Created a small issue with folders and files and hope there may be a terminal command to help or fix it.
I used to have two music folders, one for FLAC and one for compressed. They are both organized in lettered folders (A, B, C etc) To fit all my music on my phone, I compressed my FLAC collection and merged the existing compressed into it. I messed up a back up so now I am only left with my FLAC collection and the entire compressed collection.
Is there a command I can run to compare both FLAC and Compressed so it will tell me what bands/albums aren't in FLAC?
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STAR WARS Zero Company is out now
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Quick review on modern Linux distros
Hello community,
First a short view back - I started using Linux years ago when Mandrake came out, Caldera OpenLinux and later Debian woody and even though I loved the idea of freedom those distros were far from user friendly. After installing more recent distros like Debian sarge in the age of 20 something I messed around with it a lot, compiling stuff here and there including kernel, bootsplash was the newest shit back then. Installed DE, packages and whatnot. But in the end I reverted back to Windows everytime after a while.
Fast forward to today, I'm 42 now, only want a modern desktop to do browsing, email, music, gaming on Steam, messaging (Telegram principally) and all in one it all needs to be rock stable.
The most recent versio
This Is An Assumption!
Currently, there are approximately 500 different Linux distributions. If, at some point, the developers, communities, companies, etc., of these 500 Linux distributions were to merge, it would allow us to use a more problem-free, faster, and feature-rich distribution (hypothetically).
Hypothetical Scenario:
The approximately 500 Linux distributions have merged, reducing the number to just 15. Windows, macOS, and other Other operating systems remain. The scenario in this case (number of users):
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Linux swap / memory guide for dev machines (because RAM is never enough)
Usually you do not need to touch any of this.
If your Linux system is responsive, leave the defaults alone.
I ended up going down this rabbit hole because of a workstation running a browser with stupid amounts of tabs, Java projects/language servers, Docker, Minecraft clients/servers and an agent harness (OpenCode / Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw style workloads).
Everything was technically "working", but opening a cold heavy application could make the entire desktop freeze.
The interesting thing I learned is:
Swap usage itself is not the problem. Swap thrashing is.
Having 20GB sitting in swap doing nothing can be completely fine.
Having 2GB bouncing between RAM and a slow SSD every few seconds can
One amazing feature of Windows that Linux has NEVER had: the dynamically color-changing, inverted mouse cursor
I have never seen this in any Linux distro: if you set Windows' default mouse cursor to merely its inverted version, it dynamically colors itself the opposite of whatever you move the cursor over. So even if you pass it just over one letter, the exact portion of the mouse cursor covering the silhouette of that letter will invert colors, while the rest of the cursor will be whatever it is.
This is a visually striking, awesome feature that I wish Linux had for all its cursors, but it seems it may never (unless someone starts work on it now, in which case please tell me!!!).
Open source code analysis tools
hello, wondering if anyone can recommend a OS code analysis tool similar to Sonarqube or HP Fortify
Im looking to scan my codebase
- sast - static code analysis
- vulnerabilities / CVEs etc
- hardcoded secrets /trufflehog type scanning
- buffer overflow, sql injection, serialization
primary codebase is c++ but also some R and KDB q language
R and KDB are especially tricky since most code analysis tools dont support these, so if it has a plugin type system where I can add rules specific to these languages
THanks.
The New Way Security Teams Evaluate Pentesting Vendors
This is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.
Ride a sentient motorcycle-plane to make deliveries in Into the Wind
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The new 18 minute Fable gameplay has sold me - I want it
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Slayblade review - spinning top battles
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MT7902 / mt7921e: severe download packet loss and low throughput under load on Fedora 44
Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027
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VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being 'developed for Steam Frame'
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Interesting hypothesis on why people are harder on Linux than Mac OS for being different, courtesy of my tech-illiterate (but pretty darn smart) mother.
Sometimes you know something, but due to the way that the brain compartmentalizes information, your brain still fails to connect the dots. For most people, the operating system IS the computer. People can tell when they aren't running Windows, but they don't think about it as running Windows on a computer. They think about it as just running a computer. So the idea that the computer would behave differently on a different OS might not fully register to them, even if they know they're running a different operating system.
Compare that to buying a Mac, it's a completely different computer, complete with different buttons on the keyboard. Naturally, this carries the expectation that it's going to behave a little differently.
Putting Linux on the
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Blood Dungeon review
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Why Your Backups Are Too Big: A Practical Guide to Content-Defined Chunking
By Gilles Chehade You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into […]
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors review
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LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world's writing systems, and no artificial intelligence
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66 0.9.x is out: the init system/service manager is now fully independent (no more skalibs, s6 or execline at build time), and it gained an event system
Hi all,
Two releases landed this month, 0.9.0.0 on August 6th and 0.9.1.0 on August 17th, plus 66-tools 0.2.0.1. Here is what changed.
66 no longer builds on skalibs, s6 or execline
This was announced back at 0.7.0.0 and it is now done. 66 builds against oblibs only. Every program it used to borrow is now its own:
To be precise about the wording, because it matters: execline is still a runtime dependency, the generated service scripts keep chainloading it. What disappeared is the build dependency, and with it the entire skalibs/s6 layer.
The event system
A service can now react to something happening elsewhere on the system by running a 66 command on itsel
FIDO2 + SSH + Android chroot — creating one of the most secure SSH setups possible. Here’s how (and why it shouldn’t be possible)
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tfm (terminal file manager) — Mouse-first TUI file manager
tfm is a modern mouse-first terminal file manager I've been vibecoding, it features DnD, themes, basic file ops, undo redo, embedded terminal, search, preview pane with tree-sitter highlighting and other stuff
Limitations: cross-app or external DnD needs kitty (ghostty gets thumbnails and stuff but cant do external Dnd on my testing) and Dnd needs separate keybinding for internal DnD (ctrl + drag) etc.
Install:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clarkarch/tfm-tui/master/install.sh | bash PSA: do not run sudo su inside a tmux window!
I've seen people elevating their tmux shells for convenient root access many times, often leaving the sessions running in the background for a long time.
Doing this makes it very trivial to escalate permissions for anybody that gets a shell to your box with your user.
Instead, you should run sudo tmux in another session, then do your thing there. This limits access to the tmux service for the root user only, which prevents the privilege escalation path.
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Steam Machine and Steam Controller support coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW, plus DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction out now for desktop gamers
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I wonder how much Steam devices and Microsoft's blunders influenced more people to migrate to Linux.
For a long time, I didn't give Linux a tertiary thought. I always used Windows and assumed other operating systems like Linux and Apple would be of cheap quality. I realized my error when I got the Valve Steam Deck, which used its own Linux-based OS. While a number of features and apps from Windows wouldn't work on it easily, I discovered just how open-sourced and versatile it is. There were also a lot of things that worked better, such as installing and managing Deckyloader (a Steam plugin loader).
Regardless, I still used Windows 10 on my PC. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But then Microsoft decided to break it by discontinuing updates to the OS and pressuring me to use the controversial Windows 11. While I did ultimately update, it also ultimat
Drop Loot is a slick reinvention of Tetris as an engrossing dungeon crawler
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China Switching from Windows to Linux
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Pine64 Halts Production of Linux Devices
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Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share
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Server Statistics and Alerts with Beszel
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Star Labs' New Linux Laptop
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The Latest Quirky and Creative Linux Distros
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Linux Tools that Help You Manage Your Books and CDs
Whether it's books or CDs, many of us take pride in our collections. As they grow in size, we need tools to keep track of what we have. Why not use your Linux machine and try out an app that helps you organize?
Network Administration and Security with Ncat
From simple TCP pipes to encrypted relays and ad hoc services, Ncat modernizes Netcat, the classic Swiss Army knife for network administrators.
We're All Just Guessing
AI data centers are on everyone's mind, and, at least in the public media, the opinions tend to the extremes.
KDE's Multi-Format Document Viewer
View and annotate documents with Okular, a powerful and extensible document viewer for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
This month we explore the top FOSS, including a privacy-focused YouTube client, a browser extension for annotating web pages, and an open source AirDrop alternative.
Governments Supporting Their Economies
The savings in license fees alone from governments (and businesses) switching to open source could mean considerable funds for their own economies.
UEFI Secure Boot with the Raspberry Pi
Strictly speaking, the Raspberry Pi family does not support either UEFI or Secure Boot. However, with a few tricks, implementation is still possible.
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GNU Binutils 2.47 Released with New RISC-V Features, Linker Improvements, and Reproducible Builds
NanoKVM-Go Brings AI-Powered Hardware Control to Linux with a Compact USB-C KVM
Building Autonomous ML Experimentation with Tangle and Tangent
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Tangent for Linux.com
By Alexey Volkov, Bo Li, Ben Chen, Maksym Yezhov, Pete Luferenko, and Volv Grebennikov – Shopify Machine learning work is full of loops: form a hypothesis, build a pipeline, run it, read the metrics, adjust, repeat. Tangle is already where Shopify’s ML experiments run, giving engineers a shared platform to build and execute pipelines. Tangent […]
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CachyOS June 2026 ISO Released with Hyprland Noctalia, Faster Performance, and Smarter System Tools
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The Growth of Vulnerability Management: The Rise of Agentic AI Pentesting
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How Digital Software Is Powering Innovation in Modern Product Design
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OpenClaw in 2026: What It Is, Who’s Using It, and Whether Your Business Should Adopt It
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Linux Kernel Developers Adopt New Fuzzing Tools
MX Linux Pushes Back Against Age Verification: A Stand for Privacy and Open Source Principles
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From Linux to Blockchain: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Financial Systems
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Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure
By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group How DHCP Changed Connectivity In the late 1990s, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) quietly catalyzed a revolution in digital connectivity. Before DHCP was introduced, connecting devices to a network involved manual entry of IP addresses, DNS servers, subnet masks, and gateways. Networks were fragile, prone to errors, and severely […]
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Intel Expands Linux Graphics Team to Boost Drivers and Gaming Support
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GOG Moves Toward Native Linux Support: A Major Shift for DRM-Free Gaming
