The Wayback Machine managed to capture a Linux Journal article about the Arch Linux distribution's plan to switch to "rye-init" before whatever human intelligence remains there figured out that "rye-init" does not actually exist.

The Linux Journal predates LWN by some years and was, for a long time, the definitive read for Linux users. The Don Marti ( @dmarti ) years were especially noteworthy. It is sad to see where it has ended up now.

web.archive.org/web/2025061800…

Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech

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Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format for #LibreOffice. Learn about ODF compliance and interoperability in our latest blog post: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #openstandards

One of Forbes’ renowned 100 lists has just recognised NV Access as a global leader in accessibility.

Forbes’ first-ever Accessibility 100 highlights the biggest innovators & impact-makers in the field of accessibility.

“It’s an honour to be recognised alongside the world’s best innovative organisations advancing accessibility” said NV Access Co-Founder, Mick Curran.

The Forbes Accessibility 100 List is at: forbes.com/lists/accessibility…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Forbes #Top100 #BestOf2025

Cleverson has moved reshared this.

EDIT: In response to this post @anewsocial has clarified their instance level opt-in. See: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…

NOTICE: Your account may soon be bridged to #Bluesky whether or not you want it to be.

According to @LaurensHof's excellent Fediverse Report (fediversereport.com/fediverse-…) changes have been made to the Bluesky bridge.

"Bridgy Fed, the bridging software that connects ActivityPub with ATProto, has gotten an update where server admins can opt-in to the bridge for their entire server."

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Linux is 2nd class citizen in ZFS world. No ZFS Boot Environments - no GRUB for modern ZFS pools - no distro with installer support for ZFS on root and BE setup.

Why then #FreeBSD would downgrade to Linux level on ANY level?

Its insane for me.

Details:
github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src…

Legendary Radio Host Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55 Years cordcuttersnews.com/legendary-…

The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2025.1.2 is now available for download and testing. This release includes a fix for a crash in certain Microsoft Word versions before version 16.0.18226 on opening.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #MicrosoftOffice #Office #Microsoft

"Bill C-2 is not a border bill. It is a power grab and an attack on fundamental human rights and civil liberties."

thecanadianpressnews.ca/politi…

#BillC2 #ElbowsUp #Canada #CDNPoli

Sometimes sqlite really is shit

I have a lot of repos in my private gitea server because I mirror repos I care about accessing locally

well, it's come to the point where loading my dashboard after login takes somewhere between 4-8 seconds to render the page... the template it says renders in a dozen or so milliseconds, but the page portion is really high

so I enabled all the redis caching options.

It got better. 1.5 - 2 seconds now.

I just migrated the gitea database to my postgresql server

Now it loads in 25ms

Like holy shit batman, that's a world of difference

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to start using Friendica.

Crashes across all interfaces, takes forever to load. Maybe, if you collapsed all comments by default, just maybe it wouldn't be crunching so hard. Bluesky integration fails completely. Oh well, seemed perfect for me, in the abstract. I learned quite a lot about the potential. Think I just need to make Mastodon my one stop-shop instead.

@helpers @admins

#Friendica #Fediverse

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in reply to Eric Bono

there is an issue tracking the performance trouble with friendica.world: github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14947
It has been addressed in github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/14974
The patch is not yet live on friendica.world though.

Post-Compromise Security and Forward Secrecy don't seem to be helping out the people who have their Signal chats entered into evidence in court though
RT: furry.engineer/users/soatok/st…

itslinuxfoss.com/install-dpkg-…
this is the worst article i have ever seen

Though the dpkg manager comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, it is ready to use, but if it is not installed, it can be installed from the default repository of Ubuntu.


no not really I mean, apt relies on dpkg to install packages if you don't have dpkg installed there is nothing that is going to be able to install dpkg. I mean dpkg literally ships as a .deb usually these systems are bootstrapped by debootstrap wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap you can't just install dpkg without dpkg (unless you have another package manager but ubuntu is famous for using well apt and dpkg)

in reply to Jan Penfrat

Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔

#NGIForum25

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So cool to now also see @matrix's @Amandine at #NGIForum25 to speak about sovereign and secure messaging #infrastructure (and strongly warn against the nationalist version of the digital #sovereignty narrative 💪):

"Does self-sufficiency even make sense in a globalised and digitised world?"

EU tech Brussels really has come a long way :) 🎉

“The ban is causing very significant harm to trans children and young people and, consequently, there can be no justification for it.”

I mean, any honest person who's even vaguely paid attention to such things could've told you that.
thepinknews.com/2025/06/19/pub…

"On Saturday, June 14th, Arturo Gamboa was attending the "No Kings" protest in downtown Salt Lake City. He was there armed, within his legal rights, and peacefully protesting. During the event, the "peacekeepers" hired by Utah 50501 to control the crowds at the event opened fire on the crowd, shooting both Arturo and Arthur "Afa" Folasa Ah Loo who was tragically killed by the stray bullet.

Due to the tragic loss of life, Arturo was unjustly arrested and is currently being held by Salt Lake County sheriffs department. They are holding him regardless of the fact that his weapon was never fired, his gun barrel was never pointed anywhere but the ground, and the bullet that tragically caused the death of Ah Loo was fired from the gun held by hired "peacekeeper."

givebutter.com/gamboafundraise…

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In a serious gain in efficiency, a Space X Starship prototype has exploded without actually being launched.
They're next plan is to see if they can produce an explosion during the assembly process.

youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_t…

#news #science #space #NASA #spacex

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This sounds like a joke, but I kid you not:

While the US military is rushing to The Middle East, Trump suddenly wants to wait two weeks before deciding what he wants to do in Iran.

US tax dollars are burning in the engines of the carrier strike groups, but as always Trump has no plan.

I think we have heard that “in two weeks” excuse 3 times with regards to Ukraine.

The US lost its leadership on January 20.

youtu.be/cJctcEmx-eY

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Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for. beige.party/@Lana/114711292686…
in reply to feld

Hate is one of the purest emotions and also one of those that people usually are unable to reason with. It's very polar for most people. That's why you very rarely see people on both sides of politics that can understand their opponent, or work with them on topics they don't inherently both agree with. And that's where I think this tendency to alienate people comes from; You are either with us, or against us; I either like you, or I hate you.

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-s…

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

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