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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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

“The thing that made open source maintenance joyful was that someone cared enough about your work to try to improve it. You mentored them. They learned. The code got better. The community grew. That's the social contract.

AI slop doesn't add work. It replaces human connection with mechanized noise.”

https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/

You can now buy a printed version of Entropy’s Rotoscope #1, available in A4 and A5 format.

Get it either on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/0850ff2a1d or send an email to eigengrau <at> kamiokan <dot> de or just meet me on some event, I will take these to cebula camp and c3 (by c3 I hopefully will also bring issue 2).

#art #comic #unix_surrealism #kamiokande #entropysrotoscope

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Entropy's Rotoscope issue 1 comic print, in A4 and A5

Welp, the day finally came: my unmaintained gtk4 theme became unusable.

Is there even any maintained alternative to Adwaita left? I just cannot normal Adwaita, I absolutely hate it's colors, broken configuration over dconf, and general appearance :/

This Week in Plasma: UI and Performance Improvements

blogs.kde.org/2026/08/22/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-performance-improvements

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was heavy on improvements for both the user interface and also performance, helping Plasma 6.8 to shape up quite nicely: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 When using the system in a language other…

So what RSS reader are you folks using on your desktop computer?

the internet is corrupting us

dear fedifriends. help me find this post because my instance search is slow and times out:

pronouns in BIOS, with an image showing like, custom coreboot firmware or something, with pronouns actually in the BIOS screen

systemd-networkd is infinitely less of a mess than NetworkManager

The three genders

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Autobahn bathroom. Arrow left: male. Arrow right: female. Center: door with a lightning.

Does anyone still use #Snac software?

#Akademy2026 will be a special edition of Akademy to celebrate its 30th birthday!

Join us in marking this milestone and celebrating the people who made it possible: https://akademy.kde.org/2026/register/

Curious about what else is planned for KDE's 30th Anniversary? Check it out here: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

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Graphics with text about Akademy

Things that have started at Akademy:

💙 Friendships
💙 KDE projects
💙 Crazy ideas that somehow worked
💙 Conversations that lasted until 2 AM

What will you start at #Akademy2026? Join us and find out!

https://akademy.kde.org/2026/register/

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A group of KDE Community members during a day trip.

RE: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@mkljczk/117116371524017908

made my first PR to snac2, also improved snac compatibility in nicolium

nicole mikolajczyk [she/her] » 🌐 2026-08-18
@mkljczk@social.hackerspace.pl

liroy liroy ten jebany madafaka może mi skoczyć na snac2 zwierzaka

sometimes delayed trains lead to fantastic photos from the platform.. #photography #janacore #architecture

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A photo up a train platform from an escalator. The bottom half is filled by the escalator in the shade. Most of the image is filled by shaded roofs of the platforms, industrious and clean. There’s a sole signal to the left. Inbetween the roofs there’s a bright sky and a massive silver building rising up

didn't know they changed the logo

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a verified Facebook page called just 'LGBTQ' with Meta logo as the avatar

Toward the Light.

#photography #japan #nature #art #artwork #flower #flowers #花 #写真 #beautiful #beauty #bloomscrolling #landscape #scenery #fantasy #oldlens #filmlike #vintage #retro #ephemeral #healing #calm #lightroom #light #sunlight #oldlens

the piano has a metronome that resets when my phone decides to kill the piano app

> 'XD’ is a commonly used Polish emoticon. Different capitalisations and the number of xs and ds influence the meaning. It was adopted from the West’s usage as an expression akin to 😆 when Poland properly embraced the internet in the 2000s, but unlike in the West it didn’t slide out of fashion and adopted more general, varied usage among Poles. Sometimes it is also used as a noun.

https://fedi.vale.rocks/objects/d1dd659a-53b8-4815-b850-04731f602a1d

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a very pink picture with a frog looking at the meme peruser. text says: 'I am addicted to saying "XD", ppl think I'm cringe but I'm just 😭 Polish 😭'

Question to the people who fully (or most of the time) work from home: how do you keep going with your personal projects after work? Do you have another computer on a different part of the house, or do you roam with your laptop, or you don't care and you just sit inside the same four walls most of your day and evening? If something else, please comment.

I personally do everything in one space, so there are some periods of time when my projects or my home lab maintenance lag behind, simply because I don't want to sit in that office anymore. How about you?

#HomeLab #SysAdminLife #WorkFromHome @homelab

im glad i didnt fall for the codeberg meme

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

GitHub going down is like a snow day.

I was done with my hours today anyway 😅

We use GitLab at work - but the build still pulls down packages from GitHub ofc so... 🤷

When #GitHub UI is so broken that you can't mark a pull request ready to review when merge status can't be loaded, so you need to actually do that via API.

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline over decades. I know exactly why this is happening. These big providers send most self hosted emails to spam. Then, managing self hosted email itself requires a good amount of technical sysadmin knowledge. Top reasons I think:

1 IP/domain reputation
2 Cloud/VPS IP reputation
3 Misconfigured SPF, DKIM, or DMARC hurts deliverability.
4 Incorrect DNS setup
5 Spam-like sending patterns etc

https://labs.ripe.net/author/artem-berezin/two-providers-a-stubborn-plateau-and-a-very-long-tail-email-in-the-tranco-top-1m/

Dear EU, don't listen to #Google, kill the cookie banner now!

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Gru meme: Let's have ONE single cookie setting on browser level. Everyone gets easier privacy. Google objects. We're keeping cookie banners?

"Claude watermarks your code now."

Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

Well ouch.

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Screenshot of a post by someone named arahir: "i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

THIS IS WHY I SUBSCRIBE TO THE 9FRONT MAILING LIST
THIS SHIT ROCKS
SHOUTOUT THIS GUY

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hi everyone i made a 3d rendering filesystem for plan 9. it is composed of two parts: the filesystem proper, and the renderer backend. this is intended to replace /dev/draw for 3d programs. instead of interacting with a framebuffer and implementing its own renderer, the client writes meshes, objects, lights, textures, among other 3d things, to the filesystem, and lets it cook the scene.

らくがき

Zazwyczaj na Niebezpieczniku informujemy o smutnych sprawach, ale dziś informujemy o sprawie wyjątkowo smutnej. Wczoraj odszedł Paweł "kravietz" Krawczyk, jeden z pionierów polskiego IT security i prawdziwy hacker w dobrym tego słowa znaczeniu.

Paweł zawsze chętnie dzielił się wiedzą, inspirował setki osób i swoimi działaniami oraz kodem realnie wpłynął na stan polskiego cyberbezpieczeństwa. Był też mocno zaangażowany w budowę krakowskiej społeczności bezpieczników i aktywnie udzielał się w sieci. Lata temu na stronie ipsec.pl, ostatnio także na Twitterze i Mastodonie.

Pawła będzie mogli pożegnać 21 sierpnia o 13:00 w kaplicy na cmentarzu w Batowicach (ul. Reduta w Krakowie).

PS. Pracowałem z Pawłem ramię w ramię przez kilka lat. Przegadaliśmy wiele wieczorów i nocy. Przez ostatnie 20 (!) lat dyskutowalismy o różnych tematach. Jego spojrzenie na wiele kwestii było nieszablonowe i dające do myślenia. Będzie mi Pawle brakować tych skłaniających do poszerzenia horyzontu rozmów.

dpd timeout
ipsec down

Do zobaczenia po drugiej stronie tunelu Kravietz!

-- Piotrek

i came across the globaleyez's screenseal tool, which claims (on the cws page) to capture "authenticated, tamper-proof, and admissible in court" screenshots

a quick investigation shows that this is not true! (from my personal understanding, i am not making a legal claim here)

first of all, you can *intentionally* tamper with the evidence - the screenshots are captured client-side, so there is nothing preventing you from using the "inspect element" browser functionality to change the content on the page. in a similar vein, the extension's rendering code itself could be modified to watermark any date/title/source a malicious party desires.

but what if the "tampering" here is referring to the site operator? it is also trivial to detect the screenseal tool capturing a page and change it dynamically (see video demo). in addition, you can detect whether the extension is installed and active in the first place.

but imo the worst part here is that the tool straight up lies about the timestamp being from google - looking at the extension code in chrome's built-in devtools, we can see that the "timestamp from" string is hardcoded and the timestamp is actually retrieved with the javascript "new Date" constructor. this means that you can fake the timestamp by just changing the system date yourself.

this is kind of really bad because if you're using this tool in good faith, relying on it to fetch the correct timestamp from an external server, you may end up *accidentally* producing misleading evidence if your system time is set incorrectly.

idk, this tool actually seems *fine* for what it is - a free website screenshot tool with an embedded timestamp and url, and seemingly good motives (i didn't find any telemetry/tracking/subscriptions, it probably exists to get their own brand in front of more (global) eyes)

i think these mistakes are likely a result of miscommunication between marketing/management/developers, i've emailed globaleyez about these findings in hopes that they will update their claims and the timestamping logic to not be misleading - lets see how they respond

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chrome web store Why screenseal? screenseal is the ideal solution for the legally admissible preservation and verification of online content. Designed for compliance officers, legal teams, investigators, and brand-protection specialists, among others, screenseal captures online content with automatic timestamps (UTC or local), so every screenshot you take is authenticated, tamper-proof, and admissible in court. bottom of the page has a screenseal overlay: 2026-08-17 13:38:22 - Timestamp from google.de Title: screenseal - Chrome Web Store Source: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/screenseal/jmcjphdoabnpmefndchmahicmojchggd QR code that links to the source URL globaleyez logo

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Chrome Extensions page with screenseal open - the DevTools of the extension have been opened up and are showing that the "Timestamp from google.de" text is hardcoded and that the Date is actually just retrieved with the "new Date" JavaScript constructor.

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Time time is changed into the future in the computer's settings - August 20th. The screenseal tool watermarks the page as August 20th. A Google search on the side for "what is the time" displays the correct date - August 17th.

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI

RE: https://loops.video/v/hvWYLmfg_B

The AI graduation speech they didn’t show you at Tech Bro Bootlicker Central!

”Fuck AI!”

”College graduation speakers across America are telling you need to master AI for the future. I’m here to the mission of your generation is to destroy AI. Kill it!”

”I think your generation’s battle won’t be humans against AI. It’s gonna be people with substance vs people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s gonna be people with good taste vs tacky.”

Hear hear!! 🔥

darkcoffee8 » 🌐 2026-08-15
@darkcoffee8@loops.video

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

The subject of wizards and sex is a complicated one, but as has already been indicated it does, in essence, boil down to this: when it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

KDE is turning 30! 🎂

Celebrate with us at the #Akademy2026 social event with good food, drinks, music, and plenty of KDE birthday fun activities.

Let’s celebrate three decades of KDE together. 🎉

https://akademy.kde.org/2026/social-event/

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Graphics: Konqi with 30

HQ #photography #janacore #architecture

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A photo up a weird modern rounded building made of black glass and white structural elements. All corners are rounded, giving it an evil vibe

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A photo up a corner of the building. The sky above is white and blown out, the windows large, impenetrable.

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A photo of its entrance, it is menacing, tall.