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Dendrobatus Azureus
@dendrobatus_azureus
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Software updates

Update your software on all your platforms regularly

This is the golden rule.

  • We often do it in a work environment and get paid for that
  • We do it for ourselves because it is good for our devices.
  • We are careful doing it on our devices which can be bricked remotely by the factory (TV's treadmills trainers)
  • We install piehole and other ad blackholes to protect our devices from pesky ads
  • There are so many repositories to follow
  • Auto updates are stupid, IMHO, even for workstations
  • On servers with PHP, we need manual granular tested updates, if we used PHP (old version) because we are slow to implement PHP (new major version)

Manual updates can be a pain

What can happen?

We forget one or two full manual updates

I've just had to do this

$ sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -g -u /dev/sdx

  Ventoy: 1.1.17  x86_64
  longpanda admin@ventoy.net
  https://www.ventoy.net

Upgrade operation is safe, all the data in the 1st partition (iso files and other) will be unchanged!

Update Ventoy 1.1.12 ===> 1.1.17 Continue? (y/n) y
esp partition processing ...
update esp partition attribute

Update Ventoy on /dev/sdc successfully finished.

Did I forget something else?

Probably. Is it critical?

Lets see

$ ~/bin/yt-dlp -U Current version: stable@2026.07.04 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Latest version: stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Current Build Hash: 495be29ff4d9d4e9be7eabdfef225221e5d5282e77f2f505abc6dca80349f3fd Updating to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp ... Updated yt-dlp to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It was not critical, but important none the less

Happy updating!

Sources

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#installation

https://ventoy.net

#programming #infosec #updates #Linux #Android #repositories #BSD

fasnix
@fasnix
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Something changed on Linux Solus after the latest update of a lot of packages.
Now Delta.Chat won't start, it just shows an error message:
"Delta Chat had a problem - The window stopped responding and could not recover automatically. Reason: abnormal-exit (exit code 256)".

@delta@chaos.social
Have you got any idea about that behavior?

Edit: After a restart of my notebook, it starts without any errors.

#Linux #SolusOS #DeltaChat #Messenger

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