Notices by Larvitz :fedora: :redhat: (larvitz@burningboard.net)

1.000.000.000 €

So viel hat Vonovia gerade als Dividende an seine Aktionär:innen ausgeschüttet. Leistungsloses Einkommen, direkt aus den Taschen der Mieter:innen gepresst.

Um diese absurde Summe mal ins Verhältnis zu setzen:

Das entspricht...

~ 1,25 Millionen durchschnittlichen Warmmieten (800 €)

~ 400.000 durchschnittlichen Netto-Monatsgehältern (2.500 €)

~ Knapp 1,8 Millionen monatlichen Bürgergeld/ALG2-Sätzen (563 €)

Während in Talkshows jeden Tag nach unten getreten und gegen Arme gehetzt wird, ziehen Immobilienkonzerne die Gesellschaft ungestört ab. Wohnen ist ein Grundbedürfnis, keine Renditemaschine für reiche!

#Vonovia #Mietenwahnsinn #Enteignen #Klassenkampf #Bürgergeld #Wohnungskrise #Kapitalismus

Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues.

I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices, fallback lines, and the strange civilisation of the Bordrestaurant at 250 km/h.

“A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn”: https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

#travel #db #trains #bahn

Running Podman :podman: in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.

I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer

This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/

#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers

Taking the #Fedora 44 Prerelease for a spin on the ThinkPad (Ryzen 7840U / Radeon 780M) and the KDE Plasma Edition is looking absolutely phenomenal!

A few shiny upgrades making me very happy right now:

Plasma Login Manager (PLM) replacing SDDM. 1.25x fractional scaling is finally flawless right from the login screen!

DNF5 + PackageKit integration making Discover incredibly snappy.

Native NTSYNC kernel module loaded and ready for even better performance in Proton gaming.

#FedoraLinux #KDEPlasma #Wayland #ThinkPad #Linux #KDE

New blog post: Production-grade containers without the K8s complexity

Podman Quadlets + systemd + Traefik = secure, maintainable container deployments on RHEL

- Network isolation
- SELinux integration
- Automatic updates
- Zero orchestration overhead

Complete Forgejo deployment walkthrough with all the config files.

https://blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/

#podman #rhel #linux #containers #devops #traefik #forgejo @forgejo #redhat

Playing arroud with some BSD. 7.8 is a pretty solid release in my opinion :-)

#openbsd #bsd #unix #foss #opensource

Yay! KDE :kde: Plasma 6.5 did land in the Fedora :fedora: updates repository :-)

Amazing new release! Thanks @kde and @fedora

It's running rock solid and without any issues on my ThinkPad!

#kde #fedora #plasma #linux #opensource #foss #thinkpad

HSI:4 (Host Security ID Level 4) achieved!

My ThinkPad T14s Gen4 AMD + Fedora 43 (Beta) setup featuring:

- Secure Boot
- TME (Total Memory Encryption)
- IOMMU + pre-boot DMA protection
- TPM 2.0 with PCR0 reconstruction
- SPI replay protection
- CET platform support
- Kernel lockdown enabled

Plus the software layer:
- LUKS full-disk encryption
- NitroKey 3 (fully open-source hardware token!)
- FreeIPA + Smartcard authentication
- SELinux enforcing

Defense in depth, the open-source way.

#linux #fedora #security #itsec #nitrokey #crypto #opensource #thinkpad

Sláinte 🍻

#ireland #beer #Guinness #alcoholfree #alkoholfrei

Big Tech isn’t the web. It’s an empire.

• Built on surveillance capitalism. Your data = their profit

• Algorithms engineered to manipulate, addict, polarize

• Walled gardens with lock-in, enshittification as business model

• Governed by US laws + politics (DMCA, Patriot Act, MAGA culture)

• Controlled by a handful of tech billionaires in a digital aristocracy

When you choose Big Tech, you choose profit over people, control over freedom, censorship over community.

Free, open, decentralized alternatives break that cycle:

- No ads, no tracking, no dark patterns
- Community-driven, transparent, auditable
- Not bound to one country’s laws or corporate agenda

Decentralization is digital self-determination.

Choose people over platforms. Choose freedom. 💪

#Decentralize #Fediverse #OpenSource #StopBigTech #Privacy #DigitalFreedom

@jwildeboer @jwildeboer I selfhost everything I can. E-Mail, File sync, Git forge, websites, Matrix and much more. My own Mailserver is maintained for more than 20 years already.

For the other points: Heatpumps and solar unfortunately fails because of my landlord.

And for transportation, I prefer the "no car at all" approach and am a happy Deutsche Bahn customer and eBike user 🚆

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.

The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.

Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source and build federated services.

#TakeBackTheWeb #Decentralized #Fediverse #StopBigTech #OpenSource #DeGoogle #UnplugTrump

@DerKlimablog

Über den Verhältnissen?

Dieselprivileg: 9,5 Milliarden Euro jährlich

Dienstwagenprivileg: 6 Milliarden Euro jährlich

Pendlerpauschale: Über 5 Milliarden Euro jährlich

Kerosinsteuerbefreiung: 584 Millionen Euro nur für innerdeutsche Flüge

Agrardiesel-Subvention: 440 Millionen Euro jährlich

Wir haben so viele Millarden an Klimaschädlichen Subventionen, die extrem unsozial sind und größtenteils Einkommensstarken Haushalten zugute kommen ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k

The subtitles are hilarious!! 🙂

#nostalgia #modem #retro #retrocomputing

@unnon89 Es würde schon viel helfen, wenn der ÖRR die #fckAfd konsequent als das bezeichnen würden, was sie sind : Nazis (gerne bei jeder Anrede, Anmoderation und Ankündigung).

Evtl. würden die dann selbst merken, dass man denen eigentlich keine mediale Aufmerksamkeit geben sollte.

Extremely satisfied with my ThinkPad T480 running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE!

I got the machine used and upgraded it:
- 32 GB of memory
- 1 TB SATA SSD
- Innolux N140HCG-GQ2 FHD LCD panel
- New Lenovo backlight keyboard (US-ANSI)
- Glass Trackpad from X1 Carbon
- Intel AX210 WiFi module (802.11ax)
- Dual batteries

Literally everything in that laptop, that I need does work on FreeBSD 14.3:

- WiFi with 5Ghz and proper speeds
- Sleep/Resume
- Integrated Webcam
- Power management
- Trackpad
- Thunderbolt Docking (including Audio and HDMI)

It's the perfect development and productvity machine :freebsd:

#freebsd #thinkpad #t480 #laptop #unix

@dexter @nixfreak That Trackpad is SUCH an upgrade. Can highly recommend it

Fedora Linux 42 was released today and over at HelloTux, there’s new swag (a towel 🙂) and with the discount code FEDORA5, there’s some discount available.

https://www.hellotux.com/fedora

Happy 42 and don’t panic. A good hitchhiker always knows where their towel is.

#fedora #linux #fedora42 #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy

@GreenSkyOverMe rette sich wer kann 😱😰

Database size of a Mastodon instance with 100 active users and multiple relays connected: 15 GB

mastodon=# SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('mastodon'));
pg_size_pretty
----------------
15 GB
(1 row)

S3 Usage (media files) on the instance: Around 150GB with ~ 702669 files in the bucket.

#mastoadmin #mastodon #stats @tux