I recorded something WAY out of my comfort zone, but I felt like it wanted to get out of me in this way.

https://youtu.be/-ELUJ2Qofnc

#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #FOSS #FreeSoftware

I'm looking for an audiobook player for Linux. What is your favourite recommendation?

#books #audiobook #linux

Today I have added #sydbox' Signal Counting mitigation for SROP as an item under defense and mitigations in the #wikipedia SROP article. Watch my #balccon2k25 talk for a live demo ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigreturn-oriented_programming#Signal_Counting #exherbo #linux #security

So, my #NovaCustom laptop arrived last week. I sadly have not had time to do the install until today. I'm going to work on it today and I'll post on this thread in case anyone is bored on a Sunday and wants to watch me struggle to install #Debian — having not installed it from scratch in nearly a decade.

This might be fun — if for no other reason than the lolz of an aging technologist struggling with installing a #Linux-based system.

You have my permission to laugh. Follow along today here.

Looks like my old ThinkPad T480 has or is finally dying. Anyone have strong feelings about a #Linux native replacement?

I have been leaning towards a Framework because I like their philosophy, but I have heard System76 makes some nice machines as well.

I'm looking for a guide to help a new #linux user migrate from an old #Mint install to a new computer with Mint installed. There are no windows or apples involved.

thanks in advance.

What's the common wisdom regarding #Ubuntu #Linux and systemd-resolved, dnsmasq, and NetworkManager?

Had a weird thing happen where a #Wireguard tunnel didn't go up but DNS was still trying to connect to the DNS server over the WireGuard tunnel and was failing.

Is there any way to stop the DNS madness? It looks like they're both clobbering each other.

@gumnos @rl_dane

GNOME has had that system for more than two decades or so IIRC {if I recall correctly} they're 27 ATM.
I had seen it in the first couple of years of GNOME spawn and development, when the programmers chose the route of less configuration & more dictation

#sh #GNOME #reg #editor #OpenSource #programming #Linux #UI #Xorg #POSIX

@rl_dane

I'll post some tips in a few minutes

Update

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/115633555188007861

#bash #csh #zsh #ksh #fish #sh #Linux #command #line #termux #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #technology

#Signal #Electron #Ram #usage #BSD #2048MB

FreeBSD 15.0 (almost)-RELEASE, using pkgbase, on my Ryzen 9 MiniPC (and compared to openSUSE Tumbleweed):

- Full disk encryption works beautifully via GELI, as usual.

- Installing KDE is easy and it works perfectly on Wayland.

- All my main apps work. Others will run via the Linuxulator or Wine (Linux browsers, WinBox for MikroTik, etc).

- The fan seems more relaxed.

- The system generally feels snappier.

- Native ZFS. I can autosnapshot every 5 minutes. If I try to do this with btrfs - snapshots of the home directory included and quotas enabled - the system hangs while handling them (which is why Tumbleweed doesn’t snapshot home by default).

- The media keys on my keyboard work, but volume control uses huge steps and 30 percent is already extremely loud. This can be fixed. The monitor brightness setting is also a bit off, but I don't care.

- amdgpu works perfectly.

- The wifi card works. I haven’t tested the speed because I immediately installed the realtek-re-kmod driver to use the 2.5 Gbit ethernet connection.

- Suspend doesn’t work. This is a big problem for me. It’s probably more psychological than technical, but I can’t leave the computer powered for hours when I’m not using it. I already have servers running 24/7 here. I even considered putting my Qotom FreeBSD server in a VM. It would probably work, but next summer it might be an issue because temperatures here aren’t low and spinning disks don’t love heat (and I don’t love their noise).

- It’s stable and reliable. I’ve done almost everything and it just works, as expected.

- Some small glitches remain, mostly due to missing configuration or packages (I didn’t tune anything. I just installed it and started using it).

A much smoother experience than a year ago, when I bought it.

Will I keep using FreeBSD on this minipc?
I’m not sure yet, since Tumbleweed works great and the lack of suspend really influences my choice. I'll contact Aymeric and try to offer some help to improve this.

For now, I’ll keep it on an external SSD and switch from time to time, especially when I know I’ll be using the minipc for hours.

#Linux #FreeBSD #Desktop #openSUSE

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

Android friends! A question for you:

I currently use Termux to run shell scripts, SSH, and a few other tools on my phone.

Is it worth switching to the new Terminal app in Android 16?

(Running GrapheneOS if that makes a difference to your answer.)

#Linux #Android #Termux #Android16

Hyperlink Roundup 10! I'm proud I made it this far!

Several blogs and articles I've read since the last Hyperlink Roundup. Another good-bye to Firefox and some self-hosting media server posts.

https://basic.bearblog.dev/hyperlink-roundup-10/

#linux #bsd #blogs #smallweb

Self-hosting is rising because Linux users refuse to wait for permission.

https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-rising/

#linux #selfhost

Kürzlich habe ich versucht, für einen sehbehinderten Menschen einen Laptop von Windows 10 auf Linux Mint Cinnamon umzustellen.
Folgende Anforderungen hat er gestellt:
Die Textgröße sollte sich genauso wie unter Windows mit einem Schieberegler unter Barrierefreiheit verstellen lassen. Dabei sollen alle Vergrößerungswerte zwischen 100% und 200% einstellbar sein. Außerdem benötigt er einen hohen Kontrast. Mit der Einstellung hoher Kontrast unter Linux Mint konnte er nicht arbeiten. Der Kontrast war nicht hoch genug. Andere Hilfsmittel, wie z.B. die Lupe, möchte er nicht verwenden.
Kann mir hier vielleicht jemand einen Tipp geben, welche #Linux-Distribution und/oder Desktopumgebung besser für diese Anforderungen geeignet sind?

Looking for #Linux hardware? Find out about #Slimbook's Black Friday discounts and other #opensource info at planet.opensuse.org

Two things that would've made my #Thinkpad x260 a perfect laptop:

• A little nicer screen (>1366x768, not TN (that's on me for not reading the ebay description more closely))
• A backlit keyboard, or heck, even a derpy ThinkLight XD

Otherwise, this is a pretty sweet bit of kit. 6th gen i5, 8GiB RAM, 256GB SSD, responsive keyboard, TouchPoint (ThinkNubbin) and touchpad, internal and external battery, roughly 6.5-8 hours battery life (I got 5:21:00 active usage yesterday and it only got down to 48% on the little internal battery (0% on the external) when I was done (it estimated 1:20:00 remaining)), super friendly to both #Linux and #BSD. Oh, and it's dirt cheap right now.

10 Are you doing something with #Linux, #BSD, #opensource, #security, networking, or anything related? If NOT, goto 30

20 Submit a talk proposal at the @nluug conference at https://cfp.nluug.nl/nluug-voorjaarsconferentie-2026/cfp

30 Have a nice day!

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NLUUG conference picture

I'm looking for a remote Rust/Elixir role (EU-friendly timezones, US East is ok).

I have 7 years of #rustlang, 9 years of #elixirlang, 20+ years of #linux.

I have over 20 years of experience as a professional developer, and I've been working remotely for 12 years, during which I helped US and EU companies build reliable software.

On the side, I've been developing #asciinema, the best tool to record and stream your terminal sessions. I talk about it in the context of Rust in this #RustaceanStation interview: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/marcin-kulik/

My current contract ends soon, so this is a great time to talk! I'm open to both full-time roles and short term contracts.

My linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinkulik/

Boost please!

#fedihire #getfedihired

Hey is it still(?) correct that if I have a VM on a #Linux host that is connected by wifi, I can't bridge the network connection? Seems to be the consensus, and the evidence backs it up, but I'm hoping for a workaround.
My guest OS is Windows Server 2019, I'm using #QEMU and #virt-manager on #Arch.
#AskFedi #FediTechSupport

#Slackware #Linux users who use #KDE6:

Because Slackware doesn't ship #Plasma6 by default, how do you use it, from the LuckyCyborg packages, the slack-a-roni packages maintained by our friend @jloc0, some other package set I don't know about, or compiled from source?

Let me know in the replies, I wanna gauge the userbase for these packages (at least among fedi users). Sadly, LuckyCyborg will soon stop working on the packages, so @jloc0's packages are your best bet (I prefer them at least)

@kabel42

Yeah, #FreeBSD is VERY #Linux-from-25-years-ago feeling. ;)

In some bad ways, but in many, many good ways.

Forget the chaotic Black Friday sales! 🤯 NetBSD 🚩 offers the BEST deal: it's 100% FREE! Always has been, always will be. Perfect for self-hosters and anyone seeking pure, open-source goodness without spending a dime. No catches, just solid OS. #NetBSD #BlackFriday #FreeSoftware #SelfHost #RetroComputing #OpenSource #Linux #RunBSD

#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.

As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/564

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

@wagesj45

I wonder if they really make money from Windows anymore, or if they're just passive-aggressive little berks that don't want to give up their paper kingdom.

Because AFAIK their web services (running #LINUX, of course!) are their real money makers. And I guess the "365" crap. lol

It's been interesting the last couple of years watching as #Windows slowly moves from being the beginner friendly #OS to the one that requires the most expertise to have a half-decent experience. You need de-bloat scripts, registry hacks, and you're constantly fighting Windows Update, never mind giving over some percentage of your system resources so that #Microsoft can spy on you.

Simultaneously, #Linux has unironically become the OS that's most beginner friendly.

@frameworkcomputer Framework's continued commitment to "deliberately create a big tent" is paying off.

More than a month since the last public statement comment from Framework on the subject and they still haven't distanced themselves from this guy.

The forum thread has over 2000 replies at this point..

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/

https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

#framework #dhh #ruby #linux #omarchy

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DHH on twitter quote twitting another racist post. DHH's posts read: > The Danes have been publishing detailed crime statistics and other social outcomes of immigrant groups since the late 90s. > It's shocking how poorly some specific groups manage to integrate, how much violence they bring, and how expensive it is for the Danish state to host them. > It's equally remarkable how well other groups do. Japanese people literally have the lowest crime stats of any tracked group in Denmark. Americans almost as low. Immigrantion works fine when you cherry pick the very best from high-performing countries.

Alt...

Framework's CEO on a public forum thread: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis, and more) published a beautiful video inspired by my latest blog post. I was really pleased! It's in Italian, but auto-generated English audio track is available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqbKEx2mBM

#ITNotes #Linux #OpenSource #OSS #OpenSource

Time to learn another configuration language: KDL, apparently pronounced "cuddle" is supposed to deal with some of pitfalls of XML, JSON, YAML and TOML.

The author kindly asks that you stop sending them to a link to the XKCD "One more standard..." comic strip.

https://kdl.dev/

#Linux

@malcolm @thumbsup Noctalia also has a nice demo and works with #Niri and #Sway

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

#Linux

Another option for a polished experience with Niri as a scrolling tiling window manager is to integrate it with COSMIC. Developed by hardware seller @system76 COSMIC recently reached stable status.

https://github.com/Drakulix/cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

If you've been trying a scrolling tiling WM, let me know which one and how you like it!

#Linux

Scrolling tiling window managers visualize a desktop as infinitely wide. So when a new window opens on a full monitor, existing windows don't have to get smaller, they simply scroll left or right.

Once such window manager I'm looking at on Linux is #Niri. Seee a demo video here:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

To bring the bling for full a desktop to Niri, there's Dank Linux, which also a demo video:

https://danklinux.com/

#Linux

Support for being able to tile windows on your computer so they fill the whole screen has been growing. I appreciate being able to get the most out of my monitors and using keyboard to quickly manage my windows.

Now the next generation of tiling window managers is scrolling tiling window managers. In first-gen tiling window managers, as monitor filled up, existing windows many become smaller and smaller, until some windows become stupidly small. Scrolling Tilers solve this... 🧵

#Linux

@malcolm Dank Linux has an impressive demo video.

I may have to give it a try as well.

https://danklinux.com/

This appears to add a lot of bling to tiling window managers without packaging itself as a pile of shell scripts as #Omarchy does.

#Linux

I spent most of the day trying out different #Linux desktop environments and window managers, but I wasn't really happy with any of them. Then, Reddit led me to discover Dank Linux.

Now with Arch + Niri + Dank, I'm all set.

https://danklinux.com/

Just a silly #meme...

#LossyPNG #doas #sudo #root #unix #linux #BSD #infosec

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Winnie-the-Pooh good-better-blurst meme: Good: sudo Better: doas Blurs't: ssh root@... Reduced to 8 colors to save space (#LossyPNG)

@mwl -- got it! Thanks! #networking #sysadmin #bsd #linux #book

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven

＂… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …＂

#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD

Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 released with user-based traffic limiting, configurable parallelism for verify jobs, bandwidth rate limiting for S3 endpoints

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1

#proxmox #proxmoxbackup #debian #linux #linuxserver

Ok, if #OpenBSD overtakes either of the #Linux categories, I'm gonna swoon. 😂

#Poll #LiveTooting

Ooo, the #Linux #CommandLine jockeys have just overtaken the #LinuxGamers! This is exciting!!! 😅

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

A colleague is asking about text to speech options for Linux. I don't have any experience in this area-- any recommendations?

#linux #tts

Great News, Liberux Community! 🎉

1️⃣ The Liberux NEXX is moving forward with new self-funding. We listened to your feedback, and the NEXX will come with improvements. We maintain our #opensource commitment and #privacy focus. More details soon!

2️⃣ We are looking for a Developer (Open Source, C++, Wayland, Linux Kernel, ModemManager, D-Bus, PulseAudio) for #liberuxos. If you are passionate about digital freedom, join our team!

➡️ Send your CV to people@liberux.net.

#liberux #Linux #Jobs

I put together a little link collection - collected quite some bookmarks over the years 😀

#Linux #BSD and #Windows related links as well as some other things sprinkled in.

Someone might find it useful. 😎

https://jhx7.de/blog/link-collection/

Does anyone have a remote desktop solution for #Linux and #Wayland that actually works?

#RustDesk disconnects after about 10 seconds, and #DWService gives me a garbled screen.

This is attempting to connect to a Fedora 43 Plasma laptop. Trying to support a family member that's clear across the country, RIP me lol.

No, I can't just use VNC/RDP and tailscale. If I had thought of it when I was setting it up, that would've been great. XD

Any ideas, #HiveMind?

P.S. I might try "Rabbit Remote Control" next chance I get.
https://github.com/KangLin/RabbitRemoteControl

@ajlewis2 @stefano Microsoft's anti-Linux #FUD was probably the #best #marketing and #advertising and #promotion for #Linux.

At the time, if memory serves correctly, Windows XP/2003 were the current OSes then. It wasn't like they were stable or secure. MS poured millions into those ads. 😂