the #pkgconf maintainers would like to talk to humans, not bots which have gone on a wild ride. this wastes our time as maintainers, and is why pkgconf does not allow LLM-generated contributions, especially agentic ones.

https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/pull/592

(I'm tired, boss)

suddenly felt like I was transported to an alternate reality

You may fascinate a hacker with 20 year-old e-waste

On a fun topic: what in the world is postmarketOS? (wrong answers only)

I really need to get around to deleting my account

#getOffGithub

This month's annoyance: people non-consensually assigning me tickets in their organisation's ticket tracker.

As #PuTTY maintainer, I'm often asked to fill in annoying government paperwork, usually from someone else's country. "All the software our organisation uses must comply with the National Foo Directive, so please fill in this huge questionnaire to confirm that you do."

Often without bothering to even mention which nation's National Foo Directive it is. Often without noticing that a lot of the questions are obviously meaningless (e.g. assuming the product is hardware, or a cloud service, or something). And _always_ without thinking through the difference between a commercial software vendor (who has a financial incentive to do this kind of paperwork, and can employ staff to do it out of the revenue stream from selling the software itself) and an unpaid free software maintainer (LOL no).

In the past, this has generally involved an email from some actual employee tasked with going through the Big Spreadsheet of all the software that (they know) they're using. So you can reply to the person and explain their misunderstanding. (Generally I wait until the followup email before bothering, in case they manage to engage their own brain before then, which sometimes they do.)

But a new and unwelcome development is that they're starting to do it by automated ticketing systems, so I get an email saying "[employee] has assigned you a task" and I have no doubt it's going to carry on automatically pestering without any way of making it listen to reason. Probably I have no choice but to start blocking these ticketing systems' email addresses.

I've (finally) got the talk recording from Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ("We need an open-source phone OS - postmarketOS!") on my YouTube channel, as always with proper subtitles!

https://youtu.be/Wi5DpVYozUc

#postmarketOS #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

Real hacker.

77-year-old Carl Gunn legally blocks a Flock license plate camera in St. Petersburg, Florida, by sitting on a public sidewalk and holding a 12-foot pool skimmer pole with a “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS” sign. Because he remains on public property and never touches the equipment, police confirmed his protest is lawful. #flock

@pabloyoyoista @justsoup yes, linux mobile has grown into something I'm honestly very impressed by. It went from "oh yay you can run linux and weston and ssh to your phone! Can you believe it!!!" into something that, dare I say, is already considered daily driver-ready by many. We are still not quite there with replacing Android, but I am convinced we can do it, one byte at a time.

I may need to unfollow the postmarketOS hashtag due to a weird flood of negative doom posting about it not being ready to fully replace Android yet. I know people are worried about Android locking down app development and such, but don't take that out on one of the few projects trying to remove Google and Apple's dualopoly :( Complaining can't make development faster.

@pj microslop was awful even before the slop times though

@cas at least we can do more good with less, but yeah, this sucks

people please donate to pmOS if you can!

@pj What'd you expect from microslop

@cas @buffet I suddenly feel alone with all my laptop and desktop DVD drives... xD

going to the javascript store anyone want anything?

@q66 "oh no `chmod +s pwn` gives `pwn` setuid and root!!!!!"

@karolherbst yeah pretty sure they did, but I'm sure the AI will still respond with long text of nonsense "oh what do you mean?"

Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.

Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.

Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!

As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.

That's it for this post, all in all it's a bit bleak for the Linux devices, but in the meantime PineStore still have a great lineup of MCU powered devices which will continue to expand with more exciting devices.

Alrightttttt, have a great Monday! (or Tuesday, if you're up that early)

#pine64 #pinetime #pinenote #pinetab2 #pinetab #pinetimePro

@aelin Maintaining infra is fun and exciting until it isn't (and before you know it you have lots of technical debt you need to fix)