@karolherbst I welcome them like anyone else - but not before asking how many r's are in ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86

If it's an AI, they'll back off or respond with a loooong text block saying they don't understand
If they're a real person they'll just say lol

Made it to my bed Super eepy but very happy with how FrOSCon went and that I got to talk to soooo many awesome people :) I even lost my voice very late into Sunday

Also fixed some functionality in the postmarketOS kernels for two generic x86_64 laptops on both days! linux-postmarketos-mainline 7.2 with the changes will be available later today and should fix all issues that were reported since the switch to the new kernels so far

So many familiar faces said they'd come to our conference with Alpine Linux in September, I'm SO excited and I hope we can put together an event that does our incredible community justice

"Claude watermarks your code now."

Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

last year The Linux Foundation had $300 million in revenue in 2025.

can't hire a designer.

absolutely pathetic.

green is my pepper? no, we are innovating today

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/117094103503360926

For my English-speaking audience:

Macron's recent law that was adopted in Parliament earlier this year and set to impose a nationwide ban on social media for under-15-year-olds via systematic age verification, was just declared unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Council.

Namely on these grounds:
• the council considers the law disproportionately infringes on the freedom of expression of minors,
• it considers that the establishment of a nationwide age verification system may have dire consequences for any citizen's right to privacy.

there is nothing these days that has the vibe of cyanogenmod. ad-hoc wifi support built-in? a completely custom system theming engine?
WHY IS THIS NOT ALIVE ANYMORE??

type of programmer who, when their C code does an out-of-bound read then crashes, moves their hands up & down and says "SIGSEGV-en"

did you know that you can run Alpine in things that are not docker containers?

If you use #Linux on your desktop, the foundation you *should* support is not the Linux foundation, but rather the @XOrgFoundation AKA freedesktop.org. The X.Org foundation is the home of:

- #X11
- #Wayland
- #Mesa
- #Noveau
- #DBus
- #GRUB
- #GStreamer
- #PulseAudio
- #PipeWire
- #NetworkManager
- the Linux kernel graphics subsystem
- the #XDG base directory specification
- and more!

Also, development of what would later become #Flatpak started here.

These projects have a way stronger impact on your day-to-day computing experience than anything managed by the Linux foundation.

@grawity their old website was better

imagine putting "🚫 No Lamers" on such a Claude-looking website (or, what the fuck happened to efnet.org)

@jmhorner @moses_izumi What do you mean? postmarketOS can be considered a mobile OS because it runs on phones, but we don't lock you down to a single UI experience - it's pretty standard linux after all, with a package manager, openrc/systemd init system, everything you've come to expect from a "regular" linux distro.

check https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Interface for a list of what UIs are "officially" supported by postmarketOS. Among this list are Phosh and Plasma Mobile, which obviously try to be mobile UIs based off iOS/Android. But there is also Openbox, WindowMaker, xfce4, all that good stuff. Also, if a DE you like isn't in this list but is in the alpine repos, it's not hard to manually install it.

With the standard Linux environment postmarketOS provides, the possibilities are simply endless.

Some people use postmarketOS to repurpose their tablet to be a writerdeck, others use it for homeassistant dashboard, others literally run kubernetes and docker on their phones! I could go on and on for hours

As for my daily driving, my tablet runs sxmo/sway. Basically, think of it as a bog standard sway, which is a tiling window manager (https://swaywm.org) and a bunch of scripts and tools (sxmo) to glue everything together and add gesture-based navigation to make it usable on touchscreen-only devices (so I don't have to carry around a keyboard all the time, though when I do, my keybindings are the same as sway on my laptop :)

I know a few that also have tablets about as powerful as mine and daily drive standard xfce4 or mate on them. Of course, you may also choose to not have a UI at all, and just use the tty, that's totally an option too. (an onscreen keyboard is also available, but again, it is optional)

In fact, you can absolutely use the exact same apps you use on the desktop. For web browsing, I just run desktop firefox (well, librewolf, but same thing, occasionally I use NetSurf too for lighter browsing). For editing, I just use vim. For taking notes, xournalpp to the rescue. For IRC, just ssh and tmux attach. I could go on and on but basically the point is I use this thing the same way I use my laptop, with mostly the exact same apps. I'm really just treating this tablet as a small linux-based netbook (remember those? :D)

@moses_izumi @jmhorner yes, I run postmarketOS with sxmo/sway. Main issue with it is it's old and I get reminded of it being old as soon as I launch firefox. Otherwise it's pretty decent!

@ariadne all the time. I run sway and I don't want to use the Alt key.

@TheEvilSkeleton Yeah I'm not saying the packager is right. But it helps to restate the context even if you think the packager might already be aware, it can clear up things and that packager may also be working on a million other things besides gnome-calendar.

Doesn't seem like Nate Graham AKA pointieststick, of KDE fame, has a fedi account, so I'll just share his article here myself:

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions/

It's a nice read, and the article about what "LTS" actually means that he links to inside the post, gets straight to the core of the issue. Nate's communication style is examplary and something to take note of.

One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.

Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.

The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.

Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.

Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.

Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.

It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.

But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.

@TheEvilSkeleton so I got linked to this before ... from what I can tell in the issue, as an outsider, it looks like neither side wanted a productive conversation, and it just felt rude on both sides. The issue body itself also initially didn't look completely clear what the actual problem is, it just asked for rebranding everything without any specific reason.
This article itself is just inflammatory, again pointing fingers at LM which is not helpful.

Note linuxmint is not innocent either, they definitely messed up by packaging gnome-calendar in this state, but I feel if the discussion started by clearly stating the problem (people reporting long solved bugs in the wrong place, which is hurting upstream) and not pointing fingers all the time the outcome probably would've changed significantly.

But instead there was a lot of miscommunication, both from your side and their side, miscommunication that could have definitely been avoided, which is sad to see.

Watercolor 0.7 - Chris McElligott