We had a great FOSDEM yet again, thanks everybody for stopping by! It was fun hearing appreciation of our project by existing users, but also to explain our project to people that have never heard of us.
We can't wait to be back next year!
Our hackathon is starting now and we'll report about what happened there later this week.
Notepad++ have today confirmed their auto process was compromised by Chinese nation state threat actors, in a supply chain hack: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
This backs up my blog from late last year, with #GAYINT threat actor mapping to Funky Stamen.
The infrastructure and update mechanisms have since been tightened. For what itโs worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China. Notepad++ dev did a great job treating issue seriously.
Blogged about running Linux on my phone, the user experience, and the ecosystem that comes with it. Extremely excited about this!
https://blog.allpurposem.at/linux-on-my-phone
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #GnomeMobile #fairphone
Just a regular #FOSDEM experience:
Waiting for dinner, looking at the awesome #postmarketOS hardware CI board.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
Anthropic's own fucking study lmao
"Yeah AI coding makes you worse at it"
like
significantly so
This tracks with my personal experience in my previous job.
Rapid deskilling when they started using llm "prompt engineering" for the code they pushed.
Within weeks they basically had stopped being able to explain what they were pushing during code review.
Day 2 of #FOSDEM2026 and we're back ready to show our project! If you still want a t-shirt come by quick as they're running out fast!
The recording of my talk is already available ๐
postmarketOS: Reliability in 2026
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QUYXW7-postmarketos-reliability-2026/
Thank you FOSDEM video team!
Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. โAIโ
https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226
German police (Sachsen, not even the infamous Berlin police) is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.
The German union of police officers (GdP, which is also the source of this image) condemn violence โฆ against police officers. ๐ก
They are the ones who beat up anyone who protests against fossil fuels or genocide, and then they fake their propaganda using GenAI to incite against "violent radical leftists".