petrisch @petrisch@librem.one

Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.

Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-ebook/

#Linux OpenPrinting #CUPS vulnerabilities

Use the following command to determine if cups-browsed is running:

$ sudo systemctl status cups-browsed

If the result includes "Active: inactive (dead)" then the exploit chain is halted and the system is not vulnerable

If the result is "running" or "enabled" then the system may be vulnerable.

Mitigation is simple, especially in any environment where printing is not needed.

$ sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed

$ sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed

I just used for the first time #GNUtaler to pay my Mate at #Datenspuren. GNUtaler is a #FreeSoftware secure electronic payment system funded under the #EU's Next Generation Internet programme #NGI which the EU just decided to cut by €27 mio.

The payment worked awesome - and Free Software needs sustainable, long-term financial support! This is what we at the @fsfe demand from the EU, to ensure Europe's technological independence.

Please support our work!
https://fsfe.org/donate

#PublicCode

Having been active in the BonsaiBIM.org (formally BlenderBIM) & OSArch.org communities for many years, I can tell you that the blood, sweat, and tears on this release was palpable.

I know the core developers sacrificed a lot of their time to root out a lot of elusive and temperamental bugs.

It just feels like an ideal time to show our appreciation.

In that light, if this software is useful to you in your daily production, please consider funding further development.

https://opencollective.com/opensourcebim

#Bonsai v0.8.0 has been released with 1,357 (!!!) new features / fixes. Improvements in #NativeIFC drawings, solar analysis, light sim, IFC4X3 support, wall tool, georeferencing, web UI and more!

Get it today: https://bonsaibim.org/

See release notes: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/comment/21943/#Comment_21943

It's our built environment, help support Bonsai: 100% free & open source software that lets you author and document BIM data fully to ISO standards.

#ifcopenshell #openbim #blender #b3d #blenderbim #opensource #openbim

Chat client Chatty will drop XMPP support.

Unless someone starts maintaining that part. This could be YOU!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/issues/842

This is apparently the only client that supports both XMPP and Matrix and it would be sad to see it losing support.

#LinuxOnMobile #XMPP #Jabber

A while ago I whipped up a prototype in nvim-dap to support fallback language interpreters that are used in the REPL if there is no active debug session.

With a bundled implementation for Lua. Demo:

https://zignar.net/assets/files/c6144a41526e81b82d9cac39901782a4140d3f14adec3c8b8061cb1028e700ff.webm

I'm still not sure if that's still in scope and if I should finish and merge it.
If you'd like to see this merged, maybe leave some feedback or upvote the PR https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap/pull/1281

#neovim #nvim-dap

Kennt ihr Kids, die nächstes Jahr im Grossraum Zürich eine Informatik-Lehrstelle suchen? Threema bietet ab 2025 eine solche Lehrstelle an: https://threema.ch/de/lehre

PSA that the #OSArch (OSArch.org - community.OSArch.org) community forums has been under a DDoS attack for just over a day now. Anybody experienced with who can help provide some advice for a FOSS volunteer hosted site on the best way forward to stop this and in the future please send me a DM :) #opensource #openbim

@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!

Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢

We signed the open letter, consider doing the same if your project received funding in the past.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/17/news-on-grant-applications/

OK that #Microsoft #AI CEO said that "everyone can copy [...]it's freeware"

So since #Windows iso images are available we can copy them, it's freeware.

The same with all the licensed Microsoft #GitHub repositories too then ?

If paying is not owning, if creating is not owning, piracy isn't stealing then.

Here's the MR in case you're interested:

- feedbackd RGB color: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/126
- feedbackd LED flash: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/129
- feedbackd-device-themes LED flash: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd-device-themes/-/merge_requests/27
- feedbackd silence: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/128
- phosh silence: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1459
- calls bugfix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/merge_requests/734

#feedbackd #phosh

So far you had to pull out #phosh's top and bottom bar quiet a bit to make it unfold. That's kind of o.k. on 📱 like the #Librem5 or #PinePhone but can be cumbersome on larger phones like the #OnePlus6T or tablets like the #Librem11. I've put out an MR for #phoc which adds a fling #gesture so you can also fold/unfold with a fast swipe. Here's a short video demoing this for different screen sizes:

#LinuxMobile

We have some great news about Railway: It is no longer limited to the HAFAS API that Deutsche Bahn uses! 🎉
Now, you can test the Swiss SBB on Flathub beta (https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/de.schmidhuberj.DieBahn.flatpakref).
There you can also use Transitous – with worldwide coverage based entirely on community-aggregated open data sources. Not as reliable and up-to-date as our other providers, but you can get involved to improve it.
Feel free to share feedback with us over at https://matrix.to/#/%23railwayapp:matrix.org.