Alpine Linux and PostmarketOS conference sponsoring:
https://opencollective.com/alpinelinux/updates/alpine-linux-and-postmarketos-conference-sponsoring
How do you securely chat in 2026? easy, you just wall each other on sakamoto, the most secure privacy-oriented and e2e encrypted chat platform available
ellyqw โ no doxxing ourselves on alpine irc though
@panekj โ we should use a secure communication
@panekj โ wall me on sakamoto
ellyqw โ good idea
excited to announce i'll be giving a talk at this year's @piwo about making ARM SoCs work in Linux! (that's *this saturday*, 30th May, at 4:05pm)
slides will be in english, but the talk will be in polish. i'll publish the slides after the talk if anyone else wants to take a look (and most likely there'll be a recording/livestream as well) :D
New factory image for PineTab2 (2026/05/24)
https://echo.danctnix.org:7269/factory_images/pinetab2/20260524/
It's not normally a good idea to share internal security processes, but I did want to offer the funniest trivia in my work to fight spam - I just added gamepad support to my spam-fighting client, meaning I'm literally using a joystick and buttons to do the work.
Turns out, if you can consolidate part of your job to an Xbox controller, you can speed it up significantly.
Don't worry, Android 2 on the PinePhone isn't real, it can't hurt you.
Android 2 on the PinePhone:
Port by Amy on Discord!
just got CC'd in an insane email along with a bunch of other kernel devs, seems like someone went off the deep end with chatGPT. Documented it in a Gist, anyone have any theories? XD
https://gist.github.com/kcxt/2489f17398cd1ea10da8be516323582d
I would recommend jumping to line 490 for the weirdest bits https://gist.github.com/kcxt/2489f17398cd1ea10da8be516323582d#file-prepare_our_fighters_100k_1_million_30_million-c-L490