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 is the third time this year that Quad9 is having issues with not resolving a legitimate domain, presumably due to their malware filter. Very unfortunate.

We now have experimental support for the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

Our initial 2025112500 release for these is available through our web installer or releases page on our staging site:

https://staging.grapheneos.org/install/web
https://staging.grapheneos.org/releases#devices

qemu-user-emu + binfmt misc is cursed:

❯ cat /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 10
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 25
model           : 33
model name      : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0xa201016
cpu MHz         : 1746.460
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
❯ file /nix/store/52017j1v7hn57p8j0gblsw80x6phd78k-coreutils-full-9.7/bin/coreutils
/nix/store/52017j1v7hn57p8j0gblsw80x6phd78k-coreutils-full-9.7/bin/coreutils: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /nix/store/cnw00vg7w28qsn4jc6vxbwlignc35w4n-glibc-2.40-66/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=99c70324c5cb1ba58465bf8d3d8fd84d302fc86c, for GNU/Linux 3.10.0, not stripped
❯ /nix/store/52017j1v7hn57p8j0gblsw80x6phd78k-coreutils-full-9.7/bin/coreutils --coreutils-prog=cat /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 10
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv8 Processor rev 0 (v8l)
BogoMIPS        : 100.00
Features        : fp asimd aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 sm3 sm4 asimddp sha512 sve asimdfhm dit uscat ilrcpc flagm sb paca pacg dcpodp sve2 sveaes svepmull svebitperm svesha3 svesm4 flagm2 frint svei8mm svef32mm svef64mm svebf16 i8mm bf16 rng bti mte mte3 sme smei16i64 smef64f64 smei8i32 smef16f32 smeb16f32 smef32f32 smefa64 sve2p1 sme2 sme2p1 smei16i32 smebi32i32 smeb16b16 smef16f16 mops hbc sveb16b16
CPU implementer : 0x00
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x051
CPU revision    : 0

I pozbyłem się mojego pseudo desktopu, teraz moim desktopem będzie to.

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Zamknięty laptop leżący na półce podparty rolką izolacji. Do laptopa wpięte są kable USB-C i HDMI.

Nowoczesny fork coreutils, który zastępuje przestarzałą odpowiedź "nie" — opcją "może później". I zapętla się, dopóki nie ulegniesz.

The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

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An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

when compiling C code, enable the -fPIE option to compile to Proto-Indo-European, for maximum compatibility with all CPU architectures developed on the Eurasian continent

Getting ready to install Mint.

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A laptop with a sprig of mint inserted in the USB slot. Thank you for clicking on my terrible joke.

A top recurring gripe is when revolutionary / aspirational / art / left projects direct their audience to participate in corpofascism. I get the arguments {I gotta make a living, go where the audience is, use the oppressors' tools against them} & I am not pure by any means. I currently use IG, YT, & Twitch (& Google & Apple)—but I aspire to escape them all. What bothers me when any lefty wholeheartedly justifies participation in corpofascism it reinforces the message that better isn't possible.

Dziś odkryłem, że #GitHub nie pozwala mi podejrzeć publicznego klucza SSH przypisanego do konta 🤦.

Cóż, zapewni eksperci od bezpieczeństwa z Microsoftu w akcji.

Agentic Al Use Case. Will safe billions.

The future is stupid

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LinkedIn Lunatic

For Halloween I’m dressing up as the scariest thing I’ve seen all year: packet loss on localhost

Today is 31 October 2025.

Twenty years ago today, on 31 October 2005, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich published a detailed description and technical analysis of First 4 Internet’s (F4I) XCP software, which he discovered had been secretly installed on his computer by a Sony BMG music CD.

The software was part of the CD’s digital component and automatically installed itself on Windows computers when the disc was inserted into a CD-ROM drive. A similar component for MacOS was blocked from automatic installation with Operating System confirmation prompts. The driver interfered with any attempt to rip audio CDs on that system and actively concealed itself to prevent detection or removal.

Russinovich compared XCP to a rootkit because of its covert installation and use of stealth techniques to hide its presence. He pointed out that the EULA made no mention of the software and argued that its behavior was illegitimate.

The security firm F-Secure agreed, stating: "Although the software isn't directly malicious, the rootkit hiding techniques it uses are exactly the same as those used by malicious software." Following public backlash, Symantec and other antivirus vendors added detection and removal for the rootkit, and Microsoft announced that it would include protection against it in its security updates.

XCP operated with high system privileges and contained numerous exploitable vulnerabilities, creating a serious security risk. That risk quickly became real: within weeks, several trojans and worms appeared that exploited flaws in the XCP software.

As the result of government investigations and class-action lawsuits, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements and a recall that affected about 10% of the affected CDs. It ceased the copy-protection efforts in 2007.

The Sony rootkit scandal only affected users that bought legitimate copies of music. Everybody who used Napster or Donkey to grab the MP3 was of course unaffected.

Sony has never apologized to its customers.

Timeline, in German:
https://netzpolitik.org/2005/rookit-sonys-digitaler-hausfriedensbruch/

Sony also produced, only one year later, the

https://www.engadget.com/2006-01-05-sony-vaio-xl2-digital-living-system.html

Like the XL1, the XL2 sports an HDMI video out, operation via wireless keyboard and remote, and an optional 200 CD/DVD changer for library management. Running Windows MCE 2005, the XL2 is harboring Intel Viiv inside

Sony also turned off the DRM-Servers for the Conect-Online Musicshop in March 2008, again fucking over all customers that paid for their content.

https://www.golem.de/0804/59229.html

In an interview 2012, Sony Music boss Edgar Berger said

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article13881492/Musikindustrie-Das-Internet-muss-frei-sein-nicht-umsonst.html

Das Internet ist für die Musikindustrie ein großer Glücksfall, oder besser gesagt: Das Internet ist für uns ein Segen.

"The Internet for us is a boon."

Whatever companies think, even today the only way to actually purchase content on the internet is to buy content without DRM, or buy content with removable DRM, downloiad and deDRM it immediately.

Have a media library. Make sure your stuff can use this media library. Back up your media library.

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Sony Logo Spoof "Sory" "seems to be the hardest word"

If you think #Gentoo was boring recently, I've been doing some stuff to make it more interesting. No need to thank me.

#FlexiBLAS: now default in order to break more ~arch systems
#FreePG: available as an alternative on ~arch, but dependencies need to be updated still to allow it more
#ZlibNG: started experimenting with it locally, flag still masked

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/2025-October/009275.html

yet another reason to feel good about daily-driving @kde . they’re not gonna throw us under the bus :)

🐈 🐕

The #Fairphone is very interesting, but it’s not available in any meaningful sense in the US, one of the most lucrative markets—if not the largest market—in the world.

With Google’s recent announcement that they will no longer be providing device trees for Pixel phones, my plan to switch from my now 4.5 year old 2020 iPhone SE2 to a Pixel running @GrapheneOS might be in some doubt. We need alternatives to Apple, Google, and Samsung that aren’t entirely controlled by the CCP/PRC.

DEC VAXstation soon™ at your local hackerspace

this is your regular reminder that people who prefer light mode have a fucking condition, it's called astigmatism, look it the fuck up instead of calling us psychopaths. jesus fucking christ it's not 2015 anymore grow up

microsoft will post "it's 2007 and u just got your vista PC" and then attach this image

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a windows vista desktop with an XP taskbar, windows 3.1 solitaire and internet explorer with youtube open

POTION SELLER PUBLIC LICENSE
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

THIS SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG FOR YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY SOFTWARE. IT'S TOO STRONG FOR YOU. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. YOU'D BETTER GO TO A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ASK, USER. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL A SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, LET ALONE A MAN. YOU NEED A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. NO ONE CAN. I CAN'T GIVE YOU MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE IS ONLY FOR THE STRONGEST BEINGS, AND YOU ARE OF THE WEAKEST.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial potions of the Software.

Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.

Would you "just block them"?

What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe them, follow them, share their lies?

What if this turns into real life abuse? If someone attacks you or your family?

This is what vulnerable minorities face because of badly-moderated social media:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

🙏 Please defederate threads.net or ask your server admin to do so.

#Threads

Them: “We should make open source sustainable”
Me: “Can I get paid for my work?”
Them: “Not like that!”

Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week we're releasing #Plasma6.5.

One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #FreeSoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Konqi and Katie, the KDE dragons, are happily coding, creating the next generation of bleeding edge user-friendly free software. Konqi is sitting in a chair working on a laptop, while Katie is at a Keyboard + monitor integrated into a rack, also developing awesome new software

I've been trying a new way to turn procrastination into getting stuff done,by making a list of chores and rolling a D20 to see what I have to do next. Playing with the pretty dice and the randomness of it all is easier for me at the moment than "just do it". I know this will only work for a bit, I'm learning that this is how my brain works, a few weeks from now I'll have to change it up and that's ok.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD @autistics

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A purple twenty sided dice, showing the number 8 upmost, lies in a silk lined dice box next to a blue silk dice bag with silver dragons on it. There's a spiral bound notebook under the dice box with a list of numbers that correspond to household chores like "Dishes", "Cook", "Vacuum"

Building the go module "forgejo.org" will never not be funny to me

what’s your favoourite game? mine is Processing Vulkan shaders (2%)