Serving displays since 1984

Formerly xorg-official. I have been reborn and will live unto eternity

[debian-official]

Phones are just computers that have something deeply wrong with them

[plasmodiophora]

Why is this so exciting?

What's next? base64 obfuscation? :D

[opendirectories]

[parabo1ic]

Theming KDE makes me want to immediately ditch KDE for Budgie or Gnome because I waited like 20 minutes for it to let me download the theme that doesn't work

[rackmount-official-my-ass]

Ongoing attack against Arch Linux AUR orphaned packages

You can stop reading if:

You don't use Arch Linux

You haven't updated packages in the last day or two

You don't have any AUR packages

Looks like 400+ orphaned packages have had commits today (2026-06-11) adding a dependency on npm and a call to a bad npm package, atomic-lock, which was uploaded yesterday.

[1] AUR mailing list discussion: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/L2JXQNYBGWOQQQXDEPEAICBHKFEFANUC/

[2] AI-written preliminary malware analysis: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/

[3] Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1u358xm/aur_supply_chain_attack_npm_atomiclockfile/

[x11-official]

This kind of thing is why I really do not recommend updating the AUR alongside the rest of your packages.

When you want to update with minimal thinking, just run pacman -Syu even if you have an AUR helper. Avoid running "yay" or "paru" unless you have a good half-hour or more to sit down, read PKGBUILDs, read any included post-install scripts too.

It's fine if that only happens once a month—if you're using AUR packages that need to be updated urgently on a regular basis, you better make sure you have a very good reason for doing so.

[retrofps]

[serigel]

@i-love-linux-and-need-cat-ears haiiiii :3

[ms2253]

Literary Machines: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertect, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom.

[fundgruber]

Talmud page layout vs. Wikipedia browser extension "Who wrote that"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Labeled_talmud_HS.tif?page=1

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/31/who-wrote-that-reveals-authorship-on-wikpedia/

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[isuggest-linux]

I have a suggestion

[enfinizatics]

i spread linux propaganda as if my life depended on it

[electronicintrovert]

Pro tip for learning about makefiles for the first time.

Do not under any circumstances look at the master Linux Makefile on github.

[xx-hexed-xx]

i feel the power of the terminal coursing through my veins (i watched a 10 minute "easy beginners guide to using the terminal!" video) and i fear i have become so powerful that my fate is sealed and soon it shall be vanquished by my own hubris (i'm going to try and learn how to use vim)

[monaddecepticon]

Desperately need a sane, standardized vector graphics format which is

Supported by browsers

But can't embed javascript

Is this too much to ask for? I'm going crazy here.

[piratesexmachine420]

I'm not super informed on the subject but I think part of the problem is that SVG is like nine formats at once, one of which is animated and thus requires some kind of scripting (JS being available and "flexible") to implement potentially complex motion (among other things).

We could lose the scripting and go for an APNG- or GIF-type approach but then we'd also lose one of SVG's benefits: theoretically infinite resolution in both space and time.

[monaddecepticon]

Both SVG and PDF fail miserably on this.

I'm not that informed on Embedded Postscript. But I feel it can't be that bad in a "already existing format which browsers could just support".

We should have a format that is

optimized for output (people who write SVGs by hand are insane)

has no scripting

potentially has an animated version

and that version uses a very limited and strict DSL for animation.

Worst thing we could do is support a scripting language which is

imperative (and can have infinite loops)

general purpose

type errors just result in a vacuous value (null, undefined, nil, whatever) during runtime

has arbitrary "standard library" functions as just part of the language

[moss-byte]

[commodorez]

HP 2113E minicomputer and 87XM micro – Mike Loewen

"The HP 2113E minicomputer from 1976 was part of the second series of 21MX machines, and used semiconductor RAM instead of core memory. The system on display has a 2748B high speed paper tape reader (500cps) which is used to load software into RAM. Paper tape BASIC will be loaded, after which BASIC programs can be loaded from the interpreter. A 2645A terminal is used for communication. Also on display is an 87XM personal computer from 1983 with dual diskette drives. The 87MX has built in BASIC with graphics capability."

I spent some time programming in BASIC on the HP2113E (which is a model in the HP 1000 line), but before I could Mike had to load BASIC into RAM first. He had a cleaver method of rewinding the tape using a power drill.

[porcelanitaa]