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Enjoy Linux & Unix-like systems, open-source software, and programming/compsci? Into Sysadmin & DevOps? Follow us to make the most of your IT career! Discover new tools and apps daily, plus a dose of humor ⤵️

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Most people want a usable OS - they don’t want any AI or copilot capabilities. But who will tell them? www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
A screenshot of a news article headline. The headline reads: "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash - 'the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me'" Below the headline is the short summary: "Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS."
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Cloudflare down worldwild including API and most apps and Cloudflare hosted sites returning HTTP/500 status. Even their own status site is broken right now.
A screenshot of broekn Cloudflare down status page including API and most apps and Cloudflare hosted sites returning HTTP/500 status. Even their own status site is broken.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Andronix is a platform that allows you to install and run a full fledged Linux distro on your Android device (smartphone, tablet, or Chromebook). You can install Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Kali, Void, Alpine, and Arch Linux including desktop environment like LXDE/LXQT/XFCE
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Want to run old versions of UNIX for the PDP-11 on modern hardware and OSes like Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD? You can do it now for educational purposes and see how much Unix evolved over time. Ancient UNIX versions available for the PDP-11 include Version 1/5/7 UNIX & 2.11BSD UNIX. Give it a try.
GUI box showing the "Run ancient UNIX v0.2" utility and configuration options like "Install UNIX system images," "Clear temporary files" and running options for various historic UNIX versions, including Version 1, Version 5, Version 7, and 2.11BSD for PDP-11, plus a Version 7 option for x86.
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Unix v4 tape found. Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist. It was the first version in which the kernel was written in C. It also had minor changes to the UNIX file system‎ (such as the ability of any inode to hold a device 'special file'.
discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Linux desktop share reached to 6.2% as per Cloudflare tracking network as of first week of Nov/2025..

Cloudflare Radar tracks global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends using data from its massive worldwide network, not just Cloudflare hosted sites.
A screenshot of chart shows the distribution of HTTP requests sorted by operating system over time for Desktop devices worldwide. A tooltip for Sat, Nov 1, 2025 shows the breakdown as of 1/Nov/2025: Windows: 73%, macOS: 19%, Linux: 6.2%, ChromeOS: 1.7%, iOS: 0.000002%, Android: 0%, Smart TV: 0%. A summary bar below the chart shows: Windows 74%, macOS 18%, Linux 5.7% for past 52 weeks.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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sudo laugh_n_cry
A screenshot of a text conversation between two people working in the IT industry. John: Good morning, Im about to destroy the backend and DB (9:40 AM) (Green bubble): Voice call No answer (9:40 AM) John: Deploy* (9:40 AM) John): Applogies (9:41 AM) (Green bubble): Just pick my call please 🙏 (9:41 AM) (Green bubble): Please take the day off ! Don't do anything! (9:41 AM) John: I got this! Dont worry. It was a typo (9:42 AM) (Green bubble): I know but I insist 🙏 (9:42 AM)
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look. Say hello to Kit who is new mascot. www.firefox.com/en-US/kit/
Say hi to kit. The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look. Kit is a stylized illustration of a fox sitting upright, with an orange gradient color scheme with puppy eyes.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Inkscape, a free & opensource vector graphics editor, was released 22 years ago. It is a powerful tool you can use to create professional-looking logos, illustrations, web graphics, banners, and other designs. As a notable alternative to Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape is completely free. Happy birthday
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🤣
A screenshot from social media showing photo of two men, John Jeong (JJ) on the left, and another older man ( Linus Torvalds ) with gray hair on the right, standing outside a building at night in Korea. This is a joke post from https://x.com/computeless/status/1985689896812724262 or https://xcancel.com/computeless/status/1985689896812724262
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Vim was released 33 years ago. To celebrate, try this: open Vim and type :smile to see an Easter egg. Happy birthday the best programmers text editor out there!!!
The :smile command is a charming Easter egg added to the Vim editor by its original creator, Bram Moolenaar (who sadly passed away). This screenshot shows that Easter egg.
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Scary 😧
Scary Black t-shirt with a funny theme. It features a graphic of three ghost-like figures. The text on the shirt reads: 'I'M DRESSED AS A UDP PACKET BUT NOBODY WILL GET IT'
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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To determine if a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint based Linux system requires a reboot due to lib or kernel upgrades, check these two files
cat /var/run/reboot-required
cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs

You can easily automate this for a fleet of servers. See www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-f... for more info.
A screenshot showing how to find out if your Linux MInt, Ubuntu/Debian Linux server needs a reboot by checking var/run/reboot-required and var/run/reboot-required.pkgs files.
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This is the most requested feature at GitHub, but will Microsoft listen?

Via mastodon.social/@IvanSanchez...
I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs made with copilot". Meanwhile, there's a grand total of zero requests for "plz put copilot in more stuff". This should be significative of the attitude of veteran coders towards #LLM creep.
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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History Of #Linux Project: a timeline with cards and images to illustrate how Linux came to be github.com/MarkGotLasag...
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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You know you are poor when an AWS outage doesn't affect you because you can still easily use your bed, kitchen appliances to make a cup of tea or joe (or heat food), use the toilet, and open any door in your home. See? Being poor is not so bad. Lmao.

yes it is real www.cnet.com/health/sleep...
A headline from CNET reads: Owners of Luxury Smart Beds Literally Lost Sleep Due to AWS Outage The Amazon Web Services outage affected websites from Roblox to Reddit, but for some smart bed-accessory owners, it posed more physical issues.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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this is all you need to run linux 🐧 and the best thing is it will not spy on you or steal your private data to train someone else’s shity AI 🤖
A small electronic circuit is assembled directly on a slice of white bread, with yellow jumper wires connecting the components
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Build your own minimal BSD UNIX system with smolBSD project which aims at creating a minimal NetBSD virtual machine that's able to boot and start a service in less than a second. Previous NetBSD installation is not required, using the provided tools the microvm can be created from NetBSD/Linux/MacOS
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Today's popular browser engines have deep roots in KHTML, which was originally built for the open-source software KDE. I guess we all own a big thank you to the KDE project.

More @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#D...
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Pro tip for Linux /Unix users: Once you are done with administering your box, always end an elevated session by running the `sudo -K` command. This prevents unauthorized use by others if you leave your terminal open. Apart from that, it is useful for testing your scripts & other admin commands (1/n)
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Good. I wish everyone sue the openai for ignoring every artist copyright. Tech bros have zero morals left regarding copyright or environment.
A Reddit post in r/SoraAi by u/Professional_Rip2657 titled "Yea sora is done." The text reads: "Copyright basically took down almost everything cool that you could of done with sora when it first came out, crazy how it lasted like 2 days, I legit can't even make a SpongeBob generation anymore, not to mention the policies on alot of other things definitely advanced aswell, was fun while it lasted boys."
October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🤣 there is no way you can run linux or doom on sim card with just 64KB ram but other than that the rest of info is seems correct as sim card does have their own OS, processor, RAM, etc, and you can definitely install and run applets on them. lol.
A Twitter thread about SIM cards. The first tweet, from user @birdabo404, says: "just found out SIM cards are self contained computers with their own 30 mHz CPU, 64 KB ram and some storage space. also runs 'applets' written in a stripped down form of java. u can technically install linux on ur sim lol." An image below the text shows a size comparison of differnet SIMs. The second tweet, from user @DasFiesel, adds: "fun fact: e-sims are simply images of real sims and run as a VM just like a real sim would - so u can technically install linux or doom on ur e-sim as well :D"
September 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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how to recognise an AI generated security bug report for your project ( Daniel Stenberg is the author of the curl project ) mastodon.sdf.org/@b100w11/115...
Recognising AI language Not always easy to do, because... too polite Perfect English without typos Mixed Case To Make It Seem Serious mdash use emoj happy too long - already at first shot bullet point bonanza
September 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Forget opening your browser. You can check your internet speed from the comfort of your terminal! It’s easy: just type the command `speedtest-cli`.
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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If your app or website received a Government legal request to block a user, which HTTP status code would you send: 451 or 403?
A screenshot of JSON { "status": 403, "error": "Forbidden", "message": "Access to this resource is forbidden. You do not have the necessary permissions.", "details": { "reason": "Insufficient permissions" } } { "status": 451, "error": "Unavailable For Legal Reasons", "message": "This resource has been blocked in your country due to a government order.", "details": { "reason": "Government order", "legal_authority": "Ministry of Communications" } }
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM