In this episode, I break down the music of Eli Mercer and explain why it has no cultural or artistic value.Complete song can be found on Rick Beato 2: https:...YouTube
🎂 Happy Birthday, Slackware!
On this day in 1993, Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 1.0, the oldest Linux distro still maintained!
Still simple, still solid, still Slackware.
Read the original announcement: slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
#Slackware #Linux #FOSS #HappyBirthdaySlackware
Ahmad Gani intercepts the sendto syscall to simulate short send, but curl incorrectly handles it. It keeps resending the version: sendto(4, "\x05", 1, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 1 sendt...GitHub
Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phones Named Most Secure Smartphones in the World
Top cybersecurity and tech publications agree—Purism leads mobile security in 2025.
Efani ranks Librem 5 #1 in its “Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones,” citing hardware kill switches, modem isolation, and PureOS’s open-source architecture.
Analytics Insight calls it the top privacy-first smartphone with “uncompromised digital sovereignty.”
Purchase at Purism: puri.sm/products/librem-5/
A website complained that "your experience is important to us, please disable your ad blocker".
So I opened the site in Edge. The experience without an ad blocker:
reshared this
EU’s Cyber Resilience Act isn’t fully in effect yet, but #OSS maintainers are already bracing for compliance requests. cURL creator @bagder is among the first to receive one (from a Fortune 500 company using a 2 year old version.)
What happens when companies treat volunteers like vendors?
socket.dev/blog/oss-maintainer…
The EU Cyber Resilience Act is prompting compliance requests that open source maintainers may not be obligated or equipped to handle.Socket
Thanks to ¹ ² ³, today I learned about bootup(7) / `man bootup`⁴ ⁵ and boot(7) / `man boot`⁶ ⁷ ⁸ which document the early Linux system boot flow. Cool!!
¹: social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/114869060… / @b0rk
²: toot.cat/@zeenix/1148689656810… / @zeenix
³: chaos.social/@lbky/11486906936… / @lbky
⁴: manpages.debian.org/bookworm/s… (looks better in the terminal than in this HTML translation)
⁵: freedesktop.org/software/syste…
⁶: manpages.debian.org/bookworm/m…
⁷: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/…
⁸: kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ → git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/ma…
@zeenix@toot.cat @b0rk@jvns.ca man bootup has a few flowcharts that I always found quite helpful.chaos.social
“Bill 5 and Bill C-5 are pieces of legislation that attempt to bulldoze over our First Nation rights and lands with no respect for our decision-making and jurisdiction.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #law
windspeaker.com/news/windspeak…
Four First Nations chiefs made their way to Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 16 to voice their displeasure and explain why they have joined fast-track litigation against the Ontario and federal governments.Windspeaker.com
✨ What's new in Home Assistant? ✨
2025.7 was filled with so many good things we're bringing you 3 feature highlight videos this month! 🎉
Here's Chapter 1 - Assist asks the questions!
Find the blueprint and what else is new this release on our blog 👉🏻 home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07…
#Release #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
Assist can now ask you questions! Enjoy the completely redesigned Area card with flexible layouts, the birth of integration sub-entries, full-screen code editors for better YAML and template editin...Home Assistant
Its emissions have tripled since Amazon announced six years ago that it is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2040.Martina Igini (Earth.Org)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated, 1 rebranded, and 1 added apps:
* PlugBrain: encourages regular breaks from distracting apps by blocking access at scheduled intervals 🛡️
Weather Master uses a new packageName. If you have this app installed, please switch to the new one. Details in the app description.
Further, 7 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Corporate welfare in a nutshell:
Oilfield service group says relief from counter-tariffs on U.S. sand 'fantastic news'
Did you know you can do voice input in Windows by pressing WIN + H? 👀
Based on feedback, we're currently rolling out the ability to turn off the profanity filter to those on the latest version of Windows 11 - I hope you **** like it
support.microsoft.com/topic/ma…
Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how zdnet.com/article/linux-has-ov… by @sjvn
No, not 5%. #Linux currently accounts for 6% of the desktop market, according to US government records.
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
Due to budget constraints we had to let the maid go.
This will impact the maid the most, but it will also impact the rest of us.
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/07/the…
In 2007 I was working at a tech company and one of the senior DBAs sent this email to the staff after yet another disgusting office kitchen mess was left behind. I saved it and think about it every so often.blog.feld.me
Dneska prichazi liberation day pro Unreleased. Uspesne jsem deployoval prvni projekt na Scaleway VPSky.
Jako deployment tool jedu kamal-deploy.org, na ktery jsem si brousil zuby hodne dlouho ... a mel jsem vysoke naroky. A musim rict, ze jsem naprosto nadseny. V zasade pokryje vsechny use-casy Vercelu za cenu zeleza na Scaleway.
Az me prekvapilo, jak bezproblemovy ten flow je. Prakticky resi presne ty problemy, ktere me napadnou pri deployi cehokoli.
#it #kamal #devops #nextjs #vercel
From bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime.Kamal
@zdenek Na otazky bezpecnosti jsem narazil. Je to asi nejvetsi kritika Kamalu. (i toho devops, nejenom serveru)
Ale to je resitelne, dulezite je DX pro vyvoj a otevrene moznosti skalovani. Bez toho by switchnout z Vercelu (top DX) neslo.
Aktualne mam na zkousku cast produkce na klasicke virtualce, ale planuju poridit 3x silnejsi masinu na Elastic Metal a dat tam 3x klon databaze (mame ted cockroachlabs.cloud) a k tomu 3x klon hlavni Next appky a zbytek nasazet bokem.
Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records via @skeptrune https://lobste.rs/s/a29mny #security https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/hackers-exploit-a-blind-spot-by-hiding-malware-inside-dns-records/Mastodon
I don't know if something like that would really end up having a sizable market that would make it worth the effort. You're basically chasing the nostalgia that GenX and Millennials have for such things, and maybe they're buying it and hoping their kids will use it.
If I had the modern internet when I was young with all of the apps, social media, Youtube, countless cheap/free games, smartphones and tablets, etc... I doubt I'd have been spending my time trying to program and learn Linux/Unix stuff. I'd have been consuming all the other stuff 24/7.
I feel like there's a 15-20 year period where we existed in a bubble which drove us to these interests and develop these skills, but now there's so many distractions and options to spend your time on it's going to be very difficult to recreate that again in a younger generation.
RT: studio8502.ca/users/mos_8502/s…
Attached: 1 image Look at this shit. This is what people think of when they hear the words "educational computer". A fucking toy for babies, with basically no actual purpose. This is where I think Commodore can upend a market.Studio 8502
Vědec vysvětlil, proč je cyklistika superzbraň lidského pohybu ino.to/yDiuCJT
Vědec vysvětlil, proč je cykli...
Chůze je přirozený lidský pohyb. Ale když jde o efektivitu, má překvapivého poraženého. Cyklistika je podle biomechanických výzkumů čtyřikrát energeticky výhodnější než chůze. Proč? Nejde jen o kola a převody.Miroslav Krajča (Redakce Nedd.cz)
Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS
webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-…
Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu.Ryan Gibson (WebProNews)
In case you missed the last #GNOME foundation update: we're excited to share that we have officially joined the @gnome advisory board! We hope this will help us bring more attention to the #LinuxMobile effort and let us make GNOME on postmarketOS even better across all form factors.
blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…
Gah. Every week I'm like "I'll do a short one this week" and then I... do not. ## New Treasurers We recently announced our new treasurer, Deepa Venkatraman. We will also have a new...Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)
Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the network.apple.news
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in reply to r1w1s1 • • •is Patrick still alive?! I remember when he was dying from an undiagnosed illness and things seemed very bleak
edit: wow he's alright! Incredible
🌈ᚩ🌈
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to 🌈ᚩ🌈 • • •@bonifartius I'd never heard about this before. Did anyone document how this went down?
Sounds like open source provided better healthcare than America does 🥲