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Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law.

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubu...

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

Oh no. Can you please think of the poor corporation and its CEO? The negativity you talk about regarding AI is hurting them badly. Now Jensen Huang is begging you to stop being so negative about AI: "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.

```/bin/bash``` just turned 38.

Happy birthday, bash!

To display bash shell version press `Ctrl+x Ctrl+v`

#unix #linux #opensource

This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph: ``` SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) AS [Month], COUNT(*) AS [Questions] FROM Posts WHERE PostTypeId = 1 GROUP BY DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) ORDER BY [Month] ASC ```

This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent web is over.

dwipe command demo that wipes out disks and partitions on Linux securely. it has TUI.

dwipe is a free and opensource tool for securely and efficiently wipe devices and partitions for Linux operating systems. It comes with TUI and easy to use interface. Give it a try.
github.com/joedefen/dwipe

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

Linux is good now. The author had enough of Windows and Microsoft shenanigans. I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

www.pcgamer.com/software/lin...

OpenWorkers a free and open-source runtime for executing untrusted JavaScript in V8 isolates. It brings the power of edge computing to your own infrastructure. It is a self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust lang.

-> repo github.com/openworkers
-> project home page openworkers.com

for i in {10..1}; do echo "${i}..."; sleep 1; done; echo 'Happy New Year 2026! 🥂'

My next PC or laptop will be 500 to 800 bucks more expensive in 2026, but at least I can make a video of a kitten or baby elephant playing and dancing in my home. Isn't that great? LOL. /s #AISlop

It doesn't matter who wins the AI race, whether it’s OpenAI/Google/MS or world governments. We will be the collateral damage in this. Energy/water bills, & hardware prices are going to become major talking points in 2026 & beyond. These are just a few things I’ve noticed as 2025 comes to a close

Is it a good idea for new developers to learn ‘C’ language in 2026?

User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.

Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.

It’s a beautiful day until you realize that 64GB of high performance RAM carries the same price tag as a brand new MacBook Air featuring a "generous" 16GB of RAM. How did we get here? Here we call it the “AI” tax 😏 and it is just the beginning of the new era for DIY users.

A screenshot of `cloudflare-speed-cli` that displays network speed test results from Cloudflare's speed test service in a TUI interface.

CLI for internet speed test via cloudflare

github.com/kavehtehrani...

GitHub - rex-rs/rex: Rex is a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF. Rex is a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF. - rex-rs/rex

Rex is a safe and usable Linux kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF. This is useful for sysadmins/IT pros, DevOps engineers and developers who wish to debug complicated server and system or software issues.

Happy birthday Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and git. 🎂🐧

Linux run a command with a time limit (timeout) Run a Linux/Unix command with a time limit: Learn how to run a command, and have it abort or timeout after N seconds using timeout, bash & Perl one-liner

Make sure vim terminate itself after 300 seconds. truly evil 😈
```
alias vim='timeout 300 vim'
```

The timeout command is a simple way to let a command run for a given amount of time. www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-ru...

💯 justified outrage

Do you want to learn how to build a custom OS? There is an interactive guide and project dedicated to developing an operating system from scratch using Rust and Assembly. This is good for those who wish to learn system programming and CS.

www.learnix-os.com

repo github.com/karol-broda/...

`netstat` on Unix, macOS, and BSD (now replaced by `ss` on Linux) is a standard command for viewing and debugging network connections. There is a newer, more modern tool called snitch, written in Go lang, designed to inspect network connections on Linux and Unix with a cleaner and easy to use TUI

loong64 is now an official architecture on Debian Linux. lists.debian.org/debian-devel...

A stick figure meme where a dad enters a room yelling, "STOP HACKING THE GOVERNMENT," while a person at a Debian Linux computer calmly using the terminal and saying, "me: apt upgrade"

me just using the `apt-get` or `apt` cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-l... but how the world see it:

garage S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments

Garage is a distributed S3-like storage solution purpose built for self hosters & small teams who need reliable data storage without the complexity of enterprise grade clusters. Many users have migrated from MinIO recently to this. It is a good software for home labs, IT pros & devs

i used to live on the edge. now i just want a desktop environment that doesn't explode when i need it the most 😅

By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can. They finally settle on Debian Stable or Mint because they realize they no longer have the "mental bandwidth" to spend 6 hours configuring stuff or fix broken systems just to check their email or watch Netflix 😊

While most of us use the `clear` command to clear a Linux, macOS, or Unix terminal screen, you can actually do this much faster by pressing `Ctrl + L` keyboard shortcut keys. Try it!

People use ad blockers to protect their computers from scams and malware because Google and other ad companies have failed to do so. They put profit above everything else. I can't believe this guy is on a mission to kill Firefox by the end of this year.
Source infosec.press/brunomiguel/...

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? 17 de dezembro de 2025 In an interview with “The Verge”, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point. From the article: "He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission." It may be just me, but I read this as “I don't want to 😜 😜 but I'll kill AdBlockers in Firefox for buckerinos 😂”. This disappoints and saddens me a lot, and I hope I'm wrong.

The new Mozilla CEO says he could block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that it would bring in another $150 million, but he doesn't want to do that. Lmao. This guy has really lost the plot. Is he issuing threats to the users of an open source project? Boy, what a disaster

LibreWolf Browser A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

LibreWolf is another option. It is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom with all bad bits (like LLM/AI, No trackers/telemetry, enhanced privacy etc) removed.

* Repo codeberg.org/librewolf

* Home page librewolf.net