New monthly blog post is up!
"postmarketOS in 2026-04: new boot splash"
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/05/10/pmOS-update-2026-04/
Read root-owned files as an unprivileged user:
https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn/blob/main/README.md
If a "security researcher" files a GHSA advisory that's obvious slop (e.g. quoting function signatures that don't exist) is it right to somehow make the report public (as way of punishment) or just close it by clicking really hard and getting on with your life?
If the former, is that even possible in GitHub?
Really nice job @fun tracking down **and** fixing a 20 year old bug in #openrc π
why would you write if (x) ; else y; instead of if (!x) y;?
(ignore the horrible indentation, itβs 4 spaces then 1 tab then 4 spaces again)
today in "huh, they built it with THAT?"
Asus ProArt ChromaTune. It's a little app that sits in your windows tray and can switch between your monitor's color palettes. You can either do it manually, or you can tell it to automatically switch when you run certain programs, so you can do things like "always use sRGB mode when I'm in photoshop".
Wanna guess how they built this?
Heads up for edge users:
We've switched to Plymouth for displaying the boot splash! This allows screen rotation to work, and to toggle between splash and boot logs by pressing ESC on devices with a keyboard, or the power button π on phones and tablets.
More information:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/04/30/Switching-from-pbsplash-to-Plymouth/
With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!
Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time