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How can I use a local agentic LLM on Linux to debug code similar to Anthropic use of Claude to find vulnerabilities in Firefox? cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/62484268

batman please answer this is important #PixelArt #Art #Comic #Comics #Meme #Batman #DC #Linux #AnubiArts

systemd Pilot, user-friendly systemd manager systemd Pilot](github.com/mfat/systemd-pilot) is a desktop application for managing systemd units and browsing its logs. Features: Support for managing remote machines over SSH Creating services and timers Filtering units by a status and type Download here: github.com/mfat/systemd-pilot/releases

Have we been running insecure software since the arrival of AI? I do about a monthly update of my Debian machines. Today I did the usual monthly update and noticed loads of packages uploading from the “security” branch. I’ve had the impression (just an impression) that more and more packages are being updated from security over the past many months. Trixie has been out for a while now and I would have thought that less and less updates should be coming from security. Has anyone had this sensation and if so has anyone linked this to AI finding more holes in OSS that would have normally been found by human scrutiny? Has there been any official research into this? And if this is true, does it mean that we have been running insecure software all along? Or is there is there a risk that AI start filing patches that actually make it less secure because software maintainers are not being rigorous in verifying who is submitting the patch? AI must be changing the paradigm of software development more than any other area of our lives and I can’t still work out if in a better way or not.

If immutable distros are so unbreakable, why are both my ostree branches broken? I decided to try out Bluefin, and it worked pretty well for 6 months. Then an update broke both the ostree branches somehow. Just black screens instead of finding/mounting root. It seems like something that could be fixed with the grub config, but I thought the point of an atomic distro was that an update wouldn’t break it. So I reinstalled debian instead of figuring out what happened with bluefin. I also hated having to restart after every update.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Sponsor: Proton VPN 01:59 Criteria for ranking 03:42 Chrome 05:56 Ungoogled Chromium 07:17 Microsoft Edge 08:26 Brave 10:17 Vivaldi 11:50 Opera 12:31 Firefox 15:22 Floorp 16:29 Librewolf and Waterfox 18:05 Zen Browser 19:43 GNOME Web 21:03 Orion 21:36 Falkon 22:29 Conclusion 23:44 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers Links: Report on Opera and their owner: hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turna… Opera bought by Chinese consortium: engadget.com/2016-07-18-opera-browser-sold-to-a-c… Brave’s attempt at replacing ads: computerworld.com/…/brave-browser-begins-controve… Brave replacing affiliate links: sophos.com/…/brave-ceo-apologises-for-adding-affi…

Adobe suite on Linux (twice), Flathub says yes to AI - Linux Weekly News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Sponsor: Internxt 02:12 Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now 03:53 Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite 07:35 Flathub now accepts apps that used Al, with disclosure 10:18 Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions 11:35 Steam Frame now has 200 verified games 13:03 More Kernel and AMD performance improvements 15:43 Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom 17:50 Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up 19:14 Orion stops development of its Linux browser 20:45 EU Commission doesn’t seem pleased with their Teams replacement 22:31 Googlebooks don’t look like they’ll help Linux much 24:23 Mesa looking at a more formal governance model 26:53 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers Links Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now neutronproject.org Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite github.com/storytold/photocraft Flathub now accepts apps that used Al, with disclosure linuxiac.com/flathub-reverses-ai-generated-app-ba… Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions linuxiac.com/cosmic-stops-accepting-Ilm-generated… github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/blob/…/PULL REQUEST TEMPLATE.md Steam Frame now has 200 verified games store.steampowered.com/greatonframe?tab=1 gamingonlinux.com/…/theres-now-over-200-steam-fra… More Kernel and AMD performance improvements phoronix.com/…/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom itsfoss.com/news/…/Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up itsfoss.com/news/…/Orion stops development of its Linux browser blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows EU Commission doesn’t seem pleased with their Teams replacement politico.eu/…/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-… Googlebooks don’t look like they’ll help Linux much androidauthority.com/linux-apps-on-googlebook-371… Mesa looking at a more formal governance model www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model

You can now install #Pixelix on Linux using Flatpak. https://github.com/ghostbyte-dev/pixelix/releases/tag/v5.2.3-flatpak We want to submit Pixelix to Flathub soon, in order to make installation even simpler. Please let us know in the comments what you think and if everything works. #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Linux #OpenSource #Flatpak

Are Anti-AI Linux distributions practical? I have been using Linux for over 8 months now, and my primary distribution of choice was Debian. Debian recently conducted a community vote on allowing AI contributions, and it ended up allowing responsible AI contributions. What is this responsible? How can AI commits be responsible? There are thousands of reasons to not use AI, and the primary reason is AI is a thief. How did you react to Debian’s decision? Did you switch distros? Which one was your option, and why? Also, when the Linux kernel itself allows AI commits, is there any practicality in a Linux distribution strictly limiting or restricting AI commits? I have no serious usability issue with Debian now but am concerned about the use of AI even in my Linux distribution. Should I keep going with Debian or consider any other distribution, as I only have 8+ months of experience as a daily Linux user? I tried almost all Linux distros and am comfortable with everything except Void Linux and highly complex ones like Gentoo.

What type of UI navigation do you prefer on a computer? So for a long time pretty much every computer used the traditional like windows layout with moveable windows that minimized or maximized and had a taskbar and start menu and whatnot. You had some minor changes with Mac and stuff, but now you can really have some radically different ways to use a computer. Personally I have differing preferences if I’m using a laptop or a desktop. On my desktop I prefer a dock and to use the mouse to click around. More of the windows style. Then on a laptop (which I use most often) I use a heavily gesture based navigation. Currently I have Gnome modified so that when I am in a program, like the web browser I’m in typing this, it is full screen. The top bar is hidden, and there’s no dock of any kind. Not even one that pops up when I move the mouse to the edge of the screen. Instead I have everything for navigation hidden inside the task view. I swipe up on the trackpad with 3 fingers to bring it up. That’s how I see time, battery life, and the other topbar stuff too. If switching quickly between two things I put one of them in a 2nd desktop and use a 3 finger side swipe to move back and forth. I’m curious to know what other unique or highly custom navigation methods people are using on Linux. I know tiling window managers are pretty popular. Is there a general consensus on what’s best these days? Or is everyone doing slightly different things?

Im April fand die #SUSECON statt - über 1.000 Teilnehmende haben sich auf den Weg nach Prag gemacht um aus den 140 Sessions auszuwählen. Neben dem aktuellen Trendthema #DigitalSovereignty gab es auch zahlreiche technische Neuigkeiten rund um #SUSE #Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Micro und Multi-Linux Manager. Neben einem Event-Wrap-Up mit Maximilian Herrmann haben wir auch Interviews mit Stefan Behlert, Johannes Hahn und Miguel Pérez Colino für euch. 🎙️ https://user.space/e019-susecon-2026/ #SUSECON26

This Week in Plasma: Finishing Touches on 6.8

[solved] Qgtk3Style Theme engine is it broken? Edit: Turns out it was just qt5 apps acting up, wpa-gui has been ported to qt6 and is upcoming in next updates. and I have tested it, it correctly ports the gtk theme to qt. So I came here while researching for the problems with qt5 theme. So in the archi wiki it says - 3.1 QGtk3Style This is a platform theme built into qt5-base starting with version 5.7.0 [2] and qt6-base. It can be used to style Qt5 and Qt6 applications according to current GTK3 style. It can be enabled by setting the following environment variable: QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk3. I am on nixos and if i set the same envionment variable qt6 apps like pcmanfm-qt, qbittorrent correctly use the same colors as my gtk3 theme, but it seems qt5 apps (like wpa_supplicant_gui, keepassxc, picard) even though in logs they seem to load the plugin, dont theme accordingly and show the default white color. I just want to know is the plugin abandoned? Meaning its no use trying to wait for it to update and be fixed or should i just switch to qtstyleplugins for qt5 apps? I Can confirm this if i run QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk3 wpa_gui 2>&1 | grep -i gtk3 and logs show QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/nix/store/64qmp7fap3740hxd2bsnpy10s9ndy5qx-qtbase-5.15.18-bin/lib/qt-5.15.18/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so" Found metadata in lib /nix/store/.../libqgtk3.so, metadata= "gtk3" "className": "QGtk3ThemePlugin", Got keys from plugin meta data ("gtk3") loaded library "/nix/store/.../libqgtk3.so" Note: The old qt5-styleplugins do work just need to set the variabled to gtk3 instead of gtk2 Side by side comparison qbittorrent (qt6 app) Its using qt6, i can confirm nix why-depends nixpkgs#qbittorrent nixpkgs#qt6.qtbase /nix/store/i8r2n73xzlxk7sfchjlkdxajs8jbqbv0-qbittorrent-5.2.1 └───/nix/store/wzvm2pvf98a71v0scgfhmi01lqcxahfr-qtbase-6.11.0 picard (qt5 app) Its using qt5, i can confirm nix why-depends nixpkgs#picard nixpkgs#qt5.qtbase /nix/store/wzqlnryvnjl95a93fiwwivlbz3ypixk7-picard-2.13.3 └───/nix/store/64qmp7fap3740hxd2bsnpy10s9ndy5qx-qtbase-5.15.18-bin I can confirm the same behaviour for the other aforementioned apps.

/bin /usr/bin question While i think the /usr/bin merge is a neccssary adaption to modern usage, and while i see the uaecase of /usr/bin over /bin in immutable distros, i’d rather go closer to hardware personally and rather have /bin as real directory and /usr/bin the symlink. So i copied /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin (which is also in $PATH) in preparation, because used tooling like rm, ln, cp, is also in /usr/bin. Turns out, in my PATH the later comes before the former path, having preference. Which lead to su complaining about not having access to a authorization server. Which leads me to my question: is security and boot/bootstrap tooling ok with symlinks or being on a different path, or is that a compile time option of the distro (Artix)?

Schwebende Fenster auf dem Desktop sind für mich bisher der Standard gewesen. #CosmicDesktop hat das geändert, jetzt bin ich angefixed und experimentiere mit dem Tiling-Wayland-Compositor #Niri. #linux #linuxdesktophttps://rundumlinux.de/tiling-vs-floating/

Hello Fediverse! 🐧 I'm Nebu, also known as Dennis Hilk. Today I set up my own GoToSocial instance on Debian 13, running on my server Worldnode. Linux, open source, weird hardware, retro computing, motorcycles, and DOOM on things that shouldn't run DOOM. Why self-host? Because I wanted to see how it works. And then... why not? :D 🌐 https://www.dennishilk.com #Introduction #Linux #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Fediverse

Noniin, @david_bardos@mementomori.social muistuttelikin jo ystävällisesti ja kyseli, että mites se muutosprojekti etenee, mistä alkuvuodesta (muistaakseni) puhuin.

No, muutoksia ja "muutoksia" tähän asti:

• Vaihdoin Windowsista Linuxiin

• Selaimen vaihdoin Vivaldiin sekä koneessa että luurissa

• Hakukoneeksi vaihdoin Ecosian

• Sähköpostin vaihdoin Gmailista Tutaan

• Herkuttelua (sekä suolaisilla että makeilla) olen vähentänyt todella reilusti

• Kahvinjuontia olen vähentänyt kolmeen kuppiin päivässä aiemmasta 4-5 kupista. Olen alkanut juomaan sen sijaan vihreää teetä

• Punainen liha jää entistä vahvemmin ruokavaliosta pois ja kasvisproteiinit tulevat tilalle. Kasvispainotteisella ruokavaliolla olen yrittänyt olla jo muutaman vuoden, mutta nyt entistä enemmän

• Jossain vaiheessa laiskistuin ja aloin käyttämään hissiä. Nyt hylkäsin hissin ja aina kun mahdollista niin kuljen portaita. Sekä ylös että alas

• Someista minulla on puhelimessa kytketty kaikki ilmoitukset pois jo kauan sitten. Nyt poistelin kuvakkeet aloitusruudusta ja jätän puhelimen fyysisesti kauemmas kun en sitä käytä (yleensä toiseen huoneeseen). Lisäksi se on valtaosan ajasta pelkällä värinällä.

• Olen alkanut taas punnertelemaan kotona. Yleensä neljänä iltana viikossa vähintään

Olen itse tyytyväinen tähänastisiin muutoksiin ja uusiin suuntiin. Paljon olisi vielä mielessä että mitä tehdä, mutta luulen että on tärkeämpää nyt keskittyä saamaan yllä luetelluista rutiinia. Sitten voi pohtia lisää.

Otetaanko sit vaikka tasan kolmen kuukauden päästä samanlainen katsaus? :D

#hyvinvointi #irtimetasta #irtigooglesta #irtimicrosoftista #mielenterveys #muutos #nörtti #linux #tuta #ecosia #kahvi #tee

Canonical Announces Official Ubuntu Desktop Images for RISC-V Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V. As I reported back in June, when the first daily build images for Ubuntu 26.10 were made available to download, there was a new RISC-V desktop image available too, but now Canonical is making everything official: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) brings desktop images to RISC-V computers. That’s right, if you have a RISC-V computer and want to use Ubuntu on it, you will be able to do so with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release, due out next week on October 15th, 2026. Even better, it looks like there will also be a RISC-V image for the Xubuntu flavor featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment. “The Xubuntu variant exists for a practical reason: the Xfce-based minimal image is far more manageable under emulation,” said Canonical. “The images are experimental: they carry no official support yet, and there are still known issues that we are addressing for the release. Bug reports on Launchpad are very welcome.” Canonical recommends testing the Ubuntu Desktop RISC-V images on SpacemiT K3 hardware since official support for this platform is coming with Ubuntu 26.10, and they even have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX. On the other hand, the Xubuntu Minimal images are recommended for testing in virtual machines. Testing the Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images will require you to copy your own first-stage bootloader, such as U-boot, as well as the relevant Device Tree Blobs (DTBs), onto the ISO before booting it on real hardware like the SiFive HiFive Unmatched, which is supported by Canonical. Canonical promises to deliver a complete desktop experience on RISC-V computers with the Stonking Stingray release, especially on RVA23-compliant hardware like Milk-V Jupiter 2 Mini-ITX, DeepComputing DC-ROMA, and SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX. Ubuntu 26.10 is expected to ship with the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment by default, which will be released on September 16th, 2026, and the soon-to-be-released Linux 7.3 kernel series, which should be out later this month. I’m hoping that more Ubuntu flavors will pick up RISC-V support in the long run. Without further ado, you can download the latest Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images from here and the Xubuntu Minimal RISC-V image from here. Once again, please keep in mind that these images are considered experimental, so don’t use them for any production work.

[$] Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in mid-February, after Lucas [...] https://lwn.net/Articles/1061544/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #LLVM #Python