This is what peak I/O shield looks like.

VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, or HDMI? Yes.
Analog or optical 5.1 audio? Yes.
PS/2, USB2 or USB3? Yes.
eSATA? Yes. Two.

Bonus RS232 with a 3D printed bracket on the side~

(From an old home server I just shut down after many years ^^)

Testing request for Qualcomm devices on Mobian:

We’d appreciate more testing of Linux 6.18 on Qualcomm devices before considering it as the default kernel for testing users.

Relevant packages:

linux-image-6.18-sdm845
linux-image-6.18-sdm670

If you’re running an SDM845 or SDM670 device, please test and report:

boot success/failures
suspend/resume
modem/Wi-Fi/audio/camera status
regressions vs current kernel
stability and battery life

Feedback and test reports are very welcome.

I do not understand why I get criticism from Dem voters for being critical of Dem electeds.

I do not vote for MAGA.
I do not campaign for MAGA.
I do not donate to MAGA.

BUT

I do vote for Dems.
I do campaign for Dems.
I do donate my money to Dems.

So I demand accountability when they fail to uphold justice. We face fascism, an existential threat to our republic. Weak leadership won't stop fascism. If you want a party you can't criticize, join MAGA.

Let us adults alone to do the actual work.

Big fundraiser for @osnews, in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post. Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=2

I've also got a few fun incentives:

1. Make me use Windows 11
2. A photo/video tour of my office and all my computers/devices
3. Make me use (and review) macOS
4. A tattoo of the OSNews logo (my first tattoo) on my shoulder

More details:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

Your support keeps OSNews free from ads and corporate influence, and allow me to continue to run what is one of the very last people-focused, independent technology news sites left in the world. Also, OSNews is militantly "AI"-free, in every step of the process.

The four organizations who maintain your favorite open-source DNS software, ISC, CZ.NIC, PowerDNS and NLnet Labs, gave a lighting talk at @dnsoarc 46 about the avalanche of LLM-assisted security reports for their projects, and the effect it has on us and our users.

The last slide ends on a “Hug your OSS maintainer" note, but I think this is understating the gravity of this situation. I hope we put forward a stronger message during the repeat of this presentation at RIPE 92.

People need to consider that we are in a situation where developers with talent, purpose and experience have created something valuable for the internet community over the last 20+ years. They could have chosen to work at $MEGACORP for twice, three times the pay, but they chose to do something meaningful.

Now, the body of work they carefully designed and maintained over the last decades is being picked apart by an LLM. Yes, as a result the products become some definition of “more secure” but there is no reasonable prospect that this avalanche of reports will end. Ignoring them is not an option. Feature development has come to a halt.

As an employer, what am I supposed to tell my developers? Thanks for creating this amazing DNS software over the last 20 years, it looks like you’ll spend the next couple of years triaging and fixing bugs and coordinating CVEs with your peers.

How do we keep people motivated to do open source and even if we do, how do we keep this development model sustainable? We can’t pivot to the ‘agentic era’ just like that and even if we could, I think my colleagues do this job to create something amazing—artisanal if you will—not to to maximize output at all costs so shareholders get rich.

Practically though, encouraging organizations to purchase a support contract will certainly help on the short term, because:

- You will get access to world class support;
- You will get early security vulnerability notices under NDA, keeping your critical infrastructure safe from a whole new class of LLM fueled risks; and
- In the grand scheme of things, you will help keep this open source model sustainable so your favorite DNS software continues to exist and thrive.

#DNS #LoveDNS #LLM #FOSS #OpenSource

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/56/contributions/1233/

new Linux LPE, this time using io_uring. I think it's good to point out this Google security blog from 2023. Sending all kernel commits into an LLM might be somewhat new, the mitigation measures are already old.

also I think io_uring is a very cool technology, it just has it's tradeoffs like everything. That's all :)

English is a funny language… terms and phrases can mean more than one thing based on usage.

Take “I’m apolitical”, for example.

When it expresses that you only care about this quarter’s profits while the planet burns, it means “I’m stupid.”

When it’s that you can’t be bothered about the plight of people less fortunate than you, it means “I’m privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine.”

And when it shows that you’re neutral about – and thus actively complicit in – genocide, it means “I’m evil.”

What a language, eh?

#apolitical #neutrality

@ariadne yes, it's being manipulative. Just like quite a few fascists

it's great when you see a project you've been following for years has added a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md file to the repo, and you have a little moment of sadness

then you click it and it says "AI must not be used for this project" and goes on to explain why

Move fast and break things means you have to fix the broken things. Move slow and make things means you have cool stuff to play with for longer. I think the choice is obvious.

If this doesn’t get GitHub to take security seriously, nothing will: https://xcancel.com/github/status/2056884788179726685

#rustweek

@eloy I actually think this is good. This is good because it can remind people that forgot to disclose they used AI to disclose it ("oh hey there's no AI-Assisted trailer")

That said accepting AI contributions in the first place is a bad move in itself :\

Be me

Get in a convo about trying to run a mainline-first UI in downstream Android kernel

Realise that almost none of my devices that can run pmOS actually run a downstream kernel in pmOS

A blessing and a curse :P

@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.