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Trixie - Another Poettering Fuckfest


Recently upgraded a Debian shell server here from Bookworm to Trixie. This is a warning to those considering this move.

Leonard Poettering has fuxored us once again with systemd-logid. He has decided that rather than maintaining a simple structured list of logged in users in var/run/utmp, he now wants you to talk to sytemd-logind via dbus to get the information.

This turns once simple utilities like who, w, rwhod, mesg, talk, into nightmares of code, if they actually get adapted.

Some, like who, have decided to forgo the dbus/systemd debacle and instead walk /run/systemd/sessions/ directory, open and parse each session file, clearly a more elegant approach than reading a simple file that is a simple array of structures.

Clearly more efficient, NOT! ARRRRGGGHHH!

in reply to Nanook

I found that the source package for systemd-257.7, the one currently shipped with debian, included support for maintaining utmp/wtmp but Debian had not enabled it in the compile. I enabled it, built new systemd packages and installed them, and now things are back to normal. For those who might be in need of this the option you need to enable is =DENABLE_UTMP, this is the meson argument.,

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"and I say again any women's #shelter that turns away trans #women and #mothers of boys is #fraudulent and deserves to be cleared out for an #agency actually willing to do the #work"

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I could say I casually finished Plutonia but any icon of sin levels are the type of shit that's just not worth going through.
As in, it reminds me of how terrible Doom 2 was and again estrange me from the bulk of mapping influenced by it.

Honorable Exception - Auger:Zenith
It downright surprised me with an intimidating but amicable gimmick, entered with a frown and left with a thought of replaying.

Finished Orthodoxy last week, and while it helps to retain and parse the contents to read it on short bursts, it was really too convenient and I find myself thinking about reading even in the aspects more often left to audio/video.

Gonna have to pay more attention to lognposts here and scavenge old FAQs about what I'm interested/currently playing. Convenience is a killer these days.

Накратко за Chatcontrol 2025

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Накратко, много държави-членки на Европейския Съюз, водени от Дания, подкрепят въвеждането на принудително преглеждане на снимки и линкове споделяни в чат приложения като WhatsApp, Signal и други. Това действие се очаква да бъде автоматизирано чрез…

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Seems obvious, but clearly it's not.

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in reply to Akagi

@Akagi yea my philosophy since my early 20s has been every time i need to work on the car i buy the tools instead of taking it to the shop, and now i have my own shop.

old civics reach a point where you eiter have to deal with rust or scrap them. i did a bunch of rust remediation on this one and painted it so the body and undercarriage are good, but there are a few spots in the engine bay that need work. i will do the whole engine bay when i put the new engine in.

Canicules et profits : même coupables, même combat !
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"Août 2025, la deuxième canicule de l'année touche les trois quarts de l'hexagone, avec des chaleurs extrêmes dans de nombreuses communes. Elle fait suite à celle de juin avec des températures dépassant de 10 °C les normales de saison.

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Communiqués de 2025

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Écologie,
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You can find a whole lot of huge zip files containing wagonloads of #RTTTL #ringtones in the form of text files. There's some baby songs, but the vast majority it's stuff you would have had as ringtone at that time. That's why one of the songs I chose is #moonlightshadow 🪩
That's SO 80s!
Also, I couldn't miss #supermario and #monkeyisland themes.
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First in History! US F-35 Pilot at Full Speed Takeoff to Escort Putin’s Plane out of Alaska

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Be sure to check the many comments below the video. Here are but a few:

"Lithuanian here. Love America! And thank God America is like a phoenix, rising from the ashes. A strong America means strong good values around the world and Peace..."

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Pilots!!!! And please feel free to visit Love Field in Arizona as often as you can XOXOXO

"In response to my inquiry, the Copilot confirmed that this actually occurred, and said, in part, "This escort was a standard security protocol, not a ceremonial gesture. It’s common for host nations to ensure the safety of visiting heads of state during high-profile visits."

"Why do all these Bad Guy countries have so much censorship and propaganda?" and "Why do the 1950s seem so idyllic today?" can be answered with the same explanation:

Following WW2, the world was very multipolar. The United States felt very threatened by the Soviet Union and its allies, and so engaged in one of the most effective propaganda and media censorship campaigns in history. Every bit of media in the States had to make the US look absolutely peachy, highlighting all the new real estate development (for white people), highway construction without noticing the severe elements of re-colonization and displacement, and glorifying the American dream and the nuclear family.

These days, they don't need to do that. Why? Because they already own the world. But we're starting to see cracks showing again. Because communications technology works much differently than it did in the 50s — and because America owns all that global technology — it looks rather different, but it's showing itself in social media algorithms, in government censorship and privacy invasion legislation, in software bans.

We need to do our job so that, in another seventy years, people aren't idolizing the 2020s as some idyllic yesteryear.

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I'm looking to build out the Free Fridge & Community Pantries in my town.

I'll continue to update this thread with my progress.

So, the idea is to have nodes throughout town that allow folks to "Give a Food, Take a Food". Similar to "Little Free Libraries" are to books. Folks who have extra food can drop it off there, folks who need food can grab it there.

The focus here is mutual aid, not charity. So, absolutely, if you are food insecure or hungry, utilize it, right. Beyond that though, this is a great piece of infrastructure to share extra food with your neighbors. I will go down to the free fridge we have in town, drop off some of my extra produce that I have grown, and then pick up a can of black beans if I need it for dinner that night. We're meant to contribute AND utilize the free fridge.

There are many ways to create and maintain free fridges, from something as simple as a small box or outdoor cabinet on up to full stand up refrigerators and freezers with an outdoor pantry.

In general, you want it to be a couple of things:
- Accessible to the public
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Unmanned
- No restrictions on who can utilize it or take food from it - it should NOT employ any means-testing
- Receive shelf stable food and/or refrigerated food and/or frozen food

Further, you can break up the different groups that are involved in the free fridge:
- The Host
- The Maintainers
- The Community

The Host - provides a location for the fridge and pantry to be installed and accessed. They also provide electricity to power the fridge/freezer

The Maintainers - this would be my group. We source, install, maintain, repair, and clean the fridge, freezer, and pantry.

The Community - contributes food to and utilizes food from the fridge and pantry. This is important. While the host provides the site and the Maintainers keep it operational, neither one has to stock food or coordinate utilization. The community does it themselves.

Having it split up like this is nice. Can folks from the Host group maintain it? Certainly. But extrapolating it allows for ease of use.

So. Keeping it stocked is up to the community. I've seen it stocked by gardeners who have extra produce (Zucchini turns folks into socialists is the joke! You just grow sooooo much you end up LOSING FRIENDS when you try to push it off on others!). I've seen it stocked through Food Rescue efforts. Some families buy extra from the grocery store and this is a great place to drop it off. I've even seen the local Food Bank drop off extra food when they had left overs from a food distribution.

Keeping it utilized is also easy. You don't want the fridge to stay stocked, right. You want it to stay in the fridge for as short a period of time as possible before someone comes and grabs it. Heck! I've seen a food rescue of fresh produce from a farmer's market vendor be dropped off at a free fridge and then claimed by several families even before it had a chance to be placed physically into the fridge! This is ideal. One fridge and pantry needs to serve the local neighborhood. That's many many families. It can only do so if its filled up and then utilized multiple times a day.

Next post, I'll put some resources on starting your own in your town.

#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid

in reply to Tinker ☀️

There are a lot of resources on Free Fridges and Community Pantries.

The Freedge group has a wonderful site that has resources for finding fridges in your neighborhood or installing new ones:

- Freedge: freedge.org/
- Starting a Free Fridge in your Town: freedge.org/freedge-yourself/
- Map of current Free Fridges: freedge.org/locations/

Some folks have had questions or concerns as it relates to Free Fridges. I have posted my answer to a couple of them below:

Worry about folks "taking advantage" of free food
infosec.exchange/@tinker/11376…

Worry about tainted food being placed in the fridge?
infosec.exchange/@tinker/11376…

Do free fridge initiatives even work?
infosec.exchange/@tinker/11376…

I'll add to this post in the future if I find other resources.

#freeFridge
#foodScarcity
#foodSecurity
#postScarcity
#solarPunk
#mutualAid

in reply to Tinker ☀️

Well this is amazing!!!

We just got our first host that wants to put up a Free Fridge!!!!

I was going to put in a post of how we have multiple leads out and various irons in the fire, but dang, this one came quick! We've been talking to various folks for the past couple of months and there have been various interest, but nothing has been set in stone yet.

So, I posted a couple weeks ago how our Free Fridge and Food Rescue group got featured in the local town paper ( infosec.exchange/@tinker/11494… ) . Turns out various folks read it and were interested, both in the food rescue and in the free fridge aspect.

We have one free fridge in town hosted by a local community garden, but that is completely run by them. We help keep it clean and we help stock and utilize it, but my group was created to build other free fridges throughout town.

And sure enough, a local church read the article and came to our monthly meeting. They invited us to go to their church and tour it and see what they were doing.

They're a small church that is heavy in working with the Food Bank and doing distributions. They recently received a generous donation with the request that the money be used for community service. They're going to source the refrigerator, pantry, and even build out an area to provide cover and a walkway to it.

The location is great. It's accessible via public transit (such that we have here). It's decently walkable and the city is putting in improvements in the next year. They have a good parking lot and a location that is accessible to the public 24/7.

So I've put together a little project plan:

- Go onsite and create rough site plan: Designate location. Measure out area for concrete slab, awning, and potentially walkway
- Get estimates for outside electrical outlet installation, concrete slab / walkway construction, and awning construction
- Contact appropriate municipality / county to sort out any requirements or approvals
- Complete construction
- Source and install fridge and pantry
- Open to community & advertise new location

The head of their food missions has already sourced and purchased the refrigerator. So wow. Next step will be to go back onsite and do a rough site plan. Basically measure out the spot and sort out the concrete pad dimensions.

This is the first time I've done this... so I'll be learning along the way and documenting it for other sites (hopefully) in the future.

This is amazing. Our first fridge for our group and the second for my region!!!

#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid