https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

Broadband and Mobile Networks Strained by UK Heatwave – No Major Blackouts Expected https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/06/broadband-and-mobile-networks-strained-by-uk-heatwave-no-major-blackouts-expected.html

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

To get sensible modern speeds (I’d categorise as around 1-200Mb) you need modern fibre infrastructure. By the time you’ve invested in that then the hardware can easily deliver 1Gb or even 10 with newer XGS-PON.

So I’d say yes I don’t need a gig, but also internet delivered over old copper phone infrastructure doesn’t really cut it anymore either. It’s nice to have options available to easily upgrade if/when it is needed.

Just offering my skills as a professional cloud/linux engineer of ~15 years to help bring it back online. I am also willing to offer a new server for it to live on if that’s the issue. My email is the same as my fedi account if that’s better.

Friend just lost their job, right after buying a new house, and because they're on a visa they have 90 days to find another job or get deported.

If anyone has any leads on software product/partner/customer management jobs in London, please send them my way.

These are the user agents on hits to the #Linux Matters podcast RSS feed over last 30 days. @AntennaPod seems remarkably more used than any other... What do you use?

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Line charts showing request trends over 30 days for the top user agents on the Linux Matters podcast RSS feed. AntennaPod/3.11.4 leads at 251,930 requests with a relatively steady trend. Most other clients show fairly flat or gradual patterns, with a few exceptions: rss-parser shows a notable drop near the end of the period, and the Windows AppleWebKit user agent shows a distinct step-down mid-period. Audiobookshelf, PodcastAddict, and iTMS show consistent traffic throughout.

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Bar chart of top user agents for the Linux Matters podcast RSS feed, led by AntennaPod/3.11.4 at 251,930 requests, followed by Audiobookshelf at 44,480 and PodcastAddict at 34,430. Other notable clients include iTunes, Googlebot, Podimo, Snipd, and various Firefox and Chromium browser strings.

Here are some #thePlaylistSuggestion tunes for @DJDarren:

Howard Jones - The Prisoner

Down - Jail (maybe as a bed? It’s a bit long and ponderous)

Deacon Blue - The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail

Redpoint - Model Prisoner

The Gathering - Locked Away

Clutch - Your Love Is Incarceration

New Campaign Group Accuses Starlink of “Predatory Broadband Bait-and-Switch” https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/05/new-campaign-group-accuses-starlink-of-predatory-broadband-bait-and-switch.html

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Starlink Standard 4 Kit

@sam hey. How are the aqua dragons? #seamonkeys

Temperature check for some on-prem #selfhosting training.

Please nerdboost.

Bookrastinating, one of the largest Bookwyrm instances, has been down since May 3. There was an update same day that they were looking into it.

Since then there have been no updates. The admin has been posting normally on their main account with no mention of it. That sucks.

We're all volunteering here, so it can be clunky. Life can get in the way. But communication is bare minimum here.

#bookrastinating #bookwyrm

Trying out external display support on #Ubuntu #Asahi #Linux on my M1 MacBook Air. This is pretty much the final step for daily driving! 🎉

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A photograph of an Apple MacBook Air with an M1 chip running Ubuntu Asahi 24.04, connected to an external display (an LG Dual-Up).

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A screenshot of Ubuntu Asahi 24.04 running on an M1 Apple MacBook Air. Both the internal panel and an external display are enabled.

With Amazon killing off all the old kindles, they’re super-cheap right now. And it turns out that jailbreaking is a minor faff, but not too difficult, really. This one was £10 and is going to somebody who was pondering getting an expensive eink ebook reader just a couple of weeks ago. :D
#permacomputing

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An old kindle that says ‘jailbreak!’ On the screen

New artwork for my office, courtesy of @babe

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Particle trails loop and spiral over a deep green canvas.

What?? This is a freshly installed version of 26.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4 using the Raspberry Pi Imager. Has anyone else encountered this?

#Ubuntu #RaspberryPi

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sudo apt update sudo: I'm sorry awful. I'm afraid I can't do that

⚠️ Maintenance:

For maintenance and security reasons all nodes have been urgently updated and rebooted at 11 AM UTC+1. If your workloads are not running anymore, please start them again from your control panel!

cc: @gyptazy

Who’s to say at what point your brain will decide it’s has enough of doing these and the supply will dry up. 😝

It’ll be going on the wall of the office I spend most of my time in, after we move house soon.

New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screenshots-and-voice-samples-without-governance-6973c48f03a7

Very tempted to get myself a bigger tank…

Random question. Do you find your monkeys are attracted to the bubbles from the air stones? Some of mine seem obsessed with going for rides…

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Aqua Deagons tank with heater temperature probe, grow light and air stone.

The cat's out of the bag! My latest book, "The Secret Life of Circuits", is available in early access:

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/secret/

It's the reference I wish I had when I was starting out. Electrons to embedded systems, 290+ color illustrations and 420+ pages of well-explained theory.

Lots of them hatched overnight. We’re all having a great time watching the progress!

Any interest in a separate account for daily aqua dragon updates?

Thanks @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party for sending me down this rabbit hole. 😆

Fergal Sharkey was on #channel4 news inviting us to sign a petition about getting a referendum to bring the water industry back into public ownership

It is here. Do sign and share xxx

https://www.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk/

What’s your setup? I can see some kind of air pump?

🚨 Trivy is under attack again.

Attackers force-pushed 75 of 76 tags in aquasecurity/trivy-action, impacting 10K+ workflows and turning trusted GitHub Actions into malware.

Any version ≠ v0.35.0 may execute an infostealer in CI.

Analysis forthcoming: https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise

Been working on a small decentralised music search tool https://squirrel.band/, initially indexing sites using faircamp (by @freebliss).

Currently grabs the sites listed on https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/ and in the webring (https://faircamp.webr.ing/) using each pages available RSS feeds, keen to add more sources if anyone has any suggestions.

#faircamp

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A screenshot of a website with the title "squirrel" and a search bar with text above stating "search to discover new music".

Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Highlight of the #GortonAndDenton #byelection: The #DailyTelegraph sent their man out to talk to Green Party #GPEW canvassers.

It did not go well for him. 😅🤣

#ukpol #Torygraph

Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first

A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it'll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 and Intel's Nova Lake.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-7-0-launches-with-enablement-for-intel-nova-lake-amd-zen-6-major-kernel-update-expected-in-ubuntu-26-04-lts-and-fedora-44-first

Unfortunately plug-in/balcony solar isn’t legal in the UK at this point. There has been talk of legalising it but I don’t think any of it has made it into law.