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Garden joys: my ladybug is back, we chatted! She didn’t have a lot to say. The yellow flower is a real stunner! No idea what it’s called, let’s name it Yellow Flower.

The cardoon is once again 8 feet high and the bees are all over it like jam on toast (that means our hummingbird must be around here somewhere). I walk carefully around the bumblebarrons but they’re so busy rooting around in the big purple thistles that I’m not sure they even register my presence.

#BloomScrolling #garden

Orange ladybug on a white flower of some sort.
Gorgeous yellow daisy-like thing, glowing in the sun.
Looking up at the purple thistle heads of a giant cardoon. All you see beyond is the top of a walnut tree and SKY.
#Garden #bloomscrolling
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This is a thorough article about how dangerous Brightline in Florida is for people crossing the tracks. The line itself is owned by the Florida East Coast Railroad, who has neglected to fence off most of the right of way, grade separate, or make safety improvements to crossings.

Florida has bad pedestrian infrastructure in general, and I’d guess more people are killed on roads in Florida than by trains, but we need more trains, and they should be safe.

wlrn.org/killer-train-brightli…


Killer Train: Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking

Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by WLRN and the Miami Herald has found.
WLRN

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🎂 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

(Photo: Patrick Volkerding at a Linux event in the early 2000s)

The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Release Announcement

www.slackware.com
#linux #foss #slackware #HappyBirthdaySlackware
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Welcome Ammar Faizi as #curl commit author 1393: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1794…

socks: do_SOCKS5: Fix invalid buffer content on short send by ammarfaizi2 · Pull Request #17943 · curl/curl

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
#curl

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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/

Purism– Librem 5

Introducing the – Librem 5 by Purism
puri.sm
#1

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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…


Open Source Maintainers Feeling the Weight of the EU’s Cyber...

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is prompting compliance requests that open source maintainers may not be obligated or equipped to handle.
Socket
#oss @daniel:// stenberg://

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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…

lbky (@lbky@chaos.social)

@zeenix@toot.cat @b0rk@jvns.ca man bootup has a few flowcharts that I always found quite helpful.
chaos.social
@Zeeshan Ali Khan 🇺🇦 @lbky @Julia Evans

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“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…


Bill 5, Bill C-5 to be tested with First Nations’ litigation

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
#law #indigenous #firstnations

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✨ 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

2025.7: That's the question

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
#release #smarthome #homeautomation

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#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 :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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Post probablement polémique (encore sur sur Masto, je pense que ça ira) tant les automobilistes détestent les cyclistes et souvent c'est réciproque. Sauf que l'un est vulnérable, l'autre bcp moins... 😐
Un cycliste c'est une voiture en moins et donc des embouteillages en moins, pensez-y ! (Et bientôt les cyclistes domineront le monde 😝😝 mouhahahhaa)
...
#velo #cyclisme #cycliste #automobiliste #panneauM12 #codedelaroute #polemique
Titre: connaissez vous le panneau M12 ? Dessin : un feu tricolore et en dessous un panneau triangulaire M12 Sa fonction : permet au cyclistes de passer aux feux rouges sous certaines conditions Dans le code de la route depuis 2012 Il faut céder le passage aux piétons et véhicules ayant le feu vert.
En tant que cycliste, en arrivant au feu rouge, s'il y a le panneau, j'ai le droit de passer (en fonction de la flèche ça peut être à gauche, droite, tout droit...) en laissant la priorité aux piétons et voitures. Donc je ne grille aucun feu.
J'espère que ce post vous a appris quelque chose. Le but est que cyclistes et automobilistes puissent circuler en bonne intelligence et en toute sécurité (comme les piétons et autres usagers) En restant braqués voitures VS vélos on n'avancera pas.
#velo #cyclisme #cycliste #automobiliste #panneaum12 #codedelaroute #Polemique
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André Polykanine

Excusez-moi, j'ai rien contre vous personnellement, mais je suis piéton non-voyant et je déteste les cyclistes autant. roulent rapidement, n'observent pas de règles, s'en fichent des piétons, utilisent des trottoirs comme pistes cyclables, ne freinent jamais suffisament, klaxonnent frénétiquement en attendant tout le monde bondir de leur route pour les laisser passer. Absolument affreux. Les autos… oui, y en a des cons, mais en général pas sur des trottoirs. Chaque fois que je quitte la maison je me demande si l'un(e) de ces individus me jette par terre cette fois ou la prochaine.
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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.


Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
#linux @sjvn

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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…


The Maid – Makefile.feld

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

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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


Deploy web apps anywhere

From bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime.
Kamal
#IT #devops #nextjs #Vercel #kamal
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Martin Wenisch

@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.

CockroachDB Cloud

cockroachlabs.cloud
@Zdeněk Merta

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Since when was this a blind spot? I feel like I've been talking about this as the perfect way to hide payloads for 15 years now
RT: mastodon.social/users/lobsters…

Lobsters (@lobsters@mastodon.social)

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/
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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…


mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦 (@mos_8502@studio8502.ca)

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

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Vědec vysvětlil, proč je cyklistika superzbraň lidského pohybu ino.to/yDiuCJT

Vědec vysvětlil, proč je cykli...


Vědec vysvětlil, proč je cyklistika superzbraň lidského pohybu

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)

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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-…


Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

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)

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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…


2025-07-12 Foundation Update

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)
#gnome #linuxmobile @GNOME

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#práce #homeoffice #nezaměstnanost
Nechápu, proč drtivá většina IT firem po covidové pandemii zrušila možnost 100% práce z domova. To mě nakonec donutilo změnit můj obor, takže už žádný webdesign / webdev 😐 Prostě jsem musel změnit plány při hledání práce. Třeba je to tak lepší, skoro 19 let jsem si užil docela dostatečně a nelíbí se mi směr, kterým celý webdev obor kráčí: namísto ustálení nebo zjednodušení se vše pořád jen víc komplikuje. Docela lituju nováčky, dnes bych v tom začínat nechtěl.
#prace #homeoffice #nezamestnanost
in reply to 𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖐 🇨🇿🇪🇺

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Jiří Eischmann

Myslím si, že ten negativní trend se týká celého IT odvětví. Náročnější integrační role budou mít pořád o práci postaráno, ale "dělníci kódu" budou pod tlakem a myslím, že v oboru už dobře bylo. Kdybych byl dnes na začátku kariéry, tak už asi volím trochu něco jiného. Něco na pomezí. Třeba IT a energetika.
in reply to Jiří Eischmann

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𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖐 🇨🇿🇪🇺

@sesivany
Je to docela smutné uvědomění. Už dlouho melanchonicky vzpomínám na 80ky a 90ky. Ne vše bylo růžové, samozřejmě, ale mám pocit, že se opravdu hodně oblastí každých 15-20 let změní k horšímu. Slibovanou zlatou budoucnost lidstva na téhle planetě teda opravdu nečekám.
BTW mě by dnes alternativně zajímalo třeba embedded programování (v tom vidím stále potenciál), ale to už mi dávno ujel vlak.
@Jiří Eischmann
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