The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/great-dying-extinction-tipping-point-tropical-forests

<- spoiler: it was sharp rises in atmospheric CO2, & we're doing much worse right now

XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release -- this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.

This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I'd get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqg

@stefano Indeed. I should have guessed that you're familiar with it :)

@stefano Not as smooth to install (as it's not supported out the box by most distros), but I find ZFSBootMenu (typically in conjunction with rEFInd) works incredibly well for Linux ZFS-on-root. https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.0.x/

#ZFS

@ssamulczyk You're welcome. I normally use Kodi (with Jellyfin plugin) as frontend but do have an Apple TV in one room and use Infuse there. It works very well.

@ssamulczyk If you don't mind using a non-open source client (and paying for certain features), Infuse is a good option. https://firecore.com/infuse. It has very good support for #Jellyfin.

New blog post!

I describe how I'm using the snapshot feature of ZFS to track daily changes in my home directory on FreeBSD. This enables me to do things like restore files accidentally deleted and make backups to remote devices.

I have quickly come to appreciate how useful snapshots can be:

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/zfs-snapshots/

#ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD

@dwarmstrong Thanks, useful post - I hadn't thought of the useful scenario of allowing a user to create snapshots of their home directory filesystem, etc.

BTW, I find sanoid very useful for automating #ZFS snapshots - https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/zfs-automatic-snapshots-with-sanoid-on-freebsd/

@an0key Urgh. Mine isn't yet forcing an account - I've had the warning to create one for months but am still able to update. I'm eventually going to migrate to the Zigbee stick I use for everything else but don't fancy the hassle of re-pairing just yet...

@dwarmstrong USFF machines are awesome. @servethehome has some great resources on those Lenovos and similar from Dell, etc - https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

@zekjur Makes sense (didn't realise you were a #NetBSD user for a while!) :)

@zekjur Have you looked at #pkgsrc? I've found it to work really well on macOS. Binary packages are available here: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ (courtesy of @jperkin).

That said, if you're already partway through a switch to #nix...

@kel Yeah, also always took "Used to Love Her" as satire...

BTW, when I was at school a friend had a copy of AfD with the original cover - when he showed it to me I was surprised as I didn't realise that the cross wasn't the original cover (this was 1988, remember!).

@ChartreuseK @CursedSilicon @fozztexx Ah, very cool - thanks for the info.

@kel Agreed. I think we've all done and said things we regret, it's how we make amends for those things that are important.

I remember the controversy about Lies at the time and I believe "One in a Million" was later dropped from re-releases. "Used to Love Her" should probably be consigned to the graveyard too...

@kel @kel It's a hard one, I know some make the argument of "separating art from artist" but I'm not so sure about that personally...

FWIW, GnR had a *huge* impact on my musical tastes at the time of the release of AfD - I went from being a huge pop (think: Michael Jackson) fan to discovering Metallica, Megadeth, Rush, Slayer, etc.

@ChartreuseK @CursedSilicon Lovely monitor :) Where is the post on the screen from?

@nuintari We quite enjoyed Paradise recently and have been catching up on a few older shows: True Detective, The Sinner and Fargo.