> While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee, the company did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals (such as card punch machines) to ship with its System/360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC

take a shot every time IBM invents weird standards

this is OpenBSD 7.9 installed to an USB stick on RK3588-powered MNT Pocket Reform. the display was set up by the @barebox bootloader for which i commissioned @ailurux to port the RK3588 DSI etc display drivers. the framebuffer is passed to OpenBSD via EFI GOP, the rest it can do itself. there's no GPU acceleration, but the CPUs are strong enough for oldschool 2D desktops and it's quite snappy to use.

making sure my codebase is properly agentic

Embedded Recipes 2026 has officially kicked off!
It's fantastic to see so many talented engineers and developers gathered in one place to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and push the boundaries of embedded systems. Looking forward to two days of insightful talks and meaningful connections.

@cas I know people filter these kinds of things out from their feed. Personally I try to not use fedi all too much and focus on what I really enjoy doing, but with all that AI stuff it's getting harder to do so :(

Making good progress in polishing my musi mi game launcher for mobile devices. Thanks to FEX-Emu, I'm now also able to play Hollow Knight on my #FP5 😊.

#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #gaming

well done

musl libc is literally ubsan - undefined behavior sanitizer

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

@davidculley as predicted, alpine would ultimately have to do nothing. so we did nothing.

@ariadne ignore that guy, he's just a random flathub org member talking about something he's not even involved in.

@neal @ariadne It is not the first time that person has written AI slop. In fact this has been going for at least 2 years.

to be absolutely clear: alpine is *not* switching to systemd or implementing a 'systemd compatibility layer'.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/alpine-linux-experiments-systemd-compatibility-while-keeping-its-lightweight-identity is literally AI slop

@ariadne @postmarketOS that's also why I like it :)

Happy to announce the 0.18 release of Poezio, a terminal XMPP messaging client.

This new release brings better compatibility with python 3.15, Message Retraction support, a new way of showing or hiding groupchat presences, and a lot of typing!

A more detailed changelog is available on my blog:
https://blog.mathieui.net/poezio-0-18.html
#poezio #python #slixmpp #XMPP #Jabber

You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the freakin' #Pope.

#AI #Vatican #BigTech #lobbying

What wallpaper shall we use in the upcoming v26.06 release?

Thanks to dikasp, MultisampledNight and foobtech for creating these amazing AI-free wallpapers!

HEY YOU GUYS! A friend of mine, Matt Lee, who runs Libre.fm, has been out of work for a while now and needs some assistance to keep his life and the site going. Please donate if you can.

https://libre.fm/donate.php

Matt's resume can be found here: https://hireme.fyi. Please reach out to him if you have any job openings!

Thank you!!

Little project I've been working on for the past two days. A reverse engineered implementation of the Android Auto server, running on my OnePlus 6 with PostmarketOS. The implementation is incredibly basic, only has basic video, but it's enough to display Sway and firefox :D

Next major step is getting it to work on a "proper" headunit. It works with my generic Chinese portable Android Auto / CarPlay screen but on a proper Toyota headunit inside a 2019 Toyota Aygo it fails somewhere along the way on the authentication chain.

#postmarketos #mobilelinux