Convenience is the enemy of Sovereignty

#FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Privacy #Security #CyberSecurity

Is there a way to replace/modify file picker in #KDE / #Linux so that it removes #EXIF from images when I pick one? I'm tired of doing this manually.

#privacy

Does anyone know if the #intel Iris xE can actually handle 4K resolution with 3D graphics? It seems quite sluggish in #linux (not tested with #FreeBSD)

It was OK on my older HD monitor.

How do you Linux users, use Mastodon on Linux? I tried several Linux Mastodon clients. None of them saves the timeline position. If you quit the app, and open it, it loads the most recent message. Same with the Mastodon web.

#linux #mastodon

Dan Williams posted a patch documenting #LinuxKernel project continuity procedures – as a plan for navigating events that affect the forward progress of the canonical Linux repository, torvalds/linux.git:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260124012256.1856709-1-dan.j.williams@intel.com/

""The #Linux #kernel development project is widely distributed […] The final step, though, is a centralized one where changes are pulled into the mainline repository. That is normally done by Linus Torvalds but […] there are others who can do that work when the need arises.

Should the maintainers of that repository become unwilling or unable to do that work going forward (including facilitating a transition), the project will need to find one or more replacements without delay. The process by which that will be done is listed below. $ORGANIZER is the last Maintainer Summit organizer or the current Linux Foundation (LF) Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Chair as a backup.

- Within 72 hours, $ORGANIZER will open a discussion with the invitees of the most recently concluded Maintainers Summit. A meeting of those invitees and the TAB, either online or in-person, will be set as soon as possible in a way that maximizes the number of people who can participate.
- If there has been no Maintainers Summit in the last 15 months, the set of invitees for this meeting will be determined by the TAB.
- The invitees to this meeting may bring in other maintainers as needed.
- This meeting, chaired by $ORGANIZER, will consider options for the ongoing management of the top-level kernel repository consistent with the expectation that it maximizes the long term health of the project and its community.
- Within two weeks, a representative of this group will communicate to the broader community, using the ksummit@lists.linux.dev mailing list, what the next steps will be.
The Linux Foundation, as guided by the TAB, will take the steps necessary to support and implement this plan.""

Hello #Linux people 🐧 from #Edinburgh, #Scotland and beyond! 💖

Anyone interested in trying their hand at in Dell Inspiron 7373?* I've tried various distros / GRUB (and other) things but I could not get the sleep mode working.

Would be willing to give it away for free if someone would use it with Linux (though I'm tight on money, so any 💸 would be appreciated).

* https://www.gumtree.com/p/laptops/laptop-dell-inspiron-7373-intel-core-i5-8250u-8-gb-ram-250-gb-ssd/1508537566

#hardware #laptop #pc #EndOf10 #SwitchToLinux #fleamarket #FediFleaMarket #FediFlohmarkt #Sell #sticker

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Photo of closed a dark silver laptop lid with colourful sticker on it laying on a green and white woolly blanket.

ACHTUNG! ⚠️ Gerade wird bekannt, dass #Microsoft die Schlüssel für die #Windows Festplatten seiner Kunden in der Cloud hält und auf Anfrage an Behörden herausgibt!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

Wer in #wiesbaden seinen 💻 PC jetzt auf umweltfreundliches, privates, sicheres und bedienerfreundliches 🐧 #linux umrüsten will, kommt zum Basteltreff im Stadtteilladen #gräselberg klagenfurter ring 82, Wiesbaden, immer donnerstags um 15:30 bis 18 Uhr.

#datenschutz

Get snac'd up (not just) for #fossdem !

You can now purchase #snac propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/analognowhere/shop?artistUserName=analognowhere&asc=u&collections=4443355&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=top%20selling

Blessed be the hacker @grunfink for they can C.

#snac2 #runbsd #linux #unix_surrealism #fediverse

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snac's suzie qr, points to comam.es/what-is-snac

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snac alien SINCE YOU LEFT ME IVE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

Announcing a new #Guix release with version 1.5.0.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/gnu-guix-1.5.0-released/

Guix is a rolling release meaning users receive the latest updates continuously.
This release updates all the installation media when setting up Guix on a new system.

It can be used as a package manager on top of an existing Linux distribution (e.g. #debian, #ubuntu, #suse, #fedora, #archlinux, etc). Or it can be used as a stand-alone #linux distribution installed as #desktop #server or in the #cloud.

Since the previous release Guix has added 12,525 new packages and 29,932 packages have been updated.

- #KDE Plasma and a #declarative configuration service

- There are around 40 new system services to choose from such as Forgejo Runner and RabbitMQ

- Full-source bootstraps of the #Zig and #Mono their compilers are now available

- Other major updates include GCC 15.2.0, Emacs 30.2, Icecat and Librewolf 140, LLVM 21.1.8 and Linux-libre 6.17.12.

- Contributing teams building packages for areas including #openscience, #hpc, #electronics, #python, #astronomy and #rust

Read all about it on the blog and try out Guix now!

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Image for the Guix 1.5 release showing a rocket with the GNU Guix logo on it taking off into space.

Boah, ich liebe ja #Linux. Aber manchmal... In Kdenlive war in der GUI ein Font kaputt, es wurde in der Statusleiste, beiden Effekt-Parametern und bei den Parametern im Titel-Editor ein ganz merkwürdiger Serifen-Font verwendet. Keine Ahnung wieso, irgendwann war es so. In den Tiefen des Webs dann irgendwo den Tipp gefunden, den Fontcache neu zu erzeugen. Getan: Kdenlive zeigt wieder den korrekten Font an. Und genau seitdem stürzt Cinnamon willkürlich ab. Warum auch immer... 1/x

Dear Cupid,

Can you please aim a quiver's worth of arrows at some companies so they would send me a job interview invites? Please. I'm a lonely heart still looking for work (in all the wrong places), but no one is sharing the love. I know a variety of languages like English, French, #C, #Erlang, #C#, #Java, or #NodeJS. Been looking to #Go polish some #Rust too. I make for a great work date on any flavour of #BSD or #Linux, but #NoAI (it never works like in the commercials and eats batteries galore).

Send me a job love letter for Valentine's Day, please?

http://www.snert.com/resume/

#GetHired #GetFediHire #JobSeek #FediHire

Ho cambiato nuovamente #distribuzione #linux e credo di aver fatto, almeno per me, la miglior scelta possibile. Curiosi di sapere dove sono atterrato? Scopritelo nel mio ultimo video, dove vi racconto tutto quanto!

https://youtu.be/-Rzj5ALM4S4?si=mJ9_8caOOW01Jkv6

@linux

Dipende da cosa intendi per "libera".

Un tempo ti avrei detto Debian senza indugi, ed a tutt'oggi dal punto di vista legale, tutti i software contenuti nei repository free sono distribuite con licenze libere.
Il problema di #Debian è appunto politico (e dunque tecnico): le scelte del progetto, pur attenendosi alle #DFSG si preoccupano sempre meno della effettiva libertà degli utenti, anteponendovi altri valori.

Comunque, se ci limitiamo ad una libertà minima, formale, ci sono le distro elencate dalla #FSF https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

Di queste, mi sembra promettente #Hyperbola, soprattutto per l'impegno a sostituire il kernel #Linux con un hard fork di #OpenBSD https://www.hyperbola.info/

Il problema comunque è l'effettiva esercitabilità di tutte e quattro le libertà, a fronte di una complessità insostenibile dei software distribuiti.

Avere #Firefox sotto MPL o #Chromium sotto MIT non garantisce davvero a tutti la libertà di studiarne completamente il codice: solo chi può investire mesi di studio (tipicamente pagati da qualche azienda) può veramente esercitare la libertà di studio. E ogni libertà esercitabile esclusivamente da un'élite smette di essere libertà e diventa, di fatto, privilegio.

Purtroppo Linux stesso (il kernel) ha una complessità esorbitante, misurabile in milioni di righe di codice, anche escludendo i blob non liberi.

Ne consegue che, ad oggi, chi vuole poter esercitare davvero le 4 libertà deve cercarle altrove.

I #BSD sono un po' migliori da questo punto di vista: ricordo una settimana passata a leggere il kernel di #NetBSD anni fa senza grandi problemi. Ancora meglio da questo punto di vista sono i #plan9 come #9front che in un paio di settimane può essere studiato da capo a piedi.

Il problema fondamentale però è più profondo di quanto non suggeriscano queste possibili soluzioni.

Quando #Stallman concepì il software libero, il maggior limite alle libertà degli utilizzatori (che erano anche programmatori) era di natura legale. Il #copyleft o le #DFSG erano strumenti legali (il primo) o comunitari (il secondo) progettati per evitare questo limite.

Oggi a limitare la libertà degli utenti troviamo invece vincoli tecnici (#SaaS, complessità del software) e culturali (standard intenzionalmente complicati da implementare ed una sostanziale separazione fra la figura professionale del programmatore ed il ruolo di utente).

Questi vincoli sono superabili con leggi ed investimenti in educazione e istruzione, ma difficilmente tali azioni possono essere proposte da politici ignoranti eletti cittadini mantenuti nell'ignoranza cibernetica.

D'altro canto produrre stack alternativi è difficile, non foss'altro che per l'assenza di risorse e coordinamento (nonché spesso di una visione architetturale coerente con l'obiettivo politico di massimizzare la libertà).

@dajelinux@mastodon.uno @lorenzodm@mastodon.uno

Interested in #declarative computing, #linux or #reproducible software? #Guix is going to be at #FOSDEM for lots of goodness on #guile #scheme and the #nix approach to packaging #FreeSoftware - check out the talks various people are giving:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2026/

As usual the Declarative and Minimalist computing track will have lots of interesting #lisp #spritely and #nrepl talks!

EU fragt nach Feedback

Ein positives Zeichen der EU in Richtung Opensource und freie Software. Die Europäische Kommission fragt konkret nach Feedback im Open Source Bereich.

#OpenSource #europa #Feedback #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/eu-fragt-nach-feedback

Nach Jahren Pause habe ich wieder mit C# zu tun. Ich finde die Sprache nach wie vor echt interessant. Und mit #Rider ist die Entwicklung auch unter #Linux echt angenehm.

Sometimes my Framework touchpad stops working after suspend/resume. I finally found this fix:

https://blog.elijahlopez.ca/posts/linux-touchpad-not-working/

Thanks Internet! (I suspected that some module could be unloaded/loaded to fix but I didn't know which). #Linux

So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? https://lobste.rs/s/zjje5x #linux
https://blister.zip/posts/gnome-ssd/

#Berlin will sich langfristig von #Windows und #MicrosoftOffice lösen und setzt auf eine neue #OpenSource-Strategie für die Verwaltung.

Geplant sind Schulungen, Sprechstunden, ein Infoportal und ein Linux-basierter Notfallarbeitsplatz. Ziel ist mehr Unabhängigkeit, Transparenz und Sicherheit in der IT.

Erste Maßnahmen laufen bereits, doch die Umstellung erfordert Zeit und Kulturwandel in einer stark von proprietärer Software geprägten Infrastruktur.

https://www.golem.de/news/open-source-strategie-mit-diesem-plan-will-berlin-weg-von-windows-und-office-2601-204446.html

#Linux

A couple of days tinkering with #Slackware #Linux and #OpenZFS sumed up in about 6 minutes. So far, the laptop with encrypted #ZFS root works great! Now, time to #SlackOff

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/

A mountain of discarded PCs is a wake-up call. These machines still work and can run #Linux. Public institutions must stop wasting money on forced upgrades and embrace #opensource alternatives. #EndOf10 #openSUSE https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/12/software-policies-can-fuel-waste/

Whooops, a rather critical vulnerability found in GNU InetUtils' telnetd service. It is missing any input validation, allowing to remotely authenticate as the root user. Given the many IoT devices that still have telnet activated, it bears (in my opinion) a high risk of being exploited in the wild soon. Especially, when one considers the low complexity of the attack. Ouch.

GCVE-1-2026-0007

#Linux #IoT #Telnet #Vulnerability

Is anyone else completely exhausted by the "Suggested For You" era of the web?

I feel like 2025 broke something in my tolerance for algorithmic feeds. I caught myself scrolling my personal insta yesterday and realized I hadn't seen a post from an actual human friend in ten minutes. It was just engagement bait and AI-generated slop. Uggh!

Thinking about moving my web reading habits to RSS.

#RSS #indieweb #enshittification #privacy #noai #selfhosted #linux #sysadmin

If we have GNOMEs, can we have KDElves?

#linux #gnome #kde

Myrlyn, the new graphical package management GUI for openSUSE, reaches Version 1.0 with community repositories for openSUSE Leap 16.0, configurable search mode, improved zypp history browser

https://github.com/shundhammer/myrlyn/releases/tag/1.0.0

#opensuse #opensuseleap #myrlyn #rpm #zypper #yast #linux #linuxdesktop #qt6 #opensource #freesoftware

If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.

Alternatives to #Linux are Redox, the BSDs, Illumos, Haiku, ReactOS, and Plan 9. There are even more! 🙂

TIL: If permissions of a pam.d file does not allow reading for a program it's ignored and any unix account is accepted. No logging about that whatsoever. Insane!

#linux #ops #sysops

Ok Fediverse, hit me up at your nerdiest:

What's your favourite
Mini-PC + Linux distro setup
and why is it the best? 👀

#Linux #MiniPC #AskFedi

welcome home, purple

previously: https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/what-was-i-to-do/

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #openbsd #technomage #penguin #fish #art

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Penguin: "For days we walked. He didn't say a word. But neither did he protest that I was following him. And then, one night, he just spoke." Fish: "We're going to an abandoned MilTek shelter. It used to be the base of operations of the open clan once. It's not on any map. Technically, it does not exist." Penguin: "And neither did we." Fish: "Welcome home."

@dendrobatus_azureus @rl_dane

Screenshot of Duck Duck Go search

#Daily #driving #freeBSD #documentation #man #pages #ghostBSD #OpenSource #Linux #technology

@rl_dane

Can you clarify? All Linux flavors I've worked on have man page structures thus Documentation.
Even when I compiled the kernel from scratch in the pre alpha days, the source code had comments including all GNU Richard Stallman sources

#Daily #driving #freeBSD #documentation #man #pages #ghostBSD #OpenSource #Linux #technology

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=man%20lsblk&ko=-1&kbg=-1&ia=web

A post of mine about the use of vim many decades ago

On it's opening page Bram Molenaar urges everyone to do a donation to Children who are less fortunate, financially, in the State of Uganda

#Vim #VimMasterRace #Bram #Molenaar #programming #technology #Amiga #Linux #Uganda #OpenSource

https://dev.to/radio_azureus/vim-the-beginning-hab

#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

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list of virtual format folders OGG OPUS MP3 FLAC etc

It's not GNOME, it's not KDE, it's not the new Vanilla OS DE, it's new, uses <100M of memory, is accessible (for real) and uses GTK4 (but not libadwaita).

#Linux #Windows #OpenSource #FOSS

Just FYI, day 61 of #DailyDriving #FreeBSD.

Zero complaints! I mean, zero serious complaints. There are one or two minor things I haven't figured out yet, but for the most part, it feels just like #Linux, except that, you know... it has DOCUMENTATION. 😂

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/01/19) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/valuable-news-2026-01-19/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/01/19) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/valuable-news-2026-01-19/

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

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

Neuer Blog-Artikel:

Hier mein ausführlicher Artikel zu dem sehr guten Backup-Programm KopiaUI:

https://digital-cleaning.de/index.php/kopiaui-backup-fuer-fortgeschrittene-win-macos-linux/

(Kurzer Boost wäre sehr nett, weil der Artikel etliches an Zeit gekostet hat - muss aber nicht sein :-) ).

#backup #linux #windows #kopia #kopiaui

If I ever managed to find a #DECstation 3100 from 1989, what'd be the overall likelihood that I could get modern #Linux of some kind running on what was at one point the world's fastest MIPS-powered #Unix workstation (for all of a few months iirc)? Because I think brute-forcing some sort of #Slackware installation would go great in place of #Ultrix or alongside it.

I know #NetBSD supports the device, so I imagine Linux support exists for this specific machine too, right?

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A photo I found online of a DECstation 3100, complete with keyboard, mouse, and monitor. For a time, this was the world's fastest Unix workstation upon release in 1989, though it was quickly outdone a few months later by the first SPARCstation model from Sun Microsystems if memory serves me correct. This machine ran Ultrix, DEC's own proprietary Unix OS, based on BSD. Though Ultrix is long discontinued, NetBSD continues to support it, and potentially also Linux, that topic being the subject of the post to which this image and alt text are attached.

Freshened my old Latt E7440 - a i5-4300U CPU from 2013 - now openSUSE LEAP 16, all the newest Zoom client, Libreoffice, etc...

And, in this age of increasing ludicrous minimum requirements and prices, this still works very smoothly for editing ➡️ non-trivial ⬅️ documents, Zoom meetings, tunes playing in the background, multiple browser tabs, ....

I've been in IT/Tech for ~30 years now; the un-progress of the last decade is astonishing.

Hat tip to this old champion.
#technology #linux

Hướng dẫn cài đặt NetBSD trên Wii U: khám phá cách biến máy chơi game thành nền tảng Unix mạnh mẽ, hỗ trợ phát triển phần mềm và tận hưởng môi trường mã nguồn mở. #NetBSD #WiiU #Linux #OpenSource #CôngNghệ #Programming #Technology

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-powerpc/2026/01/10/msg003724.html

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.

- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14

I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.

Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)

- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅

All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin #selfhosting #email #postfix

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Console output, showing FreeBSD Jails, running E-Mail related services.

My boat!

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #rust #linux #art

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Penguin is freaking out: "Oh no! Oh God! Not here too! No! By Linus! It's all rusted!" Fish finds sleeping girl next to a book. He examines the book. It's the ABC of RUST animals.

New 𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗕 𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 [200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd-desktop/

#verblog #desktop #dzen2 #freebsd #laptop #linux #openbox #pkgbase #tint2 #x11 #xlibre #xorg

It has been a few months since the debate around Framework's sponsorship choices. I am curious where the community currently stands.

How much does Framework's financial support of controversial project maintainers (Vaxry and DHH) impact their reputation in the open/privacy space?

#Framework #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #TechEthics #Privacy #RightToRepair #Hardware #AskFedi #Fediverse #Vaxry #DHH

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft
https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/

I've been on #linux for a few months. I'm not a computer scientist / gamer / developer, and I updated my laptop to Zorin 18 without problems last night. #linux is nowhere near as hard as it was over a decade ago when I first tried it (and gave up). I started with getting a usb boot with a dozen distros to try for $10, so you don't even have to do the "create a usb boot thingie" yourself anymore. It's worth a try.

New blogpost:

"Testing Radicale, a self-hosted FOSS CalDAV and CardDAV Server"

Setting it up was easy.

Importing my calendar appointments history was not.

It doesn't have calendar sharing, and I'm on the fence as to whether this will be a deal breaker.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/01/testing-radicale-a-self-hosted-foss-caldav-and-carddav-server/

#FOSS #selfhosting #Linux #Radicale