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

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

How it started

How it’s going

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Duolingo’s announcement 6 months ago “we’re AI first”

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Last 6 months of stonk performance, down 60%! Lol!

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

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A screenshot of support.mozilla.org Forum name: SUMO community discussions Title: End of Japanese community Text by user named marsf that reads: Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org. Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community. In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words. * It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. * It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost. * It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles. * It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors. * It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications. * Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot. They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially. Therefore, I (marsf) declare: * I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org. * I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. * I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support. Bye.

Three high severity CVEs in runc announced today https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/138, which present a risk of container escape, worth making sure you're patching!

It's not necessarily widely known but runc is a core component in most Kubernetes clusters. Often times you don't install it directly but get it as part of other packages like containerd, but it is there launching all the containers in your cluster.

From a first read through of the advisories, one quote that particularly resonated with me :-

"it is very difficult, if not impossible, to run an untrusted program with root privileges safely."

It's been good advice for a long time to run containers as a non-root user and even where the container needs to run as root, with user namespace support available in Kubernetes, it's a lot easier to avoid the risks of running containers as the host root user!

Hello Fediverse!

We now have an account for Aurora on here :)

Our stable branch is getting ready to move from Fedora 42 to 43, hopefully next week. Also at the same time we are working on our new ISOs that will use the new Anaconda WebUI installer.

We hope to get this to "beta" stage with the F43 stable release.

#linux #kde

#LibreWolf v144.0.2-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/144.0.2-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.0.2/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

Working in cybersecurity is weird.

“Wolfie where do you get your threat intel?”
“Gay furries on Mastodon.”
“What?”
“Well it’s a decentralised social network…”
“No stop are you saying we’re prioritising our cybersecurity activity based on what furries are shitposting?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“You want the good cybersecurity, yes?”
“Yes.”
“Right, so this week between the jokes about Copilot now looking like a blob of jizz with a face, the big topics are…”

ADHD: I struggle with repetitive things

Autism: I struggle with new things

AuDHD: I struggle...

Shocking Windows 3.1 development continues. Now I have win32s, which will allow me to run some Win32 applications on top of DOS and Win16 kernel. Freecell looks like any other app, but it is Win32 app, very MVP.

And IE 5.0 is being installed but still needs a bit of tweaking. It has a 128-bit encryption module, but it's useless, because no one supports SSL anymore.

Note WinRAR behind the IE50 installer.

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A screenshot of Freecell on Windows 3.1 that looks a lot like Windows XP

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Internet Explorer 5.0 is being installed. There's WinRAR behind it.

Episode 66 of Linux Matters: Terminal Full of Sparkles 🐧️🎙️

Martin found a fancy alternative to apt, Mark debugged his car charger, and Alan moved from Plex to Jellyfin.

https://linuxmatters.sh/66/

Ok.. I still need to fill a few gaps, but my sleeper build is working great and honestly has great airflow and temps seem good.

I'm running #bazzite #linux on it and it's running things like Forza horizon on ultra with no thermal issues.

I'm curious, what are some ways to benchmark or stress the system to see the thermal limits of the GPU and CPU? How does one test this besides throwing games at it?

Is there a standard bench-marking tool?

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Old Dell Dimension case running modern hardware running bazzite with Steam

They said in their release notes that this license key program has been wildly successful but I wish they were transparent about exactly how well this funding model is working. I'd like to see some real numbers.

https://immich.app

3x72: in which the OpenSSF are making some noise about how open infrastructure is not sustainable, and they have some thoughts... and so do we!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCf75M-Mspc
https://badvoltage.org/3x72

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To save and quit vim
Use :wq

Windows is low on memory at Heathrow airport…

Cc: @slowe@mastodon.me.uk

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More of the departures board with the crashed machine for context

Openreach Give ISPs 48 Hours to Remove Lithium Batteries from UK Exchanges https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/openreach-give-isps-48-hours-to-remove-lithium-batteries-from-uk-exchanges.html

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The luggage check in staff are doing their best with a hacked together system (cables everywhere!) so they can print bag labels.

British Airways have flown out extra staff to try and coordinate the whole thing. Took us maybe half an hour to get our bags sorted, other airline desks are not coping so well. 😬

Now in the rather long security line. Not sure if that’s related to the vMUSE hack or just normal here.

CC @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Woo! Bluefin on hackernews!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296550

https://davewalker.com/possible-causes-of-your-problems/