A modern tale of Blinkenlights, cheap Christmas shopping and curiosity, narrated by @virtualabs

Firmware extraction and reverse engineering of a smartwatch FTW!

https://blog.quarkslab.com/modern-tale-blinkenlights.html

Two Europes. Cartoon from 2022.

#migrants #Europe #HumanRights

Me rocking up at the US border with 5 years of my social media history

i see that porting GitHub to NT is going well

Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine.

"I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day. It should be your teammate. By mastering this tool, we will outpace our adversaries. The power is now in your hands."

I wonder who came up with their logo, which looks like a worm invading the Pentagon.

🦀

My U-Boot SPL work to replace the proprietary bl2.bin blob on Amlogic gxbb and gxl SoCs finally got merged into the Amlogic custodians tree \o/

I would like to thank everyone that got involved in one way or another into this effort, you're awesome!

But it isn't over yet! I have more things planned in that area ^^ any help welcome as always

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/176544997866.2550755.6380353806583614603.b4-ty@linaro.org/T/#t

Still a lot work to do, but for the first time, we got completely integrated CI testing of kernels running... on a phone! For what I know, this is a first for a non-multi-million-euro-company in the FOSS world!! Can't be more proud of it and all the people that helped during this journey.

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/jobs/1465886 is a bit cryptic, and might look like any other gitlab CI job, but is actually booting on a OP6T at @mupuf farm!!

There's still a long road ahead, but in the future we might be able to automate kernel upgrades with a lot less manual testing, and continue working the "reliability" goal we presented in https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/30/pmOS-year-priorities/

Huge thanks to @mupuf for all his work and dedication on ci-tron, to @cas for the initial dream and work all across the stack, to @fizzo and @corna, for the PCB that drives the phone, and to @fun, @adrianyyy, and @cas again for the work on Tauchgang. Truly team work :)

More details in some weeks in a blog post near you ;)

#postmarketos #ci #hw-ci #testing #linuxmobile #foss

a high-profile software project proudly announcing that it's going to start "using AI" is basically the same thing to me as seeing a big "this repo is archived" banner. perhaps even worse in some respects? intentionally or not, the message it sends is "we don't really enjoy programming and we don't want to work on this anymore, but rather than retire the project we're going to do a really lackluster job from now on". like if your favorite coffee brand proudly announced "now 20% more sawdust"

"Al slop [...] was just vomited into existence."

About AI in writing/publishing...

#AI #AISlop

I keep wondering what they were smoking at Digital Equipment Corporation when they designed the logo for their Alpha CPUs

erste platz: beste auflösung

Best sysadmin practices

Had a bit of an improvised hacking amd socialozing weekend with @fossdd and @adrianyyy coming to visit at my place! Lots of chatting and hacking! We mostly worked on pmaports maintenance, documentation, systemd sub packages, mainline kernel in pmaports and HW-CI integration

Just a heads up for my #Filipino fediverse (and Bluesky) folk:

Are you familiar with something called Bayanihan Linux? If so, then if you have copies of versions 1.0 to 4.0, Bayanihan Linux Government Edition, and the Bayanihan Linux 5 add-on discs, please let me know.

#tech #technology #linux #lostmedia

Always take one moment in the day to appreciate your veggies

I'm curious, what @postmarketOS UIs are you using? (daily driving or not)

This is a multiple-choice poll

shut

Cloudflare? More like solarflare, gottem

When you ask Fortune 500 CEOs if they will share metrics on the benefits of RTO or AI adoption.