#unix
mawkdown, a lightweight, line-oriented(ish) text markup tool implemented in awk https://lobste.rs/s/qvz4iu #unix #web
https://codeberg.org/owl/mawkdown
The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: Deal or no deal? https://lobste.rs/s/w4vmvd #retrocomputing #unix
https://www.datagubbe.se/amix/
Netencode: I’m currently building out my project of making a “better” structured language for use in UNIX-pipelines and shell scripting and the like.
It’s human-readable, but supports trivial generation with printf & wc, tagged values (sum types, Result<T>) and embedding arbitrary binaries without escaping due to being length-prefixed.
I think it’s pretty cool!
Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot
NEW VIDEO - Here's my thoughts on the XLibre vs. X11 thing!
#opensource #unix #linux #XLibre #x11 #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/sAjtQMVjqpw?si=SqTvu5TIB4rlnPCe via @YouTube
Yay! Or maybe AIEEE! Seems like I'm giving a talk at #EuroBSDCon again this year!
Anyone who has been following me here for a while will know I'm a hopeless #retrocomputing nerd, and I will make no attempt at hiding it during my talk:
Dirty Tricks: Using nginx and Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies
I'll (try to) show how you can protect your #BBS from drive-by portscans and your production systems from #DDoS attacks using all the wrong tools.
Dietary warning: may contain traces of floppies.
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/review/RHDFBQWZEVC833T3WDLDEXYFQVRWJKMN #FreeBSD #BSD #Unix #DOS #RunBSD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWRG1YFsy4
My talk about #kotlin and #gnuparallel from #kotlinsummit at #ing
If you would like to run any executable in parallel this talk might be for you!
Just updated (make buildworld) #FreeBSD Current (#main) 15.0. As always, everything went smoothly!
Just a quick note: on first boot, the laptop didn’t connect to Wi-Fi because the driver (iwlwifi module – https://man.freebsd.org/iwlwifi/4) was missing.
If you run into the same issue, just enable USB tethering on your smartphone, load urndis (https://man.freebsd.org/urndis/4), and simply run # fwget (https://man.freebsd.org/fwget/8).
Now time for a nice pkg upgrade -f to finish things up… and everything’s up to date!
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟯𝟬 (Valuable News - 2025/06/30) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/valuable-news-2025-06-30/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
If you've been following us for a long time you might recognize this image.
It's a classic, and one of the best reasons to use #FreeBSD.
> It's a UNIX system. I know this!
Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD - People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, bu... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/29/switching-from-desktop-linux-to-freebsd/ #operatingsystems #linuxhacks #gnu/linux #freebsd #unix #bsd
Serious poll (comedy has left the room, real answers only please).
Are you or the entity you work for running an actual server-model #UNIX?
To clarify:
Not a Unix-like: Linux, BSD, Minix, etc.
Not a client-model like a laptop, or workstation, etc.)
Have you seen the #unix_surrealism #OpenBSD "Free, functional, and secure" 7.7 release poster? What do you think? #Art #Unix #Surrealism
After the transformation away from US services and products, it's time to go one step further.
As I have already announced, I will soon be replacing my Pixel 9 with Graphene OS with a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena.
Although I personally really appreciate Graphene OS and am an avid user, I'm not sure what the future will bring under the fascist Trump. As I said, he can force US companies to hand over data of European users or turn off their services for Europe with the stroke of a pen. Or whatever other stupid things this orange psychopath can think of. Pixel devices from Google are another point.
However, I'm still considering a Framework Laptop 12 for my future laptop because of its sustainability and reparability.
Framework? AN US COMPANY??? Yes, unfortunately there is no European equivalent in this field, but unlike software and internet solutions, I am relatively independent after the purchase. The worst case would be if I could no longer buy current components. But then the Framework would be just like any other computer, which is generally almost impossible to repair or upgrade. But I want to keep that option open.
And I hope - like the rest of the world - that the fascist and criminal spook in the USA will soon be over and the situation there will return to some semblance of normality. Hope dies last...
