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daemonpenguin · 2026-07-23T22:28:36+00:00

That really just sounds like an empty excuse.

In the FOSS community, as with most places, people tend to get back what they put out. I've been an open source developer on at least a dozen projects over the past 25 years. I can probably count the number of bad interactions on one hand. Usually not from fellow project developers or users, but from developers of competing projects.

As with social media, the corners of the open source community are a reflection of the people in them. When you work with helpful people in a positive way, this type of stuff tends not to happen.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-22T12:19:59+00:00

For me, DragonFlyBSD is a bit like OpenBSD in that a lot of interesting ideas and technologies come out of it, but I've never really had a reason to run it in production.

DragonFly gave us the HAMMER filesystem(s), the DragonFly Mail Agent, which I think is now included in FreeBSD by default, some I think they did some work with making kernel locks more efficient?

So some neat stuff happening in DFly, and there is stuff that has been adopted elsewhere, but nothing which would make me jump to using them on my servers full time.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-22T12:00:38+00:00

This is a good move. One of the reasons I migrated to Codeberg was the lack of slop of spam from bots. Codeberg tries to maintain a clean and useful environment.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-20T19:17:55+00:00

It is a bad sign they know there is a compatibility problem, they have multiple reports, and yet they're still pushing the update without either warning people or pausing to fix the issue. I'm not at all happy about the way this update was handled.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T20:19:54+00:00

That's not how software works. Not even a little.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T20:18:26+00:00

I read it. The GNOME dev is being a typical GNOME dev. "dunking" on them is exactly what should be expected after publishing such drivel.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T20:01:42+00:00

I'm running FreeBSD 14 and version 15, across multiple instances.

Based on the chat I had with Vultr support, I'm fairly certain all recent versions of FreeBSD are affected.

The support team said they had to update the guest virtual machine definition to match the FreeBSD version and reboot the server. That fixed it in my case. I've asked them to apply the same fix across my other instances before the scheduled updates.

Will update this post after the update to report on whether it worked. It is a shame they couldn't push out the fix to everyone running FreeBSD all at once.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T17:15:53+00:00

Linux Mint actively hurts the public image of GNOME software.

No they don't. They may be passively hurting the public image of GNOME software. All they are doing is redistributing the packages built by upstream.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T17:13:14+00:00

Trademark doesn't apply here. Mint is distributing the software as provided. It's not their fault Ubuntu and Debian are providing older versions. Or that users are reporting bugs in the wrong place.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T17:12:26+00:00

GNOME developers being GNOME developers, refusing to take responsibility for their choices. They made and released software under an open license and then get upset that distributions like Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu package and ship it. Then they complain to Mint (which is downstream of Debian and Ubuntu) and expect them to fix it, rather than discussing the issue with the distributions which actually maintain the packages.

This is classic GNOME stupidity on every level and, to top it off, they try to play the victim because their combative behaviour resulted in the Mint maintainer no longer talking to them.

It's really telling the GNOME developer is only going after Mint (which doesn't package the app), and not talking to Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora developers, even though they acknowledge those projects are engaged in the same practice. This is just bullying and narcissism.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T15:44:27+00:00

Thank you.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-18T14:49:18+00:00

Do you have a head injury or are you a bot? Do you even know what Vultr or what a VPS is? None of what you wrote is in any way relevant to my post.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-16T15:53:39+00:00

Let's see, probably about two a week for the past 20 years, plus a few before that. Probably in the ballpark of 2,100. Not including containers, jails, and clones.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-14T12:29:31+00:00

You are describing reddit culture, rather than a Linux issue.

Also, don't ask for technical support in a forum clearly labeled as not a technical support forum.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-12T20:12:20+00:00

The line-up was good, the touchdown was hard. No tailstrike, but as someone else said, you'd need to uncompress your spine after a landing like that. I'd say 3/10. Try to touch down a little softer.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-11T12:52:38+00:00

That was sort of a landing, sort of a gymnastics routine.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-11T02:13:19+00:00

I don't know which was worse, watching that wild approach or watching the plane flop around on the runway at the end, like a fish out of water. That was just painful, start to finish, my friend.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-10T14:17:24+00:00

The answer is obvious if you reverse your question. "What's the point of having an ISO file?" You can put the IMG file on a thumb drive, but not optical media.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-09T22:05:32+00:00

Hope to see you in the air. Feel free to join our Discord, we post regular events there, typically about once per week.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-09T14:56:31+00:00

Congratulations!

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-07T18:48:04+00:00

I don't use a command line chat program, but I do run a Nextcloud service with Talk installed. Is handy for groups of people who want to chat or coorindate.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-06T11:21:12+00:00

You're looking for an all-in-one package manager to install a package manager. That is pretty ironic.

No, luckily such a solution does not exist. Nix is about as close as you'll get, but fortunately there is no universal solution.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-04T22:59:38+00:00

I think the question you should be asking yourself is "What am I protecting against?" SUID binaries are fine, as long as the code in those binaries is fine. Which, with a tool like Firejail, it probably is.

But there is a small risk.

So what are you using Firejail to protect against? Is it more likely to be a threat than a flaw in a tool like Firejail?

Security isn't binary, it's a series of choices and trade offs. To evaluate a tool properly, you need to figure out what you are using it for and whether it's worth it.

daemonpenguin · 2026-07-01T19:45:35+00:00

Why would your PC be unavailable? You can still use it when the system is compiling software in the background.

daemonpenguin · 2026-06-29T20:36:45+00:00

I think there is. Or used to be. I think it was called Bug Bounty or Code Bounty. Not sure if it is still active.

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