@cas @whitequark soju is amazing, I switched to it a few years ago and never looked back

@whitequark which is completely understandable

@whitequark and you can even use the soju IRC bouncer if you need to connect to servers that don't support all of IRCv3

(also libera recently got quite a few of these perks: https://libera.chat/news/new-and-upcoming-features-3)

IRCv3 is shaping to be amazingly good!

here's the things it offers, today, right now, on a chat server we just set up in one evening:

• you don't need a bouncer (friggin finally)
• there are moblie clients that work well
• you can see backlog when joining a channel
• you can browse chat history
• you can connect from multiple devices with one account and nickname
• if you disconnect, your nickname is still present in a channel you joined, marked as away
• you can highlight or DM people who are away and they'll see your message when they join (without crutches like MemoServ)
• there is a "last read message" marker and it is synchronized between multiple connections
• messages have identifiers (and server timestamps) and replies can be tagged with the message you're replying to
• messages can be redacted (for moderation)
• you don't need to deal with fussy nonsense like NickServ authorization, ghosting, or such; connect with your username and password and that's it
• there are typing notifiers, if you want them
• there are message reactions, if you want them

here's the things it does not offer:

• image, video, or file uploads (actively worked on: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/562)
• stickers
• complex onboarding tools

caveat: since IRCv3 is a true extension of IRCv2, the features listed above work if they're supported by both the server and the client. in my onboarding experience so far, people do not find it difficult to find a suitable client, but your mileage may vary. on the flipside, legacy clients will work just fine.

unexpectly, i realized that IRCv3 can completely replace Matrix rooms for my own group chat purposes, and i'm probably not going to set up any Matrix homeservers again; it's just not worth it and frankly I should instead put that effort into coming up with a file upload IRCv3 extension or something

@CalcProgrammer1 this looks like an iPad pro

@osuosl is raising funds to cover critical extra expenses that incurred while moving and modernizing their data center.

They host and maintain not only our gitlab instance, but also a bunch of services for a long list of important free software projects, including @alpinelinux, @armbian, #busybox, @chimera, #Debian, @fdroidorg, @fedora, #ffmpeg, #fosdem, #freedesktoporg, #gcc, @gentoo, @gnome, @inkscape, @kde, #kodi, @LineageOS, the #linux kernel, @llvm, #openbsd, #qemu, @reproducible_builds, @rust, #tor, #vlc and many more:
https://osuosl.org/communities/

Consider donating to them or boosting this post if you want to help them out. Thank you!

https://fosstodon.org/users/osuosl/statuses/116048416100183283

Heads up for edge users: we briefly had a version of mkinitfs (2.8.0) in edge that didn't generate proper boot images for OP6/6T, FP5 and Pixel 3a, resulting in boot failures. This has been fixed in mkinitfs 2.9.0 and boot-deploy 0.23.0. (This is a good example why the hardware CI work is so important.) Edge post: https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/02/10/mkinitfs-2.8.0-break-boot/

Let's gooo, got working DSI before going to sleep and officially declaring the weekend to be over :) :) :) so this is sm6115-motorola-guamp also known to normal people as the Moto G9 Play. Coming to actual upstream Linux (and U-Boot) soon!

Amazingly, just like river this one has a PMI632 (so battery % and charging do still need WIP drivers and the fuel gauge one is very funny right now). And just like on the SC7180 mini-PC, the missing MDSS reset was causing trouble again! (Except while there it was causing a visual artifact due to the EFI framebuffer still being on, here it was not letting the display show any image at all)

#postmarketOS #linuxmobile

Happy to announce that @ayakael is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!

He is getting postmarketOS comfortable on eink and cyberdeck devices, improving rockchip support, maintaining Alpine Linux packages and learning how to mainline linux patches. Regarding eink devices, he made a bunch of improvements to the e-ink powered pine64-pinenote and moved it from the testing category to community.

📜 TC page:
https://postmarketos.org/team/#antoine-martin-ayakael

#Megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketOS Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #PinePhone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main alternative Snapshot—which unfortunately runs at what seems to be less than 1 FPS on it.

@moses_izumi my tablets were also very barely used for a long time, but pmOS kind of revived them. Actually, my p4note was initially dead (well, not quite, but screen did not come up), but it turned out to be a broken screen flex cable .. which presumably died years ago.

@unfinishedsymphony @postmarketOS Yep! I also was daily driving pmOS on my phone (Poco F1) at some point, but right now no longer (also I switched to a Fairphone) because reliability still isn't 100% perfect and I need that. But I'm confident we will get there at some point.

> I am not very technical, but I am able to help out in small ways by testing functions and apps and reporting issues, and contributing to the wiki and the chats with whatever knowledge I have gained.

That's already a huge help :)

@loomhigh @postmarketOS p4note & kona

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_8.0_(samsung-kona)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_10.1_(samsung-p4note)

Remember the "One Laptop Per Child" project, that developed a low-cost computer for children in developing countries? I was always amazed by a certain feature: The "View Source" button.

When you pressed it, the source code for the currently running application would open. This was supposed to encourage tinkering with the software on your device! <3

I've been pondering what it would take to build that button on modern machines. Has anyone seen something like that?

(Prototype in next toot.)

I do legitimately think that this is just peak computer UX. It is information dense, but still kind of playful.

I'm sure real #ux experts would have a different opinion, but I really enjoy this aesthetic and functionality.

#irix #unix #retrocomputing

@ariadne @lina if this gets irssi support I'll try it out

@9lore too many AOSP

Oh #irix, I didn't miss this.

#retrocomputing

@loke Some URLs look like WP URLs but not all, some of them actually seem pretty random and weird.
Also, the IP address changes every time.

@loke But what for?