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Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:06:53 +0000

#freebsd - Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...

[fog][WARNING] Unrecognized arguments: libvirt_ip_command

==> default: Box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...

default: Box Provider: libvirt

default: Box Version: >= 0

The box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.

Anyone knows if there are plans to provide more images for vagrant and FreeBSD 15 ?

#freebsd #libvirt #vagrant

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:46:18 +0000

#freebsd - Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.

Past releases:

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:46:23 +0000

#freebsd - Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.

Past releases:

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:46:23 +0000

#ghostbsd - Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.

Past releases:

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:37:37 +0000

#deltachat - @richard

When we cycled around Spain I was shocked at how prevalent #whatsapp was , especially for businesses, they all even have it on their advertising.

It's like they learned nothing about #facebook.

You might want to have a look at @delta #deltachat too. LOL 😂.

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:06:40 +0000

#deltachat - @capitalthree #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat don't have delivery receipts, only read receipts, the only automatic responses the app does in your behalf is to handle invite links, for that you first have to share invite link with the malicious contact, you can get in contact with random/public entity via their invite link and be safe, as long as it is not you the one sharing your invite link! in #Signal as soon as you contact someone or they guess your number you are vulnerable

@david_chisnall

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:39:47 +0000

#deltachat - Krok 5 – Dla najbardziej zaawansowanych – zmień system operacyjny na Linux (to już dodatek)

Więcej informacji 👉

#Wyzwanie5Kroków #cryptomator #deltachat

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:17:53 +0000

Briar Project - Are you coming to #39C3 this year? We'd love to see you there!

#briar #mesh #p2p #meshtastic #qaul #bridgefy #tor #decentralization

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:03:33 +0000

#Reticulum - Heltec RNodes updated as is my Sideband. Unfortunately still can’t make calls in Sideband (it’s grayed out). Also, trying to find RNode Transport Node software for the Lilygo T-Echo and I see none. Me sad 🥹 #RNode #Reticulum #Sideband #TEcho

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:02:29 +0000

Delta Chat (39c3) - On this day, two years ago, we published the first chatmail relay,

along with templates to replicate the setup, without needing any permission. Two weeks ago we thought there are 60 relays when a hacker handed in a 100+ list 😂 A bunch of knowledgeable folks are now maintaining track of health of the evolving global network, and supporting new operators. 💜💥🖤

thx also for all the support here on the fediverse! its been a wild year and #39c3 is in 13 days to top it off 😅

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:57:07 +0000

tomasino - RE:

I hope this person gets their access restored. Then i hope they write the book on how to migrate out of Apple's ecosystem

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:51:57 +0000

Delta Chat (39c3) - #chatmail relays are recently getting more artful in their web presence 🤩 Nice examples:

in Ontario, or

in Warszawa.

We estimate there are ~4 times more relays than in the published list at

Many relays are smaller ones, but that's fine. A 5 EUR per month VPS can go a long way (thousands or tens of thousands of monthly users). Thanks for the service to all the operators of which around 40 are in a loose group chat 💗

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:57:29 +0000

Delta Chat (39c3) - Your chat profile/identity: a tar file.

Your social web app: a zip file.

and

are spearheading ever new and more fun ways to deny power to servers and platform billionaires.

Unlike classic email servers, #chatmail relays do not store user identities which solely live on end-user devices.There also is no encrypted value on the server like with Proton Mail or Signal. There are only relays, endless federating networks of relays to onboard safely :)

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:57:25 +0000

#pinephone - @fabi1cazenave

expérience #pinePhone / #mobian et bientôt j'y retourne ..

ok c'est pas 100% satisfaisant en UX et en fiabilité (à l'époque) et on n'a pas de magasin d'appli ..

pour mon utilisation largement suffisant : tel+sms+internet+photo

à l'époque on trouvait globalemebt toutes les infos sur le wiki de #mobian

maintenant cela a l'air d'avoir été restructuré

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:11:48 +0000

#Reticulum - @sacha @screwlisp @dougmerritt @zagebo @vavakado I'm trying to figure out how to maintain a wireless terminal connection with my home computer up to 10km away (further's edge of town)

Via #Reticulum over #LoRa (#rnode) or another #MeshNetwork. #PacketRadio, #MANET, #BATMAN, #SDR, etc

I'm not sure where this is going if anywhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

—

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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:31:56 +0000

#pinephone - Pleast boost for reach:

On the subject of Linux phone accessibility, the developer of AT-SPI wrote:

There's a long-standing issue that Joanie filed against at-spi2-core for

touch screen support:

Ande I haven't taken the time to figure out how best to handle this. I'm

not sure if evdev would do what we need, or we might want to work with the

maintainers of mutter, KWin, etc. to create a protocol for

intercepting/manipulating gestures. We would also need code that can

detect gestures from touch screen presses. NVDA has code that we might be

able to use as a model.

All of this is theoretically on my list of things to do. Of course, help

would be welcome if anyone else was able to take it on.

end quote

For blind people to switch to Linux on phones, we need to use the touch screen. If anyone can help with this, it would allow the blind to take one step closer to being capable of creating our own accessibility, our own environments, in the way that helps us most. See NVDA as a great example of how that goes.

#accessibility #blind #foss #linux #phones #pinephone

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:11:04 +0000

#Reticulum - I've been looking forwards to buying this all year. Hopefully not too much longer. Daily driver for me. I can do all my comms on here (Signal) and hopefully Reticulum. Who needs a phone anymore? #MechaComet #cyberdeck #Reticulum #networking

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

#ghostbsd - @aru @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano

Oops, you're right! I was thinking of #GhostBSD. Thanks for pointing that out.

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:32:52 +0000

Briar Project - We've just released a new version of Briar which comes with various improvements, among them better connectivity via Bluetooth, updated Tor and censorship circumvention, and improved usability with forums and blogs. Find it on either Google Play or F-Droid within the next days.

#briar #tor #fdroid

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:05:29 +0000

Dale Nunns - My BSides Cape Town 2025 wrap-up is finally out, you can read about it all here

.

Please share with your friends and help spread the word!#bsidescapetown2025 #bsidescapetown #hackers #rubberducks

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:23:47 +0000

Kim van Wyk -

if this would be helpful to anyone.

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:04:38 +0000

Kim van Wyk - I spent a large chunk of today on part 2 of day 7 of #adventofcode. My final solution was 10 lines of Python and ran almost instantly, but to get there I had to iterate over several solutions that would need hours. As with every year, I find the exercises very helpful in reminding myself to explore several options when writing programs.

In this case, also a useful reminder that depth first and breadth first algorithms meet very different needs and that a dict's keys often trump a list.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:51:04 +0000

Dale Nunns - Getting ready for BSides Cape Town tomorrow!

Come to my talk, Rapid Unplanned Disassembly and you could get one of my collectable ducks.

#rubberducks #drones #bsidescapetown2025

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:14:15 +0000

Dominic White -

really does point out the elephant in the cyber room. It’s not about WiFi it’s about security professionals understanding risk assessment.

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:54:23 +0000

#pinephone - Managed to upgrade the #PinePhone to #postmarketOS 25.06 using the HP Stream I have here at work running Fedora. Used the USB tethering option to SSH into the phone and perform the upgrade, which is the preferred method with this PinePhone from what I've read. ♻️ 📱 🐧

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:16:13 +0000

tomasino - A Living

#thehierophant #worldbuilding #wiki #writing

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:02:22 +0000

Adrianna Pińska - Me every day for the past... several months: "I really need to tidy up my desk and sewing area; I can't work in this mess, and I can't find anything!"

My brain: "No! We're going to start three new projects, immediately lose them in this garbage pile, and then spend hours watching stupid videos."

Me this morning: "This is a really convenient time to go to the shops."

My brain: "No! We're going to tidy up the desk and sewing area *right now!*"

Me: "But-"

My brain: "And we're going to take a long detour to inventory and reorganise our electronic junk collection."

And that's how I ended up disassembling and (mostly) repairing a paper shredder in my pyjamas, and also why I now need to drive to the 24h vet for wet cat food so that my cat doesn't murder me.

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:26:57 +0000

Adrianna Pińska - New language pet peeve just dropped: "speak to [topic]" instead of "speak about". Sorry, Americans -- it doesn't bother me in small doses, but I listened to an interviewer say it about a dozen times in close succession, and it started driving me crazy after the third.

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:41:10 +0000

tomasino -

Added a text-to-speech pipeline to the Chronicle so posts can be listened to; the first version uses a stock voice with hashes + blobs, with plans for a custom vocal model and space for manual recordings when stories deserve it.

#writing #worldbuilding #hierophant

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:33:16 +0000

Adrianna Pińska - There's no option in YouTube's settings to disable their uncanny valley AI audio translations across the board -- but apparently you can stop them from being selected automatically for videos in a language that you have added to your preferred languages. So guess who just clicked on *all* the language checkboxes, to "prefer" every human language in the list? I guess I'll have to wait and see if this stops the slop jumpscares.

(Yes, I could probably have automated it in JS, but figuring it out would have taken longer than just scrolling and clicking, and rage and spite are powerful motivators.)

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:01:17 +0000

Dominic White - I drink an awful lot of coffee and it’s rare that I’m genuinely surprised by a roast but

is doing super interesting things with their roasting and teasing out specific flavours. I’d strongly recommend a try.

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:33:01 +0000

Dominic White - What happens when I do this? (I clicked Quote in Ivory)

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:38:06 +0000

Enron Hubbard - Woke up to water on my kitchen floor and the sound of running water coming from... somewhere. I eventually figured out the water line going to my refrigerator sprung a leak, cut the supply, and it stopped.

But I had this impulse to start searching the internet for answers as to where the water was coming from. As if there would magically be some forum post somewhere in which another person had the same issue in my kitchen and had the solution.

Lots of people do this - search elsewhere for a fix for something without really looking at it or thinking it through. I often do this when working on tech stuff, because those issues aren't readily apparent. Or I'll do it when developing a new skill to save time by avoiding trial-and-error. It's common and understandable in certain contexts because the Internet can be an amazing resource for learning things.

But this time it felt embarrassing. I had to face the reflexive impulse for cognitive offloading. Why bother expelling any energy on thinking when I could just ask The Machine? It tells me things that I want to know all the time. It must be omniscient.

It's been said that the internet is not a force for good or evil, but a force multiplier. That's definitely true, and by extension, "AI" is a force exponentiator. In my little plumbing escapade, instead of scrolling through pages of text, I could just have the Machine assemble a plausible-sounding response culled from the typing of billions of semi-clever monkeys.

Fortunately, I have no love whatsoever for LLMs and didn't even consider touching one. But I can see how other folks would immediately do exactly that without hesitation.

In this instance, it was laid bare to me just how much we are giving away to the Machine. Here, it was intelligence and cognition. In other realms, it's intimacy and belonging. Meaning and self-actualization. It feels like every year, the Machine (and Capitalism writ large) colonizes some basic human need and fundamental aspect of what it is to be a person.

And I just crossed over into being angry about it.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:56:26 +0000

Grant Stephens - Came across Sue Zookie in a Richard Scarry book who is carrying a sausage onto a train in Japan. Not quite sure why, but feels a bit wrong.#suezookie #suzuki

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:16:31 +0000

Grant Stephens - This is one of the most fascinating threads I've read in a long time!

@KatyElphinstone

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:49 +0000

Enron Hubbard - it's kind of like complaining about wind farms ruining your view of the countryside while insisting the best way to generate energy is either by constantly belching smog or by making water radioactive

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:01:57 +0000

Enron Hubbard - making "election season" a years-long pro wrestling spectacle of endless campaigning and agitslop while insisting that that actual election must take place in a single day is certainly A Take

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:39:21 +0000

Gustav H Meyer - 👋🏻

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:02:38 +0000

Dale Nunns - Find out if I survived my wife finding out about my buying habits in my talk Rapid Unplanned Disassembly at @bsidescapetown - BSides Cape Town⁩ 2025.

for more information.

#rubberduck #drone #bsidescapetown2025

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:26:08 +0000

Kenneth Kalmer - How to make a South African cringe

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:58:53 +0000

Kenneth Kalmer - The most underrated benefit of having an M-class MacBook, to me, is being able to run it off the same power bank that charges my phone… Makes coffee shop working a treat

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:33:18 +0000

Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - Do I know any mid-level/senior full-stack Javascript devs looking for work right now? My workplace is #hiring. We're fully remote. South Asia highly preferred; we still do not have budget for first-world salaries. Maybe one day, but we're not there yet...

We're a startup in the EdTech space, operating with UK as the base country.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:41:23 +0000

Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - In a rare moment of motivation, I published a small post. 🙈

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:59:30 +0000

Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - When this whole Liquid Glass thing was announced, I knew I was going to hold my upgrade for months, possibly even a whole year. Hated the idea of it.

I trialed it on my iPad for fun (low-risk activity) a couple-ish of weeks ago, and within the next two weeks, now, all my devices have been updated.

It feels fun. Devices feel fun to use. It sparks... ✨ joy ✨ in motion. I haven't felt this way in a while.

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:25:53 +0000

Grant Stephens - #silentsunday #photography #beach

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:41:34 +0000

Kenneth Kalmer - Tomorrow this baby ticks over the magic 1,000 mile mark. I don’t use it nearly enough, and it’s mostly nipping out to the shops, but still one of my favourite ways of getting around. Here is to another 1,000 miles 🤙#OneWheel #floatlife

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:22:42 +0000

Justin Wernick - Over the weekend I was playing with SourceHut.

Something that stood out to me was how much easier it was to experiment with setting up a CI config. Rather than starting a branch with a million 'does this work?' commit messages, there is a web form that I could copy paste in my config and it would immediately run it. And then, when it failed, it popped up a little message saying "copy paste this into your terminal in the next 10 minutes to SSH into the build VM and poke around".

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:28:22 +0000

Justin Wernick - I friend of mine, Steve Donovan, has written a blog post comparing the philosophies of the traditional Unix shells with Nushell that he currently seems to be enjoying

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:58:38 +0000

Kim van Wyk - Hi @mkennedy, @brianokken - this uv setting looks like it might be worth a mention on Python Bytes in its own right:

suspect the annoyance of a package pinning its upper bound too low is almost universal, especially if you know the part of the package you need will be fine with the version you're trying to use.

(Via

)

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:51:50 +0000

#freebsd - This is not a problem with your local host.

It is a problem with the remote host.

I messed up my gitea instance. I fixed it via `pkg install gitea`

% git pull

sh: /usr/local/sbin/gitea: not found

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

#FreeBSD

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:11:25 +0000

#freebsd - Sooo, with a great help of our local #hackspace (

) I updated my #Libreboot to the 25.06 version and installed the right (txtmode) version suitable for #FreeBSD

Now, all my problems with Stage 3 loader, installed with the latest system update — are gone!

#hacking #HardwareHacking #Thinkpad

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:59:00 +0000

#freebsd - Wield dual weapons to gather scrolls rapidly. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource

Wed, 07 May 2025 17:28:20 +0000

Justin Wernick - It took me a long time to get to writing it up. I really don't have as much time for writing these days as I once did. But I've managed to put out my first blog post for this year 😅

Writing all about how I'm using #emacs #orgmode to keep on top of everything.

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:59:40 +0000

Briar Project - A new version of Briar Android got released, version 1.5.14. It features translations to Bengali and improved censorship circumvention by using Tor's lyrebird.

#bengali #tor #censorship #lyrebird #briar

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:48:04 +0000

Gustav H Meyer - I can’t help but wonder how they arrived at that number, 193,000 Linux users. What kind of analytical wizardry or data sorcery could have generated such precise numbers with such certainty? And don’t even get me started on the claim of 27 million South African readers. I’d genuinely love to know more about how these figures were calculated.

#MyBroadband #statistics #webstats #SouthAfrica

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:54:03 +0000

Gustav H Meyer - very relevant

This comic is about the difficulty of dealing psychologically with 50/50 odds [...]

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:01:54 +0000

Wilmar - Reading about everyone’s “I’m still on M1 with only 1TB, will likely upgrade to M4” stories, on my Intel i9 with 512GB 😂.

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:15:50 +0000

Wilmar - @peterfriese Do you have some comparison information of Vapor / Swift on Server vs Firebase? Does it even make sense to perform a comparison, are the two platforns competitors in the same domain?

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:52:09 +0000

Wilmar - Saw a few unicorns today, amazing! Ferrari F50, McLaren F1, Mercedes CLK GTR.

Thu, 09 May 2024 07:47:42 +0000

Robert MacLean - DevConf has such an awesome idea, the badge has a B.L.A.N.K. space and you can customise it with stickers to show off who you are!

A big thank you to Ross Simpson who inspired this with his badge hacking at DevConf 2023 and Michael Minutillo who came up with the awesome name B.L.A.N.K. which stands for Badge Located Assertion of Notable Knowledge

#devconf #devconf2024 #badgelife #hackers

Thu, 09 May 2024 07:46:16 +0000

Robert MacLean - I'm so honoured to have been able to open DevConf Cape Town today, and more importantly to be able to among an amazing group of beautiful humans who are presenting at the event. It is going to be a great day

#devconf #devconf2024 #southafrica #developers #conference

Tue, 07 May 2024 08:01:05 +0000

Robert MacLean - So excited for @DevConf today!

#devconf

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:52:47 +0000

Adële - Cyclic Universal Clock

I'm thinking about a new representation of time. With the current time system, we refer to UTC time. I find this annoying, because it uses the same notions (hours and minutes) as the local time system. I find this ambiguous...

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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:10:32 +0000

Kishyr Ramdial - @caseyliss Big time Callsheet fan, thank you for the app! Have an idea for you: add the top 50/75/100 trending tv shows and movies to Spotlight using the search API, so when you search for “Survivor” it shows a result that deep links directly to the show page on Callsheet. I used to often search tv shows and movies this way, and then hit the IMDB link at the bottom to open that app. Would be cool to open Callsheet directly from a Spotlight search result.

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 22:27:24 +0000

Kishyr Ramdial - World Champions! 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆🇿🇦

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:03:57 +0000

Kishyr Ramdial - Live Voicemail is hands down the best feature of iOS 17. Catching spam calls like Pokémon.

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:12:03 +0000

Adële - It will happen some changes in my personal life and I don't know if I will be able to continue to serve pollux.casa hosting. (I have not said it will be closed, I'm looking for solutions)

So, I have put account opening on standby.

For the moment, no change for existing accounts. I will give more details further.

#Gemini

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:13:00 +0000

You Can Call Me Al - A #newsletter question, if anyone is able to offer advice. Are there any newsletter email service providers that include collaborative features while creating emails? ie. ability to leave comments etc for other team members on draft newsletters etc? I would love something like that but haven't seen anything like it.

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:06:21 +0000

You Can Call Me Al - Exciting times in the tech/journalism/dataviz space at the moment. Loving working with SvelteKit, and getting into PlanetScale for SQL. Already starting to use DALL-E and OpenAI for images/story summaries etc. 2023 is going to be wild/exciting/scary

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:53:59 +0000

You Can Call Me Al - Vercel's new commenting feature for preview deployments is awesome. I've been looking for a way to collect feedback on projects from our distributed teams and this could well be exactly what we need.