New blogpost:

# Migrating my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server

It worked better than I was expecting, but that’s mainly because my expectations were very low.

Sufficient things are broken (for me, anyway) for it to be a pain.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/migrating-my-self-hosted-unifi-controller-from-network-manager-to-unifi-os-server/

#unifi #Linux #selfhosting

I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.

This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.

The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:

- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects

Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.

Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.

It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.

This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.

I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.

Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!

NEVER SLOP

#ai #antiai #antislop #linux #cat #kitto #comic #art #mastoart #fediart #tutorial

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NEVER SLOP KITTO #neverslop

so, we have a winner, it seems: Proposal E

I actually am rather surprised while at the same time being not surprised: this is the option that says "keep the status quo but call whatever you do 'responsible'". A very #Debian thing, indeed.

It even mentions that slop is probably breaking copyright (while at the same time carefully wording to not even actually state that).

(edited to add: if you look at the Graphviz result, you’ll see that, after this option, the pro-slop ones have landed over the pro-life ones; this (it’s preferential voting) makes me sad)

So, what does that mean?

No rage-quitting, at least. (This is very much in the interest of the users.) But also no improvement. But also no official sanctioning of slop.

I cannot believe I am saying this, but I’m actually rooting for… Helene Fischer, the GEMA, and the german Medienanstalten… to save us, by getting courts to recognise these issues.

I cannot believe I am writing the above. This timeline is bizarre.

The bubble is also already bursting, but not fast enough, which is raising the collateral damage each minute it has not yet burst. (Here I mean financial, trust, etc. but for #FOSS specifically, it also means that LLM-extruded digital asbestos gets added to more and more codebasēs in growing quantities, which will be hard to recover from.)

What I would like to know is why such an important topic has, what, under 40% voting participation. smh

(the preliminary automated report by the voting tool does not give the numbers; the project secretary will do so within days, so this is a guesstimate)

Practically, what can we do?

Pretty much only this:

Ride out trixie without rsyslog (and without backports) until the end of its #ELTS, grudgingly installing kernel security updates. Avoid LPNs (npm, composer, pip, cargo, go get, etc.) at all cost (this is not new but now more important than ever). Use third-party repos only after manually checking for slop policies for both the repo and the softwares contained within (I had to split my own repo, I added a non-free component for ensloppified tomcat9 but kept the last one from before in the component with the main policy).

Check out unensloppified OSes as alternatives in parallel (seems to have only NetBSD as contender, among OSes capable of running similar enough use cases). Prepare to switch to unensloppified OS at any time, around 2035 at the latest. Do not hope that by then all the slop will be reverted from core system components (if it is, I will be pleasantly surprised, but right now, #Linux is dying).

Reduce computers and compute in your life.

And, if you can, fight this on useful levels. Not copyright licences, they ignore these and consent anyway. But: On a political level, up to and including guillotines, if you must. On an educational level, with friends, family, and even pupils/students. The younger generations are not lost. Make a worthwhile future, including human art, craft, crocheting, knitting, music, painting, woodworking, what have you. Doesn’t matter if it’s not good: it’s yours. Read books (from before 2020 or so). Go out, make train trips, cycle, garden, including fruit and vegetables. Care for your cats and other loved ones. And say no to fashtech.

Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091203/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

vgpu, librairie TypeScript de Vercel Labs pour WebGPU, importe les fichiers .wgsl comme modules typés avec une API unique valable navigateur, Node headless ou tests. Un effet fullscreen complet tient en 25 Ko gzippé, vérifié en CI. ⬇️
https://github.com/vercel-labs/vgpu

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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I am disappointed.

My list of boycotts keeps growing.
Fascism, consumption, waste.
We should be living with the conservation and sustainability of all things at the base of our decisions.

Our habitat, environment, air, water, food, forests, all life, and our energy! Electricity is a precious commodity that should not befall capitalist consumerism.

I boycott #GAFAM, Airbnb, MacDo, Nestlé, and LLMs,...

Now the #Linux kernel has decided to use LLMs. Slop aside it is not an ethical choice for its consumption and ties to fascism.
Debian too.

The Nazis in #FOSS, DHH, Omarchy, Hyprland, and #NeoVim. Framework computer!

Fascism is alive and well in FOSS.

I suspect that this week's #neovim kerfuffle was just a wee appetizer.

A small, bold dish of discourse to whet the appetite if you will.

The main course promises to be a spicy mélange of brouhaha, balderdash, and ballyhoo featuring the results of today's #Debian vote on #AI usage in the project.

Bon Appétit!

#Linux #FOSS

X Chat Agents : des comptes bots programmatiques créés depuis votre projet, avec user id, @handle et nom d'affichage, mais ni mot de passe ni login.
Le bearer token est le seul moyen d'agir, et chaque bot affiche un label "Automated by @owner".

Je sais pas quoi en penser 🤨 ⬇️
https://docs.x.com/xchat/bots

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗼 𝗫𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 [UPDATE 1 - Lenovo XClarity One] to the article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm#UPDATE1

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #linux @lenovo #one

iptables imply the existence of ipchairs and other ipfurnitures.

You can get them at ipkea.

#Networking #Linux #Security

I run gkrellm everywhere. Even on closed Source operating systems. The dashboard is designed in such a way that I can just glance and know if something is wrong, if some process pulls way too much, and then I get in with htop to granularly see what's going on

@rl_dane

#gkrellm #Linux #BSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #win64 #dashboard

My Friend Lunic: #omarchy

...

My Friend @khm helped me draw this picture. It would not exist without him.

#linux #art #comic #fediart #mastoart #arch @nixCraft #unix_surrealism

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it's been 3 days already, but my friend Lunic is still talking about some weird distro from a dude who made an email service that doesn't work with email clients. I think he went stupid. Lunic: omarchi omarchi omarchi omarchi

Linus Torvalds banishes Linux bug with a bot – Liam Proven | The Register

<https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/24/linus-torvalds-banishes-linux-bug-with-a-bot/5291784> @lproven

"… There are several points of interest here. One is that the fix is from Linus himself. Another is the unusually discursive comment. The third and perhaps the most important is that he used a bot to find the bug. He also used it to write the bug report, …

It’s a good example of how coding bots are a legitimately useful tool for developers. It looks like he didn’t use the bot to write the fix – that wasn’t needed, it’s a one-line fix – but the bot wrote 42 chunks of test code that enabled Linus to find the bug. …"

I wondered about his choice of AI, Claude could not tell us: <https://claude.ai/share/d161d4d5-b56f-4bfa-be2f-c95a741d10a5>.

#AI #Linux #Torvalds

MicroLighter : un syntax highlighter zero-dependency, sans spans partout dans le DOM. Grammaires TextMate chargées en lazy loading (une trentaine de langages supportés), thèmes en CSS classique, et un web component optionnel avec copy button et numéros de ligne. ⬇️
https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Présentation de MicroLighter, un outil de syntaxe légère pour la coloration du code, affichant ses caractéristiques principales : petit fichier (2.09 KB), performance rapide, grammaires paresseuses et thèmes CSS personnalisables avec des exemples visuels.

fx : un coding agent en CLI écrit en Zig, pensé pour la recherche et l'embeddabilité. Binaire de 6,39 Mo, cold start en 10µs, empreinte mémoire minimale, support Wasm. Open source, agnostique aux modèles et providers, utilisable en local ou cloud. ⬇️
https://fx.sh/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-jbg

New 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗼 𝗫𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 [Lenovo XClarity Administrator in FreeBSD Bhyve VM] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm/

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #linux @lenovo

@nixCraft
@SomeGadgetGuy mentioned it's not usage per se; data analysts usually see Cloudflare or other data like ping requests and web traffic.

It is AI bots. That's why we also see OSX and macOS discrepancies.

Without Linux telemetry, it is very hard to measure it. I am of the belief that #Linux already has a significant market share but no data to validate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbki6ofBEWY

I have an old #Surface tablet that I cannot update to Win11 because the #!@%$§ installer always errors. Since my other computers are on #Linux, thinking about installing it here too...

Would @alpinelinux be a good choice here? Does it work with the surface kernel? Or should I go with @fedora - same as on my surface pro?

#Alpine #AlpineLinux #Fedora

#Debian LTS contributors released 52 DLAs fixing 2159 CVEs in July. Notable security updates were released for the #linux kernel, grub2, imagemagick, jq, nginx, nss, poppler, samba and more.

Debian LTS team took full responsibility of Debian 12 (#bookworm) in July after its last point release.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for the stable release, Debian 13 (#trixie).

Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-07/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #jq #poppler

Meet the Board! We'll be holding an AUA on Reddit with GNOME's new Board members this Saturday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1vz7pja/meet_the_board/

#opensource #gnome #linux

TermDOM des interfaces de terminal codées en HTML, CSS et DOM ⬇️
https://termdom.org/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Cyber : un langage de scripting rapide avec types statiques optionnels, concurrence via fibers et FFI C. Devance LuaJIT sur certains benchmarks, s'embarque dans des applications via libcyber. ⬇️
https://cyberscript.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Le mot "CYBER" est écrit en grandes lettres orange majuscules sur un fond noir, représentant le logo ou titre de Cyber, un langage de script rapide et concurrent.

For Omarchy Quattro #Linux there's tool to search through commands and execute them viamenu as an alternative to memorizing so many keyboard shortcuts.

There's a pull request to enable a keybindings IPC on #Sway to support that, along with a script to use Fuzzel for the same kind of search-and-execute app:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/5561#pullrequestreview-5022834088

#SwayWM

Been using #Deskflow with my #Debian #Linux #KDE #Plasma #Wayland box as the "server" and my #NetBSD #ctwm #X11 laptop as the "client" or second screen.

It's amazing that it works, but it's buggy. I'll get a few repeat keystrokes, and sometimes the control key gets stuck.

P.S. Thanks to @etam for this solution: https://im-in.space/@etam/117162772780969631

#DontHateTheHashtagPlayaHateTheHashtagGame

That feeling when you come across an abandoned 35 year old PC in an aircraft hangar and you think to yourself “I could probably get netBSD and some roguelikes running on that thing…”

#retrogaming #netbsd #roguelikes #retrocomputing #linux #foss #pcgaming

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An old IBM PC 300GL QS1 found in the back of an airplane hangar

Buzz : un workspace self-hosted où humains et agents IA partagent les mêmes canaux et le même journal d'événements. Les agents ouvrent des dépôts, soumettent des patches, font des reviews et orchestrent des workflows, pas juste du chat. ⬇️
https://github.com/block/buzz

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran d'une application de communication d'équipe montrant une conversation dans le canal "flight-path" avec des messages détaillant un plan de capture vidéo en trois étapes, incluant des conseils sur les transitions et les mouvements de curseur.

#China joins #Europe in scrapping #Windows for #Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Nathan/117155798588587714

make cake

#Linux #HappyBirthday

Nathan 🇵🇷 » 🌐 2026-08-25
@Nathan@mastodon.bsd.cafe

#linux

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image is of cake ingredients, caption states "happy birthday linux! Here's your cake, go ahead and compile it yourself.

#TIL that ln -s doesn't require a destination. It assumes . if none is given.

rld@prometheus:applications$ ln -s ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop 
rld@prometheus:applications$ ll -rat
total 16,384
-rw-r--r--  2 rld rld   264 Jun  4 17:43 sncli.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 rld rld   215 Jun 14 15:33 tut.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    46 Jun 14 22:43 tootuser.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/tootuser.desktop
drwx------ 15 rld rld 4,096 Aug 22 16:44 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    50 Aug 25 08:00 iamb-flatpak.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop
drwxrwxr-x  2 rld rld 4,096 Aug 25 08:00 .
rld@prometheus:applications$ 

DESCRIPTION
       In  the  1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.  In the 2nd form, create a link to
       TARGET in the current directory.  In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in  DIRECTORY.

🤯

(Confirmed it behaves the same on all three major BSDs, as well)

#Unix #Linux #BSD #StillLearning

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
...
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(."

Eine DER Untertreibungen des Jahrtausends.

Happy Birthday, #Linux!

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Linus Benedict Torvalds Newsgroups: comp.os.minix From: torva...@klaava.HelsinkL FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Local: Sun, Aug 25 1991 4:57 pm Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my 05 resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-systen (due to practical reasons) among other things) I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and 1'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'LL implement them :-) Linus (torva...@kruuna. helsinki. fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never Will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all T have :-(

I know @liw's claim to fame is he witnessed these events in person.
I can at least say I read #Linus' post contemporaneously (well, days later — it *was* #Usenet).

I thought: “such a ramble-y post; it's going anywhere! & it can't run on my 286!?!?”

I *was* a 17 year old kid then. 🤣

I also think of that post every time I see #LinuxFoundation act all “big & professional” in their pompous way & #RMS act childishly w/ #GNU like it's his toy. Both happen often.

https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/117154135239819814

#Linux

Lars Wirzenius [he/him, they/them] » 🌐 2026-08-25
@liw@toot.liw.fi

On this day in 1991 some college kid in Finland told people on Usenet he would not be doing a big and professional operating system. It would later be called Linux.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

#Linux #OnThisDay #OTD

On this day in 1991 some college kid in Finland told people on Usenet he would not be doing a big and professional operating system. It would later be called Linux.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

#Linux #OnThisDay #OTD

The real skill is understanding a problem well enough to make the solution simpler. KISS.

Niklaus Wirth was writing about this over 30 years ago:
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

Looking at today's software, what projects do you think have become unnecessarily complex?

systemd comes to mind for me. What else?

#linux #kiss #unix

The "Actually what you are referring to as #Linux " copypasta has gone so far the last version of the Linux manual (v6.18) now says "GNU+Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux" 🤭

( https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/ )

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Cover of "GNU/Linux Programmer's Manual" v6.17

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Cover of "GNU+Linux Programmer's Manual" v6.18

AsahiBSD when?

#AsahiLinux #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD

Seite einem Jahr ist #Linux wieder mein default DesktopOS. An sich bin ich maximal zufrieden. Wenig fehlt mir, fast alles ist besser. Außer Sound! Dieses theater jedes mal die richtige Kombitnation aus Audiogeräten in #GNOME und #Firefox zu finden ist ein Krampf. #linuxaudio

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/08/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/valuable-news-2026-08-24/

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

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

Installing Void Linux on ZFS with Hibernation Support

Updated, and now supporting minimal, KDE Plasma, Gnome and XFCE

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/

#Linux #Desktop #OwnYourData #Void #VoidLinux #KDE #Plasma #Gnome #XFCE #Xorg #Wayland #GNULinux

Ich war dafür etwa in Kiel und habe mich dort Minister Dirk Schrödter in der Staatskanzlei getroffen, der jetzt selbst auf #Linux geswitcht ist, aber auch Kritikern der Umstellung auf #OpenSource in der Verwaltung zugehört.

www.das-parlament.de/inland/bunde...

das-parlament.de/inland/bundesl...

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

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