Un cervello grande come un seme, eppure capace di leggere il ritmo della luce. Dalla Queen Mary University arriva la prova: le api possono distinguere durate e “decifrare” un codice visivo. Forse la mente non dipende dalle dimensioni, ma dall’ordine.
#Aurora boreale visibile nelle scorse ore anche dalle Alpi. La prossima notte potrebbe spingersi anche più a sud. Sono le conseguenze di una intensa tempesta solare #NorthernLights
To say we're getting an overwhelming aurora display in Montana tonight is an understatement. I'm just trying to keep up with the dozens of photos and videos from all of our great Q2 viewers... thank you everyone! (3/3)
While this is profoundly beautiful it is also humbling to think about how solar wind (stardust from our sun!) is being shielded by the magnetic fields (what!?) of our pale blue dot of a home, which exist due to the molten iron core spinning under the crust of rocks! Basically, lava spinning under our feet is protecting us from a ball of fire above our heads. Everyone's aurora photos are beautiful, thanks for sharing. It was stunning to be able to see with the naked eye (less vivid than these photos but definitely distinct colors and shapes). I am dumbfounded to have seen this from the cornfields of Central Illinois, USA.
Mo dovete tirà fuori i documenti prima de poterve fà na sega su internet su na 50ina de siti! ✋🚫🍆
Ok... ce ne stanno artri 11.561.293 de siti, poi le VPN, i proxy, Tor, ciat, p2p, AI porno e via così. Nun ce pijate peer culo che è tipo quaa fregniaccia de legge anti rave che nun è cuello er punto
Mo avemo sdoganato sta cosa e potemo bloccà artro che "turba i giovani" tipo magari er gender, l'olocausto,... quei rompicojoni de Fanpage e Report... 🤔
Il potere delle parole: come un prompt di jailbreaking può manipolare un'intelligenza artificiale. Scopri la tecnica del Role-playing e dell'Urgency che ha messo in ginocchio i modelli di linguaggio più avanzati.
OWASP Top 10 2025: le nuove minacce per le applicazioni web, Supply chain tra le prime tre
L’OWASP aggiorna dopo 4 anni la sua lista delle TOP10 relativa ai rischi più pericolosi per le applicazioni web, aggiungendo due nuove categorie e rivedendo la struttura della classifica.
L’organizzazione ha pubblicato una bozza della versione 2025 che risulta aperta ai commenti fino al 20 novembre. Questo documento è una versione quasi definitiva della Top 10 di OWASP, che riflette le attuali minacce per sviluppatori e amministratori web.
Come nell’edizione precedente, il Broken Access Control è rimasto al primo posto. Questa categoria è stata ampliata per includere anche levulnerabilità SSRF, che in precedenza si classificavano al decimo posto.
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OWASP Top 10 2025: le nuove minacce per le applicazioni web, Supply chain tra le prime tre
L’OWASP aggiorna dopo 4 anni la sua lista delle TOP10 relativa ai rischi più pericolosi per le applicazioni web, aggiungendo due nuove categorie e rivedendo la struttura della classifica.
L’organizzazione ha pubblicato una bozza della versione 2025 che risulta aperta ai commenti fino al 20 novembre. Questo documento è una versione quasi definitiva della Top 10 di OWASP, che riflette le attuali minacce per sviluppatori e amministratori web.
Come nell’edizione precedente, il Broken Access Control è rimasto al primo posto. Questa categoria è stata ampliata per includere anche levulnerabilità SSRF, che in precedenza si classificavano al decimo posto.
La Security Misconfiguration si classifica al secondo posto, in crescita rispetto al quinto della classifica del 2021. I problemi relativi alla supply-chain invece si classificano al terzo posto. Si tratta di una versione ampliata della categoria Componenti vulnerabili e obsoleti, che comprende problemi e compromissioni nell’ecosistema delle dipendenze, nei sistemi di build e nell’infrastruttura di distribuzione. Secondo OWASP, questi rischi erano tra le principali preoccupazioni della comunità professionale durante il sondaggio.
Seguono Cryptographic Failures, Injection (incluse XSS e SQL injection) e Insecure Design: tutte e tre le categorie hanno perso due posizioni, occupando rispettivamente il quarto, quinto e sesto posto.Authentication Failures, Software or Data Integrity Failures e Logging & Alerting Failures hanno mantenuto le posizioni precedenti, dal settimo al nono posto.
Una nuova categoria nella top ten è “Gestione errata di condizioni eccezionali”, che conclude l’elenco. Include errori nella gestione delle eccezioni, risposte errate alle anomalie, gestione impropria degli errori e guasti logici che si verificano in condizioni operative di sistema non standard. Le 10 principali modifiche OWASP rispetto al 2021 (OWASP)
I rappresentanti dell’OWASP hanno sottolineato che la struttura dell’elenco del 2025 differisce da quella del 2021. L’analisi ora tiene conto del numero di applicazioni testate durante l’anno e del numero di sistemi in cui è stata rilevata almeno un’istanza di una specifica CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration).
Questo approccio consente di monitorare la prevalenza delle vulnerabilità nell’intera gamma di prodotti testati, indipendentemente dal numero di occorrenze dello stesso problema all’interno di una singola applicazione. Per l’analisi sono state utilizzate 589 CWE, rispetto alle sole 30 del 2017 e alle circa 400 del 2021.
Per valutare la sfruttabilità e l’impatto tecnico, OWASP ha utilizzato i dati CVE, raggruppandoli per CWE e calcolando i valori medi in base ai punteggi CVSS. A causa dei limiti dei test automatizzati, sono state selezionate solo otto categorie sulla base di questi dati. Le restanti due sono state ricavate da un sondaggio della comunità in cui gli esperti hanno identificato i rischi che consideravano più critici nella pratica.
La classifica OWASP Top 10 2025 riflette quindi uno spostamento dell’attenzione della comunità dai classici errori di implementazione ai problemi di configurazione, architettura e supply chain che portano sempre più spesso a compromessi nelle moderne applicazioni web.
[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that list. In the 1990s, he played a game that had first appeared on USENET in 1987. Initially called “Middle-earth multiplayer game,” it was soon rebranded with the catchier moniker, Conquer.
It may not seem like a big thing today, but writing multiplayer software and distributing it widely was pretty rare stuff in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In 2006, [Juan] realized that this game, an intellectual predecessor to so many later games, was in danger of being lost forever. The source code was scattered around different archives, and it wasn’t clear what rights
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Resurrecting Conquer: A Game from the 1980s
[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that list. In the 1990s, he played a game that had first appeared on USENET in 1987. Initially called “Middle-earth multiplayer game,” it was soon rebranded with the catchier moniker, Conquer.
It may not seem like a big thing today, but writing multiplayer software and distributing it widely was pretty rare stuff in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In 2006, [Juan] realized that this game, an intellectual predecessor to so many later games, was in danger of being lost forever. The source code was scattered around different archives, and it wasn’t clear what rights anyone had to the source code.
[Juan] set out to find the original authors [Edward Barlow] and [Adam Bryant]. Of course, their e-mail addresses from USENET were long dead. With persistence, he finally found [Barlow] in 2006. He was amenable to [Juan] porting the code over, but didn’t know how to contact [Bryant].
[Juan] continued to leave posts and follow up leads. He did eventually find [Bryant], who read one of the posts about the project and offered his permission to GPL the code. This was in 2011, nearly five years after the release from [Barlow]. He also discovered there was a third author who was also game. Unfortunately, [Richard Caley] had already passed away, so there was no way to obtain his release.
Non è il dark web a vendere i tuoi dati. Sei tu che li metti in saldo ogni giorno!
Fatto spiacevole: quello dei dati personali è un mercato molto appetibile e di particolare valore per i cybercriminali, per motivi tutt’altro che difficili da immaginare. Non parliamo solo di scam o furti d’identità, ma di un complesso di attività illecite che possono trovare impiego nei modi più disparati. Questo riguarda sia i dati esposti online sia quelli reperiti all’interno dei marketplace del dark web, con il comune intento di realizzare dei guadagni diretti o indiretti.
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Non è il dark web a vendere i tuoi dati. Sei tu che li metti in saldo ogni giorno!
Fatto spiacevole: quello dei dati personali è un mercato molto appetibile e di particolare valore per i cybercriminali, per motivi tutt’altro che difficili da immaginare. Non parliamo solo di scam o furti d’identità, ma di un complesso di attività illecite che possono trovare impiego nei modi più disparati. Questo riguarda sia i dati esposti online sia quelli reperiti all’interno dei marketplace del dark web, con il comune intento di realizzare dei guadagni diretti o indiretti.
Appreso che un utilizzo indesiderato dei nostri dati personali esiste ed è anzi una buona fetta di mercato per i cybercriminali, a questo punto, potremmo ritenere che tutta la normativa sulla privacy sia totalmente inutile. Insomma: se un cybercriminale vuole commettere una serie di attività illecite, certamente l’essersi procurato i nostri dati personali violando le regole probabilmente non è neanche degno di essere contrassegnato come “ultimo dei suoi problemi”. Ma bisogna ragionare sul perché i nostri dati personali diventano tanto facilmente reperibili, scoprendo così attraverso pochissimi passaggi logici che una maggiore attenzione da parte di chi svolge operazioni sugli stessi a riguardo ne ridurrebbe la disponibilità.
Per quanto non sia possibile avere uno scenario in cui il rischio di vedere i nostri dati personali impiegati in attività illecite viene azzerato, può essere desiderabile quanto meno uno in cui il saccheggio degli stessi sia particolarmente difficoltoso e il bottino meno remunerativo. Insomma: è chiaro che nel momento in cui i costi superano le opportunità, solitamente un cybercriminale desiste. A meno che non sia particolarmente motivato, ovviamente.
Questo però richiede una premessa. Ogni soggetto che raccoglie e impiega i dati personali è chiamato a garantire la protezione dei dati personali per tutta la filiera in cui sono svolte operazioni sugli stessi, andando così ad attenzionare proprio quegli aspetti rilevanti individuati dalla norma. Ovverosia: verificare che i dati siano lecitamente acquisiti, ne siano definite le finalità e vengano raccolti e conservati solo i dati necessari a perseguire le stesse.
Ovviamente, tenendo conto che ogni operazione deve essere svolta in sicurezza.
Non c’è privacy senza sicurezza.
L’aspetto che emerge è indubbiamente quello della sicurezza, per logica e rilevanza. Questo è richiamato non solo dalla norma, ma si pone come premessa: il trattamento in sicurezza dei dati personali garantisce una mitigazione per i rischi che incombono sull’interessato. Senza sicurezza, non può infatti parlarsi di protezione adeguata.
Un generale e più elevato livello di sicurezza contrasta il mercato del cybercrimine, ma questo richiede un effort condiviso da più attori ovverosia tutti i soggetti che svolgono operazioni sui dati. L’orientamento è fornito dalla normativa che obbliga a ragionare su quali dati raccogliere, perché e soprattutto per quanto tempo. Motivare ogni passaggio comporta una maggiore attenzione, e una maggiore attenzione consente di superare tutta una serie di criticità collegate a inconsapevolezza, incuria e disattenzione.
Ecco dunque che il rispetto della privacy – intesa nella sua accezione di protezione dei dati personali – è la premessa affinché i dati siano trattati in modo sicuro. O meglio: più sicuro rispetto allo scenario alternativo in cui non ci sono i presidi imposti dalla norma.
Il fattore culturale.
Un approccio culturale che tiene conto dei rischi per gli interessati richiede che i soggetti che decidono sulle sorti dei dati personali sono responsabilizzati ma anche una maggiore attenzione diffusa al tema. Questo comporta che le garanzie di protezione dei dati personali sono criteri di selezione. Certo, parliamo di garanzie percepite e dunque può essere possibile una strategia di privacywashing, ma un utente o consumatore esprime una domanda di servizi più attenti al rispetto della norma e quindi maggiormente sicuri.
Questo, di fatto, aumenta il costo per il cybercrime in questo ambito.
Meno dati facilmente disponibili comporta infatti costi maggiori.
Questa settimana con #FUTURO24 vi portiamo al Centro Ricerche Casaccia dell'ENEA, dove si studiano sistemi di coltivazione per lo spazio e gli ambienti estremi. Parliamo anche del nuovo satellite europeo Sentinel-1D e di innovazione nella robotica rainews.it/video/2025/11/futur…
Dopo il rinvio per maltempo di domenica, secondo tentativo stasera in Florida per il lancio della missione ESCAPADE verso Marte. Un razzo New Glenn di Blue Origin porterà nello spazio due sonde statunitensi. Finestra di lancio fra le 20.50 e le 22.17 italiane blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
#Friendica #Statistics 2025-11-12 07:00 CEST Number of active instances: 221 Number of users: 20 772 Number of statuses: 2 828 227 Number of new users last 1D: -1 Number of new statuses last 1D: 591 #Fediverse
La protezione dei dati personali è fondamentale per prevenire il cybercrimine e garantire la sicurezza online, scopri come aumentare la tua protezione.
❤️ #cosebelle Probabilmente uno dei dischi di esordio più dirompente, fuori dagli schemi e necessari della seconda metà degli anni settanta. Un disco punk ma senza esserlo, non una sequenza di accordi con parole di rigetto verso lo stato sociale, ma versi poetici, intrisi di introspezione e spiritualità.
“Horses” è uno di quei dischi che devi assimilare e far circolare nelle vene. Non puoi amare il rock se non ami “Horses” e #PattiSmith.
💬 seguil la musica nel gruppo spettacoli: @spettacoli
🇦🇺 #Russia's government lost on Wednesday a legal bid at Australia's High Court to build a new embassy less than a kilometre from the country's parliament.
🇨🇳🇷🇺 #China is stepping up its efforts to import US-sanctioned Russian gas, building the beginnings of a domestic “shadow fleet” of vessels that can transport the super-cooled fuel and circumvent restrictions imposed on one of the Kremlin’s flagship industries.
China is stepping up its efforts to import US-sanctioned Russian gas, building the beginnings of a domestic “shadow fleet” of vessels that can transport the super-cooled fuel and circumvent restrictions imposed on one of the Kremlin’s flagship indust…
Впервые за 7 лет Азат получил редкую для политзаключенных возможность — вылечить зубы. Он уже потерял 4 зуба, еще 11 находятся в плохом состоянии. Группа поддержки Мифтахова отмечает:
«Это может быть единственной возможностью для Азата получить качественное лечение и сохранить оставшиеся зубы к неизвестному пока что дню его освобождения. Очень просим вас помочь Азату не потерять здоровье в неволе!»
Также необходимо отправить ежегодную посылку массой 20 килограмм, в которой будет то, чего Азат не может приобрести в тюремном магазине.
FreeAzat! - Telegram Сбор в 100 000 рублей на лечение и посылку для Азата Мифтахова В ближайшее время нам предстоит столкнуться с большими тратами на оплату услуг стоматолога и на отправление ежегодной посылки. Реквизиты: Карта Сбер 5469 3800 5929 3380 Горбань Елена Анатольевна…
⚡️ Сбор на лечение Азата Мифтахова
Впервые за 7 лет Азат получил редкую для политзаключенных возможность — вылечить зубы. Он уже потерял 4 зуба, еще 11 находятся в плохом состоянии.
Поставил себе новую видюху с 16GB VRAM с целью гонять нейронки. Протестировал кучу из них, итог такой: те модели, которые помещаются в видео-память, работают быстро. Но они максимально тупые.
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Поставил себе новую видюху с 16GB VRAM с целью гонять нейронки. Протестировал кучу из них, итог такой: те модели, которые помещаются в видео-память, работают быстро. Но они максимально тупые.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The rate of Russian advances in the Pokrovsk direction remains relatively slow, likely in part because the Russian military command continues to pursue grinding offensive operations throughout the theater.
🇯🇵 🇷🇺 #Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday #Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions over Moscow's nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.
🇬🇧 #Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against #Russia by trying to choke off Kremlin revenue.
Первый российский человекоподобный робот упал на презентации. Его пришлось прикрыть от зрителей
В Москве представили первого в России антропоморфного робота AIdol, который, как уверяют создатели, может передвигаться в пространстве, перемещать предме…
More Russians oppose relatives joining the war. In October, 55% disapproved of family members signing military contracts, while 30% supported it. A year ago, opinions were split 42% vs 40%, showing rising opposition to participation in the war.
Все больше россиян не хотят, чтобы их близкие подписывали контракт с Минобороны для участия в войне против Украины, следует из опроса, проведенного «Левада-Центром».
An investigation found that Putin has at least three nearly identical offices in Novo-Ogaryovo, Valdai, and Sochi to conceal his movements. The Kremlin sometimes lists false locations on its website to hide where he actually is.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central #Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the country.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the…
The number of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war to seek safety European Union countries has risen to its highest level in two years, after Kyiv changed the rules to allow more young men to leave the country, official figures suggest.
In planning the construction of Auschwitz, the Germans assumed that the camp would eventually hold some 30,000 prisoners. As late as the beginning of 1941, t...
A Dutch charity has donated a Yak-52 aircraft to Ukraine to help counter drone threats. The plane, delivered in late October and purchased in the UK by Protect Ukraine, has been dedicated to the memory of pilot Kostyantyn "Kamikaze" Oborin, who was known for intercepting Shahed drones in southern Ukraine.
Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its windows exactly where it wants, and to restore these exactly in the configuration and location where the user saved it for that particular session. All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree.
This follows on an attempt two years prior with MR#247, which was rejected desp
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Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its windows exactly where it wants, and to restore these exactly in the configuration and location where the user saved it for that particular session. All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree.
This follows on an attempt two years prior with MR#247, which was rejected despite laying out sound reasons why the session protocol of Wayland does not cover many situations. In the breakdown video of the new ext-zones protocol discussion by [Brodie Robertson] the sheer absurdity of this whole situation becomes apparent, especially since KDE and others are already working around the Wayland project with their own extensions such as via KWin, which is being used commercially in e.g. the automotive world.
In a January 2024 blog post [Matthias] lays out many of his reasonings and views regarding the topic, with a focus on Linux desktop application usage from a scientific application perspective. When porting a Windows-, X11- or MacOS application to Wayland runs into compatibility issues that may necessitate a complete rewrite or dropping of features, the developer is more likely to stick to X11, to not port to Linux at all, or to use what eventually will amount to Wayland forks that patch around these missing API features.
Meanwhile X11 is definitely getting very long in the tooth, yet without it being a clean drop-in replacement it leaves many developers and end-users less than impressed. Perhaps the Wayland project should focus more on the needs of developers and end-users, and less about what it deems to be the One True Way?
This is very much a das blinkenlights kind of project. The goal is to get a 7-segment display to count from 0 to 9, and that’s it. [Gerry] has a 74LS193 Up/Down Binary Counter, a 74LS42 BCD to Decimal Decoder, and some 74LS00 NAND gates, but he “doesn’t have” an 74LS48 to drive the 7-segment display so he emulates one with an old Altera CPLD model EPM7064SLC44 which dates back to the late nineties. A CPLD is a Complex Programmable Logic Device which is a kind of precursor to
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Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
This is very much a das blinkenlights kind of project. The goal is to get a 7-segment display to count from 0 to 9, and that’s it. [Gerry] has a 74LS193 Up/Down Binary Counter, a 74LS42 BCD to Decimal Decoder, and some 74LS00 NAND gates, but he “doesn’t have” an 74LS48 to drive the 7-segment display so he emulates one with an old Altera CPLD model EPM7064SLC44 which dates back to the late nineties. A CPLD is a Complex Programmable Logic Device which is a kind of precursor to FPGA technology.
This fun video runs for nearly one hour and there are all sorts of twists and turns. The clock is made from a 555 timer. The Altera USB Blaster is used to program the CPLD via JTAG. But before he can do that he has to re-enable JTAG on his CPLD because JTAG LOCKOUT has been used on his secondhand chip. JTAG LOCKOUT is something you can do so that you can use the various JTAG pins for other purposes in your design, at the cost of no longer being about to access via JTAG! Fortunately [Gerry] has the right equipment to do a full reset of his chip and thus reinstate JTAG support.
Just as he’s nearly finished his project he manages to short out and destroy his CPLD by dropping a wire into the wall power socket! Talk about unlucky! He has to go back to the drawing board with a similar model. And in the end he realizes he used the the 7447 (common anode) but actually needed the 7448 (common cathode), so he has to fix that up too. All in all it’s fun to see what was state-of-the-art back in 1998. If you’re interested in such things you might like to read Not Ready For FPGAs? Try A CPLD.
Hey fellow infosec.exchange #fediverse peeps, just a friendly reminder that the fediverse is ran by volunteers. Our very own @jerry does an amazing job on all the infosec fediverse properties! 👏🏼 Let’s not forget to show him some love, support, and appreciation for keeping this and all the services alive.
If you can, support the server by covering some of the cost to run this amazing place. ❤️
[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them are difficult to build. So [Sam] did the logical thing: he designed his own. The Bumble Berry Pi is the result.
The design criteria? A tactile keyboard was a big item. Small enough to fit in a pants pocket, but big enough to be useful. What’s more is he wanted to recycle some old Pi 3Bs instead of buying new hardware.
The result looks good. There’s a 4.3″ touch screen, a nice keyboard, and enough battery to run all day. If you already have the Pi, you are looking at about $60 and two 3D-printed parts. There is some soldering, but nothing that should put off the average Hackaday reader.
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Have a Slice of Bumble Berry Pi
[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them are difficult to build. So [Sam] did the logical thing: he designed his own. The Bumble Berry Pi is the result.
The design criteria? A tactile keyboard was a big item. Small enough to fit in a pants pocket, but big enough to be useful. What’s more is he wanted to recycle some old Pi 3Bs instead of buying new hardware.
The result looks good. There’s a 4.3″ touch screen, a nice keyboard, and enough battery to run all day. If you already have the Pi, you are looking at about $60 and two 3D-printed parts. There is some soldering, but nothing that should put off the average Hackaday reader.
Does it run Doom? From the photo on the GitHub repo, yes, yes, it does. This would be a fun build, although we have to admit, the beauty of doing a build like this is making it your own. Maybe your pants have differently shaped pockets, we don’t know.
Either way, though, you can get some ideas from [Sam] or just clone his already good-looking deck. If we’re being honest, we are addicted to multiple screens. Plus, we want a built-in radio.
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take the load at high RPM for a long time. But not all slip ring applications need this performance. For something requiring a lot less rotational ability, [Luke J. Barker] has something from his parts bin, and probably yours too. It’s an audio jack.
On the face of it, a 1/4″ jack might seem unsuitable for this task, being largely a small-signal audio connector. But when you consider its origins in the world of telephones it becomes apparent that perhaps it could do so much more. It works for him, but we’d suggest if you’d like to follow his example, t
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take the load at high RPM for a long time. But not all slip ring applications need this performance. For something requiring a lot less rotational ability, [Luke J. Barker] has something from his parts bin, and probably yours too. It’s an audio jack.
On the face of it, a 1/4″ jack might seem unsuitable for this task, being largely a small-signal audio connector. But when you consider its origins in the world of telephones it becomes apparent that perhaps it could do so much more. It works for him, but we’d suggest if you’d like to follow his example, to use decent quality plugs and sockets.
This is an entry in our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge, and we like it for thinking in terms of the physical rather than the electrical. The entry period for this contest will have just closed by the time you read this, so keep an eye out for the official results soon.
i drew us in the style of rstevens (dieselsweeties.com) ages ago but suddenly everyone was doing these ai "look here's me ghibli style" "look here's me but as an action man" things and so i didn't really show these off but I think they are nice and i did draw every square
@hypolite somehow i don't have many pictures of both of us, there's this when we bought the house. maybe we should pose like our pixel people some time
Adesso hanno veramente rotto il cazzo! Chatcontrol 2.0 rientra dalla porta di servizio – Breyer avverte: "L'UE ci sta prendendo in giro"
L'agguato dell'Europa della sorveglianza: riecco chatcontrol che rientra dalla porta di servizio in silenzio come un ladro, ma a differenza dei ladri, vuole restare a casa tua
In the spring of 1942, Nazi Germany began deportations of mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz doomed to immediate extermination. By a decision of the camp a...
The Dutch Ministry of Defence confirmed that the russian vessel yantar was escorted out of the North Sea this week after operating near critical undersea infrastructure within the Netherlands’ exclusive economic zone, according to a statement released on November 6
The Dutch Ministry of Defence confirmed the escort of the Russian vessel Yantar from the North Sea, citing activities near vital undersea infrastructure.
The Guardian article on Ukrainian feminist horror films
Ukrainian audiences, now mostly women due to men at war, flock to homegrown feminist horror where witches and zombies battle russian forces; the genre offers catharsis, market appeal, and taps rich folklore amid real conflict.
Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?
Quando Corrado lasciò la TV al culmine del successo, con una poesia che pesava come pietre. L'addio di un gigante che non si riconosceva più in quello che la televisione stava diventando.
Corrado Mantoni e l'addio alla TV: da Domenica In a La Corrida, la storia del presentatore che ha rifiutato una televisione diventata irriconoscibile. Un saluto dignitoso e doloroso
a Charlene Bolz somewhere in the US signed up for tons of stuff with my Gmail address. I tried contacting her on fb, she never got back to me. Now I get mail from her hospital sometimes 😱. And also several mails per week about things she orders from Walmart.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) L’84% delle imprese italiane utilizza sistemi obsoleti, aumentando rischi e costi delle violazioni. Dati e strategie mostrano perché l’obsolescenza tecnologica va considerata priorità nei budget 2025 tra sicurezza, ROI e continuità operativa
Логика то тут понятная: чтобы бпла теряли управление. Только вот проблема: уже не 2024-й год на дворе, методы поменялись, а мы
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бггггггг. z-публика плачет:
Летят дроны, а они отключают интернет.
Логика то тут понятная: чтобы бпла теряли управление. Только вот проблема: уже не 2024-й год на дворе, методы поменялись, а мы все по старому.
Что происходит дальше? Дроны как летели, так и летят. Никакого толка от отрубки связи. Зато у наших подразделений вся координация через телегу идёт. Потому что рабочей альтернативы нет. Азарты, извините, но это не вариант.
И получается ситуация: интернета нет, все маневренные группы и расчёты ПВО сидят отрезанные друг от друга. Не понимают кто где, что летит, откуда бьют. Кого сбивать, а кого пропускать. Связи ноль. А дроны всё равно летят себе.
Короче, пацаны работают вслепую, а бпла спокойно долбят по целям. И кому от этого легче стало? Никому. Это ж надо так додуматься: отрубить связь своим же, чтобы... что? Чтобы врагу удобнее было?
Выпускники медвузов теперь будут отрабатывать «долг» государству
Госдума приняла закон, которыйпотребует от ординаторо:к медвузов заключать договоры целевого обучения с обязательной отработкой. Фактически отработка после обучения коснется всех молодых врач:инь с 1 марта 2026 года.
Целевые договоры с отработкой будет распространяться на бюджетное образование в ординатуре — уровне подготовки, на которой студент:ки получают специализацию. Отработка в медучреждении может длиться до трех лет: ее срок можно сократить, например, через трудоустройство в отдаленной местности.
Как это будет работать?
▪️ Если студент:ка откажется заключать договор, то обучение можно продолжить платно при наличии мест. Квота на целевиков будет определяться правительством — она составит около 70% от всех мест на программах ординатуры.
▪️ Если студент:ки целевого обучения в ординатуре разорвут контракт, им придется полностью компенсировать затраты на образование, а также выплатить штраф в размере двух полных сумм стоимости обучения.
▪️ Формально отработка будет называться «наставничеством» — если ее не пройти, то получить обязательную аккредитацию будет затруднительно.
Критикуют ли это новшество?
▪️ Законопроект вызвал волну критики как среди медик:есс, так и в самой Госдуме. Депутат от КПРФ Алексей Куринный, врач-хирург со степенью кандидата медицинских наук, отметил, что поправки отпугнут абитуриенто:к и
«станут чрезвычайно жестким инструментом в руках недобросовестных администраторов».
▪️ Сенатор Ульяновской области Айрат Гибатдинов полагает, что законопроект только усугубит проблему кадрового голода в медицинской сфере. В регионах с дефицитом врач:инь законопроект не гарантирует студент:кам достойной зарплаты и доступного жилья.
▪️ Ранее казанские врачи:ни выступили против законопроекта о принудительных отработках для выпускни:ц медицинских вузов. Два главных профсоюза медработни:ц также выступили против законопроекта.
There's been a lot of pearl-clutching about public grocery stores!
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
High grocery prices are hurting everyone. And since the federal government has lost the will for good old-fashioned trustbusting, a new local solution's come...
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums museivaticani.va/content/musei… #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #globalmuseum @AlisonFisk
An attack is underway on the Starobesheve thermal power plant in occupied Donetsk region. With an installed capacity of 2,300 MW, it remains one of the most strategically important energy assets in Russian occupied territory.
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
At least 23,000 Roma and Sinti people - including 11 thousand children were deported by the Nazi German regime to Auschwitz. After the Jews and Poles they ar...
On Kherson’s 3rd liberation anniversary, President #Zelenskyy honoured heroes - soldiers, rescuers, teachers, and volunteers - who expelled russian occupiers and rebuilt the city, emphasizing Ukrainian resilience and unity.
Awards recognized bravery, service, and sacrifice.
Every day, Russian tankers carry billions of dollars' worth of oil across the Baltic Sea. Despite sweeping Western sanctions, this trade continues to fuel the Kremlin's war machine.
A Russian column trying to enter under the cover of fog on the southern outskirts of Pokrovsk was destroyed. Burned-out vehicles now mark the failed assault attempt.
Russia’s plan to conquer Ukraine unfolds in three stages, according to Foreign Affairs. First: battlefield dominance. Second: occupy or devastate enough land to cripple Ukraine’s economy unless it complies with Moscow. Third: turn Ukraine into a satellite like Belarus. 2026 will be decisive.
Ukraine is quietly becoming a drone superpower. According to Bloomberg, Ukrainian manufacturers produce around 4 million drones annually, from long‑range strike systems to inexpensive FPV models, a total that likely exceeds the combined production of all NATO countries.
DTEK responds to the growing number of "Where is the power?" questions with footage of relentless strikes and destruction at thermal power plants and substations.
The scale of damage is massive, and the energy system is indeed under extreme pressure at this moment.
Exilenova’s analysis suggests the drone strike on the Orsk refinery likely hit the LCh‑24‑2000 diesel hydrotreating unit, previously struck on November 3, or narrowly missed, impacting a fluid distillation pipe.
65-летнего левого активиста Андрея Фогеля приговорили к принудительному лечению по сфабрикованному делу
Андрея Фогеля, 65-летнегоактивиста движения «За новый социализм», приговорили к принудительному психиатрическому лечению по сфабрикованному делу, сообщает корреспондент «Медиазоны» из зала суда. Фогеля обвинили в создании террористической группы для нападений на руководство «Уралвагонзавода».
Центральный окружной военный суд Екатеринбурга признал Андрея Фогеля виновным в попытке создать террористическую организацию для нападений на топ-менеджеро:к «Уралвагонзавода» и «ликвидации руководства страны». Сам Фогель сообщил, что в деле фигурирует сотрудник ФСБ под прикрытием, который подбил его на встречи с военными и убеждал в необходимости радикальных действий.
Ключевым доказательством обвинения стали записи встреч Фогеля с активистом независимого профсоюза «Уралвагонзавода» Павлом Сергиеней и несколькими росгвардейцами — все они сотрудничали с ФСБ.
Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies
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Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies between individuals, and can change from generation to generation due to genetic mutation. If the number of repeats becomes too long, the gene no longer codes for huntingtin protein, and produces mutant huntingtin protein instead. The mutated protein eventually leads to neural degeneration. This genetic basis is key to the heritability of Huntington’s disease. If one parent carries a faulty gene, their children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it and eventually developing the disease themselves. Over generations, the number of repeats can increase and lead to symptoms appearing at an earlier age. Excessive repeats in a critical gene are the root cause of Huntington’s disease. Credit: NIST, public domain The new treatment relies on advanced genetic techniques to slow the disease in its tracks. It involves the use of a custom designed virus, which is inserted into the brain itself in specific key areas. It’s a delicate surgical process that takes anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, using real-time scanning to ensure the viral payload is placed exactly where it needs to go. The virus carries a DNA sequence and delivers it to brain cells, which begin processing the DNA to produce small fragments of genetic material called microRNA. These fragments intercept the messenger RNA that is produced from the body’s own DNA instructions, which is responsible for producing the mutant huntingtin protein which causes the degenerative disease. In this way, mutant huntingtin levels are reduced, drastically slowing the progression of the disease.
The effects of the treatment are potentially game changing, with progression of the disease slowed by 75% in study patients. Results indicate that with effective treatment, the decline expected over one year would instead take a full four years. In more qualitative areas, some patients in the trial have managed to maintain the ability to walk at a point when they would typically be expected to require wheel chairs. In typical Huntington’s cases, the onset occurs between 30 to 50 years old, with a life expectancy of just 15 to 20 years after diagnosis. The hope is that by delaying the progression of the disease, affected patients could have a greater quality of life for much longer, without suffering the worst impacts of the condition. A microscopic image of a neuron damaged by mutated Huntingtin (mHtt) protein inclusion, visible via orange stain. Credit: Dr Steven Finkbeiner, CC BY-SA 3.0 The initial trial involved just twenty-nine patients, but results were promising. Data indicated consistent benefit to patients three years after the initial surgery. Crucially, the treatment isn’t just slowing symptoms, but there is also evidence it helped to preserve brain tissue. Markers of neuronal death in spinal fluid, which would typically increase as Huntington’s disease progresses, were actually lower than before treatment in study patients.
The therapy isn’t without complications. Beyond the complicated and highly invasive brain surgery required to get the virus where it needs to go, some patients developed inflammation from the virus causing some side effects like headaches and confusion. There’s also the expense — advanced gene therapies don’t come cheap. However, on the positive side, it’s believed the treatment could potentially be a one-off matter, as the brain cells that produce the critical microRNA fragments are not replaced regularly like other more disposable cells in the body. While it’s a new and radical treatment, pharmaceutical company UniQure has plans to bring it to market as soon as late 2026 in the US, with the European market to follow.
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new viable cure for a disease that has long proven fatal. However, through genetic techniques and a strong understanding of the causative factors of the disease, it appears scientists have made progress in tackling the spectre that is Huntington’s disease. For the many thousands of patients grappling with the disease, and the many descendents who struggle with potentially having inherited the condition, news of a potential treatment is a very good thing indeed.
The state of Nevada released a “forensics report” from their recent ransomware incident. It’ll be featured on the next DefSec episode, but I thought this level of fuckery deserved extra attention. I applaud/abhor Nevada’s ability to turn a breach report into political grandstanding.
[edit] and if that reassures you, know that the Adobe reader app also has a tough time understanding what to do with Google drive’s embedding… it shows the web page and I can zoom and scroll but I can’t import the file directly (I got it in the end but wow)
In his traditional evening address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the situation at the front remains under control — the occupiers ...
Музыкантов «Стоптайм» в третий раз судят за концерты
Их снова судят по статье о«массовом передвижении граждан». На этот раз за концерт на Сенной площади 27 сентября, сообщает корреспондент «Бумаги» из суда.
▪️ За концерт на Сенной площади уже назначали арест на 12 суток барабанщику группы Владу, хотя в его протоколе была указана неверная дата концерта, 26 сентября.
▪️ Гитаристу Александру Орлову в третий раз вынесли административный арест — на 13 суток за организацию массового скопления людей на Сенной площади 27 сентября. В показаниях якобы составивших жалобы свидетель:ниц концерта также указана неверная дата — 26 сентября. Гитарист Саша заявил, что не считает концерт правонарушением:
«Уличные музыканты уже давно вошли в культуру города».
▪️ Диану «Наоко» Логинову, солистку группы, также арестовали в третий раз. Наоко назначили 13 суток ареста, в ее протоколе также указано неверное время концерта.
▪️ Музыкантам группы могут и дальше назначать административные аресты. Но в случае статьи об организации массового одновременного пребывания граждан есть трехмесячный срок давности.
Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middlewa
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Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middleware API [filbot] wrote simplifies grabbing just the data he needs from the official BART API and pushes it to the little screen.
We love how much effort went into shrinking a full-size transit sign into a desk-friendly package that only shows the info you actually care about. If you’re looking for more of an overview, we’re quite fond of PCB metro maps as well.
La UE promuove le politiche Green. La UE vuole affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo. Ma poi guarda che casini occorre fare per affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo, per metterlo in quel posto a Putin. Va a finire che se dimentichi un passaggio o una comunicazione, è lo Stato che te lo mette in quel posto. Ne vale la pena?
Grazie ad EcoFlow ho finalmente provato un fotovoltaico! Superando i limiti e avendo le bollette quasi a 0! Acquista dal sito ufficiale:https://it.ecoflow.co...
This #CatsOfMastodon post inspired me to try painting the scene, with some artistic liberty for the background. I really enjoyed making it, especially the glow from the kitchen.
I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box + lid in the Netherlands. No identifying marks, seems delftware-adjacent, and feels handmade. Which IBM building is this??? And what is this???
Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a ‘Windows-like’ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000’s proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoft’s dying front lawn,
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Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a ‘Windows-like’ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000’s proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoft’s dying front lawn, the quiet discomfort that many Windows users have felt since Windows 7 was forcefully End-Of-Life-d has only increased. With it comes the uncomfortable notion that Windows as a viable desktop OS may be nearing its demise. Yet where to from here?
Although the recommendations from the peanut gallery seem to coalesce around Linux or Apple’s MacOS (formerly OS X), there are a few dissenting voices extolling the virtues of FreeBSD over both. There are definitely compelling reasons to pick FreeBSD over Linux, in addition to it being effectively MacOS’s cousin. Best of all is not having to deal with the Chaos Vortex that spawns whenever you dare to utter the question of ‘which Linux distro?’. Within the world of FreeBSD there is just FreeBSD, which makes for a remarkably coherent experience.
Ghosting The Subject
The GhostBSD logo. Although FreeBSD doesn’t have distributions the way that Linux does due to it being a singular codebase rather than a duct-taped patchwork, you do get a choice as far as difficulty settings go. You can always pick plain FreeBSD with its functional but barebones installer, which dumps you into a command line shell and expects you to jump through some hoops to set up things like a desktop environment. This is generally fine if you’re an advanced user, or just want to set up a headless server system.
In case you’re more into the ‘just add water’ level of a desktop OS installation process, the GhostBSD project provides the ready to go option for a zero fuss installation like you would see with Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux and kin. Although I have done the hard mode path previously with FreeBSD virtual machines, to save myself the time and bother I opted for the GhostBSD experience here.
For this experiment I have two older-but-quite-usable systems at my disposal: one is a 2013-era Ivy Bridge Intel-based gaming laptop that’s a rebranded Clevo W370ET, the other a late-2015 Skylake PC with a Core i7 6700K, GTX 980 Ti and 32 GB of DDR4. To give both the best chance possible I also installed a brand new SATA SSD in both systems to run the OS from.
Down To Bare Metal
GhostBSD offers two images: the official Mate desktop version and the community XFCE version. Since I have always had a soft spot for XFCE, that’s the version I went with. After fetching the image, I used Rufus to create a bootable USB stick and made sure that the target system was set to boot from USB media. First I wanted to focus on the laptop, but this is where I ran into the first issue when the installer froze on me.
After a few hours of trying various things, including trying a known good Manjaro Linux installer which flunked out with a complaint about the USB medium, I figured I might as well give a Windows 10 installer a shot for fun. This actually got me a useful error code: 0x8007025D. While it broadly indicates ‘something’ being wrong along the USB-RAM-HDD/SSD path, it led me to a post about USB 3.0 being a potential issue as it changed some things compared to USB 2.0. The solution? Use a USB 2.0 port instead, obviously. Creating a new ZFS system partition for the GhostBSD installation. (Credit: Maya Posch) Long story short, this sort of worked: the GhostBSD installer still froze up once it entered the graphical section, but the Manjaro installer was happy as a clam, so now that laptop runs Manjaro, I guess.
A subsequent attempt to boot the GhostBSD installer on the 6700K system went much better, even while daringly using a USB 3.0 port on the case. Before I knew it GhostBSD was purring along with the XFCE desktop sparkling along at 1080p.
I’m not sure what GhostBSD’s issue was with the laptop. It’s possible that it found the NVidia Optimus configuration disagreeable, but now I have two rather capable gaming systems to directly compare Linux and FreeBSD with. There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Gaming The System
Since any open source software of note that runs on Linux tends to have a native FreeBSD build, the experience here is rather same-ish. Where things can get interesting is with things related to the GPU, especially gaming. These days that of course means getting Steam and ideally the GoG Galaxy client running, which cracks open a pretty big can of proprietary worms. Playing the Windows GoG version of Firewatch on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) Annoyingly, Valve has only released a Steam client for Windows, MacOS and Linux, with the latter even only officially supporting some versions of Ubuntu Linux. This is no real concern for Manjaro Linux, just with the disclaimer that if anything breaks, you’re SOL and better start praying that it’ll magically start working again.
Unfortunately, for FreeBSD the userland Linux ABI compatibility isn’t quite enough as the Steam DRM means that it goes far beyond basic binary compatibility.
The two available options here are to either try one’s chances with the linuxulator-steam-utils workarounds that tries to stuff the Linux client into a chroot, or to go Wine all the way with the Windows Steam client and add more Windows to your OSS.
Neither approach is ideal, but the main question is whether or not it allows you to play your games. After initially getting the Linux tools setup and ready to bootstrap Steam, I got thrown a curveball by the 32-bit Wine and dependencies not being available, leading to a corresponding issue thread on the GhostBSD forums. After Eric over at the GhostBSD project resolved the build issue for these dependencies, I thought that now I would be able to play some games, but I was initially sorely disappointed.
For some reason I was now getting a ‘permission denied’ error for the chdir command in the lsu-bootstrap script, so after some fruitless debugging I had to give up on this approach and went full Wine. I probably could have figured out what the problem here was, but considering the limitations of the LSU Steam approach and me just wanting to play games instead of debug-the-FOSS-project, it felt like time to move on.
Watery Wine
The Windows Steam client running on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) As it turns out, the low-fuss method to get Steam and GoG Galaxy working is via the the Mizutamari Wine GUI frontend. Simply install it with pkg install mizuma or via the package center, open it from the Games folder in the start menu, then select the desired application’s name and then the Install button. Within minutes I had both Steam and the ‘classic’ GoG Galaxy clients installed and running. The only glitch was that the current GoG Galaxy client didn’t want to work, but that might have been a temporary issue. Since I only ever use the GoG Galaxy 1.x client on Windows, this was fine for me.
After logging into both clients and escaping from Steam’s ‘Big Picture Mode’, I was able to install a few games and play them, which went completely smoothly, except for the elevator scene in Firewatch where I couldn’t look around using the mouse despite it working fine in the menu, but that game is notoriously buggy, so that’s a question mark on the exact cause. Between buggy games, Wine, and the OS, there definitely are sufficient parties to assign blame to.
Similarly, while the Steam client was a bit graphically glitchy with flickering on the Store page, and trying to access the Settings menu resulted in it restarting, I was able to install and play Windows games like Nightmare Kart, so that’s a win in my book. That said, I can’t say that I’m not jealous of just punching in sudo pacman -S steam on the Manjaro rig to get the Steam client up in a minute or so. Someone please convince Gabe to compile the Steam client for FreeBSD, and the CD Projekt folk to compile the Galaxy client for FreeBSD and Linux.
It should be noted here that although it is possible to use alternative frontends for GoG instead of its Galaxy client, you need it for things like cloud saves. Hence me choosing this path to get everything as close to on par with the Windows experience and feature set.
Next Steps
Aside from gaming, there are many possible qualifications for what might make a ‘Windows desktop replacement’. As far as FreeBSD goes, the primary annoyance is having to constantly lean on the Linux or Windows versions of software. This is also true for things like DaVinci Resolve for video editing, where since there’s no official FreeBSD version, you have to stuff the Linux version into a chroot once again to run it via the Linux compatibility layer.
Although following the requisite steps isn’t rocket science for advanced users, it would simply be nice if a native version existed and you could just install the package. Based on my own experiences porting a non-trivial application like the FFmpeg- and SDL-based NymphCast to FreeBSD – among other OSes – such porting isn’t complicated at all, assuming your code doesn’t insist on going around POSIX and doing pretty wild Linux-specific things.
Ranting on software development aside, for my next steps on my FreeBSD/GhostBSD journey I’ll likely be giving approaches like this running of Linux software on FreeBSD another shot, barring finding that native video editors work well enough for my purposes.
Feel free to sound off in the comments on how to improve my experiences so far, as well as warn me and others who are embarking on a similar BSD journey of certain pitfalls.
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