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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56431294

This is the first central control room of the Stockholm Metro, it controlled what is now known as the green line.

Before this central facility, there were two control rooms as the Stockholm Metro had started as two separate systems which were later connected.

For those who want to learn more about the history of communications (with a focus on radio) used in public transport in Stockholm, I recommend this (Swedish) website, it is very informative:

https://fordonsradio.se/

As for the photo I linked, it is licensed CC-BY-NC, sadly the original photographer is unknown at this time.

I'm proud to share major development updates for XPipe, a connection hub that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It can make your life easier when working with any kind of servers by eliminating many of the tedious tasks that come up when interacting with remote systems, either from the terminal or from a graphical interface.

It comes with integrations for SSH, docker and other containers, various hypervisors, cloud providers, and more without requiring setup on your remote systems. You can also keep using your favourite text/code editors, terminals, password managers, shells, command-line tools, and more with it.

It has been half a year since I last posted here, so there are a lot of improvements that were implemented since then:

Netbird support

You can now list and connect to devices in your Netbird network. This works via SSH and your locally installed netbird command-line client:

Legacy system support

Up until now, the testing was done on relatively up-to-date machines that were not considered EOL. However, in practice, legacy systems are still used. The handling of older Unix-based systems has been greatly improved, especially when they did not ship with GNU command-line tools.

As long as you can connect to a system via SSH somehow, it should work now regardless of how old the system is. If you're into retrocomputing, feel free to give this a try.

AWS support

You can now connect to your AWS systems from within XPipe. Currently, EC2 systems and S3 buckets are supported, also including support for SSM. The integration works on top of the AWS CLI. The usage of the AWS CLI allows the integration to work very flexibly on any existing CLI setup if you already use the CLI. You can use any IAM access keys and authentication methods with it.

SSH keygen

You can now generate new SSH keys from within XPipe. The keys are generated via the installed OpenSSH ssh-keygen CLI tool, so you can be assured that the keys are generated in a cryptographically secure manner. This keygen right now supports RSA, ED25519, and ED25519 + FIDO2:

Keys of identities can now also be automatically applied to systems, allowing you to perform a quick key rotation when needed:

The process of changing the authentication configuration of a system is not always one simple step. So the dialog is a comprehensive overview of what is needed to apply a certain identity to a remote system, with various quick-action buttons and notes. This gives you still full manual control of what should be done and an overview of what is required prior to doing so.

Network scan

There is now the option to automatically search the local network for any listening SSH/VNC/RDP servers and add them automatically as new connections. This also works for remote systems and their networks:

VNC

Up until now, the internal VNC implementation of XPipe did a somewhat acceptable job for most connections. However, it is not able to match dedicated VNC clients when it comes to more advanced features and authentication methods. There's simply not the development capacity to maintain all of these additional VNC features. For this reason, there is now support to also use an external VNC client with XPipe, just as with any other tool integrations:

Split terminals

There is now a new batch action to open multiple systems in a split terminal pane instead of individual tabs. This action is only supported for terminals that support this, which currently includes: Windows Terminal, Kitty, and WezTerm. In addition, this is also supported when using any other terminal and a terminal multiplexer like tmux or zellij.

This allows you to also use a feature like broadcast mode of your terminal to type one command into multiple terminal panes at the same time.

Tags

You can now create and add tags to connection entries. This allows you to have a more structured workflow when filtering individual connections.

macOS 26 Tahoe

XPipe adopts many of the new features of macOS 26 right away. The application window now uses the new Liquid Glass theming. The application icon has also been reworked with Liquid Glass in mind. There's also support for the new apple containers framework:

Windows ARM

There are now native Windows ARM builds. These releases are also available in winget and scoop.

Other

• Add support for flatpak variants of various editors and terminals
• The nixpkg package now also supports macOS and has been reworked as a flake
• Add support for nushell
• Add support for xonsh
• Several fixes to be able to run the application in the Android Linux Terminal app without issues
• The entire interface has been reworked to better work with screen readers and other accessibility tools
• Various many other small improvements
• Many performance optimizations
• A lot of bug fixes across the board

A note on the open-source model

Since it has come up a few times, in addition to the note in the git repository, I would like to clarify that XPipe is not fully FOSS software. The core that you can find on GitHub is Apache 2.0 licensed, but the distribution you download ships with closed-source extensions. There's also a licensing system in place with limitations on what kind of systems you can connect to in the community edition as I am trying to make a living out of this. I understand that this is a deal-breaker for some, so I wanted to give a heads-up.

Outlook

If this project sounds interesting to you, you can check it out on GitHub, visit the Website, or check out the Docs for more information.

Enjoy!

That song is pretty good

This is the first central control room of the Stockholm Metro, it controlled what is now known as the green line.

Before this central facility, there were two control rooms as the Stockholm Metro had started as two separate systems which were later connected.

For those who want to learn more about the history of communications (with a focus on radio) used in public transport in Stockholm, I recommend this (Swedish) website, it is very informative:

https://fordonsradio.se/

As for the photo I linked, it is licensed CC-BY-NC, sadly the original photographer is unknown at this time.

In a monitoring room in Buenos Aires, a dozen members of the Argentinian coast guard watch giant industrial-fishing ships moving in real time across a set of screens. “Every year, for five or six months, the foreign fleet comes from across the Indian Ocean, from Asian countries, and from the North Atlantic,” says Cdr Mauricio López, of the monitoring department. “It’s creating a serious environmental problem.”

Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned strip of the high seas in the South Atlantic, to plunder its rich marine life. The fleet regularly becomes so big it can be seen from space, looking like a city floating on the sea.

The charity Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has described it as one of the largest unregulated squid fisheries in the world, warning that the scale of activities could destabilise an entire ecosystem.

There are no internationally agreed catch limits in the region covering squid, and distant-water fleets take advantage of this regulatory vacuum.

The consequences extend far beyond squid. Whales, dolphins, seals, sea birds and commercially important fish species such as hake and tuna depend on the cephalopod. A collapse in the squid population could trigger a cascade of ecological disruption, with profound social and economic costs for coastal communities and key markets such as Spain, experts warn.

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I stand with the only Democracies in the Middle East (PFLP, DFLP, PIJ, and Hamas) against the barbaric Israelites. This whole mess is the fault of places like Saudi Israelia and the United Israeli Emirates, who repeatedly attacked these innocent young Democracies for no reason.

After the IRA and PIRA won, the IDF (Irish Defence Force) has heroically defended the innocent from all threats. No one, from the littlest Israeli hunger striker, to the biggest Israeli terrorist, is safe while Democracy and the Islamic character of the World is at stake. Genocides would never come about Democratically, but if the Israelis get their way and end the Islamic Earth, a multicultural non-apartheid Earth where no-one is a second class citizen would literally be genocide against these Democracies of the Middle East. It would be just like what Stalin did to those poor ethnic Germans.