Another Linux update, another complete show-stopper breaking bug

Another Linux update, another complete show-stopper breaking bug

Now, they broke SMB/CIFS. It can't mount network shares anymore. Someone's hands should be crashed with a hammer.

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The root cause of the economic and political catastropy of the USA and Europe is...

The root cause of the economic and political catastrophe of the USA and Europe is...

Two words: Stack Exchange. Destroy it, and all of the troubles will go away. That troll nest, which nurtures toxic behavior/atmosphere, protects trolls, breeds them, allows them to self-govern their trolling, and prosecutes innocent askers is the sole reason for the US and European economies and social fabrics to be in abysmal disarray and crumbling. This is my last warning to both regions: do it or ignore at your own peril.

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Another Linux lie: we have a shell

Another Linux lie: we have a shell

Truth is, you kind of do, to a degree. Or genius is as genius does, always as a degenerate.

# cd /
/# cd ~
~# pwd
/root
~# cd /
/# ls /root
'a b'
/# cd "~/a b"
-bash: cd: ~/a b: No such file or directory

Huh? You are unwilling to resolve the home directory tilde short-hand when it is wrapped in double quotes? How else are we supposed to use directories with spaces under the home directory then? Ah, this thought has never occurred to you, terminally genius ivory tower dwellers? How typical of you!

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Dear hCaptcha, we do not have time for you shit

Dear hCaptcha, we do not have time for you shit

Fear backlash, dudes. When I, a human, check off every fucking fire hydrant and bicycle on your pop-up, you have to let me in, not bounce me off to more of the same, and yet again. Cease and desist. We come to login pages, to do work, not to entertain your AI cravings. When enough of us are pissed off by not being able to log in, we will find a way to deal with you.

Their head office is situated at 1 Bluxome St, San Francisco, CA 94107, and their phone numbers are not disclosed unless you pay $46 ransom to Crunchbase, so here is their parent company's info: Intuition Machines Information ; Address, 350 Alabama St 10, San Francisco, California 94110, US ; Phone, (781) 771-6931. If enough of us voice our displeasure with the bullying by hCaptcha, then they will have to listen and act.

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Sendmail: dumb as fuck

Sendmail: dumb as fuck

Why are we still using this 50 year old POS that hasn't changed? It fails because it does not want to obey the admin's clear and direct order to send an email to a given address. Instead it prepends that address with the currently logged in user name!!!

WTF is going on? I am instructing you to send to name@domain.suffix, but you add myusername@ in front of it!!! Huh? What are you thinking?

Well, you are clearly a cowardly and sneaky piece of software, so once this crap fails you also try to send to myusername@domain.suffix but of course you also fail. What a circus!

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White screen of death is the new answer 42: throw it and go play golf

White screen of death is the new answer 42: throw it and go play golf

Was contracted to migrate Zen Cart store from Windows to Linux. Piece of cake said I and quoted one day of work. Boy was I wrong!

So to run on modern PHP 8.2, Zen Cart has to be version 1.5.7 or higher but we did not know that. They were on 1.5.5 and have to agree to additional hours to upgrade. I went 1 minor release at a time, skipping their countless alphas and betas. At 2.0.0 the client told me to stop and do the migration. And it worked on Windows but broke on Linux. After a while we figured out that the client had old payment and shipping modules that simply had to be deleted, but by that time the client decided that they want to go only to 1.5.7, just far enough for the store to still be fast, and I do not blame them: 2.0.0 was horribly slower, like 10x.

Once we moved the 1.5.7 to the new Linux box, it stopped working, throwing the proverbial white screen of death. The client sighed but agreed to an investigation, which is another $500.

So I went through the PHP files that the admin UI loads and found that on line 97 of /admin/includes/header.php it tries to dial home for the current version:

$versionServer = new VersionServer();
$newinfo = $versionServer->getProjectVersion();

There it dies and bails out silently. The object VersionServer contains the endpoints that it wants to reach out to:

VersionServer Object
(
    [projectVersionServer:protected] => https://ping.zen-cart.com/zcversioncheck
    [pluginVersionServer:protected] => https://ping.zen-cart.com/plugincheck
)

So you, inconsiderate, arrogant SOBs, will leave your user stranded, without a clue as to what the fuck is going on, simply because you do not even fathom a possibility that your POS FOSS is running behind a secure firewall. How typical of the enlightened, terminally genius ivory-tower-dwelling FOSS "community" with their anything goes, fuck all attitude! This investigation costs this small business $500 simply because you twits are incapable of thinking of ways of informing the user of what you intend to do.

Plot thickens! My client no longer uses some payment method, so I was instructed to delete it from the site. I did, and they can no longer edit orders placed with that payment method. Why in the hell do you prevent the order details from displaying on screen if the payment module is no longer there? Just don't display the parts that you get from the module but display the rest, for crying out loud! But no, they create another WSOD. Genius is as genius does: always as a degenerate.

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How do you sign an unsigned assembly, in 2025

How do you sign an unsigned assembly, in 2025

Developers who put their creations on Nuget but do not sign them deserve shaming and lots of. Dudes, it is effortless but saves your users from a lot of headaches. Just do it! Google how and do it! If you don't then here is how anyone can fix their shit for them. Create a CMD file:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.8 Tools\x64\ildasm.exe" /all /typelist /out=%1.il %1.dll /nobar
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\ilasm.exe /dll /key=%2.snk %1.il

Its command-line arguments will be the name (without extension) of the original DLL and the name (without extension) of your own SNK file that you will be signing the DLL with.

Example: resign.cmd MyAssembly MyKey

Your next question will be how do you obtain an SNK key if all of your projects are signed with a PFX? Good question! You will have to convert it, keeping the private key in. Microsoft is hell bent on making trouble and causing damage, so sn.exe is unwilling to assist. Programming to the rescue! Create a new command-line project and paste this code into the main method of Program.cs:

var pfxData = File.ReadAllBytes(args[0]);
string password;
if (args.Length > 1)
{
    password = args[1];
}
else
{
    Console.Write("Password: ");
    password = Console.ReadLine();
}

var cert = new X509Certificate2(pfxData, password, X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);
var privateKey = (RSACryptoServiceProvider)cert.PrivateKey;

if (args.Length > 2 && (Directory.Exists(args[2]) || Directory.Exists(Path.GetDirectoryName(args[2]))))
{
    File.WriteAllBytes(args[2], privateKey.ExportCspBlob(true));
}
else
{
    File.WriteAllBytes(Path.ChangeExtension(args[0], "snk"), privateKey.ExportCspBlob(true));
}

No fancy async/await shit that you do not need. Build and run it with the PFX file name as the only command-line argument. The output will be the SNK file. Enjoy, and screw the bastards.

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What the hell is wrong with XMPP?

What the hell is wrong with XMPP?

As always, this shit is touted as the next best thing by the terminally genius ivory tower dwellers who populate FOSS projects, but what it really is is a piece of stinking crap.

For 25 years now, none, I repeat, none of the servers or clients, be it the hugely overrated OpenFire or modest Jabberd and its clones, on the server side, or Jitsi, Pidgin, Gajim, Dino, Conversation, ConverseJS, yada, yada, yada, are able to do anything more than to send plain-text messages.

For 25 fucking years their enormously arrogant teams berate users for not being able to make sense of their monstrosities, other than in the ideal environment which means widely open to all hackers of the world, ideally from a CDN or when using their own server, they only mimic the success of the 35 now year old ICQ, and this is the best they can do.

Lots of lies are being circulated about XMPP: that it can offer rich content such as voice, video, or desktop sharing. No, it can't. It can't even reliably send an encrypted message, whether with OTR or OMEMO. It can't even reliably send a file. It can't even reliably send a screenshot.

Its commercial competition be it Skype, Teams, Telegram, Zoom, Watsapp or whatever have zero problems doing all of the above, but the terminally genius FOSS community is stuck on stupid: barks at users and puffs its cheeks.

Dare to tell them that their stuff does not work, and bear consequences: berating, shaming, abusive behavior, cancellation.

Dudes! You demand respect. Respect can be only earned. It cannot be forced. Yes, we do not respect you because you claim lots but deliver zilch. All you can do with this is learn a lesson and deliver. Until then you are nobody but anonymous Internet failures.

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Is this racket or genius is as genius does?

Is this racket or genius is as genius does?

Enter Let's Encrypt free TLS certificate service. They publicize their user's certs online. What can possibly go wrong?

Well, by having a central repository of all certs that they issue, they create a shopping list for hackers. I have evidence that this is exactly how it is being used because as soon as I expanded my cert to cover a service endpoint that had previously used a self-signed cert, that endpoint immediately got hit by hackers from all over the world. I can see in the logs that whereas previously only an odd corporate port scanner used to hit it, now it is being hit by everyone and his sister. The only change between before and after was the act of my having expanded the cert.

So, they are either doing this for the purpose of racketeering, in order to force us to buy DigiCert or GlobalSign, or they intentionally create a vector of attack on our infrastructures. You choose the option that you like.

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Another Linux lie: we have a CMS

Another Linux lie: we have a CMS

Truth is: you don't.

Of late, everything in LAMP turns to shit. You probably read blogs and believe that nothing can be simpler than to slap together a LAMP host for your ecommerce business. Fuck no! It kind of used to be but no more.

Terminally genius FOSS developers decided that it was too nice that MySQL server could be had for free, in a matter of a couple of hours, and they screwed everything up. Now, when you install mysql-server package, you do not get a running DB server. You get a clusterfuck: it does not listen on port 3306, does not allow network connections, and does not allow root to log in. Everything is blocked, everything is locked up, everything is FUBAR.

They believe that it is fun. We believe that they should be carved up. We are different.

Fuck that! You probably heard of WordPress and believed that it a great blogging or ecommerce platforn. Fuck no! WP is a stinking pile of rotten trash code, vulnerable as a runaway drugged teen, fragile as a psychopathic drug addict, unpredictable as 9 kg of Uranium-235, all waiting to explode into your face with error 500 white screen of death or "Hacked by Mr. Green" header.

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Apache is clinically insane

Apache is clinically insane

Every piece of software that originates from Apache project is crazily overengineered, highly theoretical, detached from reality, impossible to comprehend, and overally FUBARed.

Log4J. WTF is this POS? Its configuration lives in disparate XML elements scattered about log4j.xml, disconnected, detached, having nothing in common. I've seen this in many esoteric XML schemas that ivory tower dweller geniuses fancy so much.

For chrissake, can't you create somethig workable once in a lifetime?

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Verily, all creators and owners of "popular" social media are traitors

Verily, all creators and owners of "popular" social media are traitors

Brin with his shit Youtube AKA mouthpiece for Al Qaeda, Zukerberg with his FB AKA mouthpiece for IGIL, and the two little fags Atwood and Spolski, all of them are traitors because they facilitate platforms on which hell knows who from foreign hell holes dare to insult us and to teach us manners:

This little Romanian gypsy bitch dares to lecture Mark on his language. Shut the fuck up, piker, and crawl under the rock that you came from under. We gave you Internet, so behave, little beotch.

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Sometimes one can find a gem under tons of rubbish

Sometimes one can find a gem under tons of rubbish

Whenever anyone asks about annoyances of FOSS, usually reaction is uniform: spin-doctor PR trolls converge, crap all over the question, downvote it and try to denigrate the asker, but sometimes someone knowledgeable shows up and answers it. Such is the case with this Reddit question.

Member panoptigram wrote: to always resend, change dom.confirm_repost.testing.always_accept to true in about:config. And this works! No more super-annoying confirmation dialog from the patronizing, big-brotherish FF. Enjoy!

In other news, I finally found a way to make my displayport monitor connection play sounds under Linux (which works perfectly under Windows). The solution is to use HDAJackRetask tool from alsa-tools package, to put a check mark on the port. As it always true, Linux has zero interest in multimedia. Its focus is on serving corporate interests in the cloud, and fuck the user, despite assurances to the contrary. Did you fall for their fairy tales of devotion to the ordinary guy? I did, for a while, but now the veil fell from my eyes.

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Has the global IT said 'to hell with multimedia' in 2024?

Has the global IT said 'to hell with multimedia' in 2024?

Microsoft broke the Outlook's new email notification sound. Check.

Linux replaced any sounds with burps, pops, and cracks, and videos with sound now freeze both browsers and video players. Check.

Oracle broke 3D acceleration in VirtualBox. Check.

All in 2024. Is this a new trend: to reverse the last 30 years of progress in the IT industry?

Hello! This is 2025, and we lost sounds, video, and 3D accel. Congratulations, humankind!

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Commercialization of VirtualBox in 3, 2, 1

Commercialization of VirtualBox in 3, 2, 1

Seeing all of this shit that is going on with VB, I will not be surprised if it suddenly becomes a commercial product tomorrow. This is why this ugly new logo and stuff. And the discontinuation of 3D acceleration under Linux (Or maybe even under Windows? Anyone?) is troubling.

Do I give a damn? Nope. I am almost entirely under HyperV and VmWare anyway, migrating last VMs off this putrid mess.

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Just when you think it can't get any worse, VirtualBox breaks 3D acceleration

Just when you think it can't get any worse, VirtualBox breaks 3D acceleration

After today's Fedora upgrade, VB can no longer run Linux VMs with 3D acceleration. The VM simply crashes with the VirtualBox's signature generic error NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) which tells nothing of the root cause. Genius is as genius does: usually as a degenerate. Such is the VirtualBox team as well.

Go to the logs folder to find just as cryptic VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 261 error. It means that 3D acceleration is not supported. How come, turds? It was supported moments ago? And why the fuck do you crash the machine? I guess crashing is the universal answer 42 to all of their users' needs these days: crash everything and giggle from the ruins.

I warned you, turds: soon you will be hunted with hoes and chopped to pieces.

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I am afraid that FOSS developers will have to go into hiding soon

I am afraid that FOSS developers will have to go into hiding soon

There is a clever but deceitful slogan out there: with great power comes great responsibility. FOSS developers butchered and mutilated it, in their minds, and they deem themselves cerberae of the universe, in a sense that they put security over usability.

This manifest itself in perpetual breaking changes in FOSS that rushes to remove obsolete encryption cyphers, algorithms, methods, etc. as soon as someone invisible somewhere pronounces them obsolete/compromised/bad.

Meanwhile, not due to the presence of obsolete cyphers but due to sheer stupidity of human beings, hundreds of million of PII records get stolen by "hackers", wink-wink, every year.

It is about humans, stupid, not about software! If humans are stupid, which they are, then vulnerabilities much wider than that of offered by obsolete cyphers will always exist. But no, FOSS "community" does not care of reason. All they care of is staying on the bleeding edge.

And so they rip out old cyphers and inevitably break connections to anything other than bleeding edge Windows 11 or whatnot. They do not give a fuck that there are previous LTS operating systems and hardware devices out there that need the old, obsolete cyphers.

Dudes, soon you will not be able to go outside because people with box cutters will be waiting to slash you across your faces.

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Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Truth is: you don't.

Imagine that you run MySQL on a device that does not have luxury of hypervisors or VM snapshots, such as Raspberry PI or a smart TV or whatnot, anything that is not as bloated as a Windows/Linux server. Everything is fine until your device decides to crash.

No problem, says you and whip out the DB recovery page from Oracle. It tells you to restore DB from backup, as the most straightforward recovery path, something along the lines of mysql -u user -p password dbname < backup.sql. Not so fast!

Your server crashed, damaged the DB, and now it does not start, so nothing is listening on port 3306, and the above command does not work. Should it have occurred to the genius FOSS developers of MySQL that this situation is possible? You would have thunk it should but it has not.

The only way to restore BAU for a crashed MySQL instance that FUBARed its DB is to uninstall, blow away the data folder, and reinstall. Genius is as genius does: usually as a degenerate. I pity any organization that runs on MySQL and will NEVER take a job for one of them.

Now, let us think about this situation from an ordinary, reasonable person's POV: should the server refuse to come up because it's DB is damaged? Fuck, no! The server should come up regardless, to allow the recovery commands to be run. But this simple thought does not occur to geniuses, sadly.

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When I saw the crappy new GUI of Virtualbox 7, I knew trouble awaits

When I saw the crappy new GUI of Virtualbox 7, I knew trouble awaits

All of their efforts are not worth the sound of its typing on their keyboards, as soon as I saw that crap. And I was right. Now, the main window of VB freezes when I try to close it after starting a VM. Was it worth it, assholes?

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Microsoft goes full-on rapist and changes the UI of Teams

Microsoft goes full-on rapist and changes the UI of Teams

Microsoft is a corporation with FOSS habits. It charges $$ for Teams but behaves like a bunch of yahoos and changes its UI rather rapidly.

As soon as everyone learned Teams meeting functionality and became comfortable with it, they changed it beyond recognition. Dudes, are you for real? If you do not want your stock price to plummet very soon, then fire the one who changed the Teams UI and immediately, urgently roll back all of the UI changes you've made in over 2024 and 2025.

Otherwise I guarantee you that your stock will be in a free fall soon. Do not weep then.

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Guess who broke Nuget.Server project?

Guess who broke Nuget.Server project?

Check out this happy face: Zverev Eugene

This is the degenerate who introduced a complete show-stopper bug in Microsoft's Nuget Server and released it without testing, thus breaking personal, on-premise Nuget servers for the whole world.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this whole situation? I have been, for decades, but Linus only woke up a few weeks ago. So, who is a genius now? And who is a degenerate?

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Legacy of the fags

Legacy of the fags

Whatever is a brain-child of fags is a monstrosity. So is Stack Exchange. I am fucking dreading going there for answers because every bloody time I have a difficult problem and need to reach out to supposedly experts for answers, some degenerates converge on my questions and spout all sorts of shit: their telepathic abilities, propaganda, lies, unfounded theories, personal insults, and other kinds of putrid crap.

Meanwhile, the two founder fags do nothing but bang each other in their bungholes, having outsourced the self-governing of SE to all kinds of agenda-driven shadow actors. Isn't this wonderful? So, I end up not going there because it causes nothing but frustration. What a wonderful world they have built!

Let's admit the obvious and come to terms with the inevitable: SE has outlived itself. It's time to burn it down. Unfortunately, someone was right when he wrote: every organization sooner rather than later becomes the opposite of its stated goal and a caricature on itself. For SE, this has come too soon, which proves that the original design was flawed. From the site for professional questions and answers it turned into a forum for telepaths and trolls from their moms' basements.

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You know they are fucked when

You know they are fucked when

in order to show Nuget packages installed in a project/solution or to uninstall some of them, Visual Studio needs Internet access.

Fuck, Nadella, you are dumb deisi shit!

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Congratulations, everyone! VirtualBox 7.1.4 hangs

Congratulations, everyone! VirtualBox 7.1.4 hangs

Never before had I problems with VB hanging. Not until now.

The new VB, the one in which the terminally genius FOSS developers redrew the icons from the historically recognizable blue box to the obscene, disorderly new orange-blue hieroglyph, hangs its main window after a machine starts up.

This is what the lack of oversight does to FOSS developers: it makes them irresponsible, the feat that we, commercial IT professionals cannot afford.

When will they learn? When airplanes will begin to fall from the skies? Ah, I forgot: that has already begun.

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Another Linux lie: we have a CRM

Another Linux lie: we have a CRM

Truth is: you don't.

Enter Wordpress, a "too many cooks spoil the broth" project.

Font Awesome, idiots, Font Awesome is the de-facto standard for icon graphics on the Internet, since like 10 years ago. How about working gracefully with it, Wordpress? No, never heard of it!

The terminally genius degenerates from Wordpress development "community" butcher post and page HTML by simply wiping out FA tags. You spend time arranging them around your pages only to save and find out that none of them appear. Genius is as genius does, usually as a degenerate.

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Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Need to do some PostgreSQL work and think why not give Linux a chance? Really, what can possibly go wrong? So I head over to PostgreSQL::Fedora Docs and read up on the installation and configuration steps.

I'll spare you the boring details of how I followed everything to the letter and jump to action right away: neither remotely nor locally can I connect to the instance other than under the default postgres user. Anyone else gets

postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL:  role root does not exist

error locally or connection refused remotely. Substitute root for any user name.

Dudes, how do you manage to FUBAR everything you touch? Why does it simply work under Windows? So, what do you think my solution is? Hell, yeah, it is to spin up another Windows VM. And your cherished, beloved Linux goes into trashcan. Fuck, you are obtuse.

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Selinux was invented by a sadistic sociopath

Selinux was invented by a sadistic sociopath

Do you know why the 1st thing I do when I install a brand new Linux box? I disable Selinux by changing its configuration file from enforcing to disabled. Lately, this the terminal, insatiable geniuses in Linux 'community' replaced that by kernel command line parameters.

Long story short, I was wise to gut Selinux. This bitch messes up everything it manages to touch with it sticky paws, namely Apache and PHP. Nobody says that in Linux manuals, but in order to have a working Wordpress site, you have to open Selinux for curl, and this becomes a tedious quest of finding the right answers because they hide in shadows. Through a lengthy process of debugging and experimentation sprinkled with shouting and tearing out hair, I found that it is normal for curl to work in the console but not on the web because Selinux does not allow Apache to reach out.

You could have opened firewall to the world, but Selinux will get you and bite you in the ass.

Kill this bitch whether you find it!

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Can anyone explain the urge of FOSS developers to close any discussion?

Can anyone explain the urge of FOSS developers to close any discussion?

Many FOSS projects dwell on Github. Github, in their wisdom, allows the project owners to close bug reports and discussion topics to further responses. The project owners use this function to the fullest, every time, all the time.

When challenged, they do not articulate any reasoning for doing so. They simply close off everything that pops up: questions, bug reports, suggestions, yada, yada, yada. As soon as possible. Right away.

Explain to me why. Explain to me why it is so important that no one could contribute to the discussion. Explain to me why they absolutely need the user to be shut up. Explain to me how is this consistent with the spirit of FOSS. Or is it all lies, smoke and mirrors, baloney?

The only theory I am able to come up with is that they are incentivized to that by the owner of Gitgub, i.e. by Microsoft. There must be some mechanism that goads the project owners to close discussions thus preventing the OP from asking additional questions or others from offering their help. The goal of this is, of course, to make Linux shit and to coax its users to use Windows. Well, if everyone wins in the end, why should I bother?

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New Linux release wipes out Midnight Commander extension file and resets to default

New Linux release wipes out Midnight Commander extension file and resets to default

Somebody should track the distro maintainer who does that, go into their house or apartment, and reset it to default, i.e. remove all furniture, floor mats, picture frames, throw all of that out of the window, and leave them to recreate their interior. This is how it feels when instead of an office app an extension opens in vim.

Their inhumane, arrogant, inconsiderate behavior should have limits but it does not. They do whatever the fuck they want, without fear of consequences that they deserve. This should change.

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Pulseaudio is broken since at most 2010, and nobody gives a fuck

Pulseaudio is broken since at most 2010, and nobody gives a fuck

For at least nearly 15 years, frustrated users of PA keep asking questions about broken basic functionality in PA, and the universal answer to most of them is to kill and restart PA. Admittedly by anyone who answers, it is a temporary solution, and none of them know why problems occur.

Of course, this is only possible in the culture of overindulgence and total lack of authority and responsibility in Linux distros. They happily gorge themselves on any FOSS that floats around and replace perfectly working items with any new shit that waves of the Internet wash on the shore near them.

The missing sound after resume from sleep travesty is lasting for about 15 years now. Linux has always been broken around sleep, so no surprise PA is broken as well, but dudes, seriously, ALSA works perfectly. Do you value backdooring and surveillance opportunities so highly that you make your malice so obvious? Your greed and fear made you so dumb, it is not even funny.

These individuals need some very personal attention from Linux users, something very touching, tactile, feeling, profound, penetrant:

• Samuel Paul Thibault of Talence, France. His personal webpage is here. He is a Professor at University of Bordeaux.
• Andreas Schwab of Nürnberg, Deutschland uber ales. He is a Researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. We need a more specific address for a personal visit and conversation.
• Mike Frysinger of 223 Bailey Road, Holden, MA, USA, 01520. Phone 413.477.4885. Supposedly works for Google in Boston, MA.

Remember that it is this trio that writes crappy code for several decades. They are "renouned" as in they have titles such as doctor, professor, etc. but this does not make their product any better.

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These days we can make bets on which next software will be FUBARed by the next Linux release

These days we can make bets on which next software will be FUBARed by the next Linux release

Camorama used to be good. Not real good but good enough. Enter 2024, and it is FUBAR. It no longer resizes the live video panel accordingly to the View menu resolution selection. Instead, the video resizes but its viewport remains the same.

Could have they not known about it when they made the change? No fucking way! They knew, and they thought that it was fine to release this stinkin piece'o'shit.

Dudes, you are stretching your luck real thin.

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Soon, they will be hunted and slaughtered in the streets

Soon, they will be hunted and slaughtered in the streets

After the last update that installed the 6.12 kernel, VirtualBox stopped working. It throws:

VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode.
Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot.
(VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE)

I do not have anything of the sort. Whatever happened came down from Fedora repo. These dirty scumbags have no ethics, no integrity, no humanity whatsoever. Instead, they believe that, like infamous Dr. Mengele, they can experiment on humans, with impunity. No, not really. We can bite back.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution:

# cat >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
kvm_intel
kvm
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist kvm_intel
blacklist kvm
[root@localhost ~]# rmmod kvm_intel
[root@localhost ~]# rmmod kvm

You, duchebags, next time you want to push unwanted and unneeded software onto the unsuspecting user's system, remember that we have box cutters. When SHTF, which everybody is hell bent on achieving, we will carve you up on sight.

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Scumbags from Mozilla Foundation are going full-on rapist with Tunderbird now

Scumbags from Mozilla Foundation are going full-on rapist with Tunderbird now

The terminally genius enlightened ivory tower dwellers know better, every time, all the time.

Despite massive and very vocal critique of the Firefox update nagging pop-up that proved to be not only annoying but also buggy, of which I had written earlier, they also introduced the same nagging pop-up in Thunderbird. This is how they envision their mission of building better internet.

So, here's how you shut the v.60+ Thunderbird up, under Linux: you create /etc/thunderbird directory and copy your policies.json that has keys that shut up Firefox. Yes, you are done because that very same file works for both of them. Screw you, geniuses.

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So, the new, 6.11 series of kernels is supposed to be much better? But why is it so FUBAR?

So, the new, 6.11 series of kernels is supposed to be much better? But why is it so FUBAR?

So, now that Linus and his masters kicked those sneaky Russian developers out of kernel development, the new kernels should be bug-free and perform perfect, should they not? But why does 6.11.8 contain a bug that delays shutdown by several minutes in the best case scenario or hangs it with kernel bug register dumps raining on the screen, in the worst one? Why is there no sound from pulseaudio, most of the time from either 6.11.8 or 6.11.11? Did the purge not help code better kernels? Of is the problem not in a handful of overseas developers but in Linus himself and his vision of Linux as a whole: that half-assed untested code can be submitted and happily accepted?

I have a recipe that can make the kernel better this instant: remove the graphic sugar from GRUB2 and restore text output from the kernel for everyone because now that nobody sees it everyone thinks that everything is nice and dandy. Linus and his minions found a way to hide their shit, and experts like me remove quiet splash from the kernel command line, to see whether things work or not. Drop this veil and let everyone know what is going on, and suddenly you will have hundreds more bug reports.

By the way, last time I checked, like 10 years ago, GRUB2 was being developed by a Russian developer. Maybe this one needs to be purged? Back then he broke dual-booting of Windows and rudely refused to even look into that. How's that for a terrorist?

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Have they recently fucked up grub2?

Have they recently fucked up grub2?

With the advent of Fedora 41 and new 6x series kernels, Selinux can no longer be shut up by setting its policy to disabled, under /etc. That was too nice, and some terminally genius ivory tower dweller decided that his soul craves for a change and changed that to a kernel command line parameter selinux=0. Fine, let's do that.

So, yours faithful goes to /etc/default/grub and adds yet another kernel parameter accordingly and runs grub2-install /dev/sda. This is supposed to update /boot/grub2/grub.conf with the new parameter. Not so fast!

All of the old parameters such as quiet etc are already there, but the new one has not been added. How so I ask. Why? This has worked since the introduction of this piece of crap Grub2.

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cURL error 7: Failed to connect to connect.wpmailsmtp.com port 443: Bad access

cURL error 7: Failed to connect to connect.wpmailsmtp.com port 443: Bad access

This is what you see in the WP Mail SMTP plugin for Wordpress when you send a test email from their Tools page. So, it dials home. Who would have thought that a piece of FOSS spies on its user and their users? No, I must be a troll.

Come on, come up with a justification! You have PR spin doctors on salary and speed dial! I want to hear it.

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Another Linux lie: we keep time

Another Linux lie: we keep time

Truth is: you don't.

Since I upgraded from my trusty old Fedora 28 to 30, time is frequently off. Initially it was off by 1 hour, after resuming from sleep, but after I upgraded all the way to 41, it is now off by many hours. The only solution to this is to run sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service and then it magically restores from NTP.

I am not going to bore you with the pesky detail that in order for the correct time to reflect in the time applet on Mate's panel, the clock has to be clicked to drop down the calendar. This is so minor, compared to the main issue.

So, 30 versions down the road, the terminally genius FOSS developers managed to FUBAR time. Do you notice a trend? They FUBAR something in each next release. Anyone with a shred of intelligence would have paused to think and realized that something is wrong with their release and testing strategy, but no, not at RedHat/Fedora project. They are perfect, infallible, ideal. They do not need any thinking or reflection on their actions and results thereof.

And don't you dare tell them! You will become a troll, from their perspective. How dare you rain on their parade of demented clowns?

For 25 fucking years, I did not even have to pause to give it a thought how time in Linux was kept, but then some terminally genius ivory tower dweller had a change of heart, with best intentions of course, and they decided to make another change that broke time. The consensus on the Internet is that the command

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

fixes the issue by instructing Linux to treat HW clock as local time. Let's see how it goes now that I issued it and fixed the computer's clock back to local. How Linux managed to change it from local to UTC is beyond me: it does so silently, without letting anyone know, unless you are into digging into logs.

There is another trend: as systemd takes over each next item of Linux, it fucks them up. Everything that was switched to systemd became fucked up. I recall the main systemd developer complaining in his blog that other Linux developers contemplated hiring a hitman for him. Too bad it went nowhere. Isn't it gratifying to see them devour one another?

PS: And I was wondering why my browser history is messed up, with addresses disappearing from history completely and 'reopen last tab' opening wrong ones! But of course: the time was wrong.

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You are probably reading me and thinking how can so much negative can come from one person?

You are probably reading me and thinking how can so much negative come from one person?

So I dare you to upgrade your Linux only to find out that now you are typing a new email in Thunderbird, and instead of every next line going down, as it had been common in any application with a text editor box, the line stays at the top of the email body, and the previous lines scroll up and disappear under its top border.

I kid you not: they managed to FUBAR Thunderbird, and it has only taken them some 70 versions since having taken over from Netscape.

For the previous 70 versions, it worked fine. They must be genius if they did not manage to FUBAR it earlier. See where it brought me? I am already praising their genius.

Man, FOSS software is fucked!

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Rush-rush then hush-hush

Rush-rush then hush-hush

Redhat/Fedora project taking baby steps towards totalitarian fascism: DNF5 does not support the “–color=no” flag

What was the rush, turds? None of your users ever screamed or shouted about the need to change anything in DNF. Why did you rush its next version out the door, with major defects?

Where do all these moneys come from that you spend on revamping all of the code that is within your reach, every fucking release? And then you whine and moan how you are unpaid volunteers and how we are wasting your time. Right. Yeah. You have too much on your hands for making unwanted breaking changes, so we no longer believe nor sympathize with your plight, you poor little things.

If you want any respect from the users, stop making changes and focus on bugs of which you have too many.

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Just when we thought that Linux multimedia cannot be fucked up worse, they did it!

Just when we thought that Linux multimedia cannot be fucked up worse, they did it!

First, we got saddled with the network server for routing audio anywhere except for the user's speakers, called PulseAudio. It was shoved down everyones' throats and PRed like cheap Made in China shit sold at Walmart. Everyone swallowed the load. How do you spell 'surveillance'?

But it was not enough for the oh, so wonderful, terminally genius ivory tower dwellers, and they saddled us again with yet another network server for routing sound, PipeWire. So, we got layers and layers of audio servers on top of the actual driver, and this is it, no audio anymore. Who woulda thunk that that disparate, crazy complicated and insanely overengineered network sound servers may not gracefully work together when slapped together by uninterested volunteers?

KISS! You had perfectly working OSS which you scrapped and now you have ALSA that is far from ideal but at least works. What the fuck more do you need? Why do you keep reinventing the wheel? Why every few years you totally revamp the already working audio architecture? To satisfy your boundless ego? Fuck, I never thought I would live to say that I dream of Hitler who could shove all of this FOSS filth into a gas chamber where they belong and where they could not fuck any more things up.

STOP! No one asks you for more sound servers! Stop before we whip out box cutters and catch you in dark alleys. Things that worked even 1-2 major releases ago no longer work. The speakers pop, crackle, cough, burp, but emit no clear sound. And then we have to scour the interwebs for solutions, edit configurations, bump up priority, replace parts of the system, yada, yada, yada.

When was the last time you had to do any of that under Windows, to get quality sound? I had, under Windows 3.1, exactly 30 years ago. Linux? Every bloody time I am forced to upgrade. So, who rules, and who sucks?

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