The GNU Guix System
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices. ↫ GNU Guix website Guix is basically GNU’s approach to a reproducible, functional package manager, very similar to Nix because, well, it’s based on Nix. GNU also has a Linux distribution built around Nix, the GNU Guix System, which is fully ‘libre’ as al … ⌘ Read more

Android 16’s Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course we ran Doom
Regardless, the fact that Android’s Linux Terminal can run graphical apps like Doom now is good news. Hopefully we’ll be able to run more complex desktop-class Linux programs in the future. I tried running GIMP, for example, but it didn’t work. Eventually, Android should be able to run Linux apps as well as Chromebooks can, as I believe one of the goals … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.14 with Rust: “We are almost at the ‘write a real driver in Rust’ stage now”
With the Linux 6.13 kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman described the level of Rust support as a “tipping point” for Rust drivers with more of the Rust infrastructure having been merged. Now for the Linux 6.14 kernel, Greg describes the state of the Rust driver possibilities as “almost at the “write a real driver in rust” stage now, depending on what you want to do.“ ↫ Michael … ⌘ Read more

Ahh yes, what I like to call “wild wild west” upgrading.😂
Felt like that when I upgraded/updated an Arch Linux machine that had been sitting for a couple years unused.

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times, the AI bots would clog the lines with hundreds of IP addresses simultaneously as soon as they decided … ⌘ Read more

When a sole maintainer steps down, Linux drivers become orphans
The Linux kernel has become such an integral, core part of pretty much all aspects of the technology world, and corporate contributions to the kernel make up such a huge chunk of the kernel’s ongoing development, it’s easy to forget that some parts of the kernel are still maintained by some lone person in Jacksonville, Nebraska, or whatever. Sadly, we were reminded of this today when the sole maintainer of … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 released
Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for benefiting multi-CCD Ryzen X3D processors, the new AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” server processors will now default to AMD P-State rather than ACPI CPUFreq for better power efficiency, the start of Intel Xe3 graphics bring-up, support for many older (pre-M1) Apple devices like numerous iPads and iPhones, NVMe 2.1 specification support, and AutoFDO and Propeller optimization support when compiling the Linux kernel with … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de my util-linux 2.40.2 version of cal seems to do week 53.

Image

@bender@twtxt.net The tagline of Timeline is “a single user twtxt/yarn pod” not just a yarn pod. Similar to GNU/Linux. When we came up with the concept of Yarn Social it was a way to rebrand twtxt with the extensions that makes conversations like this possible.

@bender@twtxt.net Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.

Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason

tl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It’s written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It’s “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.

MIT licensed, source on github: [github.com/phoboslab/high_impact](https://github … ⌘ Read more

Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason

tl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It’s written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It’s “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.

MIT licensed, source on github: [github.com/phoboslab/high_impact](https://github … ⌘ Read more

and you can even mount it on windows/linux/os x!

On my blog: My Linux Story https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/02/18/linux.html #rant #linux

On my blog: Scheduling Reminders, but Not Too Late https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/27/too-late.html #linux #programming #techtips

My linux installs all have TPM enabled. …

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it’s true. Thing is, Linux as a desktop operating system sucked in 1996 yet I adopted it then anyway because I wanted nothing to do with MS anymore 😆 I know it’s not for everyone but I’m pretty tolerant of a less-than-stellar experience if it means I can be free of big-company garbage.

I haven’t tried a Linux-based smartphone OS in a long time so I don’t have any idea how bad/good it might be. I figure when I finally break down and get a new phone I’ll experiment on my current phone.

@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net F-droid. Getting APKs from developers you trust and side-loading them. Some flavor of Linux. Some distro of the open source parts of Android.

There are lots of options. Bit by bit I divest from anything that’s distributed from Google Play. With my latest phone I find and download APKs so that I could have the app without all the Google crap woven through it. By the time I need to replace this one I’ll be fully free of Google Play. Most of my apps come from F-droid now. You can a perfectly functional phone/pocket computer unless you’re addicted to installing dozens of corporate apps.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, I’m still with jmp.chat, and still very happy with them overall. Their beta period ended and their pricing increased a bit, so that’s worth a bit of consideration. I also managed to get one of their eSIMs. I’m slightly less happy with that aspect of their service, though they seem to be actively working on improving it and I knew in advance this was an early beta kind of thing and likely to have issues.

The only unreliability with calls that I’ve noticed was traceable to the unreliability of my own internet connection. I’ve confused incoming calls by simultaneously making and taking calls from the computer and the phone, but I think it’s understandable that problems might arise and that’s not a real use case for me. Once or twice I did not receive a text transcription of a voice mail, but the support is usually quick to address things like that.

I host my own XMPP server and have for a good decade now, and that’s what I use with jmp.chat. I can’t speak to the quality of their hosting options.

Group texting works fine for me if one of the other parties initiates the group text. I haven’t tried to initiate my own group text in well over a year; last time I did, it didn’t work. That may or may not be a problem for you, and it may or may not have been fixed by now. Worth investigating more if it’s important. I should also say I’ve only ever used group texts with 3 participants, and can’t speak to what happens if there are more nor whether there are upper limits.

Group texts don’t use MUC. Rather, they use a special syntax in the JID, something like “+1XXX,+1YYY,…,+1ZZZ@cheogram.com”, where the + and , are required, the XXX, YYY, through ZZZ are the phone numbers (no dashes or other special chars just digits), and the @cheogram.com at the end is required.

I recommend the cheogram app if you’re on android. It has a lot of nice features on top of the Conversations base. I use gajim on my (linux) computer and it works well with jmp.chat.

I’m happy to answer other questions if you have them!

Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.

Image

I’m not the only one who embarked on a path to r … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I’m pretty sad.

At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Doesn’t even compile on my system, which is apparently broken:

> cc -Wall -Wextra -o win win.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk4)                                                                                                        
cc: error: unrecognized argument in option ‘-mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-4.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/graphene-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/graphene-1.0/include -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -lgtk-4 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgraphene-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0’
cc: note: valid arguments to ‘-mfpmath=’ are: 387 387+sse 387,sse both sse sse+387 sse,387

On my blog: Graphs with Chart.js https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/10/chart-js.html #linux #programming #techtips

**RT by @mind_booster: Agenda da Comunidade #Ubuntu Portugal para o mês de Abril:

• Encontro da Comunidade em Sintra e festa de lançamento do @ubuntu 23.04, no dia 20 de Abril

• Festa Lunar, no @CentroLinuxPt para poderem conhecer, experimentar e installar o #LunarLobster

#Linux #SoftwareLivre**
Agenda da Comunidade #Ubuntu Portugal para o mês de Abril:

\* Encontro da Comunidade em Sintra e festa de lançamento do @ubuntu 23.04 … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Normalizing Image Type and Size https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/05/file-type-size.html #linux #programming #techtips

**RT by @mind_booster: Não se esqueçam! De 12 a 16 de Fevereiro há MiniDebConf em Lisboa!
https://pt2023.mini.debconf.org/

#Linux #Debian #SoftwareLivre #OpenSource**
Não se esqueçam! De 12 a 16 de Fevereiro há MiniDebConf em Lisboa!

pt2023.mini.debconf.org/

#Linux #Debian #SoftwareLivre #OpenSource ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: MiniDebConf Lisbon 12 - 16 February 2023
#Debian #Linux #FOSS

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/01/msg00001.html**
MiniDebConf Lisbon 12 - 16 February 2023

#Debian #Linux #FOSS

lists.debian.org/debian-deve… ⌘ Read more

**So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willingly choose to use Windows over GNU/Linux. 🤷‍♂️**
So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willing … ⌘ Read more

There’s only one major regret I have about switching from Windows to Linux for my personal computers, and that regret is that I no longer have Winamp.

RT by @mind_booster: Tens interesse em contribuir para uma iniciativa que gere actividades práticas de partilha de conhecimento e experiências práticas sobre #Linux e #SoftwareLivre/#OpenSource?
Então vem conhecer-nos já no próximo Sábado dia 22 às 15:30, no @lxmill!
https://inauguracao.centrolinux.pt
Tens interesse em contribuir para uma iniciativa que gere actividades práticas de partilha de conhecimento e experiências práticas sobre #Linux e [#SoftwareLivre](https … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Today I published a snap for the #GNUnet Messenger application: https://snapcraft.io/messenger-gtk

Still got some things to improve but now more #Linux users should have the option to try it out.**
Today I published a snap for the #GNUnet Messenger application: snapcraft.io/messenger-gtk

Still got some things to improve but now more #Linux users should have the optio … ⌘ Read more

**2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:

1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *soheavy nowadays!), but it works.

Then a 10yrs old laptop upgrading from Win8 to Ubuntu 22.04, fresh!**
2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:

1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *so*heavy* nowadays!), but it works.

Then a 10yrs ol … ⌘ Read more

I just went to type the phrase “I avoid Linux like the plague” but then remembered that we’ve all learned that most people won’t actually go much out of their way to avoid the plague.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com (#twksmyq) IPv6 because localhost -> ::1 is preferred on linux over ol’ 127.0.0.1

Now this is very useful.. it means when yarn is doing an HTTP request to itself its not closing the connection. that could mean a http.Response Body is not getting closed.

Oh, me too: FreeBSD, macOS, and Solaris in server environments extensively, and Linux, AIX, HP/UX, Irix, probably others I’m forgetting. Plan 9 is a whole other class of thing.

On the blog: So You Need an Image of Random Images… https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/06/collage.html #programming #techtips #linux #blog

On the blog: Startup, but Not Really Startup https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/22/startup.html #programming #techtips #linux

Hey, from my perspective on Plan 9, all these linuxes are the same junk.

uname; I have an account. I just don’t know how to differentiate linux especially.

@adi@twtxt.net Some linux; how does one tell which?

So chuffed. Partner got on the ole Amilo Pro and Bang! was bankin’ ‘n’ spreadsheetin’, oblivious to Linux.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small-D date Night https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/18/date.html #techtips #programming #shell #date #gnu #linux #calendar

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small Technology Notes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/05/recutils.html #techtips #recutils #linux #sqlite #export

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small Technology Notes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/01/29/tips.html #techtips #git #linux