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Larvitz

@Larvitz@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 3d ago

The webserver for my websites (https://blog.hofstede.it and others) is now runing on 15.1-RELEASE arm64 with PKGBase 🙂

Upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1was pleasantly boring:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#pkgbase

Creating a BE for the new version
Mounting the BE to /mnt/upgrade
Executing :env ABI=FreeBSD:15:aarch64 pkg-static -c /mnt/upgrade upgrade -r FreeBSD-base”
bectl activate -t 15.0-RELEASE
Rebooting the system

Everything working fine, all lights green

#freebsd #unix #selfhosting #arm64

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iX Magazin

@iX_Magazin@social.heise.de · Jun 11, 2026

heise+ | POSIX-Attribute für Entra ID mit Himmelblau anlegen Werden vor einer Entra ID-Umstellung Linux-Clients und -Fileserver genutzt, gelten dort POSIX-Berechtigungen. Ein eigenes ID-Mapping kann sinnvoll sein. https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/POSIX-Attribute-fuer-Entra-ID-mit-Himmelblau-anlegen-11316718.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon #EntraID #IT #Linux #Unix #news

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Lobsters

@lobsters@mastodon.social · Jun 02, 2026

The Advent of Void: Day 19: mblaze part 2 (2017) https://lobste.rs/s/n3eiin #email #unix https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-mblaze-part-2.html

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@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe · May 17, 2026

it’s a waste of time
it’s not possible
just use the desktop/mobile client

so you told me many times…

“the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — albert camus

#deltachat #chatmail #tui #unix

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fedicat @fedicat@pc.cafe

Ethan Black

@golemwire@social.golemwire.com · May 20, 2026

I'm really glad #snac uses mode 660 for many of its data files. It makes it really easy for me to add my main user to my server's snac group, and be able to administer as my normal user without su'ing into the snac user. Lots of people don't seem to think these details through, or they just forget about #unix features. The Snac author ( @grunfink@comam.es ) did it though! Thanks! Addendum: I also just learned about using the setgid bit on a directory. That was used, too. Cool! https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Directory-Setuid-and-Setgid.html

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@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe · May 17, 2026

you don't have to react, tui will do it for you. #deltachat #chatmail #golang #tui #unix

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Thalia Archibald

@thalia@discuss.systems · May 10, 2026

A cursed feature of C in 1972: Labels and functions were reassignable (i.e., lvalues)! For example, this is a clever way to initialize once: goto init; init: ouptr = oubuf; init = init1; init1: which is compiled to: jmp *4120 mov 4136,4144 mov 4122,4120 Note the indirect jump and assignment to that address. This would have also worked with functions. #c #unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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occult

@occult@vox.ominous.net · May 10, 2026

Everyone always references the #UNIX Network Programming book from Wayne's World 2, but you never hear about what I can only imagine is a real NewTek Video Toaster T-shirt Garth wears. This is a deep cut.

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Lobsters

@lobsters@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 https://lobste.rs/s/n3kom0 #unix https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/

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Caio

@caiocco@bolha.us · May 06, 2026

É um paradoxo produzido pelas origens dos sistemas operacionais envolvidos aqui. O #Linux é um Unix-like e o #Unix nunca teve em modo texto, mesmo com aplicativos comerciais, a mesma oferta polida de aplicativos, em comparação com o DOS. Para tornar as coisas piores, nos anos 1990, lá por 1993, 1994, quando o #Windows 95 estava sendo muito antecipado, desenvolvedores solo ou pequenas empresas já tinham ampla capacidade de produzir bons aplicativos gráficos. Para DOS. A NeoSoft, com umas três pessoas no interior do Oregon, aparentemente numa pequena sala, criou uma suíte composta por sistema de menus, criador de slides, editor raster, criador de publicações eletrônicas, protetor de tela TSR. Ainda antes da NeoSoft ter esse nome, a dupla que criou o sistema de menus (#QuikMenu) já tinha faturado mais de 100 mil dólares no começo dos anos 1990. O programa foi elogiado em grandes revistas da época (algo que também aconteceria com o NeoPaint, cujo nome já diz tudo). Corta para 2026 e, apesar da facilidade de montar um kit com processador ARM de múltiplos núcleos e até 16 GB de RAM (se os bolsos forem suficientemente profundos), basicamente não tem software similar para ser executado.

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Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@freya@social.highenergymagic.net · May 06, 2026

hey so. looking for a job (NZ or fully remote willing to hire a kiwi) in SRE, security, or linux/Unix system administration. 15 years experience administering Linux and Unix boxes, intermediate level of experience working with docker compose and containerisation and container security. No prior job experience unfortunately, all those 15 years were mostly personal projects and small-scale stuff for friends. I'm also 26, so I started when I was 11, explaining the no jobs so far. Currently running an entire multi-machine personal cloud infrastructure with a demonstration of all the services I have running at https://status.highenergymagic.net Three machines, 72 docker containers. One running most of them, one running Mastodon+glitchsocial, one running the uptime monitor. encrypted root on ZFS, alpine linux, gVisor on supported containers, plan to move to Kata. Entirely willing to accept entry-level job placements, no expectation of being paid a lot or anything, just want to be doing something and move the needle a little on my current "being broke" status. Currently using gVisor, docker compose, and kata containers in production, experience with Linux, docker, Net/Open/FreeBSD, Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Mikrotik and UniFi, configuring and administering Asterisk, plus extensive experience with IBM AIX and Sun Solaris. #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #linux #unix #docker #sre #DevOps #GetFediHired Please boost for reach, any job offers please DM me.

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JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · May 04, 2026

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk This is not a conflict of standards. None of those are standardized. Indeed, this is what you get for using all of these non-standard things instead of the thing that *is* standardized: pkgadd from magtape, per the System 5 Interface Definition. https://illumos.org/man/8/pkgadd (-: #Unix #Illumos #SVID

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DeltaLima 🐧

@DeltaLima@social.la10cy.net · May 03, 2026

3900 seconds left until 1777777777 #epoch #time #unix #unixtimer #timer #timestamp #1777777777

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LUZZY the bun

@meluzzy@woof.tech · May 03, 2026

They should rename "SysRq" to "SysRC". That way it can both mean: ➣ "System Run Command" ☞ "System RESCUE" Which covers all use cases. #linux #unix

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Bradley M. Kühn

@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · May 02, 2026

Am I the only person who, after 30 years of using /bin/ln, still gets its arguments backwards?

If I type:

$ ln -s x y

My mind is always thinking: “I want a symlink where x ⇒ y”, and as such I incorrectly put the destination before the source.

I am sure ln is this way in #POSIX to match the behavior of cp & mv. The latter two are intuitive to me because I read it as “copy/move x to y”.

$ ls -l y
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bkuhn bkuhn 1 May  2 14:39 y -> x

“y ⇒ x” … See!?!?!

#Unix

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Bradley M. Kühn

@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · May 02, 2026

@shrub900@mastodon.social I'm admittedly jealous b/c you had access to a #POSIX system (& a #FOSS one too!) from your earliest computer-using time in life. I “wasted”¹ my teenage years with a Commodore 64² — writing in BASIC & 6502 assembler. I was ≈ 18 years old before I got access to a “real” computer running #Unix SYSVR3.2.3 & ported #GNU #Emacs to it. ¹ I learned useful skills, but it yielded no useful artifacts. ² Yes, @cwebber@social.coop, I *was* keeping up with #Commodore, but it was *not* keeping up with me!!

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HP van Braam

@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx · Feb 19, 2026

Now we're getting to the good part of #irix After the just unacceptably and inexplicably bad install process. #unix #sgi #retrocomputing

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HP van Braam

@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx · Feb 19, 2026

I do legitimately think that this is just peak computer UX. It is information dense, but still kind of playful. I'm sure real #ux experts would have a different opinion, but I really enjoy this aesthetic and functionality. #irix #unix #retrocomputing

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Lobsters

@lobsters@mastodon.social · Apr 30, 2026

Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new by @mte90@mastodon.uno https://lobste.rs/s/heoyfd #linux #programming #unix https://docs.amber-lang.com/getting_started/whats_new

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r1w1s1

@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe · Apr 29, 2026

the secret to surviving years of WM-hopping: sxhkd handles the keys. the WM handles the windows. dmenu handles the launching. swap any one. the others don't notice. #suckless #unix #dwm

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