"We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

Nvidia, you can't just say in an interview that you rebuilt the chain-of-trust on the Tegra X1, working around the bootrom exploit, without telling us how!
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115983962410922493

@barebox Does this mean I can run barebox from u-boot? xD

@ariadne what can I say, if you can compromise it, could be fosdem-worthy :D

@ariadne aha, now that's different

interesting: #qnx have adopted apk as their system package manager: https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/qnxeverywhere/com.qnx.doc.qdd/topic/using_apk.html

and they use #abuild now too: https://github.com/qnx-ports/qsc-apk/tree/main

and they even comply with the GPL license, but their patch is not mergable in the current state: https://github.com/qnx-ports/aports/blob/803/core/apk-tools/0001-qnx-compat.patch

#alpinelinux

@ariadne Do some writes crash and others not? Or all writes cause a crash?

@ariadne Typically a write to protected memory results in a crash, so I don't think it is a security bug, it's working as intended.

(this should also be the case for reads)

Nice overview article of #LWN about @postmarketOS a The #FreeSoftware distribution for mobile phones and beyond... based on @z3ntu recent talk. Great to see how fast #PostmarketOS is proceeding with their limited resources.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1055391/bac1b456afe91d5c/ #FreeYourAndroid

@justsoup linux went a long way.
I still have (IIRC) ubuntu 9.04 somewhere, and comparing it to linux now .. I feel extremely happy it has more users and is more intuitive than before (which is not to say I don't like 9.04, I do love its desktop :)

@ariadne and on RK3588/Quasar(qcom) MNT Reform

@ariadne wait until you see alpine on snapdragon ex-android phone

Hey lookie here, it's the first boot of Duranium (immutable postmarketOS) on a OnePlus 6 / Android phone 😁

#postmarketos

I will never understand why people are complaining that Japanese websites are "outdated".

They load incredibly fast, don't use almost any resources (many don't even require JS!), use native scrollbars and give you information you're looking for at a single glance.

Compare that to most modern websites that can easily hog 2GB of RAM with JavaScript, want to do scrolling themselves and require 4K screens because muh design language.

Japanese websites are a pinnacle of usability and I will die on this hill

@elly that screenshot does not even look outdated at all

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

> Because of this, we are recommending that Neocities users, and the broader internet in general, not use Bing or search engines that source their results from Bing until this issue is resolved.

incl e.g. DuckDuckGo UPDATE: DDG has fixed it

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

My "Linux on a #dumbphone " journey continues: minimal T9 like typing on the Nokia 8110 4G running @postmarketOS

(WIP) Code of the fcitx5 addon: https://codeberg.org/ybon/fcitx5-t9

See you at FOSDEM?

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of new stable releases:

3.20.9
3.21.6
3.22.3
3.23.3

These updates include security fixes for OpenSSL addressing the January 27, 2026 advisory: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260127.txt

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.9-3.21.6-3.22.3-3.23.3-released.html

#AlpineLinux

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