@karolherbst Fedora AI blog post slop thing?

never trust ChatGPT

I finally fixed touchpad in my favorite Chromebook (KOHAKU) and annoying issue with random wakeups while testing upcoming coreboot release (25.12, scheduled for Christmas Eve).

It feels... weird to have fully-functional machine with no quirks. Every other piece of hardware I own has weird quirks requiring workarounds or is straight up broken in one way or another

I've decided to join @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy and @cas in holding Office Hours for postmarketOS and related topics. You can hop in a call with me for 30 minutes every week on Wednesdays at 4:00pm CET/CEST to chat about various topics and I'll do my best to answer questions, discuss problems and help you.

You can find more information (and the other folks' hours) in the postmarketOS Wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Office_hours

Looking forward to chatting with you :)

@valpackett Also Mi TV Stick is a pain in the neck to get unsigned firmware booting. In any case, this work doesn't just affect Mi TV Stick, but also other actually nice boards such as the Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC (which they generously donated to me) and the ODROID-C2 :)

@valpackett no, not yet, neither are any of the other devices that work with this U-Boot SPL. bl2.bin is, however, the remaining firmware blob that runs on the Cortex-A.

Anyway, there's still bl30.bin/SCP_BL2 which runs on a Cortex-M CPU of the SoC. Plus, there's still some things to be ironed out (DRAM mainly, but also size constraints)

very much well deserved! https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html

And this is only the surface I notice immediately. Search engines going to shit, open source projects the code I cannot trust anymore not to be slop, documentation for LLMs instead of humans, websites completely filled with slop just to make search engines go to shit, and so much more. I just want to be able to read something, use someone's code, or find things on the web without having to worry about it all being a product of the slop machine. This is so fucking frustrating.

I'm sick of these soulless AI generated images. People used to use stock photos if they wanted images for the sake of having an image. This is gone, now I just get bombarded with an unholy average of many great art styles, hands with six fingers, and all of that for the low low price of the world rapidly going to shit because hardware manufactures and AI companies are in an unholy circlejerk inflating the economy of the US.

A modern tale of Blinkenlights, cheap Christmas shopping and curiosity, narrated by @virtualabs

Firmware extraction and reverse engineering of a smartwatch FTW!

https://blog.quarkslab.com/modern-tale-blinkenlights.html

Two Europes. Cartoon from 2022.

#migrants #Europe #HumanRights

Me rocking up at the US border with 5 years of my social media history

@davidgerard What do you mean by porting GH to NT?

i see that porting GitHub to NT is going well

@briankrebs I can confirm that turning on Google VPN gets you further

Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine.

"I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day. It should be your teammate. By mastering this tool, we will outpace our adversaries. The power is now in your hands."

I wonder who came up with their logo, which looks like a worm invading the Pentagon.

🦀

@davidgerard @serebit its recommending “sudo apt update” on Fedora which uses DNF and APT isnt there. How gross that they even published this.

My U-Boot SPL work to replace the proprietary bl2.bin blob on Amlogic gxbb and gxl SoCs finally got merged into the Amlogic custodians tree \o/

I would like to thank everyone that got involved in one way or another into this effort, you're awesome!

But it isn't over yet! I have more things planned in that area ^^ any help welcome as always

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/176544997866.2550755.6380353806583614603.b4-ty@linaro.org/T/#t

@pabloyoyoista @cas @fizzo @corna @fun @adrianyyy And let's not forget to thank @pabloyoyoista for all the hard work of managing the project, and pushing the project across the finish line by making the final integration in pmaports!