NepoRC 2.13.7 is starting up enbyOS
 * Mounting gender filesystem ...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/null, missing codepage or helper program
 * Setting pronouns to they/them ...
 * Setting timezone to UTC+2 ...
Starting about-me runlevel
 * Greeting user ...
Welcome to my page! (doasu.dev)
snac login: me
Password:
Last login: this week (localhost)
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This isn't a new thought at all, but it really just sucks so fucking much how depression and lack of self esteem is self-reinforcing

It's not about the product, it's about learning.

I just marginally improved one of my trivial little packages (that helps me a lot!).

I finally (finally) wrapped my head around the concept (and the syntax) of Lisp macros in #EmacsLisp. Finally.

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/org-ziggurat

#emacs

Liquid Glass for libadwaita

Benchmarking and migrating from #Minio [1] to #Garage [2] #S3 storage. Impressive!

https://datakhi.fr/en/blog/garage-migration-production-retour-experience/

[1] https://github.com/minio/minio
[2] https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

#SelfHost @homelab

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Results — 3-node cluster Workload MinlO (p50) Garage (p50) Garage gain Small file read (Q1) 904 ms 148 ms 6.1x Heavy client /1 month read (Q4) 1,620 ms 760 ms 2.1x 2-year read / 730 files (Q5) 33,463 ms 21,388 ms 1.6x Glob 43,860 files (Q10) 21137 ms 4,577 ms 4.6x 20-row write (W1) 750 ms 101 ms 7.4x 10 concurrent workers write (W3) 1,887 ms 201 ms 9.4x - Reads: Garage 1.6x to 6.1x faster - Writes: Garage 3x to 9.4x faster - Listing: Garage 4.6x faster - Observed container CPU: MinlO 82-124% on average, Garage 13-25% — a factor of 5 to 6 in Garage's favor

Who does something like that‽

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Image displaying network configuration details, including a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 and a router IP address of 10.128.128.128.

first injection done ​​

Addenum to my @LAS talk!

I don't think people realized that #flatpak next basically fixes everything. Browsers will use their own sandboxes, steam, password managers, etc.

And a new VPN portal. All of the razorburn goes away.

All we need to do is gather a bunch of #rust nerds.

I would like too amend my statement: "The gamer kids and the rust kids will save Linux, and the ops people will help them succeed."

Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️‍🌈Pride Month🏳️‍⚧️.

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#kdeAt30 #egg #Pride

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The egg from https://floss.social/@kde/116515643084742255 has burst open and Kori, KDE's non-binary 🏳️‍🌈 dragon, bursts into the world!

What is the term for something that is so hilariously over-engineered that it actually becomes *substantially worse* at the task (not to mention completely impossible to maintain)?

Asking for a friend.

That friend is me.

I am happy to announce that blocking *.bc.googleusercontent.com on my mailserver has reduced my spam count to almost zero. :)

#SelfHost #MailAdmin @homelab

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Daily report from my mailserver, showing a bunch of spam from bc.googleusercontent.com IP addresses being rejected.

EuroBSDCon 2026 Travel Grant Applications Now Open!

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that travel grant applications are now open for EuroBSDCon 2026, taking place September 9–13, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium.

📅 Application deadline: July 7, 2026

Learn more about eligibility, guidelines, and how to apply:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/grants/travel-grants/

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon2026 #OpenSource #FreeBSDFoundation

Czas na kolejną ankietę z serii "jak starymi osobami jesteście".

Czy jeździxyście pociągami na trakcji parowej?

Wyjaśnienie: przez "regularne" rozumiem pociąg, który przynajmniej sezonowo jeździ w ramach normalnego rozkładu jazdy, na normalnych trasach i na który nie trzeba kupować specjalnych biletów; a "okazyjny" to taki, który jest uruchamiany tylko w jakieś specjalne okazje i trzeba kupować specjalne bilety. Tak więc na-ten-przykład parowóz Poznań – #Wolsztyn, który jeździ tylko w soboty, ale przez cały rozkład i na normalnym bilecie, to opcja C.

#kolej #mikol

I love boat city #art #photography

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Interior of abandoned factory, everything is dark except the door frame in which one can see stairs, bricks, and rubble

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

Hot diggity dog.

The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

#OH lesbionage

Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement crowds as speakers wax rhapsodic about "AI" destroying their careers and their futures.

https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

piwo.sh once again was pretty awesome :3 Great talks; great people; new faces from fedi met; @hspoz would be a perfect tokamak thanks to its toroidal topology. I even spontaneously decided to do a lightning talk about eating ice cream wrong. What the hell a guy just drove onto a closing rail crossing while I’m writing this and I only just got back to boat city. Anyway; I had a lot of fun, come to piwo next year! Log onto piwo right now. Go to piwo. Dive into piwo. You can piwo.sh it. It’s on piwo.sh. Piwo has it for you. Piwo has it for you.

I don't know how I hadn't discovered this sooner, but the Gardenhouse project (https://gardenhouse.pinkro.se/) is everything I've ever wanted. The novel systemd utilities reimplemented in a distro (and kernel!) agnostic way and fully stand-alone. Their tmpfiles.d implementation is particularly impressive.

#GardenHouse #Linux

Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?

If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:

1. Gentoo is independent.

There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.

2. Gentoo aims to be secure.

We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.

3. Gentoo is made by humans.

We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.

4. Gentoo supports sustainability.

This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.

Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.

And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.

What do you appreciate in Gentoo?

While I’m down the QR code rabbit hole, here is another one.

Cover any corners to make the decoder latch onto the others.

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Two QR codes somehow mashed into one, rotated at different angles, and they still work, decoding to two different URLs.

TIL: The word "average" comes from Arabic "ʕawār", which means: fault, blemish, defect, flaw. And in Polish we have a word "awaria", coming from the same root, meaning failure.

New on #blog (this time with quotes from Fedi): "Why Gentoo?"

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/

"""
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.

To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have gotten smarter, and distributions have started optimizing more aggressively. Optimization-wise, I suspect your average Ubuntu package with generic optimizations may be no slower than the equivalent Gentoo package fine-tuned for your CPU. And if it’s not, then it probably won’t make a real difference anyway.

There’s much more to Gentoo than that. Yes, some of it comes from building from source: the flexibility. But a lot of it comes from the wider Gentoo philosophy, the philosophy that brought us all together. The idea that Gentoo is the distribution we’re making for ourselves and people who enjoy Gentoo. So if I were to make a few arguments for Gentoo, I’d focus on that. And this is what I’d like to do here.
"""

Every now and again I get asked why I use Gentoo, and I usually say that it's the perfect OS for me, or that does what I want it to do. (Though, sometimes I go on rambling for hours... )
I think that this article conveys the point of Gentoo really well ( much better than I do :p ), so if you're curious, give it a read!

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116650337504283427
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116554856666136859

Huge thank you to the Gentoo community for their exceptional work

i hate x11 (the protocol) so hard, like excuse me what the fuck:

      tmp_name = g_ascii_strdown (dev->name, -1);
      if (strstr (tmp_name, " pad"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TABLET_PAD;
      else if (strstr (tmp_name, "wacom") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "pen") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "stylus") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "eraser"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_PEN;
      else if (!strstr (tmp_name, "mouse") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "pointer") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "qemu usb tablet") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "spice vdagent tablet") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "virtualbox usb tablet") &&
               has_abs_axes (display, dev->classes, dev->num_classes))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TOUCHSCREEN;
      else if (strstr (tmp_name, "trackpoint") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "dualpoint stick"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TRACKPOINT;
      else
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_MOUSE;

what do you mean this is how you recognize the type of an input device?

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that devs are hard at work polishing Plasma 6.7 due to be released on the 16th of June.

Annoying bugs, like a crash when a monitor was quickly switched off and on again, or being unable to recover a window you have dragged off the edge of a screen, are being solved to make sure your experience with your upcoming desktop environment is smooth and pleasant.

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-beta-2-released/

#KDEAt30 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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A screenshot of Plasma 6.7 showing the Discover software manager, Falkon web browser, and the System Monitor app.

spot #photography #janacore #architecture

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A minimalist photo of a modernist building corner, it is beige coloured, sharp corners and dark dark grey blinds. The sky above is pale blue. A street lamp stands infront of the building, towering it, facing down the corner, like a spotlight

some recent IR experiments with a 720nm long-pass filter. I like this, it's dramatic and has it's own neat characteristic, buut I will probably mostly adhere to colour IR photography, I enjoy that a bit more #photography

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a tall, monochrome photo of a hill sloping up to two trees. The foliage of the trees is bright white, while the sky above is dark. The lawn up there has dark shaded and mildly grey spots

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a monochrome composition of many young trees on a lawn, their foliage is bright white, the lawn bright grey. the shaded areas are dark. The sky above is very dark, except for a sole spot, the moon

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a wide shot of a building overgrown by plants. the photo is monochrome, the foliage bright white, the building, sky and shade contrasty dark

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a photo up a buildings corner. it is grey against a grey sky, rather flat in profile. ontop of the buildings a few trees reach into the sky, their foliage is bright white

Amazon Basics New Glenn Rocket Booster Usable for Men Women Outdoor Explosion Space Lift Heavy Lift Satellite Multifunction

hey-ho! i have a weird suspicion that in the perspective of 2-3 months i’ll be actively looking for a job (so not YET, but with how the market is looking like, I prefer to announce myself ahead of time)

are YOU looking for…

• a system administrator (linux, a tad rusty at windows server, learning OpenBSD and NetBSD)?
• a network administrator (touched too many vendors’ tech to list, implemented IP stacks for shits and giggles, helped run an AS)?
• a technical writer?
• a digital archivist?
• someone who knows WAY TOO MUCH about shell scripting?
• (this list is incomplete)

if so, then please get in touch! CV available upon request. part time / flexible hours preferred, I want enough funds to stay afloat, not to get rich (read: i’m exceptionally cheap) #GetFediHired

It is my 3rd month of running #snac #snac2 instance. I wanted to share a few words about how awesome this software is.

Few points that make snac icredibly good for my usecase are:

• No database needed - means easy migration for me


• No javascript - not a big fan of JS


• No cookies - so users are not tracked


• It only stores locally data about users on the local instance it doesnt download stuff from instances it federates with


• Extremely low resource usage

After 3 month of posting (2 active users and 3 semi active users) my data dir is ~500MB and memory usage is ~200MB
it means i can keep running it on my infrastructure without even thinking too much about load

@grunfink@comam.es thanks for such a awesome piece of software 🩷🩷🩷