oh this is- that's- ugh.

like i know it's bad but this is beyond useless

#postmarketOS is gonna be so awesome once you can actually factory reset your device. not for that logic alone but because of what it implies about the underlying system design

i've done this rant before but just consider how much more solid your system will be when all your changes are explicitly handled on top of the base system with robust mechanisms for testing system changes, being able to revert them back (at the bootloader level).

if we do this right, it should mean that once you install postmarketos on your Android device you should never have to interact with fastboot again, you'll always have a working system to jump back to with A/B updates (unless you really mess up).

The user benefits are awesome too (see Lennarts thread), but as a distro that encourages tinkerers im way more interested in all the ways we can make development easier whether you're working on the kernel, initramfs, middleware or UI and THIS is how we do it

From: @pid_eins
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114635234216495259

Funny error message from old Intel webcam software. Apparently in 2001 they never thought anyone would have more than 2 GB of RAM in Windows XP, so on my ThinkPad X60 with 4 GB of RAM (3 GB usable by the OS) it wraps around and reports a negative number.

@elly @cas :3

I can't believe they've let @cas smuggle ":3" into u-boot code

We live in a post-truth world. Cartoon from last year.

#truth #fakenews #trolls #conspiracytheories

I deployed some new anti-LLM stuff to https://dersco.re/. This affects irclogs, oldirclogs, and cgit. Make sure you have cookies enabled when visiting those. Report any issues to the chatroom: https://dersco.re/irc.html

Thanks!

@cas @as400 @pid_eins oh no my init system, the most privileged thing on my phone, will be able to erase my phone :shocked_face:

And finally: if you run an OS in production and it has no clear story for factory reset, maybe talk to your vendor, and ask them to get back to the drawing board, and fix their mess.

weee

Yoooo Nintendo Switch 2 is out!

Kitten or fox?

#FosterKittens #whiskerswednesday #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #猫 #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon

(Grizzled old detective voice): “And then they roped me back in.”

#CatsOfMastodon #FosterKittens

@LegalizeBrain
Mon meme préféré :

@kiwa

Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.

This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).

If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.

I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.

Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)

You can find the stats here:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/push-token.html

please stop saying that your "Free Software" or "FOSS community" is apolitical, because that's clearly false

Default keyboard for #Phosh has been switched to Stevia (formerly known as phosh-osk-stub) in postmarketOS edge:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/06/03/switch-to-p-o-s/

it's real,,,, the #postmarketOS backpack is real