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

I've been meaning to write about the state of support in for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.

As a of a child with , as well as being a and professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.

As much as I am an advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, has, unquestionably, the best support. has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.

One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet still treats it as a project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like and nor is there any kind of unified API.

It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.

theregister.com/2025/05/18/app

    [?]Stefano Marinelli »
    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    A client sends me an email:
    "Do you remember that internal backup server you set up a few years ago? Could you log in and check if everything’s okay? I’m not seeing any errors, but I’m not sure if it’s actually working properly".

    I have a vague memory of it - I’m guessing “a few years ago” is quite a high number.
    They send me the credentials and I log in:

    08:46:41 up 2957 days, 18:01, 1 user, load average: 7.09, 2.34, 1.50

    And, surprisingly, no errors.
    Everything is working correctly, backups are present, and the disks show no issues whatsoever.
    Debian.
    Boot date: 14/04/2017.

    Impressive.

      [?]Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh: »
      @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family

      If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: foundation.gnome.org/membershi

      Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!

      The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.

        [?]Brian Sletten »
        @bsletten@mastodon.social

        In addition to open sourcing WSL at 2025 Build, Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot and… <checks notes> a command-line text editor that isn’t emacs, vi, vim, Neovim, ed, edlin, nano, pico, e3, JOE, micro, Kakoune, mcedit, mle, Yi, Tilde, sublimious, ne, slap, multitextor, Mg, vis, or any other terminal editor from the last 50 years.

        Sounds like somebody vibe-coded themselves a new application!

        techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/micr

          [?]Jcrabapple »
          @jcrabapple@dmv.community

          What's the new hot distro? I'm bored and I want to fuck up my laptop.

          Anyone who says Nix OS is getting a middle finger emoji.

            🗳

            [?]Stefano Marinelli »
            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
            I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk

            Please boost

            One Monitor:163
            Two Monitors:171

            Closes in 2:10:56:06

              [?]Stephen Borrill »
              @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk

              And of course, as it's Cambridge, the beer festival is sponsored by a debugging tool.

                [?]Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64: »
                @zirias@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                What I'm still missing is a custom that can actually do any useful stuff (especially full ).

                My device has recovery as a in vendor_boot, and there are some prebuilt vendor_boot images with around, which I don't want to use directly because there's also an init-boot ramdisk in there that needs patching for root with ... and as far as I understood now, these ramdisks are userland only, using the shared from the boot partition, so it's unlikely a recovery built for ( 14, 5) will work with (Android 15, Linux 6).

                What I *did* try nevertheless was modifying my vendor_boot using Magisk's utility, replacing ONLY the recovery ramdisk. It resulted in trying to boot the normal system, so there seems to be something I still don't understand (I *thought* this ramdisk would only ever be loaded when booting to recovery).

                For now, I'll live with the useless stock recovery. Attempting to do my own build of twrp or orangefox really is too much hassle 🙈

                  [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                  @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  KDE keyboard shortcut note:

                  Goto

                  system settings > shortcuts > kwin

                  Check out the actions which can be bound to keyboard shortcuts.

                  The screencap shows a screenshot of the "Shortcuts" settings in the system settings kwin application, likely from a KDE-based Linux distribution. The left sidebar is labeled "Shortcuts" and includes options such as "Applications," "System Settings," and "Custom Shortcuts." The main area displays a list of shortcuts, with the "Switch to Desktop" shortcuts highlighted. These shortcuts are labeled from 1 to 17, 18 to 20 are not visible
There are corresponding key combinations like "Ctrl+Shift+F1" for Desktop 1 and "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5" for Desktop 17. The "KWin" section is also visible, indicating the window manager being used. The interface has a dark theme, and the "Apply" button is visible at the bottom right.

Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.168 Wh

                  Alt...The screencap shows a screenshot of the "Shortcuts" settings in the system settings kwin application, likely from a KDE-based Linux distribution. The left sidebar is labeled "Shortcuts" and includes options such as "Applications," "System Settings," and "Custom Shortcuts." The main area displays a list of shortcuts, with the "Switch to Desktop" shortcuts highlighted. These shortcuts are labeled from 1 to 17, 18 to 20 are not visible There are corresponding key combinations like "Ctrl+Shift+F1" for Desktop 1 and "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5" for Desktop 17. The "KWin" section is also visible, indicating the window manager being used. The interface has a dark theme, and the "Apply" button is visible at the bottom right. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.168 Wh

                    [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                    @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    The KDE team has created a wonderful Network for your Androids it's called Konnect (actually KDE Connect) and the things that it can do are so various that I'll just show you one of them in the included photographs

                    The ease with which I can control a music 🎵 player that works on one Android from all my devices which run Konnect opens up possibilities which are just marvelous for a sound engineer like me

                    @kde

                     The photograph composed in warm light portrays two smartphones placed on a red fabric with a floral pattern. The phone on the left has a lock screen displaying the time "23:05" and the date "Tue, Apr 29." The background features a vibrant image of a red flower with green leaves. The phone is charging, with a battery level of 82%. A music player widget is visible, showing the song "13_18_21_aug_2021_19Lyntr" by "RadioAzureus (Musicolet)" with a play button and a progress bar. A notification from Mastodon is also visible, mentioning the user by Luca Sironi.

The phone on the right shows a similar time "23:05" and date "Tue, Apr 29." The background is dark blue, and the music player widget displays the same song and artist. The weather widget shows "26°C MonPlaisir" with "Clear" conditions. The battery level is also 82%, and the phone is connected to "GSM provider." Both phones are displaying the same time, indicating they are synchronized. The Android on the right is in slight Bokeh due to the shallow DOF because of the wide aparture 

 Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.266 Wh

                    Alt... The photograph composed in warm light portrays two smartphones placed on a red fabric with a floral pattern. The phone on the left has a lock screen displaying the time "23:05" and the date "Tue, Apr 29." The background features a vibrant image of a red flower with green leaves. The phone is charging, with a battery level of 82%. A music player widget is visible, showing the song "13_18_21_aug_2021_19Lyntr" by "RadioAzureus (Musicolet)" with a play button and a progress bar. A notification from Mastodon is also visible, mentioning the user by Luca Sironi. The phone on the right shows a similar time "23:05" and date "Tue, Apr 29." The background is dark blue, and the music player widget displays the same song and artist. The weather widget shows "26°C MonPlaisir" with "Clear" conditions. The battery level is also 82%, and the phone is connected to "GSM provider." Both phones are displaying the same time, indicating they are synchronized. The Android on the right is in slight Bokeh due to the shallow DOF because of the wide aparture Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.266 Wh

                    The image shows a mobile device screen displaying Konnect "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is dark, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast. At the top, the time is shown as 23:06, with various status icons indicating Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and battery level at 84%. The main title "KDE Connect Devices" is prominently displayed, followed by a message stating that other devices running KDE Connect in the same network should appear here.

Below this, there is a section titled "Connected devices," listing four devices: "SM-A260G," "Xiaomi Redmi A2 Blakka," "Galaxy A2 Core Lucã," and "Krasiwati," each accompanied by a device icon. The "Remembered devices" section follows, listing three devices: "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," and "Polawiri," each with a corresponding icon. The interface is designed for easy navigation, with a menu icon on the left and a back arrow on the right, indicating the ability to return to the previous screen.

 Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

                    Alt...The image shows a mobile device screen displaying Konnect "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is dark, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast. At the top, the time is shown as 23:06, with various status icons indicating Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and battery level at 84%. The main title "KDE Connect Devices" is prominently displayed, followed by a message stating that other devices running KDE Connect in the same network should appear here. Below this, there is a section titled "Connected devices," listing four devices: "SM-A260G," "Xiaomi Redmi A2 Blakka," "Galaxy A2 Core Lucã," and "Krasiwati," each accompanied by a device icon. The "Remembered devices" section follows, listing three devices: "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," and "Polawiri," each with a corresponding icon. The interface is designed for easy navigation, with a menu icon on the left and a back arrow on the right, indicating the ability to return to the previous screen. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

                      [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                      @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      At this moment I'm roughly tuning a very nice FluxBox Desktop in an OpenSource POSIX driven OS.
                      I'm working on tuning my Desktops Environments in such a way that it doesn't matter whether I run them in Linux or *BSD

                      That way I'll just fire up the Operating System inject my own configuration for the desktop environment fire up X.org and then start working

                      FluxBox has been a favorite window / desktop manager of mine a couple of decades ago.

                      Since it has been written efficient it's blazingly fast
                      I combine tools that I love from Xfce with FluxBox so that my muscle memory for shortcuts can be used in a super smooth manner

                        [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                        @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                        Since this command...

                        `xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`

                        ...segfaults in fluxbox atm I did not bother with a screenshot, because xfce4-screenshooter rocks way too much to use another one

                          [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                          @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          I've been able to configure KDE to my liking so that I feel at home again in the K Desktop Environment.

                          This is critical because it means that everything from way back in the beginning, decades ago when KDE was released, is still in the current new and fresh version of the K Desktop Environment

                          It means that the teams which have worked on KDE for the past decades have kept the core of KDE alive

                          It means that we have an excellent group of programmers, before and current, who have worked on KDE and who have kept KDE beautiful fantastic and magnifique for a wide range of people all over the globe

                          @kde

                           The photograph composed in total darkness shows an IPS LED computer screen displaying the K Desktop Environment with a dark blue theme. The screen is divided into two main sections: the top section shows a settings menu with various options such as "Audio and Sound," "Display and Monitor," "Input Devices," "Hardware and Devices," "Network," "Settings," "Connections," "User Feedback," "Online Accounts," "Accessibility," "Region and Language," "Notifications," "Personalization," "Search and Shutdown," "Shortcuts and Startup," "Workspace Behavior," and "Appearance." The bottom section features a wallpaper of a gorgeous woman standing in a room with a wooden floor and a window in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a black skirt with a lace pattern, and she is smiling. The screen also shows a sidebar with options like "General," "Global Themes," "Connections," "Appearance Style," and "User Style." The time displayed on the screen is 22:38, and the date is the 15th of May. The overall image is in subtle Bokeh, because of the translucent effect programmed in KDE
The screen is surrounded by a dark background, and has been captured with a puny Android analogue sensor smaller than the tip of my Pinky nail

 Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

                          Alt... The photograph composed in total darkness shows an IPS LED computer screen displaying the K Desktop Environment with a dark blue theme. The screen is divided into two main sections: the top section shows a settings menu with various options such as "Audio and Sound," "Display and Monitor," "Input Devices," "Hardware and Devices," "Network," "Settings," "Connections," "User Feedback," "Online Accounts," "Accessibility," "Region and Language," "Notifications," "Personalization," "Search and Shutdown," "Shortcuts and Startup," "Workspace Behavior," and "Appearance." The bottom section features a wallpaper of a gorgeous woman standing in a room with a wooden floor and a window in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a black skirt with a lace pattern, and she is smiling. The screen also shows a sidebar with options like "General," "Global Themes," "Connections," "Appearance Style," and "User Style." The time displayed on the screen is 22:38, and the date is the 15th of May. The overall image is in subtle Bokeh, because of the translucent effect programmed in KDE The screen is surrounded by a dark background, and has been captured with a puny Android analogue sensor smaller than the tip of my Pinky nail Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

                            [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                            @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            I've easily & smoothly configured KDE Konnect to work in Fluxbox WM

                              [?]Blanche Page »
                              @blanchepage@piaille.fr

                              Est-ce que vous savez s'il existe une/des distributions Linux qui soient adaptées à l'exercice de la médecine générale ?

                              [c'est pas pour moi c'est pour les copain•es]

                              (je cauchemarde à l'idée que les ordis sont/soient des passeoires à infos perso sensibles)

                              Il faut que les logiciels suivants tournent :
                              - logiciel métier (dossiers patients, etc).
                              - logiciel de compta
                              et c'est là que le bât blessait il y a quelques années : il faut pouvoir lire une carte vitale à l'aide des composants info de l'assurance maladie pour faire le lien avec les 2 logiciels, volet informations et volet facturation.

                              + réseau avec les autres pros de santé

                                #netbsd boosted

                                [?]vermaden »
                                @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

                                  Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

                                    Can't stand those people who insist on telling you every single detail of their day, no matter how boring or repetitive.

                                    Stupid log files.

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

                                      Multiplexing will boost your SSH connectivity or speed by reusing existing TCP connections to a remote host. Here are commands that you can use to control multiplexing when using OpenSSH server or client on your Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Unix-like systems. Not sure what SSH multiplexing is? Learn how to set it up and use it to speed up your SSH sessions with our handy guide: cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-multiple

                                      List of ssh command to control an active connection multiplexing process on Linux or Unix such as: Valid commands are: “check” (check that the master process is running), “forward” (request forwardings without command 
 execution), “cancel” (cancel forwardings), “exit” (request the master to exit), and “stop” (request the master to stop accepting further multiplexing requests).

                                      Alt...List of ssh command to control an active connection multiplexing process on Linux or Unix such as: Valid commands are: “check” (check that the master process is running), “forward” (request forwardings without command execution), “cancel” (cancel forwardings), “exit” (request the master to exit), and “stop” (request the master to stop accepting further multiplexing requests).

                                        [?]smiddi »
                                        @smiddi@chaos.social

                                        @nixCraft

                                        changed port to 22022, it's all good

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

                                          Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/

                                          i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)

                                          Alt...i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)

                                            [?]Der grüne Skatbruder »
                                            @gruener_skatbruder@hessen.social

                                            Nach meinem Unplug-Trump-Tröt gestern ist mir aufgefallen, dass das amerikanische Fedora Linux (im Besitz von IBM) auf meinem Laptop eigentlich inkonsequent ist.

                                            Also habe ich beim Putzen nebenher Backups gezogen und ein OpenSuse Linux (Sitz in Europa) eingespielt. Heute ziehe ich noch ein paar Programme nach (dank AppStore-ähnlichem Paketmanager ganz easy) und lasse Nextcloud die Musiksammlung synchronisieren und dann bin ich wieder im Geschäft 🙂

                                            Ein Screenshot der KDE-Oberfläche von OpenSuse. Der Paketmanager ist geöffnet und bietet beliebte Anwendungen wie VLC, GIMP, Telegram und Chromium an. Ein Urlaubsfoto aus Island mit schneebedeckten Bergen ist als Hintergrund eingestellt. So gut hat das mit den Backups funktioniert ;)

                                            Alt...Ein Screenshot der KDE-Oberfläche von OpenSuse. Der Paketmanager ist geöffnet und bietet beliebte Anwendungen wie VLC, GIMP, Telegram und Chromium an. Ein Urlaubsfoto aus Island mit schneebedeckten Bergen ist als Hintergrund eingestellt. So gut hat das mit den Backups funktioniert ;)

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

                                              This is what real nightmares are made of: the error "ssh: connect to host ec2-bastion-host-your-public-ip port 22: Connection refused."

                                                [?]JavAlps »
                                                @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                @nen @dalias @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser The FS goes read-only, only when I open . I'm also looking forward to reinstall once I get my hand on an external HDD or SSD for backup.

                                                  dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

                                                  [?]Peter Czanik »
                                                  @PCzanik@fosstodon.org

                                                  Bug fix releases for syslog-ng 4.8 are already out. However, 4.9.0 is still ahead of us. My call for testing is still live for that:

                                                  syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog

                                                  File and directory monitoring became a lot more efficient on , and there are many more changes.

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

                                                    Which distro did you pick as a beginner? 🤔

                                                      [?]JavAlps »
                                                      @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                      So, I'm facing a weird issue with my workstation. The filesystem goes "read-only" at random times and I dont know why. I've do a reboot to fix it. Do you have any idea about this and how to fix it ?

                                                        [?]JavAlps »
                                                        @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                        @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed
                                                        @llutz (1/5)

                                                        I now think that I can pinpoint the problem of the filesystem going read-only and it's (probably) neither the FS itself nor the nvme drive. And definitely not the RAM.

                                                        The problem is a single app that's causing this or that's what I found and its the @zenbrowser browser.

                                                          [?]JavAlps »
                                                          @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                          @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (2/5)

                                                          So, today morning I opened the laptop with turned off and checked the system. It was going alright. The filesystem was behaving normally like it should. I also double-checked it using `mount | grep "btrfs"` and `fastfetch`. To check the nvme drive, I used `sudo smartctl --xall /dev/nvme0n1p3` + the diagnostics tool in the bios menu.

                                                            [?]JavAlps »
                                                            @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                            @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (3/5)

                                                            To check the memory I used `sudo memtester 1024 5`. And EVERYTHING was fine. Even when I turned on the nothing changed. I opened the app, I also opened to browse and log in to this instance. Everything was fine.

                                                              [?]JavAlps »
                                                              @javalps@mastodon.social

                                                              @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (4/5)

                                                              But, the moment I opened Zen Browser suddenly the filesystem went read-only. Coincidence, I think not. This also happened when I was offline. I opened Zen it showed me the webpage, all good. I reloaded it, it showed me the classic thing "something unexpected happened". All good. But when I closed the , suddenly the FS went read-only.

                                                                [?]JavAlps »
                                                                @javalps@mastodon.social

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

                                                                [?]Alkaris :verified_trans: :verified: »
                                                                @Alkaris@meow.social

                                                                When you can't xwininfo or xprop under Wayland on KDE to get window information, you can instead.

                                                                qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin queryWindowInfo

                                                                Create an alias in your .zshrc or .bashrc or whatever shell you use so you don't have to remember that entire line to something like;

                                                                alias "qwinfo"='qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin queryWindowInfo'

                                                                q = qdbus
                                                                win = window
                                                                fo = info

                                                                or Query Window Info

                                                                something easy to remember. c:

                                                                  dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

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

                                                                  Linux containers (OCI Containers) are ephemeral by design, except the volumes, you mount into them. In large scale environments, that can be useful (cattle vs pets argument). But that also introduces new challenges and makes it more complex to manage them.

                                                                  For my personal environments, I like the approach of FreeBSD jails more. They are just a directory (or ZFS Dataset) with their own, persistent copy of the OS, easy to manage and the networking capabilities are flexible (bridged, vnet, they can be routed, firewalled, etc).

                                                                  Jails are well aged, are around since FreeBSD 4 back in 2000, the non-ephemeral approach (and the absence of overlay file systems etc) makes them more feel like individual virtual servers than modern Linux containers but with extreme levels of flexibility.

                                                                  Tools like jmore(8) (by @vermaden) and Bastille (Jails “Templates”) makes them even easier to manage.

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

                                                                    I use Jails with Ansible to automate their creation, their lifecycle management and automation of the jailed applications and I highly enjoy, how comfortable and easy it is.

                                                                    No immutable images, no “Dockerfiles”, no weird volume mounts or image registries and no constant re-creation of images and new deployments just to update something. Just some simple, well isolated operating systems to run my applications in 🙂

                                                                    I don’t say that Linux containers are bad. There’s for sure situations, where they shine. Just for my personal use-case, they are more effort in comparison to BSD jails and I’m a fan of “using the right tool for a task”

                                                                    And the idempotent nature of Ansible automation makes it easy to describe them in a declarative way and manage them at scale.

                                                                      [?]Benjamin Schmid »
                                                                      @bentolor@mastodon.social

                                                                      PSA: In case you run 24.10 with on Root, DO NOT TRY TO UPGRADE YET! You are very likely to run into a kernel deadlock mid-flight during the upgrade which leaves you with a broken system.

                                                                      Also: Use zfs snapshot before trying to upgrade. zfs-auto-snapshot to the rescue!

                                                                      github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/

                                                                        Sam Cranford boosted

                                                                        [?]aaron ~# :blinkingcursor: »
                                                                        @neuroexception@infosec.exchange

                                                                        Switching to was the best decision of my life, and i'm not exaggerating.

                                                                        I've learned more in the past four years than in seven years of using . What i've learned is valuable and useful. And i regret nothing but that i didn't switch earlier.

                                                                        Switching to linux doesn't have to be fun. It will be exhausting, time consuming and frustrating at most times. And this is exactly what you should want.

                                                                        Trying, breaking and fixing things are essential parts of your learning process. Daily driving linux is a daily learning experience.

                                                                        I have a which made me feel useless to the industry. This year i had an internship which changed that completely. My and doubts are gone. And i can't even describe how good this feels.

                                                                          Shawn Webb boosted

                                                                          [?]Eugenus Optimus 🇺🇦 »
                                                                          @ujeenator@social.ujeenator.net

                                                                          [?]Andrew Graves :arch: :linux: »
                                                                          @graves501@fosstodon.org

                                                                          Is there a tool that can convert markdown files to PDFs that is not Pandoc? Pandoc has a lot of dependencies that I won't use, so I'd like to avoid that.

                                                                            [?]Dale »
                                                                            @LowTechLinux@mastodon.social

                                                                            Gaming on Tumbleweed with SELinux

                                                                            So, for the record I had a perfectly working install of Tumbleweed on my laptop, previously installed with apparmor on it before they switched to SELinux. Everything was working great, including games like Magic: The Gathering Arena. But, as a good Linux tester (especially on behalf of openSUSE) that will never do. I've been hearing complaints about...

                                                                            lowtechlinux.com/2025/05/15/ga

                                                                              #agile boosted

                                                                              [?]wakingrufus »
                                                                              @wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city

                                                                              Re- / I am a software engineer from . I am an organizer of the Chicago Kotlin User Group. On fediverse since 2017. I'm interested in . I'm a critic of : wakingrufus.neocities.org/fail
                                                                              I used to talk tech at @wakingrufus@mastodon.technology, but since that instance ended, I have consolidated my identity here. I also talk about , film, gaming, politics, music, and Chicago.

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

                                                                                vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux/BSD/UNIX, logging usage hourly, daily, and monthly on the server or router

                                                                                * Linux installation
                                                                                cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-insta or cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-redha

                                                                                * FreeBSD installation cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-inst

                                                                                Alt...vnstat command demo showing daily, monthly and yearly traffic keeping on your Linux or FreeBSD or Unix machines.

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

                                                                                  Improving network filtering performance with Bpfilter
                                                                                  (free link) https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017705/ca0af831379ca794/

                                                                                  From servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices communicating on a network will eventually have to filter traffic, whether for security or performance reasons. Bpfilter is a project that allows packet filtering to be done with BPF, which can be faster than other mechanisms. Even small performance improvements in this area can lead to significant gains.


                                                                                    [?]Jan Schaumann »
                                                                                    @jschauma@mstdn.social

                                                                                    More shenanigans...

                                                                                    You know how for ages, Unix systems let you specify which editor other tools should invoke via the $EDITOR and/or $VISUAL environment variables, falling back to a very sensible vi(1) (or even ed(1)).

                                                                                    The value of that environment variable is used by e.g., pw_edit(3) from vipw(8), notably via execvp(3), so e.g., 'EDITOR="cmd; vi"; vipw' does _not_ lead to the execution of 'cmd'.

                                                                                    Makes sense, right?

                                                                                      #netbsd boosted

                                                                                      [?]TronNerd82 »
                                                                                      @TronNerd82@mastodon.social

                                                                                      Internally debating whether I should pick up a T43 and using it as my main machine. Currently I have an X260 running and an X1 Carbon 6th gen running and but I don't have a machine I can dedicate solely to NetBSD. I also got my Raspberry Pi 4 running . I've always just had to run NetBSD in a VM, but I don't wish to anymore. Is it a worthwhile endeavor?

                                                                                        [?]Daniel Wayne Armstrong »
                                                                                        @dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org

                                                                                        To clear the terminal after logging out, here is a method that works in all modern shells (I'm using `ksh`).

                                                                                        Add to `~/.profile`:

                                                                                        test -f $HOME/.exitrc && trap ". $HOME/.exitrc" EXIT

                                                                                        Create `~/.exitrc` with:

                                                                                        type clear >/dev/null 2>&1 && clear

                                                                                        Useful!

                                                                                        Source: unix.stackexchange.com/a/12013

                                                                                          [?]Mark Stosberg »
                                                                                          @markstos@urbanists.social

                                                                                          Google Chrome was not following the notification spec on Linux for years. This went unnoticed by most of users as services worked it around to accommodate Chrome.

                                                                                          @dnkl took the stand with his notification service that notifications from Chrome wouldn’t work until they followed the spec. After a few years this led to Chrome getting patched to follow the spec.

                                                                                          social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl

                                                                                            [?]Wesley Moore »
                                                                                            @wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social

                                                                                            I've been talking about it for months, but I finally followed Jami Kettunen's instructions and got Chimera Linux installed in my Yoga Slim 7x ARM laptop.

                                                                                            Windows was crashing every few days (while unattended) with the error "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error is caused because the system stopped responding and the hardware watchdog triggered a system reset." even after a full restore.

                                                                                            I'm hoping Linux is more stable.

                                                                                            Screenshot of the the default Chimera Linux GNOME desktop with a terminal running. The terminal is showing the output of fastfetch.

                                                                                            Alt...Screenshot of the the default Chimera Linux GNOME desktop with a terminal running. The terminal is showing the output of fastfetch.

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

                                                                                              Nobara Linux 42 released as a rolling release with Brave as new default browser, new in-house flatpak store called Flatpost, updated driver manager, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Mesa 25.1 and Linux Kernel 6.14.6

                                                                                              nobaraproject.org/2025/05/13/m

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