Only Linux users will understand it. 😆

#linux

So I just rebuilt my personal #python venv in my home directory on my #linux daily driver laptop. I did pip freeze > requirements.txt to capture all the packages I had installed. Then I took away all the ==a,b.c versioning so I'd install the latest compatible version.

Then I ran uv pip install -r requirements.txt. This blew me way:

$ time uv pip install -r requirements.txt 
Resolved 250 packages in 2.38s
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built py-cui==0.1.6
      Built docopt==0.6.2
      Built email-normalize==2.0.0
      Built ecos==2.0.14
... bunch of lines...
real    0m14.028s
user    0m11.605s
sys     0m4.131s

Wow. 250 packages in 14 seconds.

« Sacrebleu ! »

#Linux #France

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Statcounter desktop Operating System market share for France, between July 2025 and August 2025 Linux jumped from 4.56% to 11.46% and Windows goes from 70.42% to 63.84%.

tag2upload in the first month of Debian forky via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/4v5sqd #linux
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20143.html

Hi #PitchYaGame check me out 🙂

https://yphil.itch.io/megabatar

#megabatar #godot #emacs #game #IndieDev #gamedev #retrogaming #emulation #gaming #linux #floss

bsd-user-4-linux project via @wezm https://lobste.rs/s/y8fio7 #freebsd #linux
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/qemu_l4b/

Debian 12 installer promotes US/* time zones https://lobste.rs/s/okz9ir #databases #devops #linux
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/12/tz/

Pass: Unix Password Manager https://lobste.rs/s/lmdyti #linux #security
https://www.passwordstore.org/

My mom has just bought a brand new laptop. Some flashy (albeit low mid-range) AMD "AI" CPU with 6 cores and 16 Gb RAM. It came with #Windows 11 plus extra #Lenovo bloat, and I'm absolutely disgusted and infuriated to say my **14 year old** laptop runs snapper with #Linux. I'll have to get educated on how to debloat Win11 because god DAMN.

New poll:

I am a tech moron (TM). Should I attempt to install #Linux on my old unused laptop to learn something new and familiarize myself with how it works?

@MichaelRoss

Yet another treacherous move by #Microsoft ! They have always tried to cheat their way out of competition.

Remember tattoed hard disks ? #Secureboot ? #UEFI ? #OOXML ?

Their technology is so bad that they have maintained their monopoly only through treacherous technical and commercial pratices. Always.

Erasing the #Linux boot at each #Windows update is yet another exemple of foul play.

#FLOSS #BoycottMicrosoft

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD

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Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this: Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone... Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS. MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows. Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux. Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.

Any suggestions for sourcing quality USB flash drives?

I keep running into flash drives that report — say — 32GB to the system but, in fact, have a capacity that is in fact far less. I'm also wary of malware from the factory issues. Thanks!

#Linux #Windows #sysadmin #cybersecurity #askfedi

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

@landley @krutonium @OS1337 @geerlingguy sadly your experience re: #Rust isn't unique and I think a lot of said evangelists really sour the languague for so many…

• Obviously #HectorMartin & #AsahiLina ( @AsahiLinux ) are noteworthy exceptions, but their work was re: #Apple's proprietary #ARM-based #SoC's…

I do think that #Linux's main design philosophy (clean, readable #C code) should've been kept stronger as it enables easier #maintenance.

• Noone prevents i.e. a "#Freax"-Kernel that reimplements Linux's #ABI|s and #API|s from being made.

@krutonium @landley @geerlingguy IDK but I also didn't knew that #32bit #ARM (i.e. #AMRv5r11 as used by the #RaspberryPi #Pi0 / #Pi0W) is out of patent protection...

• I started @OS1337 as an effort to build a "legacy-friendy" minimalist #toybox + #musl / #linux distro as a basis for #firmware (i.e. for a #minimalist #embedded system like an applianced "#SSH-#Terminal" in critical IT)…

Killing non-#64bit support in Linux would be a death sentence for many #EmbeddedSystems.

• And I don't think they can all be migrated to i.e. #NetBSD, as it already took huge efforts to get them away from #MSDOS & #WindowsEmbedded…

@krutonium @landley I mean, Ideally @OS1337 would be come a simpler and better alternative to #LinuxFromScratch or #YoctoLinux / #YoctoProject when it comes to getting started on a device.

• Ideally #SBC manufacturers would at least release the #drivers (if they can't be assed to #mainline them into #Linux) and #ReproduceableBuilds with build scripts to make them go brrr...

Cuz #RaspberryPi de-facto monopolized non-#amd64 / non-#ix86 - #SBCs because they actually give a shit and publish #documentation!

• So whilst they certainly don't support other OSes than #RaspberryPiOS, they don't just tell folks like @geerlingguy to not pester them with questions in their Forums.

Hide or Remove Unwanted Linux/Unix XDG Desktop Menu App Shortcuts

Learn how to hide or remove unwanted software applications in the XDG Desktop menu of a graphical environment on GNU/Linux or Unix operating systems.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/hide-remove-linux-unix-xdg-menu-app-shortcut/

#blog #linux #unix #XOrg #Wayland #technology @XOrgFoundation

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An illustration of a yellow rectangle sponge dropped into a pool of water with slashes going outward in various directions next to the title of 'Clean Your Desktop Menu on Linux/Unix'.

@utf_7 @etchedpixels Consider switching to #Linux and becoming a #Linux - #Sysadmin?

• Pay is definitely way better than on #Windows!

Darktable is noice.

https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/photography-things-on-linux

#Linux #Blog #Photography

@blogdiva The only Apple product I have is an old iMac, now running anti-X #Linux. It ran out of security updates, so the previous owner wiped the drive and gave it to me. (16 gb memory, 1 tb drive, huge screen- free)

I added #keyboard #shortcuts for #endash #emdash and the bullet characters.
#LinuxMint #xfce

#keyboardshortcuts #Linux

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This is a screenshot of the Keyboard Settings window in Linux Mint XFCE with the Application Shortcuts tab showing all of my keyboard shortcuts.

@lmemsm the closest I know is @landley 's writeups to his minimalist #Linux "distro" (or rather reference implementation of #toybox + #musl / Linux known as #mkroot.

• toybox on it's own is basically a clean, minimalist #Userland inspired by #BusyBox but licensed under #0BSD.

• mkroot then just is that, Linux Kernel and the necessary "wiring" to make it go brr in #QEMU.

He also releases his toolchain and has (by his own account) basically bootstrapped from there not just to #LinuxFromScratch but also 50% #BeyondLinuxFromScratch to evidence that it can be extended to arbitrary complexity.

• And that's why I chose that as basis for @OS1337 ...