@eloy That being said stuff like NLnet are absolutely awesome to have, I wish there were more similar orgs like them.

@eloy I always tend to hate it when some person brings up digital sovereignty and is like "yeah we at europe need software and infra in europe and open source in europe!!!!"

They just don't understand how open source works, open source has no barriers with regards to continents or countries. Everyone can and does contribute.

As for infra in Europe, they also completely miss the point. The *main* issue is centralised infra controlled by governments *IN GENERAL*, it not being american does not make the issue somehow less severe.

Welcome to politics, where politicians debate about stuff they have literally zero idea about.

Not what I expected from Technology Connections, but sounds about right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

@jernej__s @domi @toast omw to source 16 TB qualcomm UFS modules to do that (these use 4k sectors)

📢 Save the date: XDC 2026 will take place September 28–30 in Toronto 🇨🇦

BIg thanks to Arm for organizing this year’s conference — more news soon!

#Mesa #Wayland #Linux #Graphics #OpenSource

Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:

1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.

This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K"

Woof.

#linkedin #social #socialmedia

Some "assume you can divide Open Source neatly into European and not European. This is not the case", highlights Felix.

"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