Zachariah

how romantic

Written Linux news

LWN.net gets into the details of Linux development, security and the free software community. It can get technical, but it’s great for understanding why something is changing and what developers are discussing. Some articles require a subscription for immediate access.

Phoronix is a useful stop for hardware support, graphics drivers, kernel changes and benchmarks. If you enjoy checking how the latest AMD or Intel hardware performs on Linux, there are plenty of graphs waiting for you. You may want to avoid the comment section though.

OMG! Ubuntu covers Ubuntu, desktop Linux, apps and GNOME extensions in an approachable way. You don’t need to run Ubuntu to find something useful here, especially if you enjoy discovering little improvements for your desktop.

Linuxiac covers distributions, desktop environments and open-source software releases. Handy for keeping track of what’s new without spending your afternoon digging through release announcements.

9to5Linux follows distribution releases, desktop environments, kernel updates and Linux apps. Its weekly roundup is particularly useful when you’ve been busy actually using your computer and want to catch up on what you missed.

Project updates are worth following too. KDE’s announcements and This Week in GNOME give you news straight from the people building the software, including new features, fixes and things still taking shape.

Linux news on video

This Week in Linux is Michael Tunnell’s Linux and open-source news roundup. A handy way to catch up with a cuppa, with links available when a story sends you down a rabbit hole.

The Linux Experiment is Nick’s channel covering Linux news, desktop software, privacy and opinion. There’s a good mix of updates and explanations, plus a longer podcast if you finish a video and still want more Linux chat.

Gardiner Bryant covers Linux, gaming and free software, making his channel worth a look if Steam Deck and Linux gaming are your thing. Expect news mixed with personal takes and enthusiasm for the subject.

Learn Linux TV is Jay LaCroix’s home for practical tutorials, distribution reviews and hardware coverage. It leans more towards learning than news, so it’s a useful companion when you’ve read about something and now want to see how it works.

Veronica Explains is the “Linux Mom”, a sysadmin and COBOL lady posting videos about cool things you can do with Linux and a whole lot of retro too.

I use this as my username: https://www.behindthename.com/random/random.php?gender=both&number=2&sets=1&surname=&randomsurname=yes&all=yes

Today‘s Top Tune from KCRW via gPodder

It’s such a pretty color. I want to see it up close with my own eyes, not just a photo.

Uranus

thank you for that

america is feeling very blue today

some things shouldn’t be left to the general public when it’s easily abused with no way to prove or deny it.

I get this feeling from reading some of the comments on the fediverse, too, but I still want them there

I can decide if the comments or the built consensus is reliable

are you saying we’re just doomed

you don’t have to use user-assigned tags when you filter your search

and I agree often the wisdom of the crowd is shitty, but user created ratings, reviews, and categories are utilized by people all the time

hopefully they can be tagged by users not just developers

!youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk

Zinda, his eyes red

what if your hardware dies

your couch doesn’t look very comfortable

great suggestion

Here it explains some self host options with links to “Get Started” for each:

bitwarden.com/help/self-host-bitwarden/

For example, here’s the link to “Linux standard deployment”

bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

You may also want to consider not making your server available to the open internet, and instead access it only on your LAN via VPN.

If you like a GUI, Vorta is great.

Is the battery still in the laptop?

intermittent disk read errors would add even more to the authenticity

Why isn’t this left up to parents? They should be the ones doing the verifying and providing access to computing and the internet.

!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

“not like that”

I say don’t you know?
You say you don’t know
I say take me out
I say you don’t show
Don’t move, time is slow
I say take me out

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_dung_fuel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Now a sprawling international team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, and others say that they have documented compelling evidence that our ancestors’ first known use of fire dates back 700,000 years earlier than prior estimates. Employing a new luminescence technique to date burnt bone fossils, the researchers estimate that ancient hominids inhabiting the cave were likely fueling their fires with animal droppings as far back as 1.07 to 1.79 million years ago.

I also use mxroute. I paid for ten years at once. I only needed it because I wanted a catch-all and my previous hosting provider stopped allowing that.

My email solution for decades has been to have a mailbox separate from my email domain. Currently it’s FastMail. I then give out a different entity@example.com to each entity that needs my email address. I can then shut off (route to null) any address that starts getting spam.

I did order Run Your Own Mail Server because one day I’d like to try.

From the Kickstarter:

Running a mail server is an advanced systems administration skill, though. Mind tricks are not enough. You need to be able to operate a Unix-like operating system, understand logging and TLS, make DNS changes and adjust packet filters. RYOMS takes you through the protocol, configuring Postfix and Dovecot, and the DKIM and SPF and DMARC authentication protocols. (They’re not proper authentication protocols, but that’s what the Empire calls them.) It covers anti-spam measures, mail filters, and virtual domains, all at the command line and with pretty web interfaces. While the reference platforms are Debian and FreeBSD, the Postfix and Dovecot servers and assorted infrastructure work on any open source Unix.

This book does not contain absolutely everything you might ever need to understand running a mail server. Every environment has its oddities. But it does contain the core knowledge that every mail administrator must have. A sysadmin with this orientation can sort out their edges easily enough. Coping with edges is what we do.

also funk as puck

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