Going to stream some Deep Rock Galactic Lunar New Years Event with friends at 6:30PM pacific time.

Come join us over on https://twitch.tv/mir_ppc

Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI.
This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.

@aspauldingcode @vwbusguy Well this is exciting :3 I love Geany!

@vwbusguy Dear Scott Williams.

I have been wanting to write to you for some time. You wanted to run geany IDE from a remote linux machine directly on your macbook. Owl wasn't able to do this, so I took effort in building Wawona wayland compositor for macOS and iOS. BEHOLD! Geany from NixOS on macOS Wawona. Reminder: iOS and Android are supported.

You can try it soon... Your dreams of such a use case are finally here.

https://github.com/aspauldingcode/Wawona

self-hosting my S3 bucket the right way

Well bugger. Metrolink Ventura line is shutdown the week of #SCALE23x .

https://view.scrra.net/?vawpToken=ZNMNBIFCJ3FE3JHEYDA2K67JYA.10197

For those attending the @socallinuxexpo event in Pasadena and get a bit hungry, there is a King Taco a few blocks away. Looks like they are being recognized for their significant positive impact on food culture.

Source:la times

@AndreasDavour @vwbusguy I also got a lot of help from @mr_alert when it came to setting up my midi keyboard. i know they are very familiar with ardour. Should poke their braiiinnnzzz at SCALE this year :)

@vwbusguy @AndreasDavour wait? why not both?

Ardour/Reaper is indeed a learning curve. I would suggest checking Interfacinglinux out as it is a valuble source of information. some good guides there.

https://interfacinglinux.com/

@AndreasDavour @vwbusguy so as a little clairification, Qjackctl isnt just patch panel like helvium or qpwgraph. it does jack device setup and settings. this is what is useful for Midi devices. I just had to check their screenshots page and it isnt until much later the patch panel shows up.

https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io/image/qjackctlSetupForm5.png

https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io/image/qjackctlSetupForm6.png

Those images are what i used for my Midi keyboard. I use qpwgraph to reroute the audio from my video games into discord and obs-studio.

@AndreasDavour @vwbusguy it can move midi output and inputs but it cannot manage the midi devices itself. i had to have both. Likely qjackctl will be needed for pedals.

@AndreasDavour @vwbusguy I also use QPWGraph with pipewire-jack. the only reason i need qjackctl is for midi devices and that works with pipewire-jack from my testing.

https://i.redd.it/19vjgctmwvjg1.png

Going to sstream some of this new hip Minecraft like game. Hytale has a linux native Flatpak and our good friend nubbn has gone and hostest a private server fo my smol group of friends to enjoy! So come and join us over on https://twitch.tv/mir_ppc at 6PM Pacific 9PM Eastern in this great adventure!

Join the FreeBSD Foundation at SCALE 23x this March, there’s still time to register.

The FreeBSD Foundation will be attending SCALE 23x, and we’re looking forward to connecting with members of the open-source community in person.

Location: Pasadena, California | Dates: March 5–8, 2026
Registration is still open. Learn more and sign up here:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

#FreeBSD #SCALE23x #OpenSource #Community #FreeBSDFoundation

@vwbusguy Warn a person . holy smokes that looks so delicious it borderlines NSFW :P

the hunt

Git security tip!

You might know that you can use a Yubikey or similar hardware key to store your SSH key... but forges like GitHub identify you by your public key, so you can only secure access to one GitHub account with a single key... not!

If you use ed25519-sk keys, you can have as many as you want!

The traditional OpenPGP Card setup can only store a few keys per YubiKey (only one of which is usually set up for signing/authentication), but using the newer FIDO2 ed25519-sk flow, the keys are stored "wrapped" outside your token so you can have an unlimited number.

There's a small catch though: With OpenPGP you can secure your key with a PIN/password verified on the token, and enter the PIN once to unlock it on first use, then just touch it for every authentication (until disconnect or reboot).

With ed25519-sk you can either require a PIN every time, or not at all.

You can still encrypt the "wrapped" key on your computer (that's what the new passphrase that ssh-keygen asks for does), but then that passphrase is checked on the computer so there's no attempt limit.

My personal hack is to use both. Encrypt the ed25519-sk private token with OpenPGP, cache it only in RAM when loading it into ssh-agent.

I wish FIDO2 had a "cached PIN/persistence" mode though! ;;

Edit: I'm being told resident mode can do what I want but it didn't work when I tried it... will update if I figure it out!

universities in the 1980s: writing the majority of internet standard RFCs and their implementations

universities now: moving away from Microsoft cloud is really hard okay? 🥺