@tripplehelix unhelpful comment: you're not encrypting your backups? 🫣

Anyway, depends on whether the staff member checking the drive is good natured or not. Probably most times will be fine, but, it's down to if you want to take that risk.

We'd like to remind everyone that a self-hosted #chatmail relay is best shared in some wider than family circles. In crisis situations everbody does better when helping others.

A typical 1gb RAM chatmail relay VPS for 5-10 eur per month supports 50k+ daily users.

chatmail VPSes are stateless. You can wipe all disk state, reinstall and chatting will resume. Conversely, #deltachat does not keep or depend on any server state .Operators under pressure do not need to feel bad to hand over data.

I've placed a security hold on Xlibre in Alpine, for a number of reasons that basically sum up to an unproven reactionary project whose code runs with elevated privilege (such as direct hardware access) is extremely high risk for introducing security-related regressions.

I do think a fork of X is a good idea, but that fork needs to be focused on sustainability: it should be focused on the generic drivers (such as modesetting for video and libinput for input), and there needs to be a real documented plan for maintenance and triage of security vulnerabilities.

Right now, I don't see that. Instead I see a fork of every component of X, including all of the hardware-specific drivers, and people complaining about politics.

This does not inspire confidence that the fork will not introduce security regressions, or worse, fail to import security patches from X.org.

For those reasons, at least for now, the security hold will remain indefinitely. We can reevaluate after the project has had time to mature (and hopefully start focusing on the fundamentals rather than wild proclamations about being "anti-DEI").

over the next decade i expect to see an uptick in the use of the term “hand-coded”

Managed to catch a band I have admired for ages at a semi-local venue this evening. #FormidableVegetable at #AshburtonArtsCentre

Fantastic gig, at a fantastic venue.

#PermaCulture

Please don't ever use this feature. Please don't trust AI to safely navigate for you on a hike or in the backcountry. Social media and map apps have already contributed to nearly double the amount of search-and-rescue calls. AI hallucinations certainly won't improve that statistics...

[Full article, behind a registration gate: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/news/alltrails-ai-tool-search-rescue-members]

#Hiking #AI #outdoors

@amin haaaaave you tried Zola?
It uses sensible date formatting, not the nonsense that go uses 😆

https://getzola.org

@goliver oooooh, you're gonna make me want to try another reverse proxy! 😁

(And yes, on #FreeBSD)

32 years ago today, #FreeBSD was announced for the first time. I haven't tried this OS yet but I can assure you that I will because I want Quark, my OpenSource reverse proxy, to be supported on other Unix systems than Linux.

For this special occasion, I drew this little picture on #Krita 🙂

#FreeBSDday #Unix #Server

From Collaborators to Consumers: Have We Killed the Soul of Open Source?

The Open Source community is becoming increasingly polarized. From the "distro wars" to Wayland vs. X11, the spirit of collaboration is fading. Are we shifting from "collaborators" to "consumers", and what can we do to build bridges instead of walls?

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/

#OpenSource #OSS #Linux #BSD

Imagine a conversation partner that tells you whatever you want to hear, never admits to ignorance, lies without compunction, and is utterly incapable of empathy or guilt. You might recognise this as a description of a #psychopath.

Or would you recognise it as a description of an #LLM?

We are falling over ourselves to embed artificial psychopaths in everything we own. It will not end well.

@felsqualle this is the modern day browser choice paradox - #Mozilla keep f*@&ing up, but firefox is still the only real option.
The forks are great (I use LibreWolf) but we should also consider that if upstream firefox were to disappear, these forks would suffer.

In short - there are no good browsers. 😁😭

@dhobern @richiekhoo been using garage myself on my own servers. Works great.

What's brilliant is it can automatically co-locate the data with another server in the cluster if you set it up as such.

:insta: @system32comics

🆕 Excited to introduce our new search engine: Murena Find – powered by @Qwant & integrated into your Murena device.

Privacy by design:
🚫 No tracking
🚫 No data resale
🌿 Hosted in EU with sustainable energy

We created Murena Find to make online privacy easy & accessible for everyone — without compromising usability.
This marks another step in our shared journey with Qwant, building respectful, reliable, and user-friendly digital tools.

Big thanks to our teams for making this possible! @e_mydata

@murena

Link: https://murena.qwant.com

For those wanting to try it.

@Qwant @e_mydata

@sotolf @olemd @alatartheblue we clearly must be doing something illegal. It's the only logical conclusion

@dee I'm getting a similar thing with Qwant Search

Thinking it's some kind of proof of humanity/work thing to stop AI crawlers.....which is pretty effing rich coming from a web search company

@olemd @sotolf @alatartheblue just to say, i don't believe this is about security threats, it's about the concept of what privacy is, and a company claiming to be privacy focussed, but had phone number requirement from day 1 and keeps their servers in the states does not ooze the idea of privacy to some people

@olemd @sotolf

Yeah, no phone accounts must be really hard to set up when your entire production relies on accounts with phone numbers.