Just discovered a NetBSD kernel bug causing boot failures on the Thinkpad X240 that is seemingly tied to *whether or not the laptop is charging*???
Probably the weirdest bug condition I have ever encountered.
https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=60140
ℹ️ Now DistroWatch will need to include a new item on the distro description page:
• Age verification: yes / no
My #FreeBSD #HomeLab adventures continue. With some basic shell scripts and mtree I've added a rudimentary intrusion detection system. Do others do something similar, is there a much better solution I should be aware of?
https://henryleach.com/2026/03/basic-intrusion-detection-system-with-mtree/
After the very basic server setup, having some kind of simple Intrusion Detection System (IDS) seems like a good idea. While all the previous steps were designed to prevent someone taking control of your server, if someone has managed to tamper with something, short of being locked out - how would you know?
#RISC_OS Folks: New #ShareFSServer Alpha 0.2.0 available to all the testers to give it a go. Let me know how it goes.
Change logs here:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/20267?limit=25&page=4#posts-162609
The realisation 'C' was a failed Fortran compiler explains so much.
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.html
"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that Unix—possibly it had not even been named yet—needed a system programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he created instead a language of his own, which he called B."
Did you know that #systemd already has `emailAddress`, `realName`, and `location` fields? but they where never meant for home users, only enterprise workflows, so adding `birthDate field` isn't really much work, and you could see why systemd doesn't consider that bloat
And this is exactly why systemd is bloated because it doesn't consider lots of things to be bloat in the first place
It's never a good idea to rely on software that serves corporations best interests, because corporations care about profit not principles, #FOSS principles.
#privacy #anonymity #ageverification #ubuntu #fedora #linux #arch #pop_os #midnightbsd #bsd #surveillance #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren
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