Scandinavian Hacking

@ScandinavianHacking
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From 'I use Arch btw' to 'I use what works btw.' 🤭

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The big three of Linux! 🐧

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@itsfoss me a casual Linux user
The edgevpn project is an open source tool that provides an immutable, decentralized, and P2P VPN solution. The primary goal is to create a secure, private network without relying on any central server or fixed IP addresses, making it ideal for distributed and "edge" computing environments. It is built using libp2p. Repo https://github.com/mudler/edgevpn
GitHub - mudler/edgevpn: :sailboat: The immutable, decentralized, statically built p2p VPN without any central server and automatic discovery! Create decentralized introspectable tunnels over p2p with shared tokens

:sailboat: The immutable, decentralized, statically built p2p VPN without any central server and automatic discovery! Create decentralized introspectable tunnels over p2p with shared tokens - mudle...

GitHub
Researchers won’t stand by as their work is cordoned off by inequitable publishing. Gatekeepers need to get on board or be left behind. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/civil-disobedience-copyright-keeps-science-going
Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going

Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need. Unless publishing gatekeepers adopt drastically more equitable practices and become partners in disseminating knowledge, they will continue to lose ground to open access alternatives, legal or otherwise.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

ZDNET
@nixCraft the stupid hardware. My wifi card is a bastard, my old Nvidia GPU is full of gremlins and my motherboard is full of bloatware.
Gods please, I'll do my nerd penance in the terminal all day but give me a laptop that is open all the way down.

Two new words i will use more often:

Möbiusplain (verb)
To explain something in a way that loops back to the original confusion.
“He Möbiusplained the tax code until I forgot what money was.”

Whimstorm (noun)
A sudden burst of irrational creativity that disrupts all planning.
“The team was hit by a whimstorm and redesigned the login page as a haiku.”

When your code works but no idea how