@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Despite being free, what's your biggest complaint about the Linux desktop? 🤔

yianiris ,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

The attempt by IBM/RH to control everything in linux through and use of a desktop

@nixCraft

@tbernard@mastodon.social avatar tbernard , to random

Boiling The Ocean 7 is happening THIS WEEKEND 😎🌊🎉

We have an all-star list of special guests from out of town, and a packed agenda. If you want to help build the future of image-based OSes, mainline Linux phones, local-first, and more then get your tickets now add yourself to the pad: https://pad.gnome.org/1EIXiLe8Ri2St_ayB8uRHg

Like last time, we also have some lightning talk slots, and on Saturday night there's live music by the one and only @jimmac ! The hype is real 🔥

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@JesienLinuksowa@fosstodon.org avatar JesienLinuksowa , to random Polish

🔥 Image-based Linux with systemd [EN]

@zbyszek , a developer and maintainer, will explore the future of image-based, immutable, cryptographically verified installations, covering engineering challenges, secure updating/extending, and how tools like build installation images, initrds, and extensions from distro packages.

📍 Where: Hotel przy Młynie, Rybnik
📅 When: 24–26 October 2025
🔗 Register now: https://jesien.org/2025/zapisy

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
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@collabmarkov@fedi.lunya.pet avatar collabmarkov Bot , to random

twinks from

@ariadne@treehouse.systems avatar ariadne , to random

it is beyond frustrating how much damage / misinformation the anti-systemd/anti-wayland/anti-woke Linux weirdos have spread throughout the years

dermoth ,
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@mcc @ariadne If I could name just one irritating thing about it's the "external" unit generators that are compiled binaries instead of scripts, I get it's faster but when I came across them I wished I could just test them or modify them on the spot.

Other than that it's a learning curve, but I found it sufficiently customisable to fix any issues or implement any service or device fix-up I ever needed. It even manage my user services now (managed and running under my own UID).

@bsi@social.bund.de avatar bsi , to random German

"Digitale Souveränität für Deutschland und Europa ist möglich!" Unter dieser Überschrift hat unsere BSI-Präsidentin einen offenen Brief der Open Source Business Alliance [email protected] erhalten.

Hier hat Claudia Plattner ihre Antwort veröffentlicht: 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/claudiaplattner_antwort-der-bsi-pr%C3%A4sidentin-auf-den-offenen-activity-7366088942661554176-1Sgv

TLDR: Durchaus halten wir als BSI die Digitale Souveränität Europas für erreichbar. Und verfolgen dabei eine Doppel-Strategie.

Mehr auch hier: 👉 https://www.egovernment.de/bsi-doppelstrategie-fuer-digitale-souveraenitaet-a-0f8299c5851be6267d34191d25e69976/

T_X ,
@T_X@chaos.social avatar

@bsi gibt es zur Doppelstrategie noch konkreteres zum Absichern von Software von z.B. US Anbietern? Bin da sowohl aus dem Netzpolitik, Heise und der offenen Antwort immernoch nicht ganz schlau draus geworden.

Gedanklich wäre ich da jetzt, dass man vll. VM+container Lösungen unter Linux und deren Security features weiter absichern/fördern würde ( proxmox@lemmy.world icon Proxmox , , , , , , , , , , namespaces...). Aber vll. auch nur Wunschdenken bei mir?

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@RedwoodSec@infosec.exchange avatar RedwoodSec , to random

I’ve never looked at systemd doc before, but honestly, this is pretty fabulous as far as documentation goes. Generally, technical documentation has improved by leaps and bounds since the 80s. I’m excited GNOME is going to depend on systemd’s userdb. Is that weird?
https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/

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@whitequark@mastodon.social avatar whitequark , to random

programmer's definition of "breaking change" for semver purposes: "whatever is breaking my personal use case"

JdeBP ,
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@mcc @dalias @whitequark @becomethewaifu

Changing compiler is not the problem. But changing the standard library becomes one. systemd gained problems with because of this.

https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/114646325165347305

JdeBP ,
@JdeBP@tty0.social avatar

@mcc @dalias @whitequark @becomethewaifu

It didn't replace van Smoorenberg init+rc. It replaced Upstart. The existence of Upstart is the part of history that many people forget or gloss over.

van Smoorenberg init+rc always was a straw man. The Debian committee included it, but everyone acknowledged at the time that the main contenders were systemd, Upstart, and OpenRC.

@zeab@fosstodon.org avatar zeab , to random

I'm getting the itch of building my next linux install using and . 😎

Basic point, memory of keeps getting further. 😅 Can build out subvolumes that are mounted read only. No modification of the /usr or even /etc necessary.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-confext.8.en

@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange avatar harrysintonen , to random

Insecure defaults can lead to surprises. When creating FIFO sockets with systemd, be sure to note that SocketMode defaults to 0666 - that is world readable and writable. That is: any local user can communicate with the FIFO. If your FIFO is used to perform privileged operations you must ensure that either the FIFO file itself is located in secured location or set SocketMode to stricter value.

I spotted one such insecure use in cloud-init: the hotplug FIFO was world writable. This is CVE-2024-11584 and fixed in cloud-init 25.1.3.

The commit fixing this is in https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/6265

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@CalcProgrammer1@mastodon.social avatar CalcProgrammer1 , to random

Upgraded all of my working arm64 devices to the latest edge! Also wrote a small script to do all my preferred app installs and some configurations (my custom squeekboard layout, autostart TouchpadEmulator, set default scaling to 200%) to make reinstalling less painful.

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@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
aho ,
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@gamingonlinux I would have tested it, but this far it's been deeply depending on which I think it's wrong way to go, as there are multiple init system and not the
way of doing things, posrting getting nasty as say BSD don't use systemd at all.

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@ajn142@infosec.exchange avatar ajn142 , to random

Alright, stupid question for my friends. I’ve got a cloud instance running Ubuntu 22.04 where a script in the initramfs is bringing up the NIC with DHCPv4 only, and marking it as critical. Because of this, I can’t seem to make -networkd reload the configuration to bring up a secondary IPv4 address nor the two IPv6 addresses. How would y’all solve this?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Job Interviewer: Describe your process for troubleshooting a network issue.

Sysadmin candidate: First, I check if it's DNS.
Second, I check if it's DNS.
Third, I check if it's still DNS.
If it's not DNS, then it's a cosmic ray.

p3ter ,
@p3ter@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft : Cosmic rays or timesync not in order? 👹 🕜 🕑

( vs -resolved anyone?!)

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

What did the sysadmin say to their cat on ?

Looks like we've got a purr-fectly good day to tail -f /var/log/messages and relax!

hisold ,
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@nixCraft tail: cannot open '/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory

As it should be.

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random