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

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 🩷🩷🩷

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

An item of curiosity...

As a kid, did you grow up around guns?

Gdyby ktoś chciał się jutro sfederować, planuję być na #piwo2026 od rana jakoś do 12. Może jeszcze raz wpadnę przed 16, żeby zaliczyć trochę nostalgii, o ile będzie mi się chciało raz jeszcze jechać.

Superbooth weekend (feat. Parkeisenbahn Wuhlheide)

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people walking before the sunset on a runway at Tempelhofer Feld

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from the inside of Wuhlheide Parkeisenbahn onto a sports yard

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stupid selfie from below, I'm wearing a pink Winterbloom shirt

campus life :3

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Der Mond steht über dem vom Sonnenuntergang halb golden beleuchteten TU Hauptgebäude Dach mit der DK0TU Clubstation. Die Antennen sind aufgrund der Schließung heruntergefahren.

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Audimax ohne Beleuchtung. An der Decke sind farbige Lichter

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Bus am Ernst Reuter Platz, mit Tulpen bewachsene Verkehrsinsel und Flaggen im Hintergrund

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Mit Staub gefüllter Gang, durch den Baustellenbeleuchtung scheint. Zwei Personen laufen durch eine Tür, aus der Licht scheint.

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Motorrad über einer Durchfahrt geparkt

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Studierende warten vor dem Einlass zum Unikino, im Vordergrund ein Eimer zum auffangen von Wasser, das von der Decke tropft. Auf dem Eimer ist ein Sticker mit der Aufschrift "Technisch unter Wasser" und einem versinkenden TU Berlin Logo

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Projektplakat zum TU Mathegebäude. Der Vandalismus, der zur Schließung des einen Flügels geführt hat, wird als Paper zitiert

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U-Bahn Werbung, "KI kann rechnen, malen, diskutieren" ist durchgestrichen und "Kann gar nix" daneben geschrieben

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HFT Gebäude, Elemente aus Stahl reflektieren den grauen Himmel

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Bänke im inneren des Chemiegebäudes, eine Palme steht auf Schachbrettboden

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Aperol Spritz ohne Alkohol vom TU Sommerfest

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pinke Rhododendron Blüten

You wouldn't NixOS a payphone

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A decommissioned Polish payphone, its screen replaced with a touch screen, showing a NixOS login screen

Hello, world!

We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.

More info here:

https://wikiworkersunited.org

And we welcome the community to express support here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

#Introduction

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/

orchid ~ # rc-service agetty.ttyS0 status
 * status: started since 2026-05-28 20:26:12
 * command line: /sbin/agetty -a root --noclear ttyS0 linux 
 * pid: 1695
 * memory: 7.3MiB
 * cgroup: /openrc.agetty.ttyS0
 *      1694 supervise-daemon agetty.ttyS0 --start --pidfile /run/agetty.ttyS0.pid --respawn-period 60 /sbin/agetty -- -a root --noclear ttyS0 linux
 *      1695 /bin/login -f --
 *      1702 -bash
 *      1745 /sbin/openrc-run /etc/init.d/agetty.ttyS0 status
 *      1746 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /etc/init.d/agetty status

hate how constricting it feels to use windows

There are only two weeks left until the final release of Plasma 6.7 lands on your computer, and developers still need your help to squash the remaining bugs.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.91/

Install it from your distro's unstabled/testing repos and submit your feedback to

https://bugs.kde.org

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Konqi chases a flying bug across the Plasma 6.7 desktop.

the 7 deadly sins

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a list of tabs: - Violence - Drugs - Sex and Nudity - Language - Money - Social - XML

It's only called "Agile" if it comes from the Agile region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling chaos with a standup meeting.

Finally found a good photo of my Dad and I, getting ready to roam the neighborhood on Halloween night 1993.

Right before we put our masks on!

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Two men in bulky clothes for a cool Detroit night. One has a bright white face, a tongue that reaches below his chin, bulging eyes that look in different directions, and a shock of nasty black hair. The other's face is more greenish, black lips, scraggly silver hair, and a black cap. Yes, those are our real faces. Pinky swear. There's reasons I don't post selfies, after all!

more hetzner price increases oh my god bruh

changing its legal name to [object Object]

argh can't believe thermia let shitty.systems expire. it used to be a 301 to oracle.com

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a screenshot of a discord message sent by Tessie: a link to shitty.systems, but the embed shows that it's for oracles website

Is there any demand for this hypothetical #sourcehut feature?

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Screenshot of a git repository on SourceHut's access control page, showing a new "generative AI controls" section which offers a number of features which prevent AI models from being trained on your source code, at the expense of usability.

on today's episode of "why making a tree farm next to a cobblestone generator is not a good idea"

whoever hosts http://letsdecrypt.org, I thank you

i’m close to renaming pl-fe but it would be another variation on my name, like I did with Nicolex. however i’m not a fan of naming things after myself as i’m a shy autistic person, but also i’m a developer so i’m terrible at naming stuff

“Move fast and break things.”

The things are you and me, our habitat, human rights, and democracy.

god forbid women do anything

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screenshot from chainsaw man manga angel devil saying "you're girlfriends's killing too many people"