linus
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sysops, linux, black metal, beer. old grumpy man-toots from an open source fundamentalist with an iphone. reluctant administrator of telegrafverket.cc. also fuck […]
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They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true.
Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
#ai
Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
#ai
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 AM
They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true.
Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
#ai
Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
#ai
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”Om det blir handelskrig med USA kanske de stänger av alla iPhones, ska du skaffa en sån där finsk Linux-telefon från Tammerfors då eller?”
Jag:
Jag:
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
”Om det blir handelskrig med USA kanske de stänger av alla iPhones, ska du skaffa en sån där finsk Linux-telefon från Tammerfors då eller?”
Jag:
Jag:
Trying to shrink the Mastodon media directory with:
find /home/mastodon/live/public/system -name "*.png" -type f | xargs oxipng -o 2 --strip all
This uses https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng to non-destructively compress PNG images on disk, and the result so far looks pretty promising.
#mastoadmin
find /home/mastodon/live/public/system -name "*.png" -type f | xargs oxipng -o 2 --strip all
This uses https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng to non-destructively compress PNG images on disk, and the result so far looks pretty promising.
#mastoadmin
GitHub - oxipng/oxipng: Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust
Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust. Contribute to oxipng/oxipng development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Trying to shrink the Mastodon media directory with:
find /home/mastodon/live/public/system -name "*.png" -type f | xargs oxipng -o 2 --strip all
This uses https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng to non-destructively compress PNG images on disk, and the result so far looks pretty promising.
#mastoadmin
find /home/mastodon/live/public/system -name "*.png" -type f | xargs oxipng -o 2 --strip all
This uses https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng to non-destructively compress PNG images on disk, and the result so far looks pretty promising.
#mastoadmin
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staring at a windows update saying ”you’re 100% there” for over a minute makes me wonder why you would ever from a UX perspective count up to 100 percent and not 99
August 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
staring at a windows update saying ”you’re 100% there” for over a minute makes me wonder why you would ever from a UX perspective count up to 100 percent and not 99
It turns out that you can actually deploy Alpine cloud images with full cloud-init bootstrapping support on #freebsd, if you're willing to hack a little -- very cool https://agren.cc/p/alpine-on-bhyve/ (shoutout included to @stefano who led me down this rabbit hole)
Alpine Linux VM cloud images on FreeBSD
You can get almost anything running on most hypervisors if you’re OK with mounting an ISO and running through an installation, but VM cloud images are essential for repeat deployments, so I wanted to explore what the support is like on FreeBSD. Turns out, it’s not terrible.
agren.cc
July 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It turns out that you can actually deploy Alpine cloud images with full cloud-init bootstrapping support on #freebsd, if you're willing to hack a little -- very cool https://agren.cc/p/alpine-on-bhyve/ (shoutout included to @stefano who led me down this rabbit hole)
If you use #haproxy 2.2 or later, you can set up your own "ip echo" service:
acl host_ip hdr(host) -i ip.example.com
use_backend ipecho_haproxy if host_ip
backend ipecho_haproxy
http-request return status 200 content-type text/plain lf-string "%[src]"
acl host_ip hdr(host) -i ip.example.com
use_backend ipecho_haproxy if host_ip
backend ipecho_haproxy
http-request return status 200 content-type text/plain lf-string "%[src]"
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
If you use #haproxy 2.2 or later, you can set up your own "ip echo" service:
acl host_ip hdr(host) -i ip.example.com
use_backend ipecho_haproxy if host_ip
backend ipecho_haproxy
http-request return status 200 content-type text/plain lf-string "%[src]"
acl host_ip hdr(host) -i ip.example.com
use_backend ipecho_haproxy if host_ip
backend ipecho_haproxy
http-request return status 200 content-type text/plain lf-string "%[src]"
set up my first physical #freebsd server recently, for now doing nothing useful except tmux+weechat in a jail with a separate ssh port. it's a very typical experience so far: everything is "simpler", in both a nice way, but also in a "bastille will happily write incorrect limit config to file […]
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telegrafverket.cc
July 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
set up my first physical #freebsd server recently, for now doing nothing useful except tmux+weechat in a jail with a separate ssh port. it's a very typical experience so far: everything is "simpler", in both a nice way, but also in a "bastille will happily write incorrect limit config to file […]
Installing the ruTorrent web UI on Debian https://agren.cc/p/rutorrent/
Installing the ruTorrent web UI on Debian
ruTorrent is a popular web interface for the rtorrent client, here’s how to set it up with lighttpd on Debian.
agren.cc
July 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Installing the ruTorrent web UI on Debian https://agren.cc/p/rutorrent/
it's interesting, or perhaps obvious, or perhaps both, how much better chatgpt is at translating phrases between two non-english languages. good luck trying to get a contextual translation of "præsten og degnen" from danish to swedish with google translate
July 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
it's interesting, or perhaps obvious, or perhaps both, how much better chatgpt is at translating phrases between two non-english languages. good luck trying to get a contextual translation of "præsten og degnen" from danish to swedish with google translate
https://github.com/lgrn/haproxy-errors-rfc HAProxy HTML error templates with simple CSS and quotes from RFC 9110
GitHub - lgrn/haproxy-errors-rfc: HAProxy HTML error templates with simple CSS and quotes from RFC 9110
HAProxy HTML error templates with simple CSS and quotes from RFC 9110 - lgrn/haproxy-errors-rfc
github.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
https://github.com/lgrn/haproxy-errors-rfc HAProxy HTML error templates with simple CSS and quotes from RFC 9110
"Sedan 2017 har bredbandspriset i hyresrätter ökat med hela 70 %, att jämföra med endast 5 % i bostadsrätter. Den stora skillnaden beror på att fastighetsägare ofta utnyttjar sin monopolställning genom att ta ut dolda avgifter från bredbandsleverantörer – kostnader som i slutändan hamnar på din […]
Original post on telegrafverket.cc
telegrafverket.cc
July 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"Sedan 2017 har bredbandspriset i hyresrätter ökat med hela 70 %, att jämföra med endast 5 % i bostadsrätter. Den stora skillnaden beror på att fastighetsägare ofta utnyttjar sin monopolställning genom att ta ut dolda avgifter från bredbandsleverantörer – kostnader som i slutändan hamnar på din […]
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Det är inte bra sommar
Inte heller dålig sommar.
Det är midsommar.
Inte heller dålig sommar.
Det är midsommar.
June 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Det är inte bra sommar
Inte heller dålig sommar.
Det är midsommar.
Inte heller dålig sommar.
Det är midsommar.
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Man väljer sitt umgänge.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Man väljer sitt umgänge.
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Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey
March 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey
"It's borderline criminal that RPGs have, in my opinion, stagnated this long when it comes to writing. And it's not even I felt all that strongly before I played Disco Elysium, it revealed this new frustration in me: that writing always could've always been this good, and what have we been […]
Original post on telegrafverket.cc
telegrafverket.cc
February 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"It's borderline criminal that RPGs have, in my opinion, stagnated this long when it comes to writing. And it's not even I felt all that strongly before I played Disco Elysium, it revealed this new frustration in me: that writing always could've always been this good, and what have we been […]
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trying to pull on a sock while sitting on the toilet and blacking out like a fighter pilot pulling high Gs
November 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
trying to pull on a sock while sitting on the toilet and blacking out like a fighter pilot pulling high Gs
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38-YEAR-OLD: pretty soon here I’ll get in shape
November 14, 2024 at 5:01 AM
38-YEAR-OLD: pretty soon here I’ll get in shape
”Dricks är dålig kultur och nu är den på väg att spåra ur” https://telegra.ph/Dricks-%C3%A4r-d%C3%A5lig-kultur-och-nu-%C3%A4r-den-p%C3%A5-v%C3%A4g-att-sp%C3%A5ra-ur-10-22
October 22, 2024 at 10:05 AM
”Dricks är dålig kultur och nu är den på väg att spåra ur” https://telegra.ph/Dricks-%C3%A4r-d%C3%A5lig-kultur-och-nu-%C3%A4r-den-p%C3%A5-v%C3%A4g-att-sp%C3%A5ra-ur-10-22