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Fri, 08 May 2026 20:49:34 +0000
#freebsd - Seems the #FreeBSD dev infrastructure is being hit hard by something. Getting only around 200Kbps when fetching latest ports HEAD.
Fri, 08 May 2026 20:48:39 +0000
#freebsd - AISLE Discovers CVE-2026-42511: a 21-Year-Old #FreeBSD Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Fri, 08 May 2026 20:03:10 +0000
#freebsd - AISLE Finds 21-Year-Old FreeBSD RCE Hidden in dhclient
#Security #FreeBSD #Vulnerability
Fri, 08 May 2026 20:02:13 +0000
#deltachat - @kooltechtricks Подскажи, пожалуйста, нет ли клиента #deltachat для MacOS 10.15.8? Потому что рекомендуемый хочет MacOS 12 как минимум.
Fri, 08 May 2026 18:58:26 +0000
#deltachat - Several people have asked me to increase the space for messages from 500MB to 1GB on
. Personally, I use #deltachat / #nibblehole, and currently, my messages do not take up more than 300MB. Of course I can change it, but I would have to reserve so-called remote hands to add larger disks and turn off the #server for about two hours. Is it really necessary?
Fri, 08 May 2026 18:49:34 +0000
#Reticulum - RE:
https://autonomous.zone/@p2panda/116538392125784570
Looking forward to this!!! @p2panda + #Reticulum + #Lora
Fri, 08 May 2026 16:16:16 +0000
#deltachat - sometimes @wikipedia feels like a mafia, some #DeltaChat users tried to create a Delta Chat entry in Wikipedia (EN) several times over the years and they always rejected it, claiming it is not relevant enough and needing more sources,
when sources were provided someone would comment that "likely that are paid articles" and shit like that
even when Delta Chat page exist for other languages already
then there are things like Beeper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeper_
(software) with a SINGLE citation to a paid-walled article
what gives???
please if some of you have experience contributing to Wikipedia (and I guess some secret connections or being known contributor is needed as well) consider creating a Delta Chat entry
it is really unfair that at this time and age any random messenger is in Wikipedia but Delta Chat
#Wikipedia
Fri, 08 May 2026 11:07:53 +0000
#Reticulum - Second try with solar #reticulum transport node - this time a bit higher on the chimney. Current path: laptop TCP -> RPI with Rnode and TCP (transport enabled) -> solar transport node (modified microreticulum firmware). Good passthrough for announces to a 1km away second solar node, but can’t get msg past that first solar node. The first solar node itself replies with battery status. I guess i need to refresh the second solar node with the last modifications/fixes.
Fri, 08 May 2026 10:20:57 +0000
#Reticulum - @p2panda tow of my favorite #p2p things working together. That's really neat! Do you only use an Rnode or also using #Reticulum ?
Fri, 08 May 2026 06:46:43 +0000
Dale Nunns - Getting my ducks in a row for @DevConf ! It's next week 😱 Don't forget to come to my talk "Fowl Play", there will be stickers! #DevConf2026
Fri, 08 May 2026 01:08:35 +0000
Enron Hubbard - thinking about how social media effectively primed the population to accept "AI" as an autonomous and thinking entity because we grew so accustomed to abstractions and avatars mediating our interpersonal lives that we conflated the avatar as the person
"my friends are in this screen, and i know they are people, therefore things in this screen are people"
Thu, 07 May 2026 11:35:56 +0000
Dale Nunns - It's @DevConf next week!!! Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Don't forget to come to my talk, Fowl Play!
Cape Town peeps you can still grab tickets
#DevConf2026
Thu, 07 May 2026 06:27:08 +0000
Dale Nunns - STICKERS !!!! - With only days to go, my @DevConf stickers have arrived!
Come to my talk, Fowl Play or come find me and bribe me for one!
#devconf2026 #rubberducks #fowlplay #stickers
Wed, 06 May 2026 07:06:38 +0000
#pinephone - @oecher_olli Yeah, I believe that.
Honestly, my real hope is that there will someday be a really *good* two-in-one #Linux distro that runs on your phone when it's a phone but expands into a full DE when you plug into a monitor, and that that distro is #Gnome bc fuck yeah, I'm a Gnome fanboy.
#PinePhone says it'll do that, my a buddy of mine got one and pronounced it "not usable," and I believe him.
#FOSS #FLOSS
Wed, 06 May 2026 06:43:58 +0000
#ghostbsd - sh games
cp -prva ~/gate/secret/files* /media/my_user_id/gate/public/deep/dive
works in the following sh:
bash ksh csh zsh tcsh dash ash psh #Programming #Bash #zsh #OpenSource #BSD #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #Debian #mxLinux #MX #RPM #POSIX #ash
Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:28 +0000
#pinephone - #pine64 support seem to be trolling me. I reported that wifi chip stopped working within ~15 minutes, and their response so far has been:
Gaslight me and try to convince me there is no problemTry to convince me my phone wasn't charged enough for wifi+bt chip to work. Try to convince me that even though battery is charged, it doesn't have "enough voltage" just for this one chip while everything else worksIt is almost as if they just want me to go away and stop complaining.
#pinephone #linuxphone #postmarketos
Tue, 05 May 2026 21:14:54 +0000
#pinephone - #SailfishOS on the @pine64 #Pinephone, #PinephonePro and #Pinetab2 are all updated to kernel 7.0, and improved USB config. Just zypper ref/dup.
Tue, 05 May 2026 19:22:58 +0000
Delta Chat - We don't think any institution or state has the right to prevent families and friends from private chatting, physically or digitally. But the Cyber Authority China (CaC) seems to take offense:
- they made Apple remove #deltachat iOS for mainland china
- their great firewall appears to block some #chatmail relays
- if you ask DeepSeek directly about Delta Chat, it doesn't want to talk
It's pretty sad, really. Everybody on this planet needs, and has a human right to private communication.
Tue, 05 May 2026 14:16:55 +0000
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו - I guess the 7“ #GPD #MicroPC2 which is only a little bit larger than a phone very likely is the smallest fully functional #FreeBSD device.
WIFI is working out of the box, graphics and touch screen as well. Built-in audio not yet, have to see what needs to be done.
Installing FreeBSD is easy, only the text console (vt) is turned 90 degrees.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34221
probably would help here but when using Xorg or Wayland this isn’t a big deal.
#UMPC
Tue, 05 May 2026 12:47:18 +0000
Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - Right. I think I'm moving to a more cafe-conversation instance. What's a good pick - anyone got any suggestions?
I've been trying to return to the fedi a long time, but having two accounts also puts me off (personal, and tech).
I need the one account. Just the one. I'll start fresh, I suppose?
Need an instance though -- what are people using to find an instance these days?
Tue, 05 May 2026 11:07:27 +0000
Delta Chat - Congrats to @protonprivacy for beating us on introducing Post-Quantum Cryptography into mail messaging!
No worries. We'll implement
which additionally offers reliable deletion / forward secrecy during 2026 :)
We are working with Proton cryptographers on OpenPGP specifications, and they are now moving towards using @rpgp , the end-to-end encryption we are using.
Everything will be based on RFC9580 (#OpenPGP v6) ... the eocsystem is moving :)
https://proton.me/blog/introducing-post-quantum-encryption
Mon, 04 May 2026 09:49:09 +0000
#ghostbsd - Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/05/04) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/valuable-news-2026-05-04/
Past releases:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Mon, 04 May 2026 09:49:13 +0000
#ghostbsd - Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/05/04) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/valuable-news-2026-05-04/
Past releases:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Sat, 02 May 2026 18:19:09 +0000
Delta Chat - RE:
https://chaos.social/@delta/116505223145222985
All of the advances in #deltachat apps and the growth of the #chatmail relay network, wouldn't be possible without public funds and private donations, an estimated 800K EUR in 2026 ❤️ money goes to ~16 FOSS contributors with no money left for president, board or director salaries 🖤
Signal uses >50 Million per year, Telegram and Whatsapp 100's Millions, and they are all not building permission-free decentralized chat infra and apps, let alone secure mini app ecosystems
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:44:31 +0000
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו - I was trying the #Jolla #JollaC2 as a daily driver some time ago but unfortunately for me it wasn't really fit for the job: Too slow and the custom software stack with nearly no apps being available simply did not work.
The #Furilabs (@furilabs) #Debian and #Phosh based phone really might cut it though: Really good #Android support in a #Linux container for all those apps that I (think I) need (even a lot of the banking apps are working) and of course for all the rest I can easily install Linux apps.
Really nice!
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:31:50 +0000
Adrianna Pińska - I recently listened to the Well There's Your Problem episode about the Therac-25. It's from a few years ago, so it predates the current moment of mass psychosis in the software world.
I immediately wondered what the new "AI"-enabled Therac-25 was going to be, and then I remembered that we already have at least one, and probably more that we don't even know about:
(CW for medical errors and body horror).
Re-reading this article after listening to the podcast is chilling because of the parallels: the lack of effective regulation, the repeated denials from the company that anything is wrong, the lawsuits... (two of the Therac-25 incidents [that we know about] led to lawsuits that were settled out of court). It may be years before we know the full extent of the harm caused by tools like this.
Yes, there are valid use cases for machine learning in medicine, some of which are safe. Guiding a surgeon inside a patient's skull clearly isn't one of them.
What can anyone do about this as a patient? Ask hospital staff whether and how machine learning models are used in the software they use? How can they possibly answer that? Do your own research? This is all proprietary tech, so good luck with that. That's if you're even in a position to do anything; you could be going into emergency surgery, unconscious. Do we need "NO SLOP" medical bracelets? See the first point. Horrifying.
I don't have a solution, except to hope that the bubble bursts and all these clowns go under before their products make it to where I live.
Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:35:13 +0000
tomasino - In my dream last night i was going to look at an apartment for sale inside Yankee stadium. The agent took us on this tour of the stadium, which was sort of like the mall of America in size and complexity (hidden movie theater, ice hockey on the second floor?). The place was ridiculous and I wasn't sure I really wanted to live inside a sports stadium (would it be loud?) but the price was really good and it could be an investment. Sadly, the agent never actually showed us the actual apartment, so I can't say whether it was worth the cost ($300k asking). Instead, the dream transitioned into a forced interview with the FBI who needed my statement about a serial killer who did messed up things with people's faces.
It was around this time in the dream when I remembered why I really didn't want to stay in the US. I think I was currently living in South Carolina in the dream, which i haven't done in 26 years.
Anyways, I'm also kinda in the mood to watch some baseball now.
Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:37:16 +0000
Dominic White - I’m reminded of the disconnect between typical vuln scan/pentest XSS findings and real world exploitation by this write up of Russian exploitation of webmail apps
https://ctrlaltintel.com/threat%20research/FancyBear/
How do you demonstrate XSS impact beyond the classic alert dialog or cookie stealer?
Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:18:14 +0000
Dominic White - Periodic reminder - there’s no easy way to clear tracking cookies and other cruft from iOS apps. But you can do it across all of them with one easy shortcut! It won’t log you out of the app just get rid of the cruft from the in-app browser.
prefs:root=SAFARI&path=CLEAR_HISTORY_AND_DATA
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:24:10 +0000
Dominic White - Two conclusions from this - it's an incremental improvement, not a sea change. And $1k per attack won't easily scale. We probably not about to experience "THE VULNPOCALYPSE" but continued incremental improvements in vulnerabilities hunting.
Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:40 +0000
tomasino - Interstellar, relativistic forward-onlyI guess as well
Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:29:23 +0000
tomasino - Update:
Back to the Future, mutable timeline12 Monkeys, fixed deterministicPrimer, recursive overlapGroundhog Day, time loopArrival, deterministic block universe, non-linear perceptionFrequency, mutable via communication modelStar Trek (2009), branching timeline
Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:11:57 +0000
Adrianna Pińska - I have re-fixed the selection thing; hooray.
I've started implementing my other search tweaks (loading all searches in background tabs; clearing the search term after searching) in the new searchbar widget, as futureproofing against the sad day when they remove the old searchbar widget completely, but it's unexpectedly hairy because they've decided to make certain properties and functions private, which appears to make them completely inaccessible to monkeypatching via userchrome.js (unless there's some trick I don't know about).
This will require an expedition into the depths of the ancient hacker documentation mines. In the meantime at least I still have the old widget.
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:03:20 +0000
Adrianna Pińska - It looks like the changes also broke my fix for not autoselecting all the text in the URL bar when you click in in. I can probably re-fix that, but it's a problem for later Adrianna who isn't recovering from a cold.
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:45:33 +0000
Enron Hubbard - "Now available: the Patriot Router (brought to you by Palantir)! Powered by America First technology, with AI agents to steer you away from all of that fake news and woke ideology!
Why correspond with your loved ones without Dear Leader's loving gaze searching for potential thoughtcrime? Why spend time determining what content is government-approved and risk the goon squad kicking in your door for reading the wrong newspaper? Why be treated like an adult with your own agency when the Patriot Router can do all of this for you, and more!
Available for Regime-mandated preorder for the low low price of $1399! Act now, and get a roll of toilet paper with the Fourth Amendment printed on every square as a free gift!"
https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:32:40 +0000
Enron Hubbard - the old season is dying
the new season struggles to be born
now is the time of mud
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:49:08 +0000
Grant Stephens - Couple of photos from a run a few days ago. Don't think I've ever regretted getting out and snow is always a bonus. #photography #scotland #snow #nature
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:58 +0000
Kenneth Kalmer - Does anyone know of a simple pager, ala less, that has syntax highlighting for source code?
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:52:33 +0000
Grant Stephens - Did some more work on
and managed to get the size down quite a bit and is now listed in
🎉 Doesn't make the game any easier though 😬
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:27:50 +0000
Grant Stephens - Anybody want to work with me?
We're looking for a new person to join our awesome team. It's scary fun!
Drop me a DM if you're interested.
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:35:35 +0000
Robert MacLean - It has been probably 18 months since I was last on social media... and I am still glad that @TWiT is the one I am on.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:48:55 +0000
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו - And some #Gripen and #Pilatus PC-7 #SAAF #formation flying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiSOksi2jE&t=67s
#SouthAfricanAirForce #Aviation #SouthAfrica
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:10:41 +0000
Kim van Wyk - Talking of solving problems with relays with @leoncowle reminded me of a hacky but successful project I worked on, which I've just written up:
https://kimvanwyk.co.za/260111_relaying-fun-in-parallel/
Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:00:49 +0000
Kim van Wyk - I saw elsewhere that the SABC started broadcasting today in 1976, 50 years ago. This seems apt:
Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:02:16 +0000
Briar Project - Now happening here:
https://39c3.c3nav.de/l/c:4:182.77:145.67/
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:56:12 +0000
Kim van Wyk - Watching the highlights of the SA vs Ireland women's cricket tonight, I was impressed by a sign in the crowd from a fellow admirer of Laura Wolvaardt's exquisite batting: "Niemand kan soos Wolvie kolfie"
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:17:53 +0000
Briar Project - Are you coming to #39C3 this year? We'd love to see you there!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/secure-offline-communications-whats-next
Edit: Find us on day 2 at 15:45 in the lovely @HouseOfTea.
#briar #mesh #p2p #meshtastic #qaul #bridgefy #tor #decentralization
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:32:52 +0000
Briar Project - We've just released a new version of Briar which comes with various improvements, among them better connectivity via Bluetooth, updated Tor and censorship circumvention, and improved usability with forums and blogs. Find it on either Google Play or F-Droid within the next days.
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/changelog
#briar #tor #fdroid
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:39:21 +0000
Gustav H Meyer - 👋🏻
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:26:08 +0000
Kenneth Kalmer - How to make a South African cringe
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:58:53 +0000
Kenneth Kalmer - The most underrated benefit of having an M-class MacBook, to me, is being able to run it off the same power bank that charges my phone… Makes coffee shop working a treat
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:33:18 +0000
Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - Do I know any mid-level/senior full-stack Javascript devs looking for work right now? My workplace is #hiring. We're fully remote. South Asia highly preferred; we still do not have budget for first-world salaries. Maybe one day, but we're not there yet...
We're a startup in the EdTech space, operating with UK as the base country.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:41:23 +0000
Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife: - In a rare moment of motivation, I published a small post. 🙈
https://rusingh.com/thoughts-on-monthly-recaps/
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:22:42 +0000
Justin Wernick - Over the weekend I was playing with SourceHut.
Something that stood out to me was how much easier it was to experiment with setting up a CI config. Rather than starting a branch with a million 'does this work?' commit messages, there is a web form that I could copy paste in my config and it would immediately run it. And then, when it failed, it popped up a little message saying "copy paste this into your terminal in the next 10 minutes to SSH into the build VM and poke around".
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:28:22 +0000
Justin Wernick - I friend of mine, Steve Donovan, has written a blog post comparing the philosophies of the traditional Unix shells with Nushell that he currently seems to be enjoying
https://steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-kinds-of-shells.html
Wed, 07 May 2025 17:28:20 +0000
Justin Wernick - It took me a long time to get to writing it up. I really don't have as much time for writing these days as I once did. But I've managed to put out my first blog post for this year 😅
Writing all about how I'm using #emacs #orgmode to keep on top of everything.
https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2025-05-04-my-exobrain.html
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:48:04 +0000
Gustav H Meyer - I can’t help but wonder how they arrived at that number, 193,000 Linux users. What kind of analytical wizardry or data sorcery could have generated such precise numbers with such certainty? And don’t even get me started on the claim of 27 million South African readers. I’d genuinely love to know more about how these figures were calculated.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/technology/575064-mybroadband-in-2024.html
#MyBroadband #statistics #webstats #SouthAfrica
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:54:03 +0000
Gustav H Meyer - very relevant
This comic is about the difficulty of dealing psychologically with 50/50 odds [...]
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3007:_Probabilistic_Uncertainty
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:01:54 +0000
Wilmar - Reading about everyone’s “I’m still on M1 with only 1TB, will likely upgrade to M4” stories, on my Intel i9 with 512GB 😂.
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:15:50 +0000
Wilmar - @peterfriese Do you have some comparison information of Vapor / Swift on Server vs Firebase? Does it even make sense to perform a comparison, are the two platforns competitors in the same domain?
Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:52:09 +0000
Wilmar - Saw a few unicorns today, amazing! Ferrari F50, McLaren F1, Mercedes CLK GTR.
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:47:42 +0000
Robert MacLean - DevConf has such an awesome idea, the badge has a B.L.A.N.K. space and you can customise it with stickers to show off who you are!
A big thank you to Ross Simpson who inspired this with his badge hacking at DevConf 2023 and Michael Minutillo who came up with the awesome name B.L.A.N.K. which stands for Badge Located Assertion of Notable Knowledge
#devconf #devconf2024 #badgelife #hackers
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:46:16 +0000
Robert MacLean - I'm so honoured to have been able to open DevConf Cape Town today, and more importantly to be able to among an amazing group of beautiful humans who are presenting at the event. It is going to be a great day
#devconf #devconf2024 #southafrica #developers #conference
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:52:47 +0000
Adële - Cyclic Universal Clock
I'm thinking about a new representation of time. With the current time system, we refer to UTC time. I find this annoying, because it uses the same notions (hours and minutes) as the local time system. I find this ambiguous...
https://adele.pollux.casa/gemlog/2024-01-07_Cyclic_Universal_Clock.gmi
gemini://adele.pollux.casa/gemlog/2024-01-07_Cyclic_Universal_Clock.gmi
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:10:32 +0000
Kishyr Ramdial - @caseyliss Big time Callsheet fan, thank you for the app! Have an idea for you: add the top 50/75/100 trending tv shows and movies to Spotlight using the search API, so when you search for “Survivor” it shows a result that deep links directly to the show page on Callsheet. I used to often search tv shows and movies this way, and then hit the IMDB link at the bottom to open that app. Would be cool to open Callsheet directly from a Spotlight search result.
Sat, 28 Oct 2023 22:27:24 +0000
Kishyr Ramdial - World Champions! 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆🇿🇦
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:03:57 +0000
Kishyr Ramdial - Live Voicemail is hands down the best feature of iOS 17. Catching spam calls like Pokémon.
Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:12:03 +0000
Adële - It will happen some changes in my personal life and I don't know if I will be able to continue to serve pollux.casa hosting. (I have not said it will be closed, I'm looking for solutions)
So, I have put account opening on standby.
For the moment, no change for existing accounts. I will give more details further.
#Gemini
Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:13:00 +0000
You Can Call Me Al - A #newsletter question, if anyone is able to offer advice. Are there any newsletter email service providers that include collaborative features while creating emails? ie. ability to leave comments etc for other team members on draft newsletters etc? I would love something like that but haven't seen anything like it.
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:06:21 +0000
You Can Call Me Al - Exciting times in the tech/journalism/dataviz space at the moment. Loving working with SvelteKit, and getting into PlanetScale for SQL. Already starting to use DALL-E and OpenAI for images/story summaries etc. 2023 is going to be wild/exciting/scary
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:53:59 +0000
You Can Call Me Al - Vercel's new commenting feature for preview deployments is awesome. I've been looking for a way to collect feedback on projects from our distributed teams and this could well be exactly what we need.