@fanf@mendeddrum.orgone of the funniest things about the gpg.fail bugs is this user interface and documentation confusion:
using --decrypt to verify a signature (boggle) because that’s recommended in documentation that became obsolete 25 years ago (wince) but which is still published without caveat (facepalm)
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… 😃
Incidentally, there's more than mirroring to be done, before the announcement. For documentation, please see (for example):
― <https://
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI found the Quadraverb manual online. :)
https://notebook.zoeblade.com/Downloads/Documentation/Alesis/QuadraVerb_owners_manual.pdf
Edit: big thanks to @…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol
@usul@piaille.fr2026 Web Engines Hackfest
https://webengineshackfest.org/
@Hans5958@mastodon.socialFor those who curious, I'm still doing VocaDB stuff, and here's the latest (status) update. It's pretty long considering it's been months since the last update.
https://gitlab.com/Hans5958-MWS/vocadb-docs/-/wikis/updates/2025-10
@alexanderadam@ruby.social @grahamperrin@bsd.cafeNo, syscons has not been removed.
A few other issues with the article: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pa6pxy/comment/nrhhlnq/>
I encourage readers to await official release documentation.
@…
@grumpybozo@toad.social
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI used the opportunity to also “fix” the #troff output, i.e., it was already working, but I updated the image handling and added EPS versions of the sample images, so formatting the documentation with troff should now work out of the box.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI used the opportunity to also “fix” the #troff output, i.e., it was already working, but I updated the image handling and added EPS versions of the sample images, so formatting the documentation with troff should now work out of the box.
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialOn a positive note, David Pine did a great job implementing the Aspire documentation structure using Astro.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgtante.cc is again protected by the most recent iocaine version.
It's gotten really easy to set up and it's already capturing (and poisoning with Luddite writings) boatloads of "AI" bots
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialBeen getting double-posting issues on mastodon.social server here. Quite embarrassing having to delete the duplicate replies.
Thought could be a Phanpy bug but seems unlikely because Phanpy implements `Idempotency-Key` (https://docs.joinmastod…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeAn interesting lighting talk at #hacklu presenting a tool for Offline decryption of SCCM database secrets.
https://github.com/MartinoTommasini/offlineSCCMdecrypt
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🚀 Real results: Geoffrey Huntley ran a 3-month loop building a complete programming language. YC hackathon teams shipped 6 repos overnight for $297 in API costs
✅ Best for: Large refactors, batch operations, test coverage, documentation generation - tasks with clear completion criteria
⚠️ Not for: Ambiguous requirements, architectural decisions, security-sensitive code, or exploration work
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialIs #Mobilizon still maintained somehow? Or is it completely dead now. I tried the docker compose setup from their documentation but that's referring docker images that do not exit.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
@erc_bk@fosstodon.orgHmm — an htmlwidget serializer. I'd like to see that out in the wild. #RStats
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaBuilding a microblog with hugo soon. I really like writing documentation in markdown, just makes sense to blog that way too.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsHonestly, #libfuse3 is the single worst library I have worked with. The API is a random mix of bugs, hacks and historical changes. The documentation is barely existing for the more common API, and practically non-existing for anything else. And upstream's attitude is, basically "lack of documentation is not a bug, feel free to contribute". Because obviously people have nothing better to do than dig through tons of your awful code, figure out how it interacts with the #Linux kernel, and then document it all.
#FUSE
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDebian Hint #26: If a package doesn't seem to have much documentation,
check for a package named '<package>-doc' or similar and make sure to
install it as well; packages with large amounts of documentation
regularly split the docs in this manner for those who don't want to
install them.
@kunstbanause@nrw.social
@cdarwin@c.imRand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialDa is übrigens der Einstieg in das Bildarchiv (Jovan Ritopečki’s
photographic
documentation
of Yugoslav
labor migration
in Austria), auf das Du unlängst hingewiesen hast, @… :
@frankel@mastodon.topWhen #Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality
https://hackernoon.com/when-documentation-lies-detecting-drift-between-code-and-real…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'gitk' is a simple GUI git repo viewer; I mostly use it when trying to keep a view of the order of my commits as I'm trying to reorder or break them up, or trying to follow a change back to the commit which had the original version of the line I changed.
I find that on huge old repos adding --max-count=20000 keeps the RAM usage down.
https:/…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialMicrosoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code https://www.thurrott.com/classic-technology/329907/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii-source-code
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWorld class documentation, I tell you.
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioHey #Apple #MacAdmins - remember how getting warranty information via API via GSX is so challenging and requires a lot of hoops to jump through?
Guess what's free today in your Apple Business Manager / Apple School Manager instance:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appleschoolmanagerapi/applecarecoverage/attributes-data.dictionary
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appleschoolmanagerapi/get-orgdevice-information
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.orgQGIS Documentation and Websites updates from 3-14 November 2025 by Selma, Hefni, and Lova
#qgis
@jhutar@social.linux.pizzaOK, I love documentation like this https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> # How are unique names created?
>
> Unless you're writing messages to a maildir, the format of a unique name is none of your business. ...
>
> Okay, so you're writing messages. A unique…
@mszll@datasci.social
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deIf you “honour” my #DoNotTrack* signal, why don't you just shut the fuck up, dear https://docs.spring.io? 🙄
* More accurately:
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI really gotta get around to installing Fittrackee one of these days...
https://docs.fittrackee.org
@…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Python anti-patterns.
https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/
saved 2019-07-24 https://do…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toOne of the few areas where LLMs are actually useful is in #machinetranslation . But machine #translation is STILL and will - for the time being - always be inferior to human translators.
We have several areas of our app and documentation where there exists the concept of _shifting_ or adjusting,…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI want to reiterate, per my earlier thread, that what the ACLU is bringing to court is a small fraction of what’s actually happening on the ground. These are only the incidents for which they have the best documentation, the ones most presentable in court.
You don’t even hear about 95% of the illegal stuff ICE is doing in MN — not in court, not on social media, certainly not on the news. This is the tip of the illegal action iceberg (pun intended, no apologies).
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115720161014479157
@johl@mastodon.xyzI blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
https://
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageRepoSummary: Feature-Oriented Summarization and Documentation Generation for Code Repositories
Yifeng Zhu, Xianlin Zhao, Xutian Li, Yanzhen Zou, Haizhuo Yuan, Yue Wang, Bing Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11039
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»In the old days, technical writers produced documentation in near isolation, surrounded by complex and similarly isolated corporate cultures. From an anthropological perspective, old manuals are like tribal artefacts. The resulting docs show surprisingly rich design and content patterns, more refreshing than we’re used to in the age of googling for Stack Exchange questions and of bowing to Stripe docs.«
@compfu@mograph.social#FreeSoftwareAdvent for today: #Ansible
It's what I'm using to provision and update our renderfarm, workstations and servers. Instead of hacking shell scripts to install apps and edit config files on every new workstation you write yaml files ("playbooks") that get e…
@whitequark@mastodon.sociali'm gonna lose it
this is the documentation for an oscilloscope first released in 2025
@datascience@genomic.social
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaThe unwrap thing is the equivalent of ignoring the return value of C functions that can fail.
I still prefer the Rust syntax for this, at least ignoring the error is explicit text in code.
In C ignoring a possible error is silent. To spot the error one would need to know the function signature and documentation in advance.
Side note: exceptions are even worse in my humble opinion. They have the advantage of giving more information about an error than just a null or a negativ…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deEpic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzRight... I've just set up a new (old school, but up-with-the-times) mailing list manager (Mailman 3 - https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/) for Aotearoa NZ communities. Upon reflection, it seems to me that the last generation or 2 of digital community tools has missed the mark, not providing a suitabl…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaOkay, after a bit of work in #vlang:
- I think I prefer golang though I really prefer the error system of `v`.
- I enjoy writing code in `nim` more than `v`. While I do enjoy `v` more than `rust`, the documentation and support extensions are better for almost every other language which makes things difficult starting out.
@frankel@mastodon.top
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaThe easiest way to install chatmail server is a small project written by a single person, meanwhile the #deltachat official server installation process is cluster of unintelligible documentation and a docker image that need multiple commands to setup properly.
How does that one dev build a better hosting experience than a company?
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comTIL that docs.rs has 7.75TiB of compressed documentation in an S3 bucket.
#rustlang
@timfoster@mastodon.socialZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS.html
It's a …
@n8foo@macaw.social1000%
Also: s/Discord/Slack/g
https://infosec.exchange/@munin/115528564500273715
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
@smrqdt@chaos.socialthisisfine.png
#cloudflare
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaWith all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
ucs-detect: automatically test the Unicode version and support level of a terminal emulator.
https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/
saved 2025-11-15 https:/…
@bourgwick@heads.socialfor all your solo robert hunter setlist & tape needs, douglas aldridge just updated/relaunched his long-dormant hunterbase. http://stillunsung.com
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineHey Mastodon, can you please help me out here?
Which is the best *free tool* to organise a community of school parents in Italy?
For now they consider a GoogleDoc for documentation (just 4-5 pages for now) a Facebook page (to organise the discussions in threads). I'd like to propose a free alternative
People involved could be 10-30. There should be some sort of collaborative document management (like a wiki), and ideally a space for discussion (like a forum).
Id…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaIs anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a …
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizza
@lunalms@floss.socialThe project ‘Ausbildung digitalisieren – Betriebe stärken’ by @… promotes #digitalisation of in-house training and further education in #Saxony—against #SkillsShortages and for a more inclusive #VocationalTrainingSystem.
Goals: Introduction of #LunaLMS in model companies, further development through on-site customisation, documentation of successes for other companies, and improved integration of trainees with special needs for #accessibility or #multilingualism.
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialPayPal kept my account locked, rejecting all the documentation I was sending, not even notifying me after each reject, for like a month. I got pissed when they rejected a document for "not having a logo or a footer" when it very clearly did and I called. After fighting the damn voice menu thing I got a real human and he fixed it in a literal minute. He straight up told me this happened cause their AI misses shit all the time 💀
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeIf anyone needs to know (you probably all knew this already, right?):
Balena #Etcher didn't work on #Windows11 no matter how hard I shot at the built-in security software it came with.
I followed the step-by-step instructions here and got stuck creating the bootable usb drive:
@deabigt@universeodon.comMaria Greeley was reportedly detained by agents, despite carrying documentation proving her citizenship. https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-detained-her-said-her-passport-isnt-real
@cybertailor@craba.cabТут в федивёрсе недавно обнаружили сетку пророссийской пропаганды. Мы :blobcatlul:? @…
https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/115322867312262878
@hllizi@hespere.deJust finished Uzumaki. Feels like documentation these days.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukA thread dumping some (non-obvious?) notes about #firewalld - I think I've got it doing what I want, but it's been a bit of a fight, and I made a bunch of wrong turns.
It's a layer on top of nftables or iptables; is XML based but you can just drive it from a command line tool firewall-cmd and avoid the XML.
It's main idea is a graph of 'zones' where a 'zo…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIBM computer hardware was weird, proprietary, and very expensive, but it was also really, really fucking good. Their z/Systems still are. Top-notch operational documentation, too.
@mooncorebunny@social.linux.pizzaReverse engineered another image file format, which was used in True Love (#pc98) and a handful of other games. Made an encoder too, so you can insert modified graphics in the game. Hopefully this power will be used responsibly.
Documentation:
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSTM32MP2 bringup update: after fixing some weird linker things with weak symbols that per documentation should never have worked and yet somehow never bit me until now, I have a C stub running on the M33 out of RAM (no flash boot, you have to JTAG/SWD load it for now).
It turns on three of the four LEDs on the devkit, for reasons currently unknown the fourth LED doesn't work. My only guess is that it's in the VDDIO3 domain and I might not yet have turned that on due to PMIC c…
@nelson@tech.lgbtRecently reminded of Straight to Hell, the 1975—20?? zine featuring porny gay stories that were often real life narratives. Transgressive and important documentation. The Internet Archive has PDF scans of 5 edited book collections!
Harvard man, Harvard man,
blond for no reason. I'd
sure as shit quit the Quad
for him, scratch every dance
from my card for him; kiss
sunshine goodbye to open
his fly; trade clothes
for sheets, miss other meets
for him, for him
@crell@phpc.socialAnonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaPanicked message from the boss. Looks like one of the documentation files is corrupted. We haven't had the time to cross train that process. Too many manual steps to extract the information from the repository, download to the network work folder, import into Word format, locate specific items and run the macro to format those, export to PDF and then reindex the production doc folder with the change.
@bogo@hapyyr.com
@relcfp@mastodon.socialDocumentation of/as Violence
https://ift.tt/ARV7inq
updated: Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:09pmfull name / name of organization: Tina Liu, McGill…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhen Openness Fails: Lessons from System Safety for Assessing Openness in AI
Tamara Paris, Shalaleh Rismani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10732 https://arxiv.…
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy artist's statement on my work with AI is out. I completely rethought what I am doing. This has been a worthwhile journey, for me, and I hope, for you if you read it.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/
Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...
@datascience@genomic.social{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats
@TFG@social.linux.pizzaThe moment when you want to take a picture of an evidence for documentation and you don't know if the autofocus of the cam is not getting it or if it's the glasses you forgot at home this morning...
#dfir #forensics
@lil5@social.linux.pizza> The Fresnel zone is an elliptical shaped body around the direct line of sight path between the end node and the gateway.
Miss-read to pretzel zone 🥨
#lora
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageHuman-aligned AI Model Cards with Weighted Hierarchy Architecture
Pengyue Yang, Haolin Jin, Qingwen Zeng, Jiawen Wen, Harry Rao, Huaming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06989 ht…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaGot home early today. Of course I had to geek out 🤣 KDE is under the bus, so I reached for VoidLinux (to add dwl to it later). And hey, other distro's: look at their documentation. Can be brief, but It Just Works. Diligently followed the disk encryption setup, very well written and laid out. A pleasure, I love runit.And VoidLinux, another great distribution.
#voidlinux
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYeah, so the GNU #make jobserver protocol is trivial, which can be a blessing and a curse. It puts the job management entirely on the clients, which means that they must reliably return job tokens, or otherwise the jobserver will be left with no jobs available and everything will hang. The make documentation is clear on this:
> Your tool should be sure to write back the tokens it read, even under error conditions. This includes not only errors in your tool but also outside influences such as interrupts (SIGINT), etc. You may want to install signal handlers to manage this write-back.
#NinjaBuild jobserver implementation may not handle this correctly, but fortunately it does. The irony is, it turns out that GNU make does not…
#Gentoo
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafepkg upgrade does not upgrade; more recent packages are not installed.
#FreeBSD #documentation
@fanf@mendeddrum.org @compfu@mograph.socialFor #FreeSoftwareAdvent I'd like to post about open source tools that we're using in our #VFXPipeline.
On Dec. 5th let's start with #OpenImageIO (
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukThe arch wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org has got to be one of the best open source documentation resources; detailed with examples on most admin commands, and mostly applicable to all distros not just to arch (with minor tweaking). And I don't even use Arch!
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy latest essay, I will offiicially release it tomorrow morning, but in the meantime, here it is!
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/
Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDoes anyone have experience reverse engineering register maps and generally figuring out how to interface to hardware given no documentation other than an upstreamed Linux kernel driver?
I'm sitting here looking at device tree snippets and source code and realizing I have no idea how any of this maps to raw MMIO transactions.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API.
https://2ality.com/2021/06/temporal-api.html
saved 2021-06-29 https://<…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFor shell examples in documents such as the FreeBSD Handbook:
― the copy icon is bugged.
It wrongly includes the command prompt.
#FreeBSD #documentation
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageBeyond Postconditions: Can Large Language Models infer Formal Contracts for Automatic Software Verification?
Cedric Richter, Heike Wehrheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12702 http…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… WYSIWYG would be nice, what's really needed is more people helping with documentation.
@… is helping to coax people in this direction 💚
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
a11y.css: a web page accessibility linter.
https://ffoodd.github.io/a11y.css/
saved 2025-11-03 https://dotat.at/:/CKOLK.html
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageLiterate Tracing
Matthew Sotoudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09073 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09073
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… oh, that's a pleasant surprise!
I wasn't chasing in any way, haven't been following progress. I just remembered that it's a handy way of configuring for SCFB (without referring to documentation).
For brief private discussion of something script-related, is here OK? Or would you prefer email?
