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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

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!!

https://lyra.horse/antonymph/

i appreciate how this is going to break in 2 years (and it already is on firefox) but it was made regardless. a unique kind of flash player :3

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

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.

Agentic Al Use Case. Will safe billions.

The future is stupid

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LinkedIn Lunatic

i just dressed as i’d like to look like every day, because today is the only day i’m not gonna get randos complaining about it

CC: @famfo@frogs.lgbt @merlin@kif.rocks

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