                                - Jul 27 2025, commit 038d61fd642278bab63ee8ef722c50d10ab01e8f is Linux 6.16 so that might still be "clean" as it were; later stable kernels in that series would need to be checked

                                                                                                - Nov 17 2024, commit adc218676eef25575469234709c2d87185ca223a is Linux 6.12 so that's probably the last "longterm" kernel that could be "clean"; later stable kernels in that series would need to be checked again

                                                                                                All in all it seems to me that some 6.12.x kernel is definitely the last one I'd want to use. Now given that I only run Linux on ancient hardware, that's probably not a big deal for me; your mileage may obviously vary.

                                                                                                Anyone else have a better take already? Aside from "you worry too much, just use the new kernels, they're fine" because that's not really helpful to me. 😉

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