tall tales

#technomage #comic #mastoart #penguin #linux #openblade #ai #unix_surrealism

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girl, penguin, and openblade are eating sandwiches. openblade tells a story. openblade: "and then the govcorp was all like: 'if you dont use ai, you support the chinese union!' and the kids were all like: 'what did china ever do to us?' it was hilarious."

Found an old screenshot of my #Sharp #Zaurus running #Linux back in #2004.

This was the shiz. XD

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Screenshot of the Terminal application from the Sharp Zaurus taken on October 13, 2004. Even though it's only 240x320 (scaled up 300% here), it looks remarkably like a desktop OS of the day with a blue lined titlebar with question mark an X window decorations, a menubar and toolbar, a drop-down menu for commands, the terminal output itself showing the output of ls, file, and less commands, then at the bottom a start menu and system tray. This alt text was not generated by AI. I just have ADHD. 😆

Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-back-over-4-percent-in-the-july-2026-steam-survey/

#Linux #Steam #SteamOS #LinuxGaming

🐧 Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

｢ However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter’s June figures included an “Unknown” category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux’s rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic ｣

https://linuxiac.com/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/

#linux #opensource

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

In this one, the AUR is having more and more problems, Valve funds Mesa drivers for Windows, GoG works on a Linux client, and the Framework Laptop 13 Pro looks like a good pick to run Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTVeC-GyKWQ

Note that there is an ongoing issue with Anubis challenges when trying to access our forum. We are working to resolve the problem.

#Solus #Linux #SysAdmin

- Evan

Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12908-week-21-2026

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

Servo 0.4.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086555/ #LWN #Linux

We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-127/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Linux After Dark artwork

[$] The future of libraries in BPF

Song Liu believes that the way that programmers assemble complex BPF programs will be changing rapidly in the future. At a session of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-M [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084869/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/ #LWN #Linux #ArchLinux

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086487/ #LWN #Linux #security

@EUCommission

Moreover, you should think of something about phones and tablets with healthy hardware but outdated software. So many companies especially in China stop the software updates/upgrades after like 2-3 years. And moreover, they also make it too hard for the #FOSS communities to come up with alternative operating system for these devices.

Some companies lock the device to prevent installing custom OS.

Some other violate #GPL and they don't release the #Linux source code for their devices.

Some release the GPL code with a 1 year delay. Which means FOSS community is 1 year behind to bring custom OS to the device.

All of these contribute to #ewaste and they harm the planet. And many people are forced to buy a new phone/tablet every 1-3 years to get a newer Android version.

Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day

To all the sysadmins quietly keeping the lights on, we salute you.

#Sysadmin #FreeBSD #Linux #OpenBSD #BastilleBSD

Here comes another #linkdump on me #blog

Fun #foss mini games based on #Luanti
Various interesting blog posts including posts about #UNIX #BSD and #Linux
And some interesting #opensource software projects

https://far.chickenkiller.com/misc/linkdump3/

#blogging #smallweb #smolweb #indieweb #weblog #linkdumps #links

NextBSD development updates

2026-07-30

https://github.com/orgs/nextbsd-redux/discussions/404

#AI #NextBSD #FreeBSD #Linuxulator #Linux #Gershwin #Bluetooth #WiFi #CI

xorshift32 in #Bash, code golfed.

$ n(){ s=$[s^s<<13];s=$[s^s>>17];s=$[s^s<<5];echo $[s&2**32-1]; }

Example:

$ s=123456789
$ n
2937495369
$ n
559720438
$ n
3924597191

Bash already has $RANDOM and $SRANDOM, so this probably isn't all that useful. Shrug.

The seed $s must be non-zero.

#Linux

[$] Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY

Linux provides a system call (mkdir()) to create a directory, and a few variants of open() that can open a directory. There is, however, no system call in Linux that can create an [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1085617/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #Git

Another batch of single-fix stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086226/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086225/ #LWN #Linux #security

I just had to update and reboot three(?) times to get #VShell working in #Gnome again, but it's working again.

I suppose stuff like that is an "organizer" system for making me update when I need to...

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 30, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 30, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084315/ #LWN #Linux

New episode of the Fedora Podcast is up: What is EPEL?

Noah and Eric sit down with Carl George @carlwgeorge who leads the EPEL team at Red Hat, to cover what EPEL actually is, the golden rule behind its reputation, and the changes he's proposing for EPEL 11. If you run enterprise Linux, this one's for you.

▶️ https://youtu.be/NIs6nlvv5HY

🎧 https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/57

#Fedora #EPEL #Linux #RHEL #CentOS #EnterpriseLinux

Steam Beta adds HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-beta-adds-hdr-streaming-on-steam-deck-oled/

#Steam #SteamDeck #Linux #SteamOS #PCGaming

[$] Debugging information for inlined functions

BPF programs use BPF type format (BTF) debugging information in order to determine how to interact with functions in the kernel. Specifically, tracing a kernel function involves f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1083985/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF

#COSMIC 1.5 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-5-desktop-environment-released-with-various-improvements

#OpenSource #Linux

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A screenshot of the COSMIC desktop enviornment showing the Frosted Glass effect.

Three stable kernels for Wednesday fix a single regression

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086047/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

[$] Fedora approves a smaller GRUB

Leo Sandoval and Marta Lewandowska have put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45, which is expected in October, to provide a separate, slimmed-down version of GRUB for a niche u [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1085609/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #systemd #XFS

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/ #LWN #Linux #GCC

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