Any simple CLI method for playing a sound over mic in voice chats?
I’ve got this idea in my head that I want a tofi based sound board that I can summon on a button press (and maybe fuzzy find through)...
TL;DR You can manage Linux Machines with group policy (dmulder.github.io)
I just though I’d share...
How the Media Treat Linux (www.youtube.com)
Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show there's room to innovate (www.theregister.com)
The beta versions of Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 are out, showing that there’s room to improve on the standard Ubuntu formula. The beta announcements for Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 don’t reveal quite as much information as the Lubuntu’s alpha-test announcement did. The Reg FOSS desk looked at the two Qt-centric remixes,...
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
My Linux Odyssey (Or how difficult it is to put on a hat)
Back in October I bought myself a new shiny SSD to finally make the first step of leaving behind Windows....
Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland (bugs.launchpad.net)
This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I’ll copy what I did from the bug report....
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/16 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Tips on how to structure your home directory (unixdigest.com)
cryptsetup hanging?
Anyone ever have cryptsetup just start hanging after entering password on boot? This seems like it’s going to be a fun issue to try to resolve…
Gentoo bans AI-created contributions (lwn.net)
Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype (www.zdnet.com)
The might be a dumb question but... if I enable IP forwarding/routing on my Linux machine without any firewall enabled...
can someone else use my machine as a router to forward traffic to anywhere else on the internet?...
Firefox UX: On Purpose: Collectively Defining Our Team’s Mission Statement (blog.mozilla.org)
Thoughts on CachyOS?
I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about CachyOS recently. Has anyone here tried it? It seems interesting and I might give it a go (currently on EndeavourOS) on a spare drive in my PC.
When do you consider a system to be bloated?
I often hear folks in the Linux community discussing their preference for Arch (and Linux in general) because they can install only the packages they want or need - no bloat....
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week (www.phoronix.com)
openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds (news.opensuse.org)
udev-hid-bpf: quickstart tooling to fix your HID devices with eBPF (who-t.blogspot.com)
Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.
I host a few small low-traffic websites for local interests. I do this for free - and some of them are for a friend who died last year but didn’t want all his work to vanish. They don’t get so many views, so I was surprised when I happened to glance at munin and saw my bandwidth usage had gone up a lot....
Interview with Jon "maddog" Hall, a true LEGEND of Linux - Destination Linux (tuxdigital.com)
April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features (blog.system76.com)
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color (www.theregister.com)
What is Malware.db? (imgur.com)
So I normally clear up storage every once in a while, let’s say about every four months. I noticed this a while ago, and didn’t think much of it. But I was wondering if anyone knew of what this meant, or if this is actually “Malware”....