Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some Blues 🎶🎶🎶🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research

.....and some mundane ritual ....

#linuxkernel #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem

Live near Reading, Berkshire, UK?

Have an interest in Linux?

At a loose end tonight?

Come to the Silicon Corridor Linux User Group meet-up!

http://sclug.org.uk/

Feel free to DM me if you have questions.

We are a friendly bunch.

#Linux #Reading

New limited MATA_MAID model!

There's AI in MAID.

#unix_surrealism #comic #mata #penguin #ai #foss #linux #jpg

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Penguin and her child walk past a billboard. The child has its eyes closed. The mother is guiding it. The billboard features: NEW MATA MAID (powered by MATA_AI) LIMITED L-N MODEL! ON SALE NOW! It features a pink skinned semi-sentient ai companion in fishnet stockings, high heels and a hat. Penguin child: "Mom, can I open my eyes now?" Penguin mother: "Not until we get home. We're playing a game, remember?"

i released the first version ever of my open source painting program, it's still in early stage but it has the following features:

- No AI, this is a program for real artists
- 100% native, no Web, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui
- Advanced Layer System
- Infinite Undo History
- GPU Accelerated Canvas View
- Brush Engine similar to popular manga software
- Bucket Fill with gap closing (proof of concept)

download: https://mrgaturus.itch.io/npainter

#gamedev #indiedev #opensource #linux #mastoart #furry #art

Mystery adventure Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping announced https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/mystery-adventure-duck-detective-the-ghost-of-glamping-announced/

#DuckDetective #Linux #IndieGames #AdventureGames

Which one are you on #Linux?

alias sudo=run0 #1

## OR ##

alias run0=sudo #2

New post: https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/tiny-cdn/

I built a tiny CDN for my website to reduce the latency for visitors in different parts of the world.

#Linux #ChimeraLinux #pyinfra

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A network diagram showing a user at the top. An arrow from the user points downward to a node labelled Gcore GeoDNS. Three dashed arrows point down from the Gcore node to three servers labelled: AU, FR, and NY. Below the servers at the bottom of the diagram is another smaller server titled Qotom. It has arrows pointing up to each of the other servers with a label over the arrows, "Certs".

A concept is tolerated inside the microkernel only if moving it outside the kernel, i.e., permitting competing implementations, would prevent the implementation of the system's required functionality
OKL4 μKernel 3.0, released in October 2008, was the last open-source version of OKL4 μKernel. More recent versions are closed source and based on a rewrite to support a native #hypervisor variant named the OKL4 Microvisor. OK Labs also distributed a paravirtualized #Linux named OK:Linux, a descendant of Wombat, and paravirtualized versions of #SymbianOS and #Android
Osker, an OS written in Haskell, targeted the L4 specification; although this project focused mainly on the use of a functional programming language for OS development, not on microkernel research.[

RedoxOS is a Rust based operating system, that is also inspired by seL4, and uses a micro kernel design.
#virtualization

Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-EFI-Zboot-Gzip-Zstd
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358701

#linux

me running fwupdmgr on my linux machine to update my firmware bios ;) https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/thinkpad-update-firmware-on-linux-x1-extreme-p1-gen2/

#linux #opensource

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"Everybody is an atheist until they start updating their BIOS" - Sun Tzu

Over a year ago, I wrote ”A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat”.

For something like 15 months now, Sandra and I have used XMPP via @snikket_im for probably 99.9% of our calls, messages, and video chats, running on an Intel NUC.

We both use the Snikket mobile app, and I also use @dino and @profanity in Linux.

Perhaps a fun holiday / weekend project, if you want family-friendly, self-hosted, #E2EE communications?

https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-month-using-xmpp-using-snikket-for-every-call-and-chat/

#XMPP #SelfHosting #FOSS #Linux

You're a #Unix / #Linux fan and looking for a simple and minimalistic #blog engine?

#manpageblog might be your solution and comes in a simple and familiar manpage design without big dependencies as a static blog generator.

You can find more about manpageblog right here: https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog

#opensource #alternatives #wordpress #blogging #python #sitegenerator #bsd #minimalism #minimalistic #fediverse #tech

Having #freebsd as sort of a daily driver is way cooler than I thought. I mean, all these lock-in services are at your fingertips anyways, but when I was thinking about post install stuff, I've decided to basically drop all of them. And oh wow. The world behind the wall! Switch teachers for marketers and talk about Pink Floyd...

And by all means, I'm a huge #linux fan. But that one talk on bloatware from #fosdem24 got me thinking. And I'm not done yet, but general direction is set.

@solene There's a bunch of stuff that's just not on anything else. Linux is like MS-DOS in comparison.

AppleScript/Automator.
Universal clipboard.
launchd (like systemd, but works).
Xcode (ugh Swift, but it's still a C/Obj-C IDE/RAD tool)/Instruments (dtrace with a UI).
Finder.
Screen & video quality, HDR on some devices.
100s of amazing indie apps, there is basically NO good Linux-only software. BBEdit & Acorn just to pick 2.
Apple apps: GarageBand, Pages, Logic, etc.

#macos #linux

Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308590

#linux #intel

Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)

Link: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323#feature
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282053

#linux

My week in review: I manually rebuilt a #Wordpress server, installed a #Linux system snapshot tool, implemented a private search engine, and spent discretionary income for the first time this month.

https://myconscious.stream/blog/Week-in-review-Nov-30-2024/

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Screenshot of SearcXNG, a private metasearch engine deployed on a home server.

what was Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
In layman terms ?
#linux

When a #Linux application running on Hermitux makes a system call, the Hermitux kernel intercepts the call and translates it into a series of operations compatible with the Hermitux environment. This translation process involves mapping the parameters and semantics of the Linux system call to equivalent operations that can be performed within the constraints of the Hermitux kernel.
https://devjacks.medium.com/bridging-the-gap-achieving-linux-compatibility-in-hermitux-unikernels-26deed49ec88

🎉 RDE 0.6.0 released!

- New features (distrobox, podman, prolog, sourcehut, android ...)
- Updates for old ones (zsh, sway, mail, emacs, org-agenda ...)
- cloud-init implementation for Guix
- Transitive package management for Elixir
- and more.

RDE is a Lispy Emacs+Guix+Linux+Wayland distribution for development, research, and daily computing needs.

Try it out: http://files.trop.in/rde/
More info: https://trop.in/rde

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C1366571992.12875.1732881988036@office.mailbox.org%3E

#guix #rde #linux #emacs #guile #lisp #scheme

In #Linux, these system calls interact with Virtual File System(VFS). VFS builds an abstraction over real filesystems, it defines some useful data structures to organize filesystem.

also , a reminder to dont let you clipboard shof what you copied, just paste it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44990909/how-linux-system-calls-interact-with-filesystem

Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

Link: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/bootkitty-analyzing-first-uefi-bootkit-linux/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264345

#linux

dating culture clash

#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix

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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

If you are thinking of moving from Windows to Linux and are not sure where to start, here's the software that I am using day to day:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

(Work-focus, as that is where I spend most of my (computing) time, but I am Linux-only for personal computing too.)

And don't forget that many Free software programs have Windows versions too, so you can test before you leap.

Good luck!

#Linux #FOSS

Linux 6.13 Will Report the Number of Hung Tasks Since Boot

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Non-MM
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228672

#linux

@dharmik except for the "no ads, no tracking" rest of your post sounds exactly like what we used to say in 2004. After Ubuntu launched. 😊

#linux #opensource

I think it's weird to get rid of reiserfs just because Hans is a murderer. Like, we have vastly worse people in charge of much bigger things. It was the only good filesystem on Linux back when I used it routinely.
#linux

Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux

Link: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/unveiling-wolfsbane-gelsemiums-linux-counterpart-to-gelsevirine/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208580

#linux

@lritter

Reminds me of a recovery story.

Someone I had given tech support to, royally screwed up, got some nasty malware on his windows box (trying to recall, think 8.1). Pr0n was the vector.

I tried everything I knew to clean it up, but failed.

I said, we are going to have to do recovery and start over. Fortunately, I had educated him to write important stuff down on paper.

I saved his important files to a USB key with a live linux.

I started the recovery. A colossal PITA just to get into Safe mode. Dell sucks.

It started. Then the monitor went to black.

Ok, fine,, it is just a temporary diver problem. The monitor will come back in a bit.

Waited a couple of hours, still no screen.

I said I had to leave, will check with you later to see if the monitor came back to life.

I call back later, and he says screen still black.

I go back. I know it is doing something. I can hear the hard drive and the HDD LED is flashing.

I am leaving, will check with you later. I know it is doing something, I just can not see progress, but I am not going to interrupt the process.

The next day, 36 hours after starting, it was back.

Windows is garbage. I will not support anyone using it. They are on their own.

https://www.finnix.org/

@finnix

#Linux

Linux kernel 6.12 has been released

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169418

#linux

Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems

Link: https://github.com/oracle/bpftune
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163597

#linux

New Hearts of Iron IV DLC lets you rewrite German history, pushing player counts up to a new peak https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/new-hearts-of-iron-iv-dlc-lets-you-rewrite-german-history-pushing-player-counts-up-to-a-new-peak/

#HeartsofIronIV #LinuxGaming #Gaming #Linux

Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

Link: https://github.com/epasveer/seer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146338

#linux

Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

Link: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/02/dusting-off-dreamcast-linux.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42140863

#linux

WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly

Link: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-20
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42133980

#webassembly #linux

@glyph Just reading https://blog.glyph.im/2024/11/the-federation-deathmatch.html and it's an excellent blog post!

We all want a de-capitalized, decentralized future, but how do we get there?

And, at the risk of tipping some sacred cows, how do we pay for the MASSIVE engineering effort it would take to make the Fediverse something that's actually attractive to the vast majority of users who currently find it "exhausting" "high friction" "unfriendly" and the like?

And there are a LOT of them. I'm seeing some of the same reality bubble you see in the #linux community:

"I have internalized the paper cuts and so I do not see them".

I LOVE the Fediverse. It's the only social media platform I truly feel at home on. But I can't ignore the VERY consistent feedback I get from non technical audiences who SHRINK BACK at the very idea of using it, either because they tried or the whole idea of having to choose an instance feels too much.

@wes @Angle Did they fix it? No. Your shell is overriding it with a builtin, but that won't be true in sh scripts.

Fuck's sake.
#linux

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/bin/true --version <SHIT> /bin/true --help <SHIT>

https://ilugc.in/arch-is-more-than-a-btw-thing/

@Angle @wes As Ferris said, "Macs are so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it."

What if computing, but didn't suck all the time? (it sucks sometimes, because it's computers)

FreeBSD is relatively amazing, and much lighter and more open. The people aren't scumbags or abusers. Best of all, it's not full of GNU shit, /bin/true has no --help or --version flags, etc.

The docs are actually good.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#linux #bsd #freebsd #maco #evangelism

It was fun back in the day, chunking floppy after floppy into the computer to get Slackware up. First to text consoles. Alt-F1 to F6 without even needing screen (not fucking GNU)! Luxury!

Hacking on XF86Config and being careful not to set your CRT on fire. Simple X11, grey stipple background, twm (vi .twmrc).

You better hope you had another computer with Internet so you could debug it.

Modern Linux is bloated shit, and no more useful than that toy.
#linux

Ubuntu 22 LTS is less openly broken, at least. But I dunno how long this shit's gonna take.

#gamedev #linux

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Make the most of the web installing Firefox

By contrast to shoestring budget can't-run-a-server Microsoft, Ubuntu has ISO downloads that seem to work. Takes a while, tho. I've got 120, 140 MB/s down? Ubuntu's giving me <11 MB/s.

I have an old Slackware VM but I'd like to compile on something shipped this decade, and I suspect nobody can use those binaries.

I don't like Linux any better than Windows, they're both garbage.

…
Ah, there's the Linux User Experience I expected.

#gamedev #linux

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ugly magenta screen unsupported hypervisor