iRobot apparently just declared bankruptcy, so if you have an internet connected one and want to retain control if the cloud platform vanishes, take a look at https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980#how-to-get-your-usernameblid-and-password and stash that information somewhere safe (and note that it changes if you ever factory reset the device, so try not to do that)

stealing to alt text

🎙️ In our very timely new podcast episode 46 "Summer Events Special" that we are totally releasing just a few days after it was recorded, @RannyBergamotte, @ollieparanoid, @z3ntu and @linmob talk about Linux Mobile action at #defcon33, #why2025 and #froscon2025, all which took place between August 7 and 17 this year.

We get into how DEF CON in Las Vegas compares to the European events, what it's like to be at a hacker camp, plenty of Linux Mobile talks at FrOSCon, and a lot more!

Special thanks to @tgm for editing (first time editing a postmarketOS podcast episode)! ❤️

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/46-Summer-events-special/

#linuxmobile #podcast #mobilelinux #phosh

How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#democracy #dictators #leadership

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115716905758059408

I expect BSDisms to be dropped at some point.
The newer FreeBSD pkgbase is slowly getting to being able to upgrade the whole system, so the mess with many tools is solved. It's catching up, really.

Just put all binaries under /usr/bin and have everything else symlink to it, such as /bin, /sbin, /usr/local/bin or whatever. It has been done before.

This whole thing is mostly legacy from when we had very limited storage. Nowadays, we have terabytes on NVMe SSDs, not few kilobytes.

Oh holy moly

Google translate has moved from translating words to predictive text translation

It now gives me redacted texts, in which all the interesting bits have been strained out

Also, numbers are translated as random numbers. A two might be a twelve. They’re both numbers, right?

Yesterday’s version sped me up. Today I’ll have to revert to the slower but at least factually accurate read-it-myself-in-the-original

Sigh.

#Enshittification #AI #IntrusiveRedaction

I recently heard of https://gaza-verified.org/

When I went to the "Donate" page, I can't help but see how much money was raised for all these people who are victim of israel's genocide. It's so heartwarming to see that. <3

Free Palestine

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.

The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

You haven't truly lived the life of a #sysadmin until you're googling around to figure out some issue and find a post about it where someone's asking the exact same question and... it's you. You, asking the exact same question ten years ago. And nobody answers.

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

Many C programmers know that a function will return -EINVAL if you pass it an invalid argument. But most don't know that if you pass it two invalid arguments, it will instead return -ZWEIVAL.

It's real

Red Hat is pushing AI slop into Fedora relentlessly, because IBM wants it to happen

and telling people to use "apt" in fedora

love the shill comments too

https://fedoramagazine.org/find-out-how-your-fedora-system-really-feels-with-the-linux-mcp-server/
archive: https://archive.is/ZxfdK

never trust ChatGPT

I finally fixed touchpad in my favorite Chromebook (KOHAKU) and annoying issue with random wakeups while testing upcoming coreboot release (25.12, scheduled for Christmas Eve).

It feels... weird to have fully-functional machine with no quirks. Every other piece of hardware I own has weird quirks requiring workarounds or is straight up broken in one way or another

I've decided to join @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy and @cas in holding Office Hours for postmarketOS and related topics. You can hop in a call with me for 30 minutes every week on Wednesdays at 4:00pm CET/CEST to chat about various topics and I'll do my best to answer questions, discuss problems and help you.

You can find more information (and the other folks' hours) in the postmarketOS Wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Office_hours

Looking forward to chatting with you :)

very much well deserved! https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html

I'm sick of these soulless AI generated images. People used to use stock photos if they wanted images for the sake of having an image. This is gone, now I just get bombarded with an unholy average of many great art styles, hands with six fingers, and all of that for the low low price of the world rapidly going to shit because hardware manufactures and AI companies are in an unholy circlejerk inflating the economy of the US.