Tootfinder

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

He was ceremonially discharged in the manner of the engineers: his mechanical keyboard snapped in half; stickers of rank ripped from his Macbook; its Linux install wiped and replaced with Windows 11.

So, umm, I'm guessing that "uname -r” on macOS 26 will return version 25.x? Guess it's time to install the beta and find out!

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
Those who were managing White House communications systems were not informed in advance
when DOGE representatives went to the roof of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building in February
to install a terminal connecting users in the complex to Starlink satellites,
which are owned by Musk’s private SpaceX rocket company.

The people said those managing the systems weren’t able to monit…

Oh no, it infects the computer with a copy of Miss Congeniality. :party_try_not_to_cry:
https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/114995085010367720

When your penguin spirit takes a nap because Microsoft Edge showed up.
#Windows #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

🚨🚨🚨 uv has fixed my pet issue https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/6314 and `uv tool install ansible --with-executables-from ansible-core` works now! 🚨🚨🚨
for us, that was the last blocker before going all-in on uv.

Kitten’s installation server was down for the last two days. In case you tried to install it and it failed, that’s why.
Issue’s now been fixed.
#Kitten

@… I really like it! The model I have is 10 yrs old, but I'm still able to install all kinds of open source patches, firmware, plugins, add-ons, etc.
Back when I was in school, I wrote about one of those custom worksflows to manage my readings (I've since stopped using Koreader):

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-install-software/
Did not help me but I'm trying to help myself...will I succeed as when I was troubleshooting why my dispXXXX didn't work for new stuff?
I succeeded with dispXXXX thingy...so maybe I'll succeed with insta…

Microsoft, what part of NO do you not understand? You keep popping up the f*ing message and I keep telling you NO.
When I want to update my laptop it will be to #linux and not windows!

Saving my brainpower by aliasing whatever a given system's full package installation command is to 'poo', e.g.
alias poo='zypper install'
alias poo='apt -yf install'
alias poo='pacman -Sy'
alias poo='pkg_add -v'

Of course I got sidetracked.
Number 2 in the poll, VoidLinux, deserved some attention. A fresh install on the NUC was the result.
Used it before, but, damn, is it good!
#voidlinux

More seriously, of the devices I brought with me to Cupertino this week, the chances of installing a new operating system on each today are:
- MacBook: 95%. (I can install to a separate partition and test with a separate account without risking my main setup.)
- Apple Vision Pro: 99%. (I use this nearly every day, but don't rely on it.)
- iPhone: 0% (If there's one device I need to work reliably this week, this is that device.)
- Apple Watch: 50%? (I brought t…

added alpine instructions to https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/install.html
(these assume that you run a desktop environment and not a container, like all the other options)

Workers install a sign "Alligator Alcatraz" at the entrance to a new immigrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on Thursday in Ochopee, Florida.
Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP
#resist #authoritarianism

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

On one of my #OpenWRT routers I can't update all packages because of low free space on /overlay partition.
According to sources like https://forum.openwrt.org/t/not-enough-space/1…

Heute machen sich die @… auf den Weg von Bielefeld nach Gütersloh, um dort beim Tag der Freien Software eine Linux-Install-Party zu veranstalten.
Wer in der Nähe ist, kann dort mit einem Laptop aufkreuzen und unter Anleitung ein Linux draufbrezeln. Also den besseren Nachfolger von Windows 10.
Uhrzeit: ab 18:30
Ort: Gütersloh, Kökerstraße 17

…

I have published an update to the 'Add Arguments to Google Searches' Firefox extension which permits appending the &udm=14 parameter to the results URL, fully eliminating all AI slop as well as any other hint of machine 'helpfulness' in Google results. The extension will also now install and run on both Firefox and Firefox for Android.

Okay, new NUC unpacked, radio mouse and kb acquired (bcs FreeBSD, you know 🤪), utp in da slot, I'm good for an install.
Will be tomorrow though. Busy tonight (bcs gf off to hometown, Vietnam you know 🤣😭)
And discovered spectrwm in the FreeBSD repos! Tried it briefly before, but it deserves better and more.
#freebsd

A look at Scattered Spider, a group of mainly young UK and US hackers using targeted social engineering to gain access to company systems and install ransomware (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scattered-spider-most-imminent-threat/

Going to pull the trigger and install #iOS 26 Public Beta on my #iphone
What's the worst that can happen? :hehe_lizard:

@…
Install whatever agents/drivers your hypervisor offers before imaging the drive for the P2V process.

#signal #meta #ai
From: @…

Oh dear, yesterday, I installed google-chrome (AUR), and now I am not sure if, in my carelessness, I might've hit the jackpot. Is there a way to verify an already installed package or I should nuke my install? (Concerning the news in the link.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux…

Finally! I was able to install #nixOS back on my work computer. What a delight, everything just works and is declarative, customized to my preference. I really love #KDE #plasma6

The first thing I do when I install Windows 10 or 11 on someone's computer is that my autistic brain has simply memorized the command "irm https:// christitus.com/win | iex". Without me really thinking about it or even being aware in the moment, I just run it automatically. Suddenly, before I even realize it, their new windows install is already debloated and cleaned up.

I've been asked to run an AI text summariser over a bunch of survey responses. I'm skeptical anyway, so probably approaching the task with a bad attitude, but none of the open source AI text summarisers I've tried so far actually run at all, due to the usual Python bit-rot and lack of stable libraries.
Tried AI-News-Summariser, sumeval, ParaSum, SummerTime... currently trying Transformers, but it's taking an age to install.
Can anyone suggest one which at least ru…

Hey, I’m not a developer but I totally vibe-coded this game you have to install on your system and which I cannot confirm has no security holes and won’t exfiltrate your data because I’m still not a developer but trust me and install it ideally with root / admin privileges!

I get some times second hand phone to play with them, and I do many re-installations. So I did a Python script to handle the install of apps coming from F-droid more easily https://repos.susurrando.com/adelgado/android_manager
It does a backup of the APKs or a list of APK nam…

OMG. I love #Multipass for Infrastructure as Code. I tried creating my own Multipass YAML and it actually worked!
========
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
runcmd:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-4
- sudo apt update -y
- sudo apt install fish -y
- usermod -s /usr/bin/fish ubuntu
=========
$ multipass launch 24.04 \

I think I'm done and will step off the soapbox now. I'll answer any other questions that pop up and maybe add to this thread any updates on the install (July 14th) or initial impressions on operating if I think it would be interesting to other HVAC nerds.

Is it wrong to skip digging into a project just because it's build setup needs to install #npm first? Asking for a friend.

What? I did exactly what you asked.

Going to pull the trigger and install #iOS 26 Public Beta on my #iphone
What's the worst that can happen? :hehe_lizard:

Looking to install two LED strips at home. Desired features:
- Controlled via WiFi or #Zigbee
- #HomeAssistant integration
- RGBW strips, individually addressable
- Either comes with a diffusor or is compatible with standard diffusors (is "not being compatible with th…

What the hell is happening today?!
Trying to install rocky #linux on a server:
- Access the IPMI web interface, configured the samba share pointing to the ISO
- The boot starts, after a few seconds of bootstrapping systemd services are hanging
- Trying to access the IPMI web interface: timeout on 443
- Using ipmitool, I can boot again, but the web interface is stil…

Love it when regulation kicks us in the ass.
The new Pangu-Pro-MoE model from Ascend Tribe (Huawei) ships with a license that forbids use inside the EU.
Why? Probably to dodge any messy GDPR debates.
After the WHOIS debacle sparked by GDPR, we can add yet another item to the ever-growing list of regulation-created problems.
"3. Conditions for License Grant. You represent and warrant that You will not, access, download, install, run, deploy, integrate, modify, or other…

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

I had plans to install weatherstripping around the door, but then I got cats..
#CatsOfMastodon

`brew install ddev/ddev/ddev` 👻

#ARKSurvivalAscended #ARK #Linux Wildcard released Ragnarok last night, and just got my server install

I just know this will end up with them creating a “Trump AI” they’ll install as perpetual president

If I were one of the universities that have caved and kow-towed to FFOTUS and have agreed to install government monitors...
I would simply give those monitors absolute no support - no office space, no keys, no access.
And when FFOTUS came to sue I would say "those contract terms are either unconscionable [not enforceable here in California] or the result of unlawful coercion [and thus not enforceable in most places.]
Of course FFOTUS would again try to withhold funds.

CoreWeave receives Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra servers built by Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems based on Nvidia's latest AI chips (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/coreweave-dell-blackwell-ultra-nvidia.htm…

Last but not least: I've got an NESRGB on the way to the US from Australia. This is the final bit that I always wanted to install, and figured this Frankenstein's monster of a frontloader NES would be perfect with some nice RGB outputs instead of the standard composite outputs.
#retrogaming #nes

EngiBench: A Framework for Data-Driven Engineering Design Research
Florian Felten, Gabriel Apaza, Gerhard Br\"aunlich, Cashen Diniz, Xuliang Dong, Arthur Drake, Milad Habibi, Nathaniel J. Hoffman, Matthew Keeler, Soheyl Massoudi, Francis G. VanGessel, Mark Fuge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00831…

@… @… one capture, not by me, was made a few hours ago:
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WOW! Installing #GrapheneOS was a breeze compared to how we had to install custom roms back in the day!
#Google insisted on installing the latest update that included some #ai garbage I neve…

I have bad news from CalysOS team.😐
"We will be switching to new signing keys along with the overhaul of the signing and verification process. As a result, current CalyxOS users will not be able to receive further security software updates until this process is in place.
Given the potential risk posed by the pause of maintenance and development, it’s logical that we stop providing options to install CalyxOS for now." - CalyxOS

I have discovered a secret Jira install at work 🤢

I don't fully get the instinct to reject and attack the Abundance book. If you think it's too small then it seems easy to "yes and" with your own ideas.
At one point they call the book a conspiracy?
It seems to me Ezra talked with people trying to install solar and got one answer. Aaron says when he talked to similar people he got a different one. that is an interesting topic to look more into!

I'm slowly discovering that the solution to problems with software packaged with Flatpak is to remove them and install the "other" version

Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

I stopped in here to pick up a beverage and saw this on the way out. You apparently need to install a cell phone app in order to use it? #Kroger #WeirdVending

@… Exactly - I originally set it up as an airprint server for my wife's mb air, since the printer was quite old, but it ended up becoming a general-purpose remote printing service for all devices. The rpizero runs a minimal raspbian install with cups, printer drivers, and avahi - it's been working flawlessly for years. Other clients …

Hey Netflix, I'm never going to install a mobile phone game from an advert on your header. Never. I never install ANY mobile phone games. They are all trash.
Fed up with it all. Added block-rules for the headers of the netflix page.
Now it's just a black empty background.
This is on you Netflix.

Iemand nog een reden nodig om over te stappen naar Signal?
Bericht uit @…
https://signal.org/install/

Ground-source heat pumps are far more efficient than air-source but can cost 5-10 times more in up-front installation. Air-source units have dramatically improved in the past 15 years and are as easy to install as a traditional A/C unit that sits beside your house. And, if my research is correct and my HVAC salesperson can be trusted, heat pumps can be 10% to 30% cheaper to operate.

The chaotic urge to tell Linux evangelists to "Just install Windows" when they post even the smallest gripe about Linux...

So I am testing #murena on #samsung galaxy s20 my ID Austria app refuses to install. Maybe because of unlocked boot loader ? Would it be the same as on an stock #murena phone? Other apps like banking w…

@… @… Oh, good questions, thanks for asking.
I installed it with:
curl -sSf -L https://…

Those youngsters these days...
Told him to re-install the laptop he messed up a week ago ...
Installed Win11 on 12yr old hardware and bragging about the cool tricks and hacks he used to make it possible... and how much cool software he installed we could use .. and what not.
That there are no GPU or Chipset drivers for Win11 and the odd 800x600 resolution doesn't seem to have bothered him much.
Your CheatGPT didn't tell you something, right?
So let'…

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…

This call for a simple moniterable power monitor soundsrelatively simple; I guess the question is how to do it cheaply; are there any Shelly devices that can voltage monitor that could be stuffed in a box with a mobile modem/phone?
https://www.ukeic.com/opportunity/domestic

How to use SDKMAN with MobaXterm on Win11: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/07/11/how-to-use-sdkman-with.html

Does #Ubuntu no longer provide a TEXT MODE install? Or is it because I'm trying the Desktop edition?

When you are a swift developer, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-sdks-for-webassembly-now-available-on-swift-org/80405

Okay. Gentoo feedback time. MocaccinoOS was okay, but systemd. And after a kernel change (to their mainline) didn't boot. Done.
Redcore has a great looking Qtile live-session. One maintainer, installer from rofi didn't start up. Done.
Calculate Linux: actually pretty good; smooth install, good documentation. OpenRC, switch to the latest kernel went well. Good. Very close to core Gentoo. But.
If so, why not pull out that Gentoo live installer, go from there, use your pr…

I am annoyed that #homeassistant decided to stop supporting the "supervised" installation method.
It was the only one that works perfectly for me.
HA OS - did not recognize the drives on the machine
The docker alternative - no support the hardware I plugged into the machine.
I'll continue to roll on the supervised install, and I do really hope that the…

Just about to install Ubuntu Studio on my younger boy's clapped out (munted) school BYOD Thinkpad (purchased refurbished 5 yrs ago) so I can use it for music recording. Maybe. If it works.
How's your Friday night going?

Well, it doesn't look like much but I just switched my infra from Apache to Caddy.
Sometimes doing some admin work is good for the soul.
(Also a preparation to install an AI scraper poison service)

Sometimes it’s the best choice to build it in house.
Sometimes it’s the best choice to code a little closer to the metal.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to learn to forage and install your own solar panels.
None of these mean that you don’t live in a society.

I just released nugraph, a #dotnet tool for creating visual dependency graph of NuGet packages.
Installation:
dotnet tool install --global nugraph
Usage for a NuGet package:
nugraph Azure.Core
or for a .NET project:
nugraph ~/Projects/Kerberos.NET/Bruce/Bruce.csproj
Many options are available, everything is documented on https://github.com/0xced/nugraph
Enjoy!
Here's the kind of graph it generates (Azure.Core example).

https://mermaid.live/view#pako:eNqcVU2P2jAQ_StWViu1EjgBVqjNjS6raqXl0t6qXIwzSVwSO3UmAor4780HKF4wWdJcYux5z2_ezISDw1UIju-Mx-NAosAUfLKEHGQIku9JrFmeEBWRxd9SA31WGsiEPs3plHySgF-o9zmQDTaQj4_kO0jQDCEk6z1JEPPCd91YYFKuKVeZ6-04hK4sG9oa0_K__ajXPGVFsYSIaKWQFKjVBsZbEWLiP-U74zyEiJUpkkikqc_-lCxjWkgYtRD_wfO-evPJiKtUaf9h1jz1BV0Oh0O3Ph5Jpb_0vNkLWQmuVaEipN94ShfFXvJXiaAjxqEwCTrIz32BkNHnVIDEVWVm2hu3gkzpPV0yZIHsrnvZIchCKFnQNxXHQsZ0sa7yYRzrTZtCA9IV7FX-hgbyDh7Ia5UfUNpU9NPYEjwVzeyeuriW7VNN6xPBN-ZJTT-dnptpu93Sqn8AqdKxmzO-YTEUbhfvtu3Zok7gq-Ztt88yeqt-qaw_-C6xvRRuNVPUeye__0oj_jqhAU1yO9EhJAMNGEDdGDO9YcwQiQZPr2HWQbzHJCvw_42x0TVmzD42wyrFwJ4NsAz2RaaWiLtSusbVE3pRSAu5EXQh0vjC3BBpRgwRaeDceWXSxCbSJDeCAumMnAx0xkRY_Z8e2l1MIIN26bevs-Lmx7HC5Ez-UipzfNQlHP8BAAD__wMAEYyvHw

Protect your email privacy – Start now with Proton Mail

Just a reminder that autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your email messages and attachments. Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleagues. Options that are available today can quickly disappear.

I suggest that you install and start using Pro…

i should make a build of vscodium that can install all of the proprietary extensions
my next best bet for a usable editor is sublime text, and unfortunately st4 doesn't seem like it's particularly actively developed anymore. yes, it's still maintained, but i expect a much better editor today than in 2010

Wow, C2PA Content Credentials working in the wild. In Chrome, anyhow. If you install this extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/c2pa-content-credentials/mjkaocdlpjmphfkjndocehcdhbigaafp and then visit a page on …

Determining our future savings might be a bit difficult. At our old house I knew the cost of filling an oil tank a couple of times a year. That cost went to zero and my Hydro bill went up. Based on the savings I had a 7.5 year ROI on my upfront geothermal install cost. Now I'm in a new home (10 days today) with only monthly averages for Hydro and Enbridge provided by the real estate listing. But that should be enough data to give me an approximate estimate.

What if Mexico paid to install a wall of windmills on their border with the U.S., would potus explode from the inner conflict?
Green energy really could move us toward a better future.
#USpol

"Let me install the dishwasher myself" 4 hours later --- it's almost midnight and i need to do a second home depot run first thing tomorrow morning

Figured I'd take a photo of the NESessity v1.4 board. Pretty easy to build (this was a while ago as there's now a v1.6 board) and very clean. This one has a real CPU (RP2A03G) and PPU (RP2C02G-0) installed from the OG NES though you can install the clone versions (UA6527 and UA6528 respectively). The VRAM and WRAM are new chips from Alliance.
#nintendo

"Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

archive.today seems to be OK.
http://archive.today/2025.05.25-025114/https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/question-about-manual-install-freebsd14-2.97950/#21%

Some people are wildly off base and completely missing the point of what I’m doing. I downloaded Chrome only to install a mobile OS that protects my security. Once the web installation was done, Chrome was deleted immediately. This was a clear, intentional step.
The fact that some folks are threatening me not to use Chrome for this is beyond absurd. It’s like telling me not to withdraw cash from my own bank because the bank might somehow control what I do with that money. That kind of …

Download Wesnoth at FlatHub!
https://flathub.org/apps/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth
Then also why not give @… a follow?
They only got 1059 followers righ…

I'm preparing for that FreeBSD Mate install. The poll is already pointing to that 🥳
Thnx all for input; the polling station is still open.
I'll start out with 14.2, and have GhostBSD already lined up as a fallback.
Of course I've done a number of installs of FreeBSD before, but that was just scratching the surface.
Looking forward to the deep dive! Jails, ports, bhyves and podmans beware 👻

This is getting tedious. #UbuntuStudio cannot possibly contain material its own installer cannot extract, and my iso passes sha256 and my install media is flawless (says badblocks) and yet each boot misbehaves differently, failing because it cannot 'read' something.

I have a #Windows update sitting there waiting for me to click Download & Install.
I looked it up; it adds #recall and #copilot

The time I have spend the last couple of days on Gentoo spins (Redcore, Calculate, Xenia, Moccacino) equals or even surpasses the time necessary for a standard cli Gentoo install 😆

I had #Ubuntu installed with no network, but adding #UbuntuStudio installer caused problems so I tried their iso and once again it fails after curtin command install
ISO checks OK.
#soclose

If you're using F-Droid and you are not following @…
...make sure you are following them.
Don't disgrace them with their 29k followers...make them 50k, make them 100k!
Show that you care! I will probably install F-Droid later but I'm already following them, they deserve every follow they can get because they deserve you!

@… There's a wave of satisfaction engulfing me when I purge 486 fonts and related files. That's bloat for me; it was put there without me selecting it 🤪
The overall Slackware install, with Hyprland, labwc, niri and all applications I could possibly want still remains comfortably below 25 gb, video, music, some flatpaks also included. S…

The moment I install Arch, I’m swept away by its customization, yet somehow, I find myself missing the stable comfort of a rock, and before I know it, I’m back on Debian again!
#ArchLinux #Arch #Rock

Accidents will happen.
So I decided after the car crash to setup a, what I call, hybrid system: Slackware KDE, by @… , remove some things, install grub and decide to do all applications by flatpak. Except for those KDE apps obviously.
It's probably relief setting in, but it sure feels fresh and snappy again!

Lazy bugger. Kept using FF sync for bookmarks et al. Works ok.
But, still ties to Mozzie.
Install LibreWolf. Offers, upon request, to import bookmarks et al from Vivaldi.
All good, including favicons.
I am too old to learn. Let's hope I don't forget 😜

That took exactly two weeks and a bit.
Your laptop shouldn't be just a workhorse, it is an expression of you, used for work as well.
Hence my install of Slackware KDE on it, it was by far the best I used for the past year or so.
With a ThinkPad X13 gen 1 liveslaks turned out to be a bit of a challenge, but conferring with @… in the background …