Hey, it seems the Fediverse has more Linux users and developers than most places, and also a lot more people with strong and informed ideas about LLMs.

So maybe https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 is something that people here want to vote on. Options are:

• No LLM contributions to Debian via Social Contract
• Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions
• Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct
• Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work
• Responsible Use of Generative AI
• A cautious approach to generative AI
• Debian is created by humans
• Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker

[edit: voting closes in one week, on Aug 28th]

#Debian #Linux #vote #LLM #AI

#borgbackup 2.0.0b23 was just released!

With a ton of new features and some fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b23

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

Pour les geek #linux, je kiff #cosmic de @system76 après des années à être passé de #kde, #gnome, #kde, #xfce, et même #enlightment et #flubox y'a un certain temps... Cosmic ! en rust, rapiiiiide.

I just accidentally discovered that my N150's USB-C port also supports video output, and it works perfectly on Linux.

Not only that, but over Type-C it drives my monitor at 120 Hz, whereas over HDMI it's limited to 60 Hz. I had no idea!

#Linux #MiniPC #VoidLinux

Flamap, création de Guillaume Rozier : une carte interactive des incendies en France, mise à jour toutes les 2 heures à partir des satellites NASA et Copernicus. Foyers actifs, surfaces brûlées, direction du vent, curseur temporel. Code open source. ⬇️
https://flamap.fr/

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-STS

A decade ago I worked with a guy whose opinion on tech I respected a lot. He was one of the most anal people I've ever known, in a (mostly) good way. His OS of choice was BSD.

Linus and crew's recent nonsense got me doing searches for OSes with no-AI policies. Lo and behold, seems that Iain was on to something all this time!

Got my first system up with NetBSD and my preferred Mate desktop this morning. It was fun, and a little challenging. :-) Reminded me of working with Solaris years ago, and of my first experiments with Linux (on PPC!) even more years ago. Installing and configuring NetBSD is not hard, but it does require me to pay attention, read a bit of documentation, and make decisions. I love that!

Thanks, Linus, for pointing me at what may be my new favorite OS. And thank you, Iain, for planting the seed that made me decide to give it a serious look this time around.

#linux #noai #NetBSD #SystemAdministration

I can see myself going back to Slackware as my daily OS. This has been an extremely fun day of "relearning" what got me into Linux and open source more than 30 years ago.

#slackware #linux

Oh shit, oh fuck, a ZFS backup mounted over the top of the NAS.

So /var/lib from one machine became /var/lib on the NAS.

This ran for *months*.

I only noticed because Docker just shat itself (/var/lib/docker)

Help me, #AskFedi #ZFS #Linux gurus.

Hilarously, I am missing backups of this system's config, except for what etckeeper got.

I think I boot a LiveUSB (Ubuntu Server will have ZFS), back up my "new" /var/lib and old /var/lib (to fucking where?) then revert to the "old" dataset by nuking the incorrect dataset completely.

Just gotta find a "cisco" style serial cable...

Canvas UI : des effets WebGL (fluides, shaders, verre, feu) qui s'appliquent directement sur votre HTML existant, le texte reste sélectionnable, les liens cliquables. 24 composants, compatible React, Vue, Svelte et vanilla, open source MIT. ⬇️
https://github.com/DavidHDev/canvas-ui

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-bKB

Don't get me wrong I love #Linux I love most of the various distros, i've used them all, they're all great and whatever you use is the right one (except Ubuntu).

but now I've dove deep into the #BSD world....Sorry I kinda like it better. it's more fun. Sure it's behind, it has it's quirks but it's just...it's interesting.

Honeslty at the end of the day use what you want. But I will tell you once you escape the Microsoft ecosystem computing becomes fun again. Computing takes you back to the late 90s when everything was new and interesting. Leaving Microsoft made me fall in love with Computers again.

Ich hab mir als Ersatz für mein in die Jahre gekommenes Android Tablet ein Dell Convertible mit abnehmbarer Tastatur gebraucht besorgt (Dell Latitude 5290 2 in 1).
Ich habe #Linux Mint Cinnamon installiert, bin aber mit der Bedienbarkeit nicht so zufrieden. Z.B. Scrollen geht nur an der Scrollleiste, nicht auf dem ganzen Bildschirm. Die Bildschirmtastatur funktioniert erst nach dem Anmelden, Passworteingabe also nur über physische Tastatur. Auch z.B. in der Mint Suchleiste geht sie nicht.
Ich möchte es eigentlich ausschließlich im Tabletmodus nutzen, zum streamen von Videos, manchmal Musik.

Habt ihr vielleicht eine Empfehlung für ein Distro, das besser für den Zweck geeignet ist?

Zum Wochenende: Wolkenkuckucksheim

Viele sind sich nicht bewusst, dass der US-Cloud-Act auch greift, wenn europäische Anbieter Niederlassungen in den USA haben.

#Souveränität #Cloud_Act #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-wolkenkuckucksheim

I forgot to set up the keybindings for the external monitor.
Now I can mess around with two monitors even on NetBSD 🤣

If anyone is interested (replace --output parameter if necessary)

# xrandr keybindings for external monitor

bindsym $mod+Ctrl+s   exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output DP2 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --left-of  eDP1
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+d   exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output DP2 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --right-of eDP1
bindsym $mod+Shift+s  exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI2 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --left-of eDP1
bindsym $mod+Shift+d  exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI2 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --right-of eDP1
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+o   exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output DP2 --off
bindsym $mod+Shift+o  exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI2 --off

P.S. Thanks, xrandr!

#bsd #netbsd #bsdunix #unix #unixITA #unixitalia #guuf #guufxmpp #guufITA #linux #linuxITA #linuxitalia

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A laptop and a monitor on a wodden table

#Linux

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Old, rusty computer tower outdoors with the caption "Minimum Requirements For Linux."

It's been a while, but just installed (again) the Linux distribution that began my Linux journey 30+ years ago. I've got Slackware running on a Lenovo ThinkPad L14. And it's fun as hell! Exactly as I remember it.

#slackware #linux

I am looking for a good GNU Linux/ posix based system backup strategy without slopware like rsync - because #fckai.
Has anyone a good tool/ set of tools and a blog post for me? It would be really cool if it also works on NetBSD or RedoxOS - because #fcklinux and slopvalds.

#GNULinux #Debian #backup #sysops #Linux #NetBSD #RedoxOS

#GIMP 2.10 #AppImages for #Linux.

You're welcome. XD

https://github.com/megnu/gimp-appimage/releases/

(Early versions of Gimp 3 were VERY buggy, and sometimes the flatpak versions don't work for me)

Why I (still) love Linux

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/

#Blogging #Linux #Repost

Simulateur d'un ordinateur 8 bits en logique discrète, construit brique par brique avec des portes logiques sans microcontrôleur caché derrière. ⬇️
https://msap2.mehran.dk/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-uzi

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

gh-stack : une extension GitHub CLI pour gérer les stacked PRs, découper un gros changement en une chaîne de petites PRs liées, avec rebase automatique, synchronisation des branches et ouverture des PRs en une commande. ⬇️
https://github.com/github/gh-stack

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-Bzt

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Capture d'écran de la documentation GitHub Stacked PRs, affichant les sections Installation et AI agent integration avec les commandes de configuration du CLI gh-stack pour gérer les pull requests empilées.

terminal-code : VS Code dans le terminal, compatible ssh, basé sur terminal-browser et code-server. Totalement expérimental, ça ne sert surement à rien, mais l'idée est marrante :) ⬇️
https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-code

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-A6L

terminal-code : VS Code dans le terminal, compatible ssh, basé sur terminal-browser et code-server. Totalement expérimental, ça ne sert surement à rien, mais l'idée est marrante :) ⬇️
https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-code

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-A6L

I referred to putting something in my .forward. Most of my colleagues had no idea what I meant. I am old.
#SysAdmin #DevOps #UNIX #Linux

Firefox on Kubuntu recently lost sound (audio output – input is OK, at a glance).

Anyone else? A regression with an update to 154.0 (64-bit) Snap for Ubuntu, maybe?

Pages that are silent in Firefox are audible in Microsoft Edge.

I have sought a bug in a few places, but not yet in Reddit. I'm unashamedly lazy at the moment (trying to prioritise other things). TIA for any help.

#Firefox #audio #sound #bug #regression #Linux #Kubuntu #Ubuntu

#wine #windows #linux

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Wine Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit (typically grapes) which causes Linux users to enter a mental state that allows them to run Microsoft Windows applications in their mind. Red and white wine, served in cool glasses.

For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:

https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

The drop of 32bit support from Linux kernel could not be such a bad thing.
It makes NetBSD from a valid options into a necessity, because I don't count other projects with so many supported obsolete platforms.
I could hope this is going to give better visibility on this OS than it had up today. In general I found the BSDs much more leaner than many other linux distros.

#foss #netbsd #linux #bsd

L'abbandono dei 32 bit da parte della Linux Kernel non è detto che si traduca per forza in un male insormontabile.
Piuttosto, trasforma NetBSD da valida opzione ad una necessaria, perché non si contano altri progetti con un numero così alto di piattaforme obsolete supportate.
Posso sperare che questo crei più visibilità su questo OS rispetto a quanto ne abbia fin'ora, e penso che la meriti. In generale trovo i BSD più snelli da usare rispetto a tante distro linux.

#foss #netbsd #linux #bsd

Something as simple as echo is not even correctly standardized.

How echo is defined in the spec:
OPTIONS: Implementations shall not support any options. Character sequences shall be recognized.

dash's echo: Always interprets escapes, has no flags, 'echo -e' prints '-e'. Everything correct so far.
bash's echo: Doesn't interpret escapes by default (has -E by default), can escape with -e.
zsh's echo: Always interprets escapes, (has -e by default), can avoid escape with -E. However 'command echo' behaves like bash's echo.
ksh93's echo: Doesn't interpret escapes by default, can do with -e, but 'echo -E' just prints '-E'.
mksh's echo: Always interprets escapes, (has -e by default), can avoid escaping with -E. But 'command echo' changes nothing. You need -E to not escape and -e to escape.
#unix #linux

The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse https://anarc.at/blog/2026-05-16-four-horsemen #llm #analysis #sysadmin #copyleft #copyright #debian-planet #python-planet #internet #linux #security #kernel #software #vulnerability #free-software

what the complaints about window titlebars being occupied by widgets tell me is that windows and macOS should both add that feature from linux desktops where if you hold the windows/command key, you can drag windows around by any part of the window

#windows #macOS #linux #ux

CSS-DOS : un ordinateur entièrement simulé en CSS pur, sans JavaScript. ⬇️
https://css-dos.ahmedamer.co.uk/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-9qw

Origin : le git forge de Cursor, en beta. Créer des repos, mirrorer depuis GitHub, push/pull en git standard, ouvrir des pull requests et browser le code depuis cursor.com/codebase.
Réservé aux plans Pro, Teams et Enterprise, pas dispo en free. ⬇️
https://cursor.com/docs/origin

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-ecE

Fedora people, do you wonder why so many GNOME contributors do not like your project? That's the best example why: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/522

Workstation Working Group getting into piss fight because upstream dared to ask users to check via official package whether the problem is also reproducible there. Atrocity!

#fedora #linux #gnome

Hi Mastodon! 👋 As a developer of Parch Linux (https://parchlinux.com), I need some advice. Does anyone know how DistroWatch tracks updates, or how to properly reach out to Linux news sites? It's FOSS reviewed us once, but we’ve made massive changes since: new custom tools, a rewritten installer UI, and more!

Tomorrow marks our 5th anniversary! 🎉 But despite publishing our updates, we're facing total radio silence. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but after 5 years, it honestly feels like a media boycott simply because of our project's origin (Iran). I didn't choose my nationality, and despite heavy restrictions, our team has built something we're proud of.

We even have Server and Mobile editions in active development, yet the mobile efforts seem ignored even here among FOSS enthusiasts.

How can we break this silence? Any advice is appreciated! 🐧❤️

#Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #LinuxMobile #LinuxDistro #TechNews #TechJournalism #ParchLinux

Currently reading Ansible for DevOps by @geerlingguy and wow, I have so much to learn.

Currently on page 144 and there’s already so much I can improve.

Gonna try to implement some of that stuff in my Arch Linux post-install playbook this week.

If im able to do so in time, a few blog post should arrive later this Sunday.

If not, there’s still gonna be a post, but on a different topic.

The playbook will get the blog post soon after improving as it’s well deserved.

#linux #archlinux #ansible #automation #playbook #postinstall #blog #writing #learning #book #devops

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

Sous le capot de Bluesky : l'ATProto sépare l'identité du serveur d'hébergement (le PDS). Chaque compte a un DID stable et un dépôt de données trié dans un Merkle Search Tree, signé à chaque écriture. Résultat : on peut changer de serveur sans rien perdre. ⬇️
https://une-tasse-de.cafe/blog/atproto-pds/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-DiU

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Affiche rétro années 70 avec un logo représentant un papillon bleu stylisé sur fond marron, entouré de motifs géométriques colorés. Le texte annonce "Sous le capot de Bluesky : l'ATProto - Une tasse de café" sur fond beige clair.

Okay this might be a really weird question but I have one question regarding command-line-only workflows.

I am already used to and very comfortable working in the command line as is.

And as any heavy user of the terminal will know, at some point you'll probably start writing scripts and functions and aliases to create your own little shortcuts for common tasks or preferred program call-up options and such. So do I.

Now my weird little 'problem' is that I don't always remember all of the scripts,  aliases, functions and even programs I built for my workflow over the years off the top of my head.

For example, I might have an "update" alias set up, but nine out of ten times will still enter the command manually out of sheer habit.

Or I will have a calendar or to-do application for the CLI/TUI, but sometimes forget that I have it installed when I need it. Or I'll forget where the files are I set up to organise my journal or my time tracking.

Or going even further, I don't always remember all the neat features of my shell I could use, or the computing/typing habits I wanted to build, or the projects I have going on, and so on!

In a graphical desktop environment or on a mobile UI, you have tools like desktop shortcuts, quickstart icons or application launcher menus for an overview of all of your environment's user-facing programs. Seeing an icon out of the corner of my eye sometimes reminds me of things that a purely reactive user interface like a shell doesn't.

Now there's obviously ways to solve this that come to mind:

• writing a script that prints comprehensive documentation on everything, so I only need to remember that one script name.
• keeping a physical cheat sheet next to my computer.
• using a terminal multiplexer to have a permanent digital 'cheat sheet' or 'launcher' open at the side of the screen.
• trying to just automate these things by using cronjobs/services and shell init scripts to, for example, show me the weather and my to-do list automatically on boot so i don't have to remember these commands at all
• trying to keep a super organised self-documenting file system and harmonious custom dotfile configs so every config is in the same place, every program uses the same keybinds, all scripts are in ~/.bin/ or something etc.
• writing my own "home page" type greeter.

… but with all of these solutions, while they may work perfectly fine, something doesn't feel "right"!

I mean it's nice and good to print these things upon shell start, but later on in the day that won't be there to look at anymore. The multiplexer one is cumbersome. The self documenting file system organisation sounds like a pain to maintain.

I feel like this is an issue that corporate folks probably should have solved by now, as documenting workflows for employee handovers and stuff is critical there too. Do they use wikis for that? What about all those newfangled workflows like #scrum and #agile and all, do they have anything to say about documentation?

Can anyone relate? How do you handle this?

#linux #unix #commandLine #terminal #cli #tui #tech #askfedi #technology #fish #zsh #bash #shell

#cwm - Calm Window Manager
#ghostty terminal - trying it out
#devuan #linux
#rofi for application launcher (not shown)
#zsh

Now I need to work on fine tuning keyboard shortcuts, colors and rofi themes and function.

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screenshot of Devuan linux with CWM window manager

Event designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s — so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise.. maybe.

Please yell in your shell; not at your colleagues.

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark/

#linux #unix #shell #bash #zsh #posix #macos

Delta : nouvel environnement multijoueur des créateurs de Zed pour coder avec des agents et relire leur travail. Les commentaires s'accrochent au code et à la conversation, pas à un simple diff figé, et restent synchronisés au fil des évolutions. ⬇️
https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-3jt

Beyond the limits of physical VRAM

Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With that work now accepted by upstream, Vock decided to turn their attention to another interesting problem: what if you run out of VRAM, and how can we improve performance when we do?

Regardless, what I

https://www.osnews.com/story/145846/beyond-the-limits-of-physical-vram/

#Linux

I wrote a thing https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2026/08/17/engagement-team-introduction-blog-post/

#gnome #linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/08/17) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/valuable-news-2026-08-17/

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

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

Linux 7.2 released

Version 7.2 of the Linux kernel has been released.

Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf()vsystem call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem, further swap subsystem improvements, improvements to the Landlock security module, support for block devices with inline encryption hardware via the dm-inli

https://www.osnews.com/story/145830/linux-7-2-released/

#Linux

git-knife : GUI open source pour réécrire en profondeur l'historique git (message, auteur, dates), avec recherche-remplacement regex. Basé sur git commit-tree, le contenu des fichiers reste intact. ⬇️
https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-qfn

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Interface d'une application de gestion Git appelée git-knife, affichant l'historique des commits d'un projet avec la possibilité de rechercher et remplacer du contenu dans 22 commits chargés. Le panneau de droite propose des options de sauvegarde et restauration des modifications.

#TIL: many common #Unix / #Linux shells use $_ as shorthand for "last parameter/argument to previously executed command" (eg, in zsh, equivalent to !!:$)

Knowing that would have saved me quite a lot of time, better late than never! (also: story of being a CLI user…the rabbit hole /always/ goes deeper.)