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Header: decomp of Amlogic's acs structs in bl2.bin
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classabbyamp
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shit fuck i accidentally installed garfana instead of grafana
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Luca Weiss
z3ntu@fosstodon.orgI'm super happy to share, that the #Fairphone (Gen. 6) was just announced, and we've been able to already publish a lot of code for it!
* #postmarketOS support is submitted
* 59(!) patches were sent to bring up upstream #Linux on the SM7635 SoC and enable the device.
* The stock Android source code is public on code.fairphone.com
This has been a lot of work over the last couple of months so it's awesome to finally be able to share it!
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Alternatively, something interesting would be a tiny Wayland compositor just enough to run Xwayland and a regular x11 desktop on-top (which is what ariadne has been working on - https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114719913043133783).
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so I can see why you'd want to still rely on X11
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The lot of breakage introduced by metux in xorg-git while he was still allowed in also makes me extremely skeptical whether Xlibre will ever be a viable fork at all. Xlibre also forks all the X.org DDX drivers - those drivers require domain knowledge, if you do not have that you risk introducing bugs on these drivers, which could introduce either security issues, or completely broken graphics, or both, and that is not good™. (and we already saw metux breaking nvidia drivers before)
I do think an X11 fork or perhaps new X11 maintainers would be good, Xlibre is just not it.
All I see is a politics-driven complete fork of X11, backed by an angry someone kicked out of fdo on CoC grounds, twisting reality to target hate on Red Hat, X.Org and Wayland.
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Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups and enhanced functionality.
Code cleanups that actually break a lot of functionality: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2019 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2012 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/538a6dd76feab02ab618d1c38e693a64b371cd66 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2015 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2014
This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics.
There is no big tech implied on this. The only thing is that most X11-knowlegable developers went to work on Wayland instead. That is why X11 is not super maintained these days, but it still gets fixes here and there.
This also means any major breaking work on X11 is hard to deal with, because of the low amount of time these maintainers would have these days. Especially when metux’s changes broke a lot of stuff (to the point of making other maintainers wonder if he actually tests his code at all https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#note_2799382)
[EDIT: Plus, if you hated bigtech so much why host your fork on GitHub?]
Right after journalists first began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder’s GitLab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc, and so fired the shot that the whole world heard.
This is where we really get into the straight up lies. Many red flags: for one, Red Hat was never involved in any of this. For two, the reason why metux got removed from the FDO GitLab is entirely because of Code of Conduct problems (understandable given metux’s background of spreading absurd anti-vaxx lies https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957 and nazi propaganda https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181010.191925.ee1331b6.en.html in mailing lists).
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.
Well X11 is also somewhat independent.
When someone says their project is ‘free of Diversity Equity and Inclusion’ that is yet another red flag. “any of you can participate just don’t call it diversity equity and inclusion” (see where it’s getting?)
It doesn’t matter which country you’re coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you’re furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who’s interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
According to this it would seem that anyone, even people with extremely controversal views are welcome. Another red flag!
Together we’ll make X great again!
And obviously a reference to “Make America Great Again (Trump quote)” at the end. Yet another red flag!
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Why? Because its author has been spreading anti-vaxx lies and nazi propaganda on mailing lists for a little while now. The Xlibre README is also full of lies and dogwhistles.
In fact, let's waste 5 minutes of your time and analyze the README together!
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kline 🏴
kline@mastodon.sdf.orgI'm on a mission to create a dialup ISP in my room, and I now have a working telephone exchange to hang it all off of.
Now I'm just on the hunt for some olde modems.
The exchange is a very simple combination of Asterisk (on NixOS, on an old Apple Trashcan), with some Cisco 2-line ATAs and twinkle/BT Big Button phones.
( @eloy , I've been told you might enjoy! )
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Ariadne Conill 🐰
ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
when you make something, and then get to the moment when the thing you were creating was fully realized, it is a magical feeling.
in the world we are moving to, we are taking away that joy.
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postmarketOS
postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systemspostmarketOS v25.06 - "the one with systemd" is out now!
* Camera for OP6/6T and others 📸
* #GNOME 48 + 48.mobile.0
* #PlasmaMobile 6.3.5
* #Phosh 0.47.0 with Stevia now installed by default
* #Sxmo 1.17.1 (again, but this time with a systemd preview too!)
* os-installer images
* mobile-config-thunderbird
Thanks to all the amazing people who contributed to this release! 
Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release as well as a lot of the systemd related work.
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jn (big endian energy)
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@david_chisnall @dvandal @strlcat @davidgerard@circumstances.run I have poured most hours of my last 10 years of life into listening to users and pushing things forward on Wayland even if I personally wouldn't need the feature. I really saddens me that someone would think that Wayland developers don't care.
We do care, but we only have a finite amount of time in our volunteer life. Yes, we don't copy-paste solutions from X11: we try to fully understand the problem space and do better. This does mean that coming to us with technical solutions rather than use-cases tends to be met with "please, explain why you need to do this?".
I don't really know what you mean when you say that we silence criticism. I've read enough in the past years to guarantee that it's not silenced. I appreciate constructive criticism better than rants, rants tend to demoralize me.
I am also saddened about the conspiracy that big corp deprecates X11 against the community's will. There is no single company with a monopoly here, please take a bit of time to look at Wayland developers' employers. Personally, I'm ex-SourceHut and now just a volunteer (my day job is unrelated: SNCF Réseau).
I've never said that X11 was deprecated, and I always tell people to use whatever works best for them. The only reason why X11 has less activity nowadays is because X11 lacks volunteers. (We severely lack volunteers on the Wayland side too.)
People, distros, communities move away from X11 if/when they collectively decide that they should. Nobody's pulling the strings here.
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
catsalad@infosec.exchange
Sorry, this pillow is full.
#Caturday
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elly (shitpost overflow edition)
ellyqw@1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpaHack the planet!
@fossdd
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