We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than
February 9, 2026) to be assured of
consideration

Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf

@domi @toast and with actual practical use today :^)

FAT32 is too limited and so is FAT16 (yes, I know FAT32 supports up to ~2 TB)

@toast @domi > ext4 wasn't considered experimental in the mid 2010s

What I mean is that I tend to trust filesystems that have been around for a long time and battle tested for years

@toast @domi hmm, makes me feel better now :) I'm quite careful about new filesystems until they have been proven to be rock solid. Ext4 *was* experimental back in its inception, but with a lot of time it became something that is extremely solid.

The same will happen to btrfs and such, just give it time.

@toast @domi ext4 has always been rock solid for me

shoutouts to msi, firmware developer knows best

[123689.084271] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 97262419
[123689.084288] Aborting journal on device dm-0-8.
[123689.084296] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_journal_check_start:87: comm syslogd: Detected aborted journal
[123689.084305] EXT4-fs (dm-0): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 20863169 at logical offset 0 with max blocks 3 with error 30
[123689.084307] EXT4-fs (dm-0): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
[123689.084307] 
[123689.084310] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_do_writepages:2944: Journal has aborted
[123689.084312] EXT4-fs (dm-0): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 22707117 at logical offset 0 with max blocks 1 with error 30
[123689.084316] EXT4-fs (dm-0): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
[123689.084316] 

@domi @jn aahhh ok

@domi @jn I mean, not a fan of wishing death to some person no matter how bad they are

@domi @jn except he didn't die.

@jn FREE as in FREEDOM!!!

2026-01: monthly blog post reboot

* Excited for FOSDEM, we'll have a stand and talks
* #PineNote moved up to community
* New nightly repositories
* First Contributor Support Programme report
* systemd musl support + service file upstreaming
* Number of settings apps in Phosh reduced
* USB stack reworked
* loongarch64 binary packages
* New maintainers.txt files

Thanks to everybody who contributes to postmarketOS, you are amazing!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/25/pmOS-update-2026-01/

#linuxmobile #fosdem #postmarketos

@cwebber honestly the people freaking out about the security of Chinese open source contributions and then going ham on this gastown bullshit kinda show what its really about don't they

As we've posted in our monthly blog posts before we're working hard on hardware CI to automatically run a bunch of tests on various phones for changes in the software we ship.

To accomplish this some of our team members have created PCB's to connect the phones to so we have full control over them, and after some iterations the first batch of the production units have just arrived!

We'll start setting them up in the hackathon we're doing after #FOSDEM and we'll soon share the initial results!

@jn "BUT IT CONTAINS PROPRIETARY WIFI AND BLUETOOTH FIRMWARE!!!!!!!!"

Thanks to @fossdd we have gotten rid of some technical debt in postmarketOS edge by finally removing the postmarketos-mvcfg package and adjusting all users of it. This should not affect anyone.

However if you saw postmarketos-mvcfg scrolling by while installing postmarketOS and were wondering about what it does, @newbyte wrote a nice blog post explaining that and why it had been introduced in the first place:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/23/postmarketos-mvcfg-removed/

Generic kernel package with automatically generated config in YOUR distribution? It's more likely than you think!

linux-postmarketos-mainline is now available, and linux-postmarketos-stable is being built :)

@justine Seems working again

WE DID IT! The verification for the signatures of the European Citizens' Initiative against the destruction of video games has concluded. We have more than enough! More infos on the official channels of the organizers and #StopKillingGames.

hmm yes, E²PROM

Time to dust off that weblog by talking about AI use in programming!

https://fun.dersco.re/weblog/2026/01/25/on-using-large-language-models-for-programming/

Generated by my brain cells.