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.
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
I was there when electric typewriters became word processors and when word processors became computers.
I fought the good fight to make a non wizard mail merge link to a dot matrix printer.
I can get an excel spread sheet to recognise a date cell.
There is nothing, however, that makes me despise technology more than the self serve checkout.
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The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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
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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."
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.fediversereport.com
Officials defend Liberal bill that would force hospitals, banks, hotels to hand over data
> The bill has support from Canada's police chiefs
Of course it does. That's always the case about fascist legislation.
> and stop the flow of deadly fentanyl across the border.
As I said, to suck up to the deluded orange shit stain.
Reminder that this exists
pgsty/pigsty: Free RDS for PostgreSQL —— Pigsty
github.com/pgsty/pigsty
Free RDS for PostgreSQL —— Pigsty. Contribute to pgsty/pigsty development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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…
Linux sets relatime on mount by default for any file system, but relatime=off in ZFS disables it explicitly. Let's be consistent with other file systems on Linux. Reviewed-by: Brian Behl...GitHub
In a bittersweet moment for fans of novelty music and radio history, Barry “Dr. Demento” Hansen, the iconic host of The Dr. Demento Show, announced his retirement at age 84, closing a 55-year chapter of broadcasting that began in 1970.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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
Do the WCAG
It’s a kick ass tune at any speed
"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
OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights andthecanadianpressnews.ca
This is an appreciation thread for EuterPen, a multimodal music notation system by @Vincent_Cavez et al. It aims to support the non-linear process of exploration during composition.
It's the most sensitive and imaginative academic HCI design work I've seen in quite some time!
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
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.
Bug Description There are queries using 'NOT IN' which are performing badly when the tables have millions of rows. Steps to Reproduce explain SELECT `uri-id` FROM `post` WHERE (NOT `uri-id` IN (SEL...ruudschilders (GitHub)
And the reason I will not be kind is simple: The people doing this are actively peddling Security Theater when they tell people to use something less-cryptographically-secure than Signal.Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!
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)
To install the dpkg on Ubuntu 22.04, run the command “sudo apt install dpkg”. You can use the “-i”/“-r” options to install/remove packages using dpkg.Saryia (Its Linux FOSS)
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? 🤔
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…
Trans youth are reportedly feeling more suicidal since the UK banned puberty blockers indefinitely, a study suggests.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
"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…
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
While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of...YouTube
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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.
President Donald Trump will decide whether to launch a US strike on Iran within the next two weeks, he said in a statement delivered by his press secretary d...YouTube
While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of...YouTube
Oh are you leaving MAGA? That's great 👍🏼 I still don't fucking trust you go fuck yourself.beige.party
>stop supporting trump
>your former side laughs at you
>the other side knows you were never with them from day one and thus never pure enough
Literally the only way out is to activate the Samsung Ringtone MKULTRA signal.
In another universe:
I'm so sorry I used to be a capitalist, I didn't understand the consequences. Please let me join your socialist movement I want to help now
no, go fuck yourself
Well that's one way to ensure the socialist labor movement is on the road to success 
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!)
The CNCF Slack workspace will be converted from an enterprise plan to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. This will have implications for how Slack works for…Katie Greenly (CNCF)
what strikes me about this is that all these guys are like, well he seemed normal to us
yes that's the problem
the normalization of extremism is exactly the problem
Childhood friend says Minnesota suspect had 'darkness inside of him' | AP News
apnews.com/article/minnesota-s…
32 years ago today, #FreeBSD was announced for the first time. I haven't tried this OS yet but I can assure you that I will because I want Quark, my OpenSource reverse proxy, to be supported on other Unix systems than Linux.
For this special occasion, I drew this little picture on #Krita 🙂
#FreeBSDday #Unix #Server
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