@bart amazing talk :)

2 weeks ago I gave a talk about postmarketOS at the spring NLUUG (Netherlands Unix Users Group) conference.

It's in English so should be accessible to all!

https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/video/nluug/2026-05-07-vj26/postmarketos-av1.mp4

#postmarketOS #NLUUG

@jarkko @ljs the main issue in many cases isn't so much about doing the thing, it's doing the thing *well*

@ljs Long before AI, while i was doing some stuff for Nokia, we sometimes had to make PoC's look worse so that some random manager would not think that the product is complete. And now it's like... well, you know how it is like.

Further, I've never been in a project, worked on an upstream open source project feature, or anything, where initial the building of "the thing" would have taken more than a few weeks. After that follows countless months of tuning, adjusting and most importantly discussing with other people about the nuts and bolts.

IMHO, the bubble in AI is really related the misconception that building some functional version of software would be the main contributing cost factor for shipping quality software.

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@whitequark github is so slow for me, just the http ui

I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.

What's happening to day is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116589464367576074

But we need AI to make the investors happy!!! 📈

(maybe smth is wrong elsewhere that needs fixing...)

Is it just me or is github really slow now

#gnome #gtk

We wanted to get rid of the hard coded users in our nightly image builds so we added a small first-boot app that allows to configure the language, on-screen keyboard layout and user. For that we split some widgets out of mobile settings and @rudraps added #rust bindings for it.

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@craftyguy @oausi @postmarketOS

I think this comment is also a very good opportunity to post https://postmarketos.org/state/ again.

A community of volunteers identified an issue on Friday night and got it fixed in under 24h. Honestly, kudos to everybody involved. Anybody thinking such community of volunteers funded by donations that cover an absolutely tiny fraction of the work done (yet are critical for the sustainability of the project) should not be allowed to make mistakes is in my opinion, breaching the social contract under which the work is done.

I think I found a new funny way to wisely spend your time.

seeing maintainers in lkml replying to sashiko-bot "you're wrong" multiple times

Heads up for edge users, OpenRC may hang on boot or shutdown with Plymouth.

"A fix was submitted to OpenRC, but in the meantime the Plymouth OpenRC integration plugin has been temporarily replaced by a kill-plymouth OpenRC service that runs on boot, just like what used to be the case with pbsplash. This workaround is included in postmarketos-bootsplash 0.5.1."

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/05/14/plymouth-openrc-issues/

Edit: The fixed package has been built and is available in the repos. It is now safe to update.

Heads up for edge users, a recent losetup update broke the initramfs.

"This was fixed in postmarketos-initramfs 3.10.2. If you upgraded your system recently and are not running that version, **do not reboot** until you upgrade to postmarketos-initramfs 3.10.2"

It is important to note that the upgraded package is not built yet. If you would like, you can follow https://build.postmarketos.org/#queued to see when it is ready.

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/05/15/losetup-option-removal-leading-to-boot-failure/

New stable kernels landed today in Alpine Linux. They address ssh-keysign-pwn (CVE-2026-46333)

- 6.18.31
- 6.12.89
- 6.6.139
- 6.1.173
- 5.15.207

These have been backported all the way down to Alpine Linux 3.16.

Edit: These versions fix ssh-keysign-pwn, not Fragnesia

wondered why vscode was running like total shit after a recent update, then it popped up telling me the extension host crashed and offered to do an extension bisect so im like sure why not

i go through picking can/can't reproduce just based on vibes of how shit it was running

i have 116 extensions installed and THIS was the end result of that, joker moment of a fucking generation. fuck microsoft

(if you reply to this telling me to not use vscode i will probably block you, yes that includes suggesting codium or whatever. i wish this wasn't the workflow i ended up with but it is and now isn't the time for me to switch)

@cas @cxberger that's just not serious work at all

@cas so vscodium won't really do much