I love reading. I love writing. I love coding. I love drawing. I love creating.

Go ahead and make the slop machines faster, you can't take away what I love.

@vkc a point in favour of the association between the sparkle emoji and generative AI: gnome's new icon set contains a sparkle icon called ai-slop, which is also tagged with generative and bullshit

Likely due to recent RAM and flash price increases, the #MechaComet base model only ships with 2GB RAM, and going up to 8GB is only allowed when going with the faster i.MX 95 chip.

This makes the device more pricey than it may seem initially - and I sadly can't recommend going with 2GB, if you consider adding your own 4G module and browsing the web is part of your use-case. Thanks AI, I guess. #LinuxMobile

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer

Wow, Mafia at work. Google is now marking EVERY SINGLE APK at our repository as (checks notes) "Malware site issue". Congrats, "Safe" browsing.

Of course there is not a single malware there, everything is scanned multiple times. And I bet they excluded *.google.com from their scan or the entire PlayStore would be red by now, too…

Calling out to all of you: Please use https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/ to report the links as "safe"!

#serviceToot #izzyOnDroid #fediPower

I think this cartoon from 2018 is one of the best Trump cartoons I've done, visualizing hate speech and xenophobia without the need for words.

#Trump #ICE #migrants

@mntmn yeah that works, except for encrypted messages (IIRC?)

@mntmn I use prosody for the server and the clients I recommend are gajim, dino, Conversations.im, Cheogram app (basically C.im but with extra features for bridge use)

and if you're a terminal fan you might like poezio and profanity, though they're not very well maintained these days :( there's a weechat xmpp client too but last time I tried it just made weechat crash

@mntmn
Image + Video uploads => works, except not for me because my file upload thing is broken, been procrastinating to get it fixed (PEBKAC)
Notification => push notification works and some XMPP clients can even be used as UnifiedPush distributors
Search => works really well for channels
History sync => what do you mean?

@mntmn XMPP has a very good IRC bridge too so one app can be used for both internal company comms and for irc support

@eloy GROSSES PROBLEM

i think this is the worst drive i’ve ever seen lmao. “Damaged blocks: 156%” XD

Remember when in December I had a bit of a debug session why I couldn't reach my monitoring server via #IPv6 from a DTAG internet line?

Well, this later motivated @domi to dig a bit deeper and it ended up with @q3k sending some emails to EPIX, DTAG and Lumen about it, as it was obviously a bigger issue of an entire /32 IPv6 prefix from Lumen not being accepted by DTAG.

The issue ended up being escalated multiple times and it seemed to take them quite a while to figure out what was wrong.

But as of today (or recently, today is when I got note of it), it works!
DTAG now accepts the 2a0d:eb00::/32 prefix, which they previously rejected due to, supposedly, an incorrectly documented Lumen AS-SET in the RIPE DB.

This is certainly not the escalation I expected after I connect to my server back then

I was wondering when a reporter would uncover this.

So BitLocker is super secure, right? Well... BitLocker recovery keys are backed up to Microsoft's Cloud - and they give them out to law enforcement on request. Using the BitLocker recovery key, you can just unlock the device without a PIN etc.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

Microsoft and BitLocker: If you have access to keys, eventually governments are going to come. And MS provided the keys https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

We made good progress on automated hardware testing in postmarketOS, resulting in being able to run pmaports changes on a real OP6T! Thanks to everybody who donated to postmarketOS or contributed their time to make this possible! ❤️

More about this and future plans:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/21/hw-ci-mvp/

#linuxmobile #CI_tron

Looks like they added geopolitical news to the weather widget