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kzimmermann

@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org

An amateur hacker who works towards the advancement free software. Advocates for privacy and user freedom.

I have a #peertube channel hosted generously by Diode.zone:

https://diode.zone/video-channels/kzimmermann_podcast

:alpine: - :artix: - :freebsd: - :debian: - :raspberrypi:

Aeons ago (like 2016), I used to have an account on Quitter.se. You may consider this its spiritual continuation.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kzimmermann, to random
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The new output coloring behavior of the latest ip command makes it worse to find information in my opinion. Like, the important information is colored darker, reducing contrast against the terminal's background. Yes, coloring makes it easy to highlight a few key things against a sea of text, but I think they should re-think a little what to highlight in there, and the color scheme used as well.

stefano, to microsoft
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Big companies can't go down.
Big company services will never stop.
Big companies have THE CLOUD!

#Cloud #Bing #BingIsDown #Microsoft #Down #BigTech #IT #SysAdmin #CloudComputing

kzimmermann,
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@stefano ah yes, the cloud...

https://xkcd.com/908/

And the funniest part is it took down Duckduckgo with it. Goes to show how big tech eventually becomes cannibalistic.

kzimmermann, to random
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DuckDuckDown again...

kzimmermann,
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@aner same. But just 10min ago I bit it and changed my default search engine to a instance I used to use. Working great so far... except for some instant answers things like weather.

kzimmermann,
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Well it's back up again, but I kind of enjoyed the ride; re-visiting after a while was a great refresher. I shall do it more often to fight data silos.

kzimmermann, to random
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Finally updated to 3.20, as usual smooth as silk!

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.0-released.html

But, for some reason, this update removed my xinit package. Not to worry, just installed it with apk add xinit and then I had my desktop back again!

kzimmermann, to random
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Was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why I can't SSH to my home server from the work wifi, then suddenly realized the domain was blocked (who knows, they think that FreeDNS's addresses host malware or something).

Went into my account, chose a subdomain not in the top 15 most used ones, pointed it to my server. Thought: "surely it can't be this easy to work around."

It worked.

Security By Obscurity FTW.

stux, to apple
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needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

kzimmermann,
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@stux there is confirmation that they collaborated with the PRISM program in the past. Reformed offenders? Maybe. But also let's not forget that is a very good marketing and PR enabler. I personally still don't trust them.

kzimmermann, to accessibility
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So today I decided to turn down my laptop's screen resolution to make fonts a little bigger to match those in my large external monitor. I wondered if the experience would be negatively impacted by it.

Turns out it was the best decision I could have taken. I can read everything in both screens now, and probably will keep it this way even without the external screen. Not everything needs to be tiny.

kzimmermann,
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@ckoul no thanks. This requires me to fiddle with all the config files and some applications even just ignore it (GTK/Qt widgets and so). Setting a different display mode on other hand takes just one command (which I can automate) and just works. Less window space doesn't scare me; this tiling wm has 10 workspaces to share the load.

kzimmermann, to FreeBSD
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Seems that to this day a package for is still not built for the raspberrypi in 14-RELEASE. Without it, Office365 isn't 100% usable in it, and I'm forced to choose Debian at work despite the huge performance gap.

Cuh-mon, :(

https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium/

(N.B.: 100% would ditch it to use only Firefox if the support was the same, but alas, it's MS after all)

stefano, to random
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New iTerm2 release for MacOS. Reading the changelog:

"- Using OpenAI's ChatGPT API, iTerm2 can now write
commands for you, interpret the output of
commands, and guide you towards a goal.
"

kzimmermann,
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@stefano remember when these things were called dumb terminals? Well, they should just remain that way...

maulanahirzan, to random
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I am a bit sad because of my Thinkpad, but I successfully deployed FreeBSD to 5 Pis. Might share config.txt for HDMI display output.

image/png

kzimmermann,
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@maulanahirzan very nice! I have a Pi4 which I deployed as a a desktop for a few months. FreeBSD was what enabled it to be usable. I even used Office365 on it!

kzimmermann,
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@maulanahirzan it's not a magical solution, though. Considerably lagging performance in comparison to even a medium-range PC. But to think it's like an 80-dollar piece of hardware, it's packs quite an impressive value per price. Also: cooling...

kzimmermann,
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@maulanahirzan haha nice. Free AC and power... as long as building administration doesn't look at the bill tooo close :D

But don't they turn off the AC in the weekends?

debacle, to debian
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If you are curious and courageous, and run testing or unstable, you might like to try the latest snapshot of by @gajim. It features message replies and message reactions.

Expect bugs! This is not a release version, but a snapshot. It's called "experimental" for a reason.

echo "deb https​://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -t experimental gajim

kzimmermann,
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@debacle very nice, this fits my current stack of Debian right now. I did not know there was this release branch in there!
@gajim

kzimmermann, to random
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Ayy looks like #gpg borked in #Devuan unstable (silently, too. No apt warnings). I now can't validate the signatures of the packages anymore which means apt upgrade stopped working. Oops? :devuannew: :blobfoxpat:

kzimmermann,
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... and naturally, the apparent fix is being held back by apt: gpg, gpg-wks, etc all not upgradeable because of uncheckable signatures. :blobcattableflip:

Is there a way to force this upgrade, ignore signature and such?

ncopa, to random
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The 3.20 packages are now built and uploaded for all the architectures except for riscv64, which has 115 packages left to build.

This means you can now start use and test the v3.20 repos.

kzimmermann,
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@ncopa w00t! Time to update those installs :)

kzimmermann, to til
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that @JasonPunyon curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from and assorted Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:

https://seqlite.puny.engineering/

Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.

kzimmermann,
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Also, for who's wondering about the #Kiwix part:

https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

Arch, Gentoo Wikis, Wikipedia in several languages and levels of detail (pic, no pic, summaries only, etc) and SO, all in the ZIM format.

kzimmermann,
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@kiwix amazing resource. Many thanks for curating / maintaining it!

kzimmermann, to linux
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Using #Linux in a Corporate Laptop for work

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/linux_work_laptop.html

Longish post that I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I tried to run only #FreeSoftware for work for a month and the result was amazing. Here's a few tips on how I did it in case you want to try it too.

Needless to say, I have zero intentions on going back. Long live Free Software: Liberate your Hardware today!

53 out of #100DaysToOffload

kzimmermann,
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@danielittlewood that's true. Come to think of it, there were so many other ways my job could've made it harder, huh. Photoshop, Autocad, etc. At least Microsoft and Google basically develop for Chrome, so we're still in the same boat.

I have edited documentation with LibreOffice locally, but a lot of what we use is "co-authored" by many people at once via webapp. This benefits me, to be honest, because at least no one complains if "weird formatting" from LO is left on them.

kzimmermann,
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@vazhnov aww man, I feel sad for you! But in a way, do you find it less painful than, say, Windows? I once worked in a place with a Mac, too. A lot of people said "oh, at least it's Unix-based, so should be similar to your Linux, right?" But in my experience, I found the two as much related as a motorboat to an airplane because "the two have a propeller." :P

Linux on Mac hardware, however, is quite another story :D

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