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Python & Rust aficionado. Free software fanatic.

#nixos #archlinux #emacs #orgmode #rust #linux #gentoo #freesoftware

#windowssucks

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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚

“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️

See what’s free to read […]

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January 1, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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fediscience.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The latest DDOS on the Arch Wiki prompted me to start hosting a mirror: https://wikimirrors.rhys.wtf

Plus some other things useful from Kiwix.

#arch #archlinux #archwiki #kiwix
Welcome to Kiwix Server
wikimirrors.rhys.wtf
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.

And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".

Which is fascinating, really.

I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing […]
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mastodon.bsd.cafe
December 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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My #endeavouros install is bricked because of #archlinux messing with the #nvidia drivers again. And the #gtx1650 is supported in Nvidia 590... I thought... I don't know. Maybe I'm not cool enough to run an #arch variant. I should stick to the #debian and #ubuntu I'm used to.
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Windows fatigue continues to push thousands of gamers to switch to Bazzite Linux distro

“Bazzite, a Linux distro that has a lot in common with Valve’s SteamOS, is designed specifically with gaming in mind, offering a console-like experience that ditches the majority of Windows 11’s most […]
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mastodon.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed

https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/

#elementaryos #opensource #linux
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Everything you love, made even better
blog.elementary.io
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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it's heeeere :konqi:

Thank you @kde ! it looks beautiful and feels very solid, excellent job for a handcrafted plushie!

#KDE #foss #konqi
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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"Censor" seems to be the first #linux PDF redaction tool, build with #gtk4. Very useful 📝 Now packaged for #nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/472335
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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#2yearlinuxchallenge Check In. Haven't done a #nixos Check in here in a long while. But I'm still going strong. Won't say I'm loving it, but it's good and I'm mostly happy.
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I'm super proud to see COSMIC hit its biggest release yet. When I worked at System76, I was the senior-most (by experience) designer on the team, and I'm excited to see my ideas and our work come to this milestone. I encourage everyone who is interested in desktop Linux to take a look at COSMIC. […]
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hachyderm.io
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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So, merging in #jujutsu is as simple as creating a commit that has 2 parents 😯:

jj new

Never had a merge conflict ever since.
Pamper yourself for Christmas and give it a shot! 😉

#git #programming
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Underrated feature in Fedora Workstation and GNOME:

After pairing my iPhone with my two laptops via Bluetooth, there is a tether button that appears in the System Menu that allows me to quickly use the mobile hotspot feature without having to remember my dingus hotspot Wi-Fi password 😅

#linux […]
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linh.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Have to reboot an M4 Max because Tahoe, even with all this ludicrous computing power, can’t play audio without dropping frames as soon as anything hits the CPU.

After rebooting I have to unplug and replug the audio jack of my wired headphones because Tahoe fails to check if the headphones are […]
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mastodon.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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RE: https://techhub.social/@jolla/115711991203515900

Wow, @jolla isn't fooling around, they want to bring back "The Other Half" with the new #jollaphone, an absolutely amazing attachable-backplate concept that already made the 2013 Jolla phone stand out. It'll be fully open source and will make […]
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fosstodon.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Yes this is niri
#niri #nixos
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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My wife's Macbook laptop from 2015 was causing her problems because the operating system was old, the disk was always filled with Mac's shit she couldn't control, wasn't able to install modern applications, etc...

So, I've installed Ubuntu in her laptop and everything goes faster & smoother […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM