Dendrobatus Azureus

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#MachineLanguage #Hexadecimal #PLA906114 #Motorola68k #Analog #Musical #Instruments #LP 1/4" #Tape #Tascam

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2025-05-14 19:05:54

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Pong me!

2025-05-14 19:05:32

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Composition with a cheap direct box which failed horribly in a very short time and a roll of Rosin core solder, deliberately set close to an ancient betamax video recorder.
#Photography #monochromatic #monochrome #Sepia #under_exposure #directBox #XLR #Jack
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2025-04-25 01:34:00

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I still need some more feel at home config help. As you can see here I love having vertical gradients on my displays, but in KDE and Vallpaper I have not found how I can set gradients on the side of my wallpaper which are deliberately not 16:9 since I love to look at (vertical) gradients. Where do I need to look to achieve that? Is there a KDE action that I need to define for all my 20 KDE desktops?
.🖋️ #xFace #KDE #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #hugo #gvfs #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw
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2025-04-24 03:36:26

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pong me
@npub12dn…0hjt

2025-04-24 02:22:52

KDE keyboard shortcut note:
Goto
system settings > shortcuts > kwin
Check out the actions which can be bound to keyboard shortcuts.
#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android
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2025-04-23 13:29:29

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Pong me!
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2025-04-23 13:23:45

In 2005, Google paid $50 million to a software engineer called Andy Rubin, together with his team for a dying phone company giving away their FREE software.
Critics called it the "dumbest acquisition ever."
Today, that "dumb decision" is worth over $500 BILLION and is the reason why you are holding a less expensive but quality phone that is not an iPhone
Here's how Google saw the future before anyone else: and built the world's most used mobile device - Android phones
It all started with a tiny company called Android Inc.
Founded by 4 top tech entrepreneurs and business executives, Led by Andy Rubin.
Their goal?
To create smarter mobile devices
that are more aware of their owner's location and preferences, and an operating system that is completely free & open-source.
Any manufacturer could use, modify, or make it their own. But at this time, this seemed insane.
Because the company was struggling financially:
No products.
No revenue.
Just 4 guys and a dream.
To make it worse, the mobile phone industry was locked down tight by software giants:
• Nokia controlled its software
• Microsoft charged for Windows Mobile
• BlackBerry kept everything in-house
The idea of giving away a free Mobile phone Operating system (OS) was Laughable.
But Google, just as they saw the future of YouTube, saw something much bigger - Mobile phones would become the primary way people access the internet. With that google search engine will be irresistible
They weren't buying software.
They were buying the future of computing.
To protect their search engine business, they pushed to buy
This was the real threat:
If Microsoft or Nokia dominated mobile, they could:
• Block Google Search
• Push their own services
• Control the future of digital advertising
Google couldn't let that happen.
So they made their boldest move yet. Buy out the entire company, not just the product.
But they didn't just buy Android. They kept it open-source.
Why?
This was genius because they wanted:
• To give Phone makers free software,
• help Android developers get a free platform
• Help Users have more choices.
Result? Companies like Samsung, Huawei, HTC can distribute their Android devices freely
Everyone won...
Except Google's competitors. 😁
Blackberry
Nokia
Microsoft
Because within 10 years of Android's free open-source purchase, their company was gone.
wondering why you have not seen them again today.
Cos' everyone prefers an open-source free phone where you don't have to pay for anything after the initial purchase.
That's the masterstroke
In 2008, the first Android phone was launched;
The HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1)
It wasn't pretty.
It wasn't smooth.
But it was the beginning of a revolution...
Because Google did something unprecedented:
They gave manufacturers complete freedom:
• Change the interface
• Add new features
• Customize everything
This sparked an explosion of innovation...
Companies like Samsung, HTC, LG, and others could now compete with Apple without building an OS from scratch.
The result?
Android powers 71% of all smartphones worldwide.
That's billions of devices running Google's software.
But here's what makes this truly genius:
In everything Google builds, it always finds a way to monetize.
How does Google make money from its $50 million investment?
The truth is, Google doesn't make money from Android directly.
Instead, they make money from:
• Play Store fees
• Google Search
• Digital advertising
• User data
The platform is free, but the ecosystem is priceless.
This $50M bet didn't just transform mobile.
It transformed how we:
• Connect
• Shop
• Work
• Live
The lesson?
Sometimes the biggest opportunities look like the riskiest bets.
Google's Android gamble teaches us:
The best investments aren't about what something is today.
They're about what something could become tomorrow.
And sometimes, giving away value is the best way to capture it.
Source FB
#TechStories #Android #OpenSource #Alphabet #Google #Nokia #GSM #Linux #POSIX #BlackBerry #HTC #LG

2025-04-23 13:07:30

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2025-04-23 11:50:54

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pong me

2025-04-23 11:49:14

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Im starting to achieve platform distro OS translucency regarding more and more projects. Now I can smoothly work in my hugo projects from any distro I want in Linux. All I need to do is keep the copies I work on in sync.
Since I dont run zfs jet on a centralized HDD / SSD I simply use mc -a to do the job manually.
Normally it should be trivial, but the hugo projects want rm -Rf dir otherwise old files with similar size can be changed, thus screwing up continuity
Since my KDE MX install is moothing out in cfg features I need, which is a combo of XFce components and KDE, I can smoothly switch to the KDE distro and work further while I tune it.
I chose to keep XFce seperate from KDE distro wise due to size constraints I;ve put on my boot partition
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #xFace #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

2025-04-23 01:09:37

Now
In here you're taught how to de Google yourself meaning how to use alternative applications on your phone your smart dumb phone
#OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #Alphabet #Android
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
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2025-04-22 15:03:23

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Pong me!
@npub12dn…0hjt

2025-04-22 14:58:59

Linus Torvalds has coded git two decades ago.
Learn about why how who and where here
https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI?si=s8tDVh1e8dBTGWkJ
🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tcsh #fish #git #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #coding #1024DaysOfCode #github #programming

2025-04-21 16:13:55

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When was the last time you paid close attention to warnings in a partition Management program? You don't remember? I'm going to tell you beautiful story. Jerry has his data on an SSD. Being the power user is Jerry totally disregarded the fact that he had to make a backup of his data. Jerry wanted to use a partition management program like the one I have included in the photograph I've just made.
He took a few precautions, made sure that he wasn't any browser, made sure that he wasn't on the internet, hell he even plugged out his internet router.
One thing Jerry did not anticipate was a catastrophic failure of a piece of critical hardware in his beautiful computer.
His gorgeous AMD processor had damage, heat damage
TSC = unstable
His GPU integrated in his CPU also had heat damage. When he makes certain simple moves, like moving a window, the GPU goes haywire, sends bad data to the CPU with the unstable TSC and everything cascades down, resulting in a beautiful green screen which Jerry had seen hundreds to thousands of times. These screens usually occurred only when Jerry had opened a browser. Jerry figured he was safe since he had not opened a browser since this session of the Operating System had started
**Wrong**
In the middle of operation that I have just described in the photograph in fact at the beginning within just the second minute of the operation that needs two to three hours, the machine did not crash to green screen, it terminated his Xsession effectively destroying his partition editor.
Jerry was flabbergasted something he had not anticipated
All his data was lost
Since he was not running ZFS, there was no way that he could restore or roll back a snapshot
^Z
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #xFace #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw
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2025-04-20 18:26:10

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The power of KDE_connect in action!
#OpenSource #KDE #KDEConnect
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2025-04-20 18:24:22

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https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/114369705143061314

2025-04-20 02:03:48

Look at the year 2K17 yet I still used DVD storage to boot ghostBSD!
.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #ghostBSD #BSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #tcsh #distro #KDE #DVD #RetroComputing #retro #storage #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-04-19 13:33:07

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Sometimes micro migration failures bring blessings, I learned how to use
`xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`
from the commandline because it started to fail to add the date to the screencaps after the migration on my main MX linux install which is XFce4 based
This sequence also opens a thunar window sorted to date with the screencap. Of course the sorting is previously configured in thunar
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw
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2025-04-18 21:28:18

Playing the awesome Star Wars the Old Republic again.
This is a boosted toon that I specifically use to do certain Missions. I earned the boosted toon by playing the game for years
#Streaming #SWTOR #Gaming #MMORPG #StarWars #lore #mission
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2025-04-18 20:58:12

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Pong my Ping!

2025-04-18 20:49:37

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I've encountered an annoying problem
A critical shared Library that's used by FFMpeg and of course also used by MPlayer was not in the installation. It was an odd because even a remove reinstall of FFMpeg didn't fix the problem.
Since I'm in no mood to install a development environment from the command line to compile FFMpeg from scratch I just wiped the KDE distro and started all over.
While I was busy with the new installation so I was on the live ISO FFMPEG worked just fine and the library was there working perfectly.
You can already guess what happened when I booted into the new installation.
FFMPEG was installed by default by the distribution, since VLC is installed by default, but the shared library was missing!
¡WTF!
Then I encountered even more bugs, privilege escalation errors!
These bugs and errors have nothing to do with KDE!
They have to do with problems with the distribution from the perspective of my maintainer. It is my task to see if I can reproduce the problems after I fix them by hand if that does not take too much time and effort.
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

2025-04-18 08:07:10

Right as we speak a copy of one of my large audio projects is made to a mechanical HDD. I ask myself why technology has not evolved in a way that single consumer grade drives can take the TB of data they hold in at speeds that are proportional to their size.
It takes 10 minutes for a puny 100GB to be transferred at about 160MB/s from the M.2 SSD to the mechanical spinner which still rotates at that lousy 7200RPM.
My Ultrawide SCSI Fijitsu HDD on my A4000T rotated at 10.000RPM! That HDD is from the last century!!!
IT still works!
If HDD companies put in the proper research we may not be having 20.000RPM drives on servers, because of mechanical limits, but we should have had 10.000 rpm drives now for consumer grade mechanical HDDs.
#Data #Backup #Amiga #Fujitsu #SCSI #HDD #UltraWide #68Pins #mechanical #magnetic
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2025-04-17 17:47:25

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pong!

2025-04-17 17:44:00

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The next step was to config KDE connect in this KDE. Luckily I know that I need gufw to migrate my profile, from the xFce MX linux to this KDE MX linux.
It was a matter of installing gufw, which is not default in KDE distro, since it has its own nice interface. For me sticking with what I know is the easiest since I want to drive KDE on desktop again after so many decades, even though XFce is still going to be used most, due to shortcut muscle memory
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper
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2025-04-17 08:38:14

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Pong

2025-04-17 07:59:28

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I also encountered another problem; I can immediately tell you that it's not a KDE specific problem but it popped up in konsole.
The subject is fonts and the section is point size. The monitors I use are not of a small resolution. In fact an ideal IPS LED panel layout for me would be an 8K panel two 4K panels flanking it and two 1080p ultra ultra wide panels at a left and right of those.
With such a setup I can monitor different machines at the glance and control them with ease.
Even on my 1080p Ultra Ultra wide panel the default Point sizes for fonts are too small. On a scratch KDE based MX Linux installation, the following problem was repeated twice in Konsole.
The first time I changed font point sizes, closed konsole. When I reopened konsole the fixed with font, was replaced with one that appended spaces behind every couple of letters.
This rendered konsole unusable for work.
Changing the fonts Point sizes to the defaults again did not fix the problem.
Sinds that installation was Vanilla and didn't have enough space for home and root on one partition to actually Play with KDE, I wiped it and started again.
This time I deliberately did not change the point sizes even though it was hard to read. I then copied over some configuration directories from my other installation to this One, none of them related to anything KDE wise or any fonts directory. When I rebooted that installation The problem occurred for the second Time.
As with the wallpaper issue, I immediately converted that energy of irritation to something positive. I troubleshooted the font problem for a short while and when I couldn't isolate it I did a simple thing. I created a couple of other accounts on the same KDE installation to see if I could repeat the error.
That reproduction step is vital before a bug report is created. The other accounts were also residing on my other xFace MX Linux installations, which means I could simply copy them over to the other home partition where KDE was looking at.
In the other accounts I could not repeat the error.
That means a bug report is worthless because repeatability is crucial. Since the usage of a terminal in the K Desktop Environment is important, I changed my strategy and simply installed the xFace Four terminal in KDE. In the end that was a nice move since I know all the keyboard shortcuts of the terminal by hand they are in muscle memory and they have been there for years.
As a bonus I also installed other good shells in MX KDE the hashtags tell you which.
Right now I have a KDE installation in which I can actually work based upon the MX Linux KDE variant
I shall link a couple of photographs in a few minutes
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper

2025-04-17 07:41:54

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Pong

2025-04-17 07:39:56

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Pong

2025-04-17 06:40:26

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You can use these tips to do it with activities, because those are good to learn too in KDE
I have 16 desktops on multiple IPS LED panels so for me that's not an option
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-get-kde-5-plasma-to-have-separate-wallpapers-and-separate-widgets/3770
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper
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2025-04-17 06:38:32

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Vallpaper can be found here https://store.kde.org/p/1197828
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

2025-04-17 06:36:17

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My next step was something unexpected.
In XFce4 my desktops all have different backgrounds per IPS Led Panel. Its a matter if context menu key (on my keyboard I have one) select background and move the program to the next display beside it and repeat, then move it to the next desktop, display besides AD Infinitum
KDE says HELL NO to that ease.
I did some reasearch and saw that it was easy peasy in KDE 4.5.x then got replaced with activities in KDE Plasma 5.x
The simple command is now either kwin scripts or a lot of keystrokes and time.
Instead of getting pissed I went further and found that what the programmers replaced with activities (which are POWERFULL and versatile) and also usuable for wallpapers per VTop (Virtual desktop) was eased back (in 2022) with VallPaper
Source is here
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-12-03-implementing-different-wallpapers-on-kde-virtual-desktops
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

2025-04-16 03:22:08

Who recognises this wonderful retro Technology, used in Times Long past for retro places where UUCP was the language between machines, port 23 was actively used over POTS twisted pair wires, and the Sysop could read all text you wrote...
#RetroComputing #AF16550 #ATX3DT #ATA #MNP5 #Telebit #programming #Waffle #BBS
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2025-04-15 21:13:16

I have reached 700 posts on this account. Time to celebrate by riding my bike
.🖋️ #fediverse #socialmedia #Mastodon #community #Linux #OpenSource #UniversalLove 💕#fresh #programming
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2025-04-15 17:59:52

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What I still need to do is find out again where I can configure custom shortcuts to quickly switch between desktops using the keyboard
@npub1v57…ya93
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-04-15 17:34:43

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There's one thing I had not done in a long time which is install a distribution of my choice with a full KDE desktop manager. I haven't done that in more than 2 decades. KDE has been wonderful at it's infancy and KDE is still wonderful now.
Since MX Linux is my distribution of choice, it's logical that I installed the KDE version of that distribution even if it's just for a test drive.
I've allocated just 20 gigs for KDE which means it's tight with space but it's still usable for a test run.
One tool I immediately missed was gparted the powerful gnome UI, which puts the precision of partition manipulation at your fingertips, without the chances of making costly mistakes if you don't pay enough attention or are not affluent enough with the commands in your favorite shell.
I missed that tool during the installation of mxKDE because I needed to add partitiond before the installation could proceed I just left Blank Space on an SSD.
Apart from that I can tell you from the initial view that KDE has not just matured, advanced and elevated itself. KDE has become so lightweight in resource usage that it can complete with very Light Desktop managers.
You can still edit your widgets up to & icons almost the pixel. The things that I love about KDE from decades ago are still there and are even more powerful.
Since I started to use KDE when GPU usage on the desktop was not even a thing, you can imagine how fast the DE is now and a period where GPU usage is normal for everything.
Out of the box KDE is already fantastic. Go and see what KDE can be for you, by installing it yourself
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-04-15 03:55:01

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Pong

2025-04-15 03:51:45

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Anubis was programmed by this guy
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/
#DDoS #LLM #bots #infosec #OpenAI #Linux #KDE #GitHub #GitLab #sh #AI
🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming

2025-04-15 03:46:28

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Pong

2025-04-15 03:41:40

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I want you to meet Anubis
This is a wonderful tool, a powerful program designed against artificial intelligence large language models theft of resources.
It's not perfect, it's not finished this is an ongoing onslaught by the LLM Bots
https://anubis.techaro.lol/
#DDoS #LLM #bots #infosec #OpenAI #Linux #KDE #GitHub #GitLab #sh #AI
🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-04-15 02:32:38

I have just taken the time to thoroughly read the following article
This article has led me to the conclusion that an Open{source} War will have to be waged against LLM large language model abusers of data collection.
The work of these bots is pure DDoS denial of service. An interesting set of offensive tools have been programmed and are already implemented. They have proven to be quite effective and are being refined into sophistication to literally work to knock these networks of bots offline, in a DOT MMORPG approach.
It is unthinkable that LLM bots steal our Open Source resources servers bandwidth and financial cashflow without serious repercussions!
WTF are LLM companies thinking? Even Meta has waged war against us!
LLM has waged a brutal war.
The Open Source Community is responding; even those at The Dark Side of the internet are making tools to assist everyone against Artificial Intelligence LLM DDoS attacks, which knock whole Open Source Networks offline, as we speak.
It doesn't matter if in the end it looks like a Terminator landscape globally on the IT scale. Open source will win. LLM will disappear...
#DDoS #LLM #bots #infosec #OpenAI #Linux #KDE #GitHub #GitLab #Bash #sh
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2025-04-14 11:29:12

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You get the latest version of everything Debian related & XFce goes up to a new version too
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-04-14 11:21:11

When you want to run a middleweight Linux distribution and you already love & know Debian but don't want to run on super stable Server level since you are running a workstation *not* a server MX Linux is a very good choice as a distribution for you
You've got the power of Debian you'll get the stability of Debian yet you are bleeding edge and don't have applications which are rock stable but for a workstation a tad old
If you don't have a recent MX Linux installation you can download the new ISO version 23.6
If you have v23.5 there's no need to execute a fresh installation. The updated executables will roll out to you automatically.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/
.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming
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2025-03-20 16:35:11

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.
Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null
@npub12dn…0hjt
#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
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2025-02-10 12:56:52

In this post Stephan teaches you why he moves many of his servers from Linux to freeBSD.
Here is some background History of Mine:
Because I have been using Linux ever since the pre-alpha days, I know many things about the operating system that most other users do not. There was no other way to install the operating system in the beginning, than to compile the kernel on another operating system, to hex edit a boot sector, then boot to see if your kernel would actually properly spawn on your machine. In the beginning the hex editing was done on the floppy disk you could not boot from the hard drive.
From that point, you had to go back to the foreign operating system, compile the rest that you needed for minimum functionality, then put them in a convoluted manner on the file system which was then Minix.
It was normal in that period where you first installed Linux to do not just everything yourself, but to know what to do otherwise you would never get the functioning operating system.
In the end you would also compile GCC in that foreign operating system, because there was no way for you to do it in Linux with a compiler you did not have yet {chicken egg dilemma}
Only after GCC was compiled, were you able to do Native compiling in Linux on the Minix file system.
It is exactly this manner of thinking, that is still bothering Linux distributions today. Somewhere there are people who still think, that there are many users who want to Tinker with the operating system, when they just want to go from one major version to the next.
This manner of thinking breaks things when you need to upgrade from minor to Major version.
One thing that has always bothered me, is that a simple major update from the operating system from one person to the next can **still*" literally break things in unexpected ways, because of the way that Upstream handles certain commands.
For no good reasons commands like ifconfig where depreciated, the other example's also like arp.
Ifconfig has been in Unix Forever.
Ifconfig is in muscle memory of hundreds of thousands of system operators. Ifconfig is a specialized command which does only one thing and it does it in a perfect manner and it has been doing it ever since UNIX existed.
It's still baffles me that I need to separately install the ifcommands, before I can work on a Linux system today, and that's with any any distribution
This is just one of the examples of why it is wrong to change commands on the fly, depreciating another set of commands, without giving the people the choice, at the beginning, to include it with the installation of the distribution
The IP Command is a good one, nice modern with colour output, ifconfig is still a very good command, nice, **stable** decades old, leave it be!
These are the major things, that often bring system operators to seek operating systems, where stability is first, where updates from minor to minor version go smoothly, and updates from minor to Major versions usually also go smoothly and where don't disappear 🫥 or are depreciated for trivial reasons.
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#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #RetroComputing #UNIX #History
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/
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2025-02-05 20:45:57

Are you just like me? Do you want to make fantastically beautiful posts and not be limited by a silly 500 character fence, but want to BANG intricate stories of 10.000 characters?
Don't be limited by those silly 500 character servers!
Browse over here, find an instance that's suitable to you and go there. The list doesn't have everyone who has that massive 5,000 character size, but the list has a lot of servers, so pick one choose one and go be the literary giant that you are
And yes there are servers which have a fantastically glorious 10,000 character limit!
@npub12dn…0hjt [@FediTips](https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips )
https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-size/
#Fediverse #SocialMedia #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #PostLimit #WomenWhoCode #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming
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2025-01-25 09:41:55

HDD SSD space should be counted in binary.
1KB in binary is 1024.
A 32 TB hard drive is in fact 30.517578125 TB unpartitioned /unformatted capacity, as the binary system on the computer actually uses it
I know about all those confusing terms that you can find when you go and search on different engines; those are just to confuse and convolute the fact that drives sold are under capacity
Counting storage in decimals is a crime, a marketing scheme which should have been outlawed globally.
#FileSystems #HDD #SSD #Storage #Standards #Binary #Hexadecimal #Linux #freeBSD #DOS #Partition #programming
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2025-01-18 21:29:21

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You must have a very sturdy version there, because the ones that were here in the tropics, where the temperatures can reach 38 to 41°C those did not survive for a long time, before their heads got out of alignment and they got magnetized quite fast too
In the tropics the belts of such a recorder were destroyed in about 8 years they just dried up & snapped
#RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #Datasette #Cassette #Tapes #FlightSimulator

2025-01-18 15:29:49

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It was a nice and sunny day the year 1982 Vincent's mother has made sandwiches for us the three of us who are going to play flight simulator. Vincent warned us that the loading time of Flight ✈️ Simulator was incredibly long, however since we were getting sandwiches, of which the bread 🥪 was made by Vincent's mother, with roasted chicken, that was made by Vincent mother, it was all fantastic. Vincent went to a very odd looking cassette recorder. Since I had already played flight simulator before, I wondered why Vincent went to a cassette recorder. It was a datasette, horrific cassette recorder for the Commodore 64 I had heard of. When it's hat became misaligned the datasette could not even read nor write anything.
Vincent clean the head of the data set carefully with 90% alcohol made by Mariënburg. He took out an original cassette with flight simulator by subLogic written on it.
He give the Load command for the datasette Load *,1 and press play on tape came on the screen of the Commodore 64.
He then pressed play on tape and said loading time about 4 minutes. The loading commenced; we were eating fantastic sandwiches; subLogic didn't use a turbo loader, so we had to wait a total of 7 minutes before the simulator was loaded
3.4 minutes for the initial load and then the rest for the final load since the whole 64 KB of the c64 was assigned for the sim.
At a certain Point in Time I heard the typical sound of the Piper Cherokee Archer slowly spinning up and reving idle.
Flight simulator had loaded in 7.35 minutes.
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Commodore #C64 #Commodore64 #subLOGIC #BruceArtwick #FlightSim #FlightSimulator #RetroSimming

2025-01-18 02:40:19

Google keeps on pushing AI on us thinking that we are not watching. With the latest Google device update a client for the Gemini LLM was installed without permission. Even when you repetitively remove The chat in your bloody SMS program {Google messages} that program keeps on inserting itself Ad Infinitum on your Android device
#Internet #Android #Linux #OpenSource #POSIX #programming #AI #Artificialintelligence #Google #Alphabet #War