Nils Ballmann

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Other people my age are alarmingly old
On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day, remember: The way we wonder why Germans didn’t stop Hitler is exactly how the rest of the world views Americans and Trump today.
Bin jedes mal richtig stolz auf die Linux-Community wenn ein Mensch frustriert vor einem verbastelten Mint-Kackhaufen steht weil die Mint-Jünger am lautesten geschrien haben dass ihre exotische Altlasten-Distribution das einzig wahre ist für Linux-Neulinge. #diday #linux

"Do not hallucinate" is just the most ridiculous tell. What do people think is happening here. How does anyone think anything works.

https://hachyderm.io/@benjamineskola/116656513183367271

Is there anyone who is stoked about mkosi and build stream etc who wants to take this over for elementary OS? I’d really like to have sysupdate compatible images at least as an experiment. I just have too many projects right now https://github.com/elementary/os/pull/793
Replace LiveBuild with mkosi by danirabbit · Pull Request #793 · elementary/os

Fixes #724 https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/blob/main/mkosi/resources/man/mkosi.1.md

GitHub

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

@foone A tech analyst of my acquaintance who knew Steve Balmer and Steve Jobs once told me:

Microsoft and Apple each have one target customer.

MSFT's customer is a multinational software company with 87,000 employees. If that corp needs something, MSFT will work out how to make it for them. (The corp in question is MSFT.)

Apple … Apple has one customer, an irascible guy in a black turtleneck called Steve. If Steve likes it, Apple will make it. If not, not.

(Apple today runs Emulation Steve.)

"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."

Der #Microsoft Deal mit Bayern ist geplatzt und ich finde ihr solltest das wissen... falls ihr es nicht schon mitbekommen habt 👉 https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/bayern/sieg-fuer-die-digitale-vernunft-bayern-laesst-deal-mit-us-software-hersteller-platzen-art-1135125

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Mittwoch. Alles wird gut!

'Sieg für die digitale Vernunft': Bayern lässt Deal mit US-Software-Hersteller platzen

Es ist offiziell: Der Freistaat will seine Verwaltung nicht länger dem US-Softwareriesen Microsoft ausliefern. Digitalminister Fabian Mehring genießt seinen Triumph – in aller Stille. Die Hintergründe.

Abendzeitung
So CVE-2026-41089 (CVSS 9.8) in Windows Netlogon can be triggered by sending a username that is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA or longer.
How original.