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

Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_inbox_collection is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because it seems to be used for harrasing people.

Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_history is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because archived history files don't reflect reality after posts are deleted or modified (they always have been an ugly kludge).

Changed default: in previous versions, posts with a scope of unlisted were shown in public pages and RSS feeds. Now, they are no longer shown. If you want to get back to previous behaviour, use a new toggle in the User Settings section (see snac(1) for more information).

New admin configuration option: if the purge_static value is set to true in server.json, each user's static directory is explored and those files there that are no longer attached to any post or referenced anywhere are deleted. See snac(8) for more information about those cases where you may not want to enable this option.

Allow serving files from subdirectories of the static/ subdirectory (contributed by la_ninpre).

Minor tweak to webfinger code to handle Hubzilla's peculiarities.

Fixed a search case where URLs to GotoSocial statuses were misidentified as accounts.

Accounts that follow you are now marked with a thumb-up emoji, because followers are adorable people.

Fixed some account export errors.

Fixed an incorrect hash in post links.

Show an account's location link in the people page, if they have one.

Mastodon API: Fixed hashtags loosing the link after editing a post, minor tweak in access token processing (contributed by trondd555).

Drop usage of PATH_MAX (contributed by sergiodj).

New Polish translation (contributed by kpm).

Updated German and Czech translations (contributed by zen and pmjv).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

Link: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244434

LOL

The reports may throw cold water on the bets tech’s biggest firms have placed on the technology. While some cling to the promise of an AI “renaissance” or “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing or augmenting human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied. That echoes what Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently said in an interview with Axios.

“For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” he said.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Just in time for #ohs2026 the research group I'm working at published our design, including the firmware I've been working on for the past year.
codeberg.org/beecon

Come by and say hi, I'm on shift duty at our assembly right now :3

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displays explaining the BEECON project and a plexiglass box containing our fully assembled model

I wish more modern software was like #snac2 (:

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

After months of testing, weeks of writing, here is finally my new full Linux install guide: "Interim Install Guide: KDE Neon User Edition for a professional digital painter workstation": https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1145/interim-install-guide-kde-neon-user-edition-for-a-professional-digital-painter-workstation

Everything about Drawing Tablet, Color Management and Calibration/Profiling on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and all to survive the packaging mess with eg. built-in tutorial to revert version of Flatpak, scripts to beta-test Krita, and more!

The most complete article I ever published!

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A photo of my workstation, three display: one of them is a drawing tablet with a display. On the screen: while coloring in Krita the character Litchee the Pink Fairy of my weekly comic series Mini Fantasy Theater. My cat, a red tabby, look at the camera while comfortably sited on his pillow, disposed strategically on the side of my desk for him to not sleep on my keyboard.

CC: @Vive_Levant@masto.bike @2tout2rien@piaille.fr

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"Complaint about Golang type system - by a Haskell compiler maintainer from Glasgow 3000 BCE"

In around two weeks I’m migrating from iOS to a postmarketOS phone. Please leave app suggestions, I’m definitely going to need them!

Waydroid is… fine, but not preferred Please avoid android apps unless it’s something that is like confirmed to work well on waydroid, is proprietary or something so has no alternatives or something like that. I’m not launching waydroid to listen to music, to read my e-mails or to use xmpp.

Some examples of what I’m looking for, probably for Plasma Mobile:

1. Is there like… LibreOffice Mobile or something? To substitute the iWork suite?
2. Apple Music clients
3. Something self-hosted to substitute Siri, with ability to set timers and stuff
4. A reminders app that can sync with a caldav server
5. Is there a port of GadgetBridge for Linux?
6. I’ll probably make my own water logging and HealthKit-alternative app/“protocol” if that’s not a thing yet, but less work is less work if that exists
7. A XMPP client, preferably with spaces support
8. Immich client (preferably with some form of caching for recent photos)
9. Bitwarden client
10. HomeAssistant client
11. E-mail client
12. These will probably go on waydroid, but: WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and Signal clients
13. Some kind of map app, maybe with live traffic data?
14. Some kind of backup wizzard to my NAS, tho I’ll probably just make some rsync scripts
15. A better keyboard than Plasma Mobile’s default

And also just anything y’all find useful in your daily life with a postmarketOS daily driver, I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of stuff here.

I know some of those exist for desktop Linux, but I’m obviously looking for stuff made with phones in mind (so like… apps made for gnome should be automatically fine maybe?)

(Also, has anyone managed to get nix’s system-manager to work on postmarketOS? There’s no way I’m configuring all of this by hand every time I need to flash it lmao)

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Linux

If you run a peertube instance and have not patched in the past 4 hours, you are way behind and likely have been compromised. The latest patch will help clean up the mess.

See here: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.1.8

I made a thing! Or rather, ported a thing? It's oneko, but usable on a KDE Wayland session. That's basically it!

https://codeberg.org/snowkat/koneko
https://git.2ki.xyz/snow/koneko

It's not a 1:1 port of oneko-sakura, but I wanted to replicate the logic and customization where possible.

There are some features I still want to add, and I'm sure there's some bugs (please report them on the repo if you find them!). But if you want oneko chasing your cursor around your desktop and you use KDE, it does that!

info on the github breach appears to only be available on xitter 🙄 , I fished it out for you.

#github

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post from github on May 20th, 2026: We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories. Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately. Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far.

We regret to inform you that yet another GitHub attack is underway—this time compromising GitHub Actions with infostealer scripts.

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/5600-github-accounts-compromised-in-megalodon-attack/490

#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN

@cR0w

You're being kind. I use

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://ash-speed.hetzner.com/10GB.bin [L,R=308]

How I build my Minecraft bases

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A stairway that's entirely straight covering over 10 floors.

a terrifying interaction at the ongologist: I ask a question, he opens up chatgpt and asks the same question to it, in front of me. Lets the phone talk back and then repeats what the phone said.

bro i could've done that myself. what are you here for

If I understand correctly, they're using this module in particular:
https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/nam-shub-of-enki

I also found a 'tutorial' for iocaine, which you might find useful:
https://winnerwind.in/tutorials/self-host/iocaine

CC: @cadusilva@bolha.one

"Computer fun is inversely proportional to number of investors."

- HN comment

now thats what I call abuse of the qr code format

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a QR code styled to look like a public transport map which supposedly should still scan

Ciekawa interpelacja w Sejmie RP, a wśród pytań:

"6. Czy Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji rozważa utworzenie rządowej instancji platformy #Mastodon, wzorem rozwiązań wdrożonych przez Komisję Europejską, Niemcy i Holandię, jako oficjalnego kanału komunikacji administracji państwowej, zmniejszającego uzależnienie od komercyjnych platform społecznościowych? Jeśli tak, to kiedy? Jeśli nie, to z jakich powodów?"

Ja myślę, że w końcu powstanie, a Wy?

Co nie znaczy, że politycy odejdą z X.

Całość:
https://sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/InterpelacjaTresc.xsp?key=DTEBLS

There's something extremely satisfying about this conversation:

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r/audioengineering u/InevitablePay3806 Why is there a resonance at 15.5kHz in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer? It's around -70dB, so not audible I think. As far as I know its a great mix and master, so I'm curious about why is it there, and why they leave it in there. Also if my eyes aren't deceiving me, it goes throughout the song. | know, its not a big deal at all, I'm just asking for if anyone has an idea about it EvilPowerMaster There was likely a CRT TV on in the studio. It was recorded in England, so PAL, which means a flyback transformer operating at 15.625kHz.

I keep seeing a lot of advice for writers saying "don't use this, don't use that" because it will show up as AI written.

I hate it. It makes me worried. A lot of the "AI" traits in writing overlap with storytelling language. Spoken language.

When I write, as a storyteller, I use em dash when I would take a breath or a pause on stage, instead of finishing a thought. I use triple adjectives because in spoken word they add to the rhythm.

1/2

#storytelling #AI #StorytellingPSA #writing

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116573743512232707

Temat weryfikacji wieku online jest ważny, wpis na blogasku awansował więc na artykuł w OKO.press:
https://oko.press/weryfikacja-wieku-dzieci-w-social-mediach-nie-ma-bezpiecznego-sposobu

Weryfikacja wieku dotyczyć będzie każdego, nie tylko dzieci.
Jej implementacja wymagać najpewniej będzie smartfona z systemem jednego z duopolistów.
Katalog stron nią objętych będzie z czasem rozszerzany.
Nawet najlepiej zaimplementowana dalej będzie problemem dla prywatności.
I będzie wymagać filtrowania Internetu, kontroli aplikacji, i zamkniętych systemów operacyjnych.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 » 🌐 2026-05-14
@rysiek@mstdn.social

Nie ma weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu:
https://rys.io/pl/183.html

Weryfikacja wieku online jest problemem wysoce nietrywialnym. Jest też po prostu złym pomysłem.

Nawet z najlepszym, najbardziej chroniącym prywatność systemem, weryfikacja wieku nadal będzie pomagała identyfikować nas w sieci.

I wreszcie: nie da się wdrożyć skutecznej weryfikacji wieku bez filtrowania Internetu. A ten temat w Polsce wałkowaliśmy już tak wiele razy, że naprawdę powinniśmy wiedzieć lepiej.

#Polska

I've done the right thing and it's going to cause pain.

#Gentoo Distribution Kernel configs are now hosted entirely on git.gentoo.org rather than GItHub. If you don't use Gentoo mirrors, you may be hitting 502s thanks to our LLM overlords now. If you use Gentoo mirrors, you may be hitting 404s if they hit 502s while trying to fetch from our Infra 🤷.

@gyptazy
Except that we write software primarily to solve human problems: to build a building, manage money, buy or sell goods. What does AI know about real human problems, not in the past, but now and in the future? How can we guarantee that the code we write follows our needs and respects the law?

And if AI messes up, who is responsible? Because when global, massive, automated systems mess up, they mess up badly.

The current state of password managers:

Bitwarden [1]
Vaultwarden [2]
KeePassXC [3]
1Password [4]
Proton [5]

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down
[2] "A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository" (Claude)
[3] https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/
[4] https://1password.social/@1password/116569353856438624
[5] Generally speaking about the company and also: "a user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository" (Claude) in Proton Pass Github.

This is your official notice that we'll be making a major security release for Sharkey on the 20th of May, 2026, between

2026-05-20T13:00:00.000Z

and

2026-05-20T15:00:00.000Z

. Prepare to update immediately upon release. If you are unable to update your instance at the given time, take it offline before the release.

https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/