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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

@224e3397ebb18c07fceb66cf22f0e7212bf0603ffe67d80e016cb1913b9a1035 @f288a224a61b7361aa9dc41a90aba8a2dff4544db0bc386728e638b21da1792c We're partnered with a major Android OEM since June 2025 and they're working towards devices meeting all of our update and security requirements for 2027. There will be 7 years of support, hardware memory tagging and the rest of what we need. It wasn't possible to get it all done for 2026 but there will be an announcement about it in the near future.

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

live life to the fullest. write code that will make others go "well that shit (derogatory) couldn't have been written by an LLM".

Wrote a custom C++ engine to render raw WAD geometry directly to the DAC.

Pure vector output, 1D occlusion culling, no rasterization tricks.

Running on a MOTU M4.

.meow will be the first bottom level domain.

6,000 #curl stickers. 3 Kg.

Get yours at #FOSDEM

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6,000 curl stickers in six different variants

The whole situation⁰ around the mouse paste easter egg¹ is so, so ridiculous.

Let's make it into a meme!

#GNOME #Meme #X #easterEgg

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A meme that shows 2 panels, on the left, titled with "what GNOME wants" there is a light switch that is turned to "middlemouse paste off". On the right, titled "how some poeple frame it", there is a person who steals the light bulb and destroys it with a grinning face.

You! Yes, you, at #39C3 ! Come to our self-organized-session-talk thing!

“FAFO: How we stopped worrying and bought an Electron Microscope”

SoS Stage H, at 00:01 on day 3 (so in ~34 hours after this was posted).

More details: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/room/detail/sos-stage-h/

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A scanning electron microscope with a lucky cat on top of the column, the screens showing a zoomed in crystal. An overlaid "HEAVY MACHINERY" in 39c3 font.

@carl is at #39c3 today. Come and get some stickers!

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The KDE banner under a blue light.

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The KDE booth at #39c3 with stickers.

C3 stands for CheeseCake Congress

#39c3

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Two baking sheets of cheesecake. one of them is almost fully eaten.

Tramwaje Warszawskie osiągnęły zdolność podróży w czasie. A Wy we Wrocławiu jak tam, dalej codziennie wykolejenie? xd

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zrzut ekranu z aplikacji do planowania podróży - odjazd 10:10, przyjazd 8:08

What if.. what if we kissed by the digital calipers? 🥺⁠👉⁠👈

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Photo of some Mitutoyo digital calipers with two orange 3d-printed arms sporting finger guns to pointing to the measurement area. The device is calibrated to the finger additions and displays a 0.01mm gap being measured.

Perypetie z zespołem "wsparcia" mObywatela

TL;DR
Deweloperzy mObywatela nie zamierzają zapewniać wsparcia dla systemów bez usług Google.
Sama aplikacja działa, jednak uruchamia się z dużym opóźnieniem.

Jakiś czas temu postanowiłem zgłosić problem z działaniem aplikacji mObywatel. Zgłoszenie dotyczyło działania aplikacji na telefonie z Androidem bez zainstalowanych usług Google.

Zgłoszony problem polega na dwuminutowym opóźnieniu w otwieraniu aplikacji. Spowodowane jest to poprzez timeout przy nieudanej próbie odnalezienia usług Google w sysyemie. Do zgłoszenia oczywiście dołączyłem logi, na których widać czarno na białym, co jest powodem opisanego problemu.

Po dłuższym czasie i po wysłaniu ponaglenia dostałem pytanie o udzielenie dodatkowych informacji, tj. miałem podać m. in. swój PESEL.

W międzyczasie wsparcie uparcie pisało, że aplikacja musi być zainstalowana ze sklepu play. Wyjaśniłem, że tak właśnie jest w moim przypadku, a sklep i usługi zostały usunięte po instalacji mObywatela.

Przy okazji przyczepili się, że mam nieaktualną wersję aplikacji (tak długo odpowiadali, że wersja zdążyła się zdezaktualizowaclć 🤣)

Skończyło się na deklaracji:
"Nie planujemy zapewniać wsparcia dla systemów operacyjnych bez usług Google."

Pod linkiem znajdziecie plik tekstowy zawierający całą korespondencję.

https://wolnoscwkieszeni.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/mobywatel.txt
#mobywatel

commit 9e90019bed44a55bff6cdd8deabb51322568c640
Author: q66 <q66@chimera-linux.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 26 20:04:17 2025 +0100
    cbuild: add 'eepy' template option
    Help low energy no-output long running builds avoid getting killed
    by buildbot by meowing into the stdout every hour.
diff --git a/Packaging.md b/Packaging.md
index 5368df342..233e493fb 100644
--- a/Packaging.md
+++ b/Packaging.md
@@ -1816,6 +1816,11 @@ [...]
+* `eepy` *(false)* Sometimes a build gets low energy and doesn't output
+  anything in a few hours. That does not mean it will not finish however,
+  just gotta give it time. Apply to templates that are known to take
+  more than 4 hours to make cbuild meow to stdout every hour and prevent
+  our infrastructure from terminating the build.
[...]

we need to make chimera package management gayer so that every time you run apk, lunduke's blood pressure goes up

Companies spend a lot of money convincing us to trust them.

We^W Countries other than the US have government bodies regulating drug companies, because we can't trust them.

Tech spends the same "trust me" money, but has no regulatory oversight.

Can't blame folks outside tech for not understanding the risks. Blame the companies. Spread the story that the companies can't be trusted and that the cloud is a lie.

And in the name of Dog, back up your digital life on media you control!

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

My lazyweb friends, are there any deep-weirdness embedded-systems keeb weebs On Here? No disrespect to the switch-lube-and-QMK kit-bangers among us, but I've got a 512Kb STM32 here with 16MB of QSPI hanging off the side of it and the 4MB - yes, 4MB - of C I need to shim into this thing are refusing to be Inserted In The Usual Fashion so I think I need to talk to some of the serious perverts.

The highly popular and polished @kde desktop environment is having an end-of-year fundraiser. You can find their high-quality apps on Linux, Mac, and Windows. If you've got some cash to spare, consider donating and adopting an app!

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

#KDE #Fundraiser

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A badge of the KDE mascot "Konqi". Text is displayed around the character that says "I donated" and "KDE Fundraiser 2025"

Today we have Xaver Hugl on the show to talk about @kde future on Wayland, why they're dropping the X11 session and much more #Linux #KDE #OpenSource

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZgaUtqz2nU

Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/The-Future-Of-KDE-Plasma-Is-Wayland--Xaver-Hugl-e3c8jon

@fabio Your claims about Android and the Android Open Source Project are extremely misinformed. AOSP has not made any part of the cross-platform OS closed source. The only changes to what's published was specifically for Pixels. They still provide most of what they did before for Pixels.

A huge portion of the coverage of Android in tech media is inaccurate from people who don't understand it. Android releases were always developed behind closed doors and released as open source on launch day.

New on my #Gentoo blog: One #jobserver to rule them all

"""
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building multiple packages in parallel, but then we are risking overscheduling for packages that do take advantage of parallel builds.

Fortunately, there are a few tools at our disposal that can improve the situation. Most recently, they were joined by two experimental system-wide jobservers: #guildmaster and #steve. In this post, I’d like to provide the background on them, and discuss the problems they are facing.
"""

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/

Inevitable moment:

f4e4ddaf69337 dev-build/steve: is no longer simple

#Gentoo

@Setok @joshua @cyberlyra @fabio SailfishOS has been marketed through pretending AOSP and operating systems based on it aren't Linux. They've misrepresented what they offer as more open when their code is largely closed source. We have every right to address inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS from a company and their supporters. If people claim GrapheneOS is a dead end and worthless to promote products, why shouldn't we be welcome to respond to that with factual information about both OSes?

today is day 9 of our december zine giveaway! If $12 is a lot of money for you, you can use code DAY9 at checkout to get Bite Size Command Line for free.

It's a quick reference for how to use grep, sed, and all of my favourite basic Unix command line tools: https://wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-command-line/

more on the december zine giveaway here: https://wizardzines.com/advent/

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Bite Size Command Line, by Julia Evans - Command line terms illustrated with colourful drawings of foods, such as a tart for “tar” and grapes for “grep”.

been playing dwarf fortress a bunch lately (mostly as stress relief lol) and my favourite fucking quirk of this game is that wagons used by caravans to transport goods are, by limitations of the game, living beings. they can go insane and die, leaving "wagon wood" which is technically wood but also creature remains

A question one could ask is whether there could be a way in Forgejo/${FORGE} to keep those synchronised...
You can already use workflows for that, though.

CC: @ross@rossabaker.com

Willoughby: the rat, the myth, the legend.

I asked him what his legend is, and he just yawned at me. Apparently I'm supposed to know? #petRats #rats

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cute pet rat lounging in a hammock

SailfishOS objectively has extremely poor privacy and security compared to the Android Open Source Project. It's a fact.

On the contrary, in my opinion it is detrimental to your argument, because that statement not only means nothing, but is also often used by people who don't have any meaningful evidence and reach for this to falsely 'reinforce' their position.

I suggest omitting statements like these, and just presenting information supporting your claim. (Like you already do :))

Anyways, just thought I'd share.
Keep up the great work!!