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Starting to write up a series of articles about the Linux kernel CVE work that has happened in the past 2 years, starting with some "back to basics" information about how Linux kernels are numbered as many people/companies really don't know how we do this, and it matters a lot in tracking bugfixes and how to determine "vulnerable" and "fixed" kernel releases:
kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/…
and
kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/09/…

Linux kernel version numbers

Despite having a stable release model and cadence since December 2003, Linux kernel version numbers seem to baffle and confuse those that run across them, causing numerous groups to mistakenly make versioning statements that are flat out false.
Greg K-H (http://www.kroah.com/log/)

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RE: floss.social/@CleoMenezesJr/11…

To vypadá hodně dobře 👍👍👍

Cleo Menezes Jr.

2025-12-09 02:32:39

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Guys, MosaicWM is becoming more and more stable, so I would like to start having people testing it.

github.com/CleoMenezesJr/Mosai…

#GNOME


GitHub - CleoMenezesJr/MosaicWM: Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell

Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell. Contribute to CleoMenezesJr/MosaicWM development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Ponniendo en conocimiento de mis superiores o de los órganos competentes las propuestas que considero adecuadas para mejorar el desarrollo de las funciones de la unidad en la que estoy destinado. A estos efectos se puede prever la creación de la instancia adecuada competente para centralizar la recepción de mis propuestas para mejorar la eficacia en el servicio.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

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This holiday season I'd like to make someone I think is very important a bit of joy, however I need your help with it.

National bank of slovakia is issuing so called commemorative and collector euro 2 coins to celebrate historic memories, anniversaries and other special events. A friend of mine is collecting these coins with her dad whenever it's possible.

I have found out this is not specific to our country as european central bank has standardised this process and all the countries that have accepted euro can issue such commemorative coins.

Now the part I'd need some help with.

Can you please check with the national bank where you live if you can acquire some of the commemorative euro 2 coins, make me an offer and send these to me through ordinary post / mail service please?

Thanks for your understanding and possible help you can provide. #fediHelp #fediPower #boostsWelcome

#boostswelcome #fedihelp #fedipower

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One week after we kicked off our year-end fundraiser, we’ve reached 800 #FriendsOfGNOME!

Our goal is a bit more ambitious, though: 1,500 by December 31. Help us out by joining today: donate.gnome.org

If you’ve already joined or are unable to right now, you can still help by sharing this post with friends and colleagues: blogs.gnome.org/foundation/202…

Let's secure the future of GNOME together and enable us to do even more great work next year.

#GNOME #GNOMEFoundation #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS

800/1500 #FriendsOfGNOME donate.gnome.org

Join Friends of GNOME

This post was contributed by the Fundraising Committee from the GNOME Foundation. This week we are launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME...
mariamaj (GNOME Foundation)
#linux #foss #opensource #gnome #gnomefoundation #friendsofgnome

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📚️ Join us for a collaborative hackathon before FOSDEM!

Our team of scientists created tools to help us fight Big Silo. But we need your help to unlock the crate they have sent us!

Come learn, mentor, and contribute to our hackathon and earn (sur)prizes!

📆 Jan 30
🗺️ HSBXL, Brussels

matrix.org/blog/2025/12/fosdem…


Find us at FOSDEM

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Thib (matrix.org)

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Evropa nemá strategii.
Čím víc bude Rusko vítězit, tím to bude pro Evropu dražší.
To jsme vážně takoví idioti, že to chceme vysedět?

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Norové spočítali: Vyzbrojit Ukrajinu, aby vyhrála, nebo zaplatit dvojnásobek, když vyhraje Rusko - Visegradský jezdec 🏇

I tak se ale pro ten první případ bavíme o výrazném, až skokovém navýšení stávající podpory. ...
Karel Paták (Visegradský jezdec 🏇)

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In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

#ui #startrek #lcars

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EMAIL WRAPPED 2025

This year, you received too fucking much email!

Number of emails that found you well: zero

Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero

Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person answering your email: all of the times

Your favorite email was: none of them

Next year, you are considering: are there any countries where email is illegal, and what are their immigration laws?

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Máte s tím někdo zkušenost? V chatu jsou zmiňované i alternativy jako Nextcloud a Matrix. Nějaký názor?
#opensource #chats #jsemlama

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Neil Brown

2025-12-08 09:08:05

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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is all about XMPP.

Snikket (snikket.org/) is an easy-to-install, and easy-to-administer, XMPP server. It is designed for families and other small groups. The apps for Android and iOS (based on Conversations, I think) are great.

Dino (dino.im/) is my desktop XMPP client of choice.

Profanity (profanity-im.github.io/) is a terminal / console XMPP client, which is incredibly convenient.

Why not have a fun festive project of setting up an XMPP-based chat server for you and your family and friends?

#XMPP #FOSS #SelfHosting



Dino. Communicating happiness.

A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
dino.im

#opensource #chats #jsemlama @Neil Brown
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Archos

Snikket jsem chvíli používal, je to klasický XMPP server, instalace na pár kliknutí. Je to dělaný pro rodinu, či menší komunitu.
Nextcloud i Matrix máme na Oscloud není problém používat.
🧩 Nextcloud

Nextcloud je vlastní cloud pro soubory, fotky, kalendáře a dokumenty.
Místo Google/Dropboxu máš všechno u sebe, bez reklamy a bez sledování.
Sdílení, zálohy, Office online, poznámky – prostě kompletní osobní cloud, ale nezávislý na big-techu.

💬 MXChat

MXChat je náš vlastní Matrix chat server – bezpečný messenger pro komunitu.
Něco jako WhatsApp/Discord, ale open-source, decentralizovaný a s kontrolou nad daty.
Můžeš psát, volat, sdílet soubory a používat různé klienty (Element, Hydrogen), vše bez reklam a centralizace.
@neil

@Neil Brown
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I'm the kind of guy who would probably call up WFDD (local public radio station in North Carolina where I grew up) and ask if anyone who currently works there remembers that very specific instrumental version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer you played on December 17, 1989, because I wanna hear it again, and I only ever heard it once in my life.

I'm not actually going to do it, but those numbers are accurate, and I do kinda want to know what version it was for absolutely no reason.

Thanks for bringing that nearly 36-year-old memory to mind, you weird brain.

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For fun: partially implementing the Moisac Windows concept by @tbernard.

blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/…

#GNOME

Rethinking Window Management

Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the...
Tobias Bernard (Space and Meaning)
#gnome @Tobias Bernard
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Cleo Menezes Jr.

The mosaic saga 🪟

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Cleo Menezes Jr.

Guys, MosaicWM is becoming more and more stable, so I would like to start having people testing it.

github.com/CleoMenezesJr/Mosai…

#GNOME

GitHub - CleoMenezesJr/MosaicWM: Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell

Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell. Contribute to CleoMenezesJr/MosaicWM development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#gnome

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Any time, and this is no an exaggeration, any time I stumble upon a piece of code, a translated string, a design, or a text that looks "off" I always ask the author "did you use any sort of LLM to make this?" and the answer is always "yes".

This shit is wrong, it produces wrong things, it gives the illusion of efficiency and productivity but it's just wrong.

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Today is day 8 of 25 Christmas Songs in 25 Days. The year is 1963. The artist is Johnny Cash. The album is The Christmas Spirit. The label is Columbia, although my copy is a European release on the DOL label.

As much as I love this album and want everyone to hear it at least once, I’m enough of a realist to know that it is definitely not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. There are two reasons for this. For one, this is by no means your cheery Christmas album with bouncy songs. For another, this album leans heavily on the religious aspects of the holiday. However, if that’s your thing, and you somehow haven’t heard this album yet, I totally recommend it.

Track List

A1

The Christmas Spirit
Written-By – J. Cash*
A2

I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Arranged By, Adapted By – Johnny Cash
Written-By – H. W. Longfellow*, J. B. Calkin*
A3

Blue Christmas
Written-By – B. Hayes*, J. Johnson*
A4

The Gifts They Gave
Arranged By – J. Cash*
A5

Here Was A Man
Written-By – J. Bond*, T. Ritter*
A6

Christmas As I Knew It
Written-By – J. Howard*, J. Carter*
B1

Silent Night
Arranged By, Adapted By – J. Cash*
B2

The Little Drummer Boy
Written-By – B. Simeone*, H. Onarati*, K. K. Davis*
B3

Ringing The Bells For Jim
Written-By – J. Howard*, J. Carter*
B4

We Are The Shepherds
Written-By – J. Cash*
B5

Who Kept The Sheep
Written-By – E. J. Carter*, J. Cash*
B6

The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
Written-By – E. St. Vicent

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Windows 10 and 11 can automatically reboot for updates when you're not at your computer, and sometimes this can come at an inconvenient time. If you want to be able to see exactly when the reboot is about to occur, you can go to run, type in "cmd" without the quotes, and then hit ctrl+shift+enter to launch it with administrator privileges (this is necessary for this to work). Next, type "powercfg /waketimers" without the quotes, and it will tell you the time the system will wake up to install updates, or if the system is already on, the time at which the restart will occur. As there can be more than one thing listed here, the one you want to look at is "Reboot AC" on Windows 10, or "Schedule Wake To Work" on Windows 11. To help you locate these, these will have Microsoft Windows Update Orchestrator listed before them.

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When I moved in three winters ago I noticed a pattern during snowstorms: everyone would shovel their own section of walkway and nothing else -- sometimes just from the door to the street and not the public crossway or they'd just shovel their driveway and nothing else. This lead to there being a 20 foot section of sidewalk that was clear, then 20 foot not clear, then maybe another clear section down and on and off again all the way down the street, forever. The sections that were not cleared would freeze and become impassable, school kids would wipe out on them, the mail carrier would have to navigate through yards, etc. And through all of this I was watching some people clear their short sections of walkways with gas powered, self-propelled blowers.

So I started shoveling the entire block each and every snow. Sometimes my idiot self would use an actual shovel so I could be a total dork and do it while partialing (gets lots of car honks, cheers, and photographs. I apparently made the village Facebook group a few times with people thanking whoever it was doing this anonymous work), other times I'd use a handheld electric snow thrower thing and just wear my tail so that anyone viewing security cam footage to see who did the work was a weirdo. But I always went from one corner all the way to the other. Then last winter I started doing both sides of the street as well as the block south of mine because I expanded my arsenal of batteries to two. I did this over and over again regardless of how much snow or time or took - sometimes it needed several clearings in a day/night - because it was a decent replacement for my gym and actually resulted in something tangible I could see -- a clear path three blocks long with no interruptions. A thing of beauty. Each time I'd be sore as hell but feeling wonderfully accomplished.

Now and then my neighbor would see me doing his portion and would tell me that I didn't have to do that, he'd handle it later, etc. Did it anyway. And then it started to click for others. Last winter I noticed someone up the street from me began clearing half of the block to widen the path I'd created. Then my neighbor began to clear the south side of my block to complete it. Across the street someone now widens my path for a row of five houses. With the storm yesterday I did my paths and then returned home to find someone had cleared the south block after more snow accumulated. This morning, I did it again. A few hours later: engine noises. Four snow blowers out there making sure the path was completely clear block to block, end to end including cross streets. Someone has taken to start clearing up to some people's doors as well. It's incredible.

I did this because some people don't care but also I know some people simply can't due to age or physical ability and it's cool as hell because now I feel like we have an secret, unspoken group of Guardians of the Neighborhood thing going. I freaking love it.

Hey everyone else: 3200-3300 Maple Ave blocks are putting you all to shame. Step up.

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feld

I used to shovel not just my sidewalk and patio, but all my neighbors because they were connected and I needed to pass through anyway. I was also the youngest in the building as the others were much closer to retirement age and the contractors the condo association was paying to clear the snow either didn't do it properly or they'd just show up like late at night after it was covered all day and everyone was walking through it or on the ice that built up. What a waste, they wouldn't even pay someone to come do it properly so it was cleared BEFORE people needed it.

tl;dr be nice to your neighbors and burn down every HOA / condo association, they suck

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Antisemitism in the U.S. has hardened into a "durable" new normal as fewer Americans feel any obligation to push back, according to a sweeping new survey shared first with Axios.

The survey also reveals a widening empathy gap amid rising hate incidents and a public increasingly convinced antisemitism is either exaggerated or not their problem two years after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The big picture: Around 3 in 5 U.S. adults think antisemitism is a minor problem or not a problem at all, the 2025 Antisemitism Landscape Survey released Thursday by the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate found.

#Antisemitism

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#antisemitism

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My mom has a habit of ordering all kinds of garbage online that she doesn't really need (hello early dementia) and refuses to listen to us when we advise her on this. She texted me today asking for help as some "Amazon people have called and scolded her for ordering pallets of cat litter and potatoes" which I figured was some weird scammer thing

Talked to my brother. It's him and his wife. They're crank calling my mom pretending to be Amazon to make her stop ordering shit.

Pretty funny. Let's see how it works out.

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@Bri I hibernate mine most of the time or run it overnight, potentially with a scheduled shutdown if I'm running sync applications, since they're known to interfere with my mom's work VPN. I want to get a mini PC but unsure if I'll be able to, since this shit Altman pulled the price of DRAM has skyrocketed and it got so bad for SSDs that Crutial is actually dead, so I doubt I'd be able to afford one.
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