So Russia blocked Signal - https://www.reuters.com/technology/signal-messenger-blocked-russia-says-roskomnadzor-ifax-2024-08-09/

"Access to the Signal messaging app is blocked in connection with violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be complied with to prevent the use of messaging apps for terrorist and extremist aims,"

So thankful that Russia goes after those extremists using Signal! Russia already has enough on their hands dropping bombs on hospitals and supermarkets and invading other countries! Fuck off extremists!

By the way we ship TROMjaro with a trade-free VPN to bypass these stupidities.

Also: Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

#signal #signalmessenger #russia #war #linux #tromjaro #trom

A big thank you to the anonymous donor who sent 500 Euros for @Rokosun to buy a laptop. Roko has been helping with our TROM projects for a while now. TROMjaro would not be possible the way it is now without him. He is the one coding our layout and theme switchers and a lot more.

Roko got TROM's "legacy" laptop a year ago 😀 but unfortunately the motherboard died 🙁. So he ended up using an old laptop that barely worked. He could barely test stuff for TROMjaro. So he really needed a good machine.

Now he will buy one and will be able to more easily help with the TROM project. We have a lot of plans! Follow us on the fediverse ;)

#linux #trom #tromjaro #donation #laptop #foss #trade-free

🎙️ Zgłoś swoje wystąpienie na Jesieni Linuksowej 2024! 🍂
📅 25-27 października 2024, #Rybnik

Podziel się wiedzą o systemie 🐧 #Linux, #OpenSource, #DevOps i na podobne tematy!
📍Nadsyłajcie propozycje do 19 sierpnia!📍

Więcej info: https://jesien.org/2024/c4p/

#JesieńLinuksowa2024 #JesienLinuksowa

TROMjaro is alive and well. And we keep it up to date and relevant - https://www.tromjaro.com - I love our Linux distro! 😀 I love when it is stable and just works. And we also ship with so many tweaks you can simply use it. No ads, no trackers, all apps available in Linux from one single place - click and install. I love it. A very positive project indeed 😀

#tromjaro #linux #foss #opensource #operatingsystem

For the past several months no one could install flatpaks from our Trade-Free TROMjaro app Library - https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - and now we finally fixed it thanks to @Rokosun ! One click installs 😀

We have curated around 700 trade-free apps for the library and we plan to add a lot more the following months. Check it out!

#tromjaro #linux #trade-free #opensource #foss #flatpak

#borgbackup 1.4.0 was just released, see:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.0

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #openindiana #macOS

Release Release 1.4.0 · borgbackup/borg

borgbackup 1.4.0 First release for the new 1.4-maint branch. borg 1.4 is kind of a refreshed 1.2 with mostly the same features and behavior, but a few bigger changes that could introduce issues and...

^GitHub

I really really REALLY wish that when I comment about #Linux DE #UX people would understand:
1. This is coming from a place of love for Linux, I want it to get better
2. I'm fairly new here and WILL make mistakes
3. I'm very welcome to be corrected
4. I'm not attacking anyone

I'm a #UX expert, not a Linux expert. I'm absolutely going to say stupid things. Could I possibly go a bit slower and be more diplomatic? Sure. Could people also not freak out and assume the worst? Please.

In 2020 I checked some old backup disks of mine and found to my utmost joy a copy of my former UT2003 installation. This is a Linux native 32bit build that is now over 20 years old. Well, LinuxGaming is hard because who can support 500 distributions, right? This worked just fine in 2020 on Fedora 31. Today I gave it another spin in 2024 on Fedora 38 on Wayland with PipeWire 😀

Hell yeah, the muscle memory is still there 🤘🤓🤘

(tbf the SDL1.2 compat lib rocks most of this but it's really all still there)

I have tried to switch from white-on-black xterms to black-on-white, since it's told to be a less strain on the eyes, but it's kind of impossible due to everyone defaulting their color schemes on WoB. It feels like a hopeless fight.
Otherwise it's really eye-soothing, but it's definitely not mind soothing the guy need to reconfigure everyfuckingthing.

#linux #terminal #theming #blackonwhite #futile

If you're a #Linux user, beware of the XZ backdoor:

https://youtu.be/OHAyf0qwdCs

A couple things to think about here:

This appears to be a malicious maintainer - not a compromised account. Meaning the person themselves, coded this in an pushed it out.

So:
1) Did they try and backdoor any other code?
2) Are they part of a greater campaign or is anyone else helping them.

This is a massive breach of trust.

That said! Huge kudos to Andres Freund, Florian Weimer, and others in finding this.

A lot of eyes are on this now. CISA is involved. Major distros are involved, etc. Many eyes and such.

#infosec #linux #foss #hacking #cve20243094 #cve

Dear #photographers & visual #artists running #Linux, what are your tricks for #colour -accurate #scanning photo prints on consumer-grade gear (not a film/drum scanner)?

I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).

Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.

Is there concern for snaps or flatpaks? Checking my own stuff it looks like applications using bundled liblzma are running in the 5.2.* - 5.4.* versions, but if someone has a bleeding edge application running an affected version, what would the remediation be? Would uninstalling it be sufficient?

#snap #flatpak #linux #xz #liblzma

Seien Sie am 6. April dabei bei unserem Vortrag "Integrationstests mit Szenarien für Container-Kompositionen" auf den Grazer Linuxtagen!

👉 Samstag, 6. April 2024, 12.10 Uhr mit Wolfgang Silbermayr, Expert Lead Backend bei #OpenTalk

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier:

https://opentalk.eu/de/news/grazer-linuxtage-mit-opentalk

#OpenSource #Linux #gl24 #linuxtage

Grazer Linuxtage mit OpenTalk

^OpenTalk

I just saw that Mozilla is retiring Mozilla Location Services which provided an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea

The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...

^GitHub

Boost for visibility.

To the #Windows and #macOS users of Mastodon who have tried #Linux and ended up still using Windows or macOS:

What is it about the Linux distro(s) you tried that made it/them unsuitable for your use? If some problem or set of problems was fully resolved, would it be enough for you to be able to comfortably use Linux?

The poll is just a list of possible things that could make Linux difficult or impossible to use for some, please feel free to comment with specifics.

• Too buggy (8%, 16 votes)
• Too unfamiliar (4%, 8 votes)
• Lacking any good alternatives to critical software (16%, 32 votes)
• Lacking critical software, alternatives aren't an option (26%, 52 votes)
• Overwhelming number of choices (3%, 6 votes)
• Incompatible with media I use (3%, 7 votes)
• Incompatible with my computer(s) (6%, 12 votes)
• Simply didn't like it (6%, 13 votes)
• Other (please comment) (19%, 38 votes)
• ...what's Linux? (4%, 9 votes)

My #Hungarian teacher asked me yesterday if I could help her with her computer, because she had some issues. Old retired woman.

When she started her PC, it turned out, she is using #Ubuntu #Linux.

#Linux 6.8 has been released 🎉

Builds have been started in our test repo.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bieszczaders/kernel-cachyos

#cachyos

Salut !
J'ai créé un bundle de brushes pour la calligraphie pour Krita que je mets en partage sur mon site :
https://www.le-stylocalligraphe.com/fr/pages/blog/1283623/brushes-calligraphie-pour-krita

Merci de relayer l'info ! Bonne journée.
#krita_artists #krita #calligraphy #opensource #linux
@davidrevoy

Chemnitzer Linuxtage, 15.3. Vorabend, Essen, Turmbrauhaus?

👇 Anmeldung. 🍶 🍴 🍔 🥕 🍻 🍵

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/turmbrauhaus-clt-2024

#clt2024 #linux #chemnitz

Relatable? 😛

#linux

Dexed is a synthesizer that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7. Supports multiple platforms and various formats. Dexed is also a midi cartridge librarian and manager for the DX7.

Dexed is free software and is licensed on the GPL v3.

https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed

#linux #synthesizer #dexed

Here's some cool news: libinput - the underlying input API for #Linux nowadays - will support dials on drawing tablets soon! 🎉 A lot of XP-PEN's Artist Pro series have these controls for example.

@whot pushed along the API I originally made about a year ago, many thanks 😮 This means that applications that use libinput can make use of these dials soon, like Wayland compositors. If you're technically inclined, you can see the completed MR here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/967

tablet: add API for relative dials (!967) · Merge requests · libinput / libinput · GitLab

This is a lot of copy/paste from the ring axes because the interface is virtually identical. The main difference is that dials give us a v120 value in...

^GitLab

J'adore ! Du coup, en fond d'écran ! Merci ❤️

#DailyDesktop #ShareYourDesktop #Linux #Xfce #Zorin #ZorinOS #DavidRevoy #ValentineDay

I play the demo of the space truck simulation „Star Trucker“ by Monster and Monster. The final game is about to be released somewhen in the year 2024 by Raw Fury.
The demo available for Windows only. I use Proton 8.0-5 to play it on Linux, no further tricks needed.
Whether the final release will have native versions for Linux or MacOS, I can't say at the moment.

Game website: https://star-trucker.com
GOG page: https://www.gog.com/game/star_trucker
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380050

My website: https://hatnix.net
My livestreams: https://live.hatnix.net

This whole forced microsoft copilot thing is making me so mad. Been thinking for a while of having a second hard drive with a linux distro for my personal work that i can boot to, and keeping windows for external work stuff.

Not sure how to go about doing this, though, does anyone have any advice on this?

Also for distros i was thinking popOS since I recall @davidrevoy using it for his work. I have been using Kubuntu on a laptop and it works great, but I am open to suggestions. I mostly use Krita, Scribus and OpenOffice.

#linux #advice

The Hell has just started melting.

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers

#nvidia #linux #opensource

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers

Today is a wild one for open-source/Linux users

^{www.phoronix.com}

But to be fair ...

Is it the implementation language being the main issue? Or is it the flexibility of extending it with plugins and that it is effectively a setuid tool, granting root access immediately when an unprivileged user starts the program (the privileges are reduced first when it has parsed the sudo config).

Sudo is a nice tool from the user's side. But security wise it's a disastrous approach. Privileges should first be elevated *after* the config has been parsed and the expected privilege level has been established. Then the tool should ideally jump to that privilege level directly.

This post introduces some new ideas ... https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/12/19/ssh-over-unix-socket/

It's not a perfect approach in all cases. But it gets rid of the setuid issue.

#linux #sudo #security

sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a UNIX socket

In this post, I will detail how to replace sudo (a setuid binary) by using SSH over a local UNIX socket. I am of the opinion that setuid/setgid binaries are a UNIX legacy that should be deprecated.

^{Siosm's blog}

As of today, you can access your encrypted #ProtonMail inbox and #ProtonCalendar on #Windows and #macOS without a browser or a third-party email app.

🐧 The #Linux app is also in the works.

Thanks to your initial feedback, these include improvements like:
🗓️ Easier access to Proton Calendar
⏩ Easy migration from #Gmail
🚨 Notification badges
🔠 Improved accessibility and font support

and more!

All paid Proton subscribers can try out the beta today https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article) https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2024-01-07-and-a-longish-article/207 - improvements to our Layout Switcher thanks to @Rokosun and new default apps ;)

#tromstuff #linux #foss #opensource #arch

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article :) )

TROMjaro Layout Switcher revamp In this release we are bringing the new TROMjaro Layout Switcher. @rokosun rewrote the entire application in the Nim programming language with use of owlkettle library for GTK.

^{TROMjaro Forum}

Support-Ende von Windows 10 soll für gigantischen Müllberg sorgen

Am 14. Oktober 2025 wird der Support von Windows 10 eingestellt. Das könnte dazu führen, dass rund 240 Millionen PCs als Elektroschrott auf einer Mülldeponie landen, wie Analyseunternehmen Canalys befürchtet. Wären alles diese Geräte aufeinandergestapelte Laptops, wäre der Stapel in etwa 4.080 Kilometer hoch. Das sind rund 600 Kilometer mehr als der Durchmesser des Mondes.

https://futurezone.at/produkte/support-ende-windows-10-gigantischen-muellberg-elektroschrott-recycling/402719809
#Linux #Umwelt #Recycling #Kreislaufwirtschaft #Microsoft #Windows

Support-Ende von Windows 10 soll für gigantischen Müllberg sorgen

Analyst*innen von Canalys warnen, dass 240 Millionen PCs durch das Supportende obsolet werden. Viele davon landen im Müll.

^{futurezone.at}

Production Report: Pepper&Carrot Episode 39 entered Alpha 1
Blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1010/production-report-episode-39-entered-alpha-1

#collaborative #webcomic #Krita #MastoArt #screenshot #linux #fedora

hi everyone i'm creating an open source fast and simple digital painting software
right now i have:
- brush engine similar to popular manga software
- antialiased bucket fill with gap closing
- opengl canvas view
- first bits of intuitive ui/ux

i'm preparing a demo for linux folks, next i will do layer system also similar to popular manga software

repository: https://github.com/mrgaturus/npainter

#art #mastoart #gamedev #indiedev #opensource #linux #foss