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#meme #funny #DateFormat
🤚 MM/DD/YYYY
🤚 DD/MM/YYYY
🤚 Mmm DD, YYYY
👉 YYYY-MM-DD
#funny #meme #dateformat

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Exciting news: Drupal CMS 1.0 officially launched today — right on schedule, just as we promised 8 months ago! It took a lot from so many people, but I'm thrilled we made it happen. 🙏

In my blog post, I not only explain what Drupal CMS 1.0 is but also share my personal perspective on what makes this release special, the journey behind its development, and what is next.

Oh, and to top it off — it's Drupal's 24th birthday today. 🎉 dri.es/drupal-cms-1-released


Drupal CMS 1.0 released

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
Dries Buytaert

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Woohoo and happy bithday! 🚀 We use the recipes a lot in our project and I am really looking forward to all the fancy stuff in Drupal CMS!
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that sounds great and glad to hear there’s a simple and streamlined version of Drupal to build on. The name is a bit confusing (Drupal CMS 1.0 vs Drupal 11) but I presume people will get used to it.

Happy birthday Drupal!

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👀 Sneak Peek alert!

Passbolt v5 is almost here—bringing new features and a refreshed UI!

One highlight? The new resource workspace.

Let us know what you think in the comments below. 🗣️

Stay tuned for more updates!

#Passboltv5 #OpenSource #PasswordManager #TeamCollaboration

#opensource #teamcollaboration #passwordmanager #passboltv5

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At some point the screen on my PineTime got cracked. So, I'm in the market for a new smartwatch that'll work with GadgetBridge. Anyone have any recommendations?

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Welp, since I did an install of Kubuntu this weekend, I updated my /Uses page.

stevenbrady.com/uses/

/Uses

Computers * Office PC: Dell OptiPlex 5090 running Fedora KDE Plasma Spin 41 * Office Laptop: Dell Latitude 5470 running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon. * Home PC: Dell Precision Tower 3620 running Kubuntu 24.
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Delete your Facebook and go to the pub

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How to delete #Facebook, #Instagram, and #Threads

techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-…

#privacy #Meta

#privacy #instagram #meta #facebook #threads

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Welp, for the first time in my life I'm running Kubuntu on a physical machine. Absolutely blew up my Fedora install trying to install nvidia drivers. Gave a quick try to Nobara and it wouldn't use the proper drivers, either.

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I can't be the only one that hates tab groups, right?
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@Squads Here's info. It's a feature in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers on Android. Not sure about other OSes.

howtogeek.com/711942/how-to-us…

@Squads
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Never trust anyone who tells you how principled they are while wearing a $900,000 watch

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Zuckerberg wears $900,000 watch to announce end of Meta fact checks

Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company’s decision to end third-party fact checking.
Bloomberg News (Toronto Sun)
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🚨 ADORABLE CAR ALERT 🚨

1966 Ford Bronco 4x4. 24,875 miles indicated, true mileage unknown. Current bid: US$5,000.

hemmings.com/auction/1966-ford…

#AdorableCarAlert #cars

A first-year Ford Bronco, from the days when those vehicles were a size that today would qualify as a compact SUV. Two doors with a small truck bed. This one's turquoise, with white vinyl accents.
#cars #adorablecaralert

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Another day, another kwin_wayland crash. I installed plasma-workspace-x11 and will give that a run for the rest of the day, since I need to get more accomplished than troubleshooting my desktop.

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OK, so I setup Alpaca, downloaded a small model, asked it two questions, and decided to do an Ollama install on a server so I could download larger models. Not sure why I took so long before I started tinkering...

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Second Kwin crash of the day. Fun.

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So on the Fedora Start page there's the following link to how to setup Ollama and OpenWebUI to work with AI models locally. Which seems great.

fedoramagazine.org/running-gen…

But 1stn00b in the comments mentions Alpaca on Flathub, which is an even simpler way to get started.

flathub.org/apps/com.jeffser.A…

So, anyway, Alpaca is installing ...

#Fedora #Ollama #Alpaca #LLM


Running Generative AI Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI - Fedora Magazine

How to get started running Generative AI Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
Sumantro Mukherjee (Fedora Project)
#ollama #Fedora #llm #Alpaca

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yes alpaca is dead simple. In any case you need top notch hardware for it to be useful.
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Yeah, I'm finding the large models on my server to be ... slow as shit. Have to stick with smaller ones for the time being. After I play a bit more I may start looking into some upgrades, if it's worth it to me.

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Letting maintenance into the server room unsupervised was a mistake.

Maintenance blowing out a UPS by plugging equipment into it was also a mistake.

Which was the bigger mistake?

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@Squads One of the biggest, laziest mistakes people make is their complete lack of documenting things.
@Squads

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Being #blind is fun. Just encountered a visual captcha with no audio option. So I used JAWS Picture Smart to get AI to read me the text of the visual clue, which I typed in and got through. So basically I'm a human who needs a robot to prove to another robot that I am not a robot. Without my robot, the other robot would have thought I was a robot. Also I was trying to make a payment on my PAP machine, which really should in itself indicate that I am not a robot. #Disability #Disabled
#disability #disabled #blind

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Really really impressed how easy and quickly I was able to start monitoring servers, devices, and services with Uptime Kuma. May have to write up a little something later this week ...

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Anyone pushing for houseless sweeps should be forced to read these heart break notes on what was stolen and lost for ever

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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments.
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The BookStack Project in 2024

A review of funding, project evolution, maintenance, future plans, and a thanks to all those that have helped.

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BookStack in 2024 · BookStack

As we cross over yet another year boundary we look back at the progress, maintenance and funding of the project for 2024 with a view of potential plans in 2025:
BookStack

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how things have changed since April 1997

web.archive.org/web/1997041122…

a screenshot of the Wayback Machine showing part of the website x.com on April 11, 1997. it shows a rend and turquoise banner saying "x.com", below which a tagline boasts "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!"

Welcome to WWW.X.COM!

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I'm organizing all my articles and bookmarks ... and writing a small blog post about it!

opensourceorgtfo.com/organizin…

#IndieWeb #Blog @wallabag #Wallabag #Bookmarks


Organizing all my bookmarks with Wallabag

Earlier this week I gave up. I've got too many bookmarks in too many places, and it's become impossible to find anything. I just cannot manage anymore. I've got business bookmarks in my business Nextcloud Bookmarks.
Steven Brady (Open Source or GTFO)
#indieweb #blog #Bookmarks #wallabag @wallabag
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No real resolutions. Just going to continue doing what I was doing, but hopefully doing more of it.

stevenbrady.com/what-im-doing-…

#IndieWeb #blog

What I'm doing in 2025

No need for resolutions. I'm just going to continue doing what I've been doing, but I'm going to try to take it up a notch. * Chronological Bible reading plan. This year the Free Bible Version.
Steven Brady (StevenBrady.com)
#indieweb #blog

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My 2025Q1. #Fortinet #Fortigate #Fortiswitch #FortiAP #NetworkAdministrator
Boxes stacked with Fortinet logos. Switches, firewalls, and access points.
#fortinet #fortigate #Fortiswitch #FortiAP #NetworkAdministrator

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The bad thing about Friendica is that, even after unfollowing FediDrama dude after his last misadventure, he's still showing up on my timeline because I follow people that interact with him. Gonna just have to explicitly block for my sanity.
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Still image. Edited poster for They Live (1988). Rowdy Roddy Piper holding a revolver, wearing sunglasses, a large person with shoulder-length dark blonde hair, grotesque human-shaped skeletonized blue and red face behind them. BRO IMAGINE THINKIN' YOU'RE A BADASS(tm) GETTIN' TRIGGERED BY THE PRONOUNS THEY/THEM LOL WHAT A MASSIVE FUCKIN WASTE OF ENERGY TALK ABOUT INSECURITY BRO POINT THAT ANGST AT SYSTEMS ACTUALLY OPPRESSING YOU

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My bookmarks are starting to feel overwhelming. Finally got around to setting up wallabag so I can send new links somewhere other than Nextcloud Bookmarks for processing.
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#unhoused #homelessness #hunger #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #Fosterkids
death angel @angel Of deathx my view of homeless people changed forever when i learned that more than half of them were foster kids who aged out of the system and were left with no family or resources. Zola In Recovery @WarriorZoltar- 2d If you ever had a “move back in with your parents” stage, you have no business judging homeless people. The only difference between you and them is you were privileged enough to have a fallback.
#TaxTheRich #eattherich #unhoused #NoBillionaires #homelessness #hunger #fosterkids
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Even if you didn’t move back with your parents. I never did, but some of the risks I’ve taken in my career such as going freelance straight out of university would not have been possible without that safety net existing and knowing that I had a plan B if it turned out to be a disastrous choice.
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Once again begging people to give up on "if you're not paying for the product you are the product" because I've seen so many people who now think if you are paying for a product your data is totally safe now forever because if I'm paying the company money they don't need to sell my data

When instead they could also sell your data and get Two Money

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I'm calling this the Two Money rule of data privacy, paying doesn't make your data safe
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Whether or not you're paying has no bearing on whether you are or are not the product.

That has a lot more to do with the people in charge of the product and how big the company is.

A tiny open source hobby project may be free AND not sell your data. A company that sells you a product may also sell your data for Two Money. There's not actually a correlation between whether you're paying and whether your data gets sold anymore.

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Not sure why Proxmox themselves don't have an RPM build of the Proxmox Backup Client for EL 8 and 9, but at least there's a community built one. EL9 client runs fine on Fedora 41.

github.com/TomGem/proxmox-back…


Releases · TomGem/proxmox-backup-client

Proxmox Backup Client for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. Contribute to TomGem/proxmox-backup-client development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Fucking idiots out here dead serious going "I don't trust Signal, everyone should just self-host their own XMPP server" meanwhile people can't even figure out how to factory reset a fucking iPhone. Go touch grass.

theregister.com/2024/12/24/uk_…


One third of adults can't delete device data

Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a drawer, survey finds
Richard Speed (The Register)

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Behold: Genius at work.

I told her not to get in there when I saw her thinking about it, and exactly one second later she dove right in. No thoughts, only box. This is a very tall box that a bass guitar arrived in, so it's like 4' (1.3m) tall. She needed assistance to get out, but wasn't too bothered about the situation. #CatsOfMastodon

A floofy grey cat in the bottom of a cardboard box that is far too tall and narrow for her to jump out of. It's a shipping box for a bass guitar, about 4' tall.
#catsofmastodon
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Do you use #PHP? Do you benefit from it?

Joe Watkins is a major contributor to PHP, so if you benefit from PHP, then you’re benefiting from Joe’s open source work.

Please support Joe and his family, as he deals with serious health issues.

gofundme.com/f/a-big-ask-from-…


Donate to A big ask from a big community, organized by Joe Watkins

A few years ago, we were in a dire situation and we reached out for help. Now, we are in an… Joe Watkins needs your support for A big ask from a big community
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The Moxie child support robot gets new lease on life through open source

It's a Christmas miracle! The Moxie, that support robot thing for kids we talked about two weeks ago, seems to be getting a new lease on life. The start-up that makes the Moxie has announced it's going to not only release a version of the server software for self-hosting, but will also publ

osnews.com/story/141401/the-mo…

#InTheNews

The Moxie child support robot gets new lease on life through open source – OSnews

www.osnews.com
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Alright, back up and running with Fedora 41 KDE, I have all my stuff reinstalled, and all my data restored. It all took much longer than expected, all because I couldn't find my faster backup drive.

It seems that some of my setup scripts needed tweaking since the dnf config-manager command needed changes after the upgrade to dnf5. Not sure why they didn't keep those commands backward compatible, but whatever.

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2GuysTek put out a great video on the Proxmox Datacenter Manager

youtu.be/rsguS0hw1PI


Proxmox just got a vCenter Alternative?! - Proxmox Datacenter Manager!

#Proxmox Server Solutions announced Proxmox Datacenter Manager last week, to everyone's surprise. #PDM is taking a stab at creating a centralized management ...
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Move over, "Die Hard": Why "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (1996) is a great alt-Christmas movie. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are sheer perfection as an amnesiac former assassin and PI who foil a terrorist plot. arstechnica.com/culture/2024/1…

Why The Long Kiss Goodnight is a great alt-Christmas movie

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This is absolutely one of my favorite Christmas movies! Toys is the other.

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I need to watch Die Hard this Christmas. I haven't watched it in decades, as it's not one of my preferred Christmas movies.

But first The Long Kiss Goodnight and Toys, which are my Christmas movies.

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So it appears some days ago that, while trying to resync onedrive on my desktop, I changed a setting on the heater in my office and tripped the breaker. Since then the desktop had been acting real wonky. Last night I discovered that certain directories inside my home directory were unavailable, including that one. I did not realize that my Fedora install used btrfs, but it does, and I spent a couple hours trying to troubleshoot and repair it. I ended up booting to a Fedora 41 live system and was able to back up my home directory. This morning has been a reformat and a reinstall. This time I went with ext4, because if this ever happens again I know a fsck will take care of it.

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I'm liking KDE Partition Manager a lot.

Not really liking btrfs right now, though.

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