How hackers are fighting back against ICE when they are invading US cities and how to defend communities and hopefully protect them through clever use of technology https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

If Andrew "bunnie" Huang didn't exist, I'd swear he was a character out of a(n extraordinarily technologically well-informed) cyberpunk novel. Every time I interact with this legendary hardware hacker, he blows my mind with some project or insight that permanently alters how I think about tech.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips

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*slaps speaker* this thing can fit so much mainline in it

Your irregular reminder that Alpine Linux DOES NOT have any Telegram channels and any community use of the Alpine marks in a way which indicates an official relationship with or endorsement by the project is forbidden by our Code of Conduct.

Unfortunately, it is hard to get Telegram to do anything about this. We have been trying for years.

Yesterday evening I geeked on @postmarketOS and installed u-boot and a brand new version of postmarketOS on an "old" 2011 android 4.0 tablet. So happy to see this device with new up to date software 🤩🎉

#reuse #recycle #postmarketOS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Raghadfamily/115846914089361231

@AnnaLion @Geri @celestinia

Thanks to @newbyte's efforts and @agx's reviewing, everything relevant from the "postmarketOS tweaks" app has been integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings so that we were able to sunset the legacy app in postmarketOS edge and have one less settings app in total! 🎉

As a bonus, Phosh Mobile Settings now has a generic conf-tweaks interface that can be used to add other custom settings with config files as well!

Details in the edge post:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/04/postmarketos-tweaks-replaced/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile #phosh

https://social.phosh.mobi/users/phosh/statuses/01KE52S074EH28WZR7K13EW0XT

So for anyone playing at home, the Rockchip RV1126+ is a yet-undocumented variant of the Rockchip RV1126 that identifies itself as 0x112d rather than 0x1126.

The only mentions found about it are in the git log of rkbin, where they quote the git log of their OP-TEE fork, where they first “add rv112d support”, and then “add rv1126+ support”. The quick diff of the OP-TEE binary before and after those two updates shows that indeed, 0x112d is RV1126+.

The "fun" thing is that their other binaries that may care about how a chip identifies have not been made aware of the 0x112d variant.

For example, the usbplug binary (which is how rockusb is implemented by the vendor) is resetting out quite quickly out (which could mislead an unobservant developer in thinking it didn't even try to run).

This might help others:

Boot1 Release Time: Mar 29 2023 15:54:09, version: 1.24 NO FTL
Boot from dev = 10
chip_id:2d115652
hamming_distance:112d 1126 3
hamming_distance:112d 1109 2
chip_id:5256112d00,-1
ChipType = 22

Not sure what the best format to share a binary patch is, but here's the diff of the xxd output before and after. Hint, see the -r flag to xxd.

--- bin/rv11/rv1126_usbplug_v1.24.bin.xxd       2026-01-01 12:42:25.758834328 -0500
+++ rv1126_usbplug_v1.24.rv112d.patched.xxd     2026-01-01 12:42:06.817577746 -0500
@@ -90 +90 @@
-00000590: 9df8 1010 04f0 03fc 002c 14da b048 fff7  .........,...H..
+00000590: 9df8 1010 04f0 03fc 15e0 14da b048 fff7  .............H..

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RT: https://ap.samueldr.com/objects/65289274-1465-4d8c-9625-f3bae8de10e0

linus prime ngl

Dear @c3voc Once again: Thanx for your excellent work @ #39c3! 🙏

And some constructive feedback on #Audio: I saw a user complaining about the Intros of recorded talks being too loud.

Did some measurements. (Perceived) Integrated Loudness compared:

▶︎ 1h Talk without Intro/Outro:
-24.1 dB LUFS
▶︎ 15sec Intro-Part:
-12.3 dB LUFS

Intro = nearly 12dBs louder than actual talk – that's a lot!!

For a more pleasant experience I'd recommend aiming for similar LUFS levels i.e. ≤6dB difference.

😘

It's my first day on Mastodon, so I'm starting by introducing my cats.

This is Max. He's a black cat so photos are tricky - but here's one where he looks like he does in reality: the single most beautiful cat in the world (if you don't count all the other beautiful cats, which is all cats)

In case you didn't notice, the U-Boot Secondary Program Loader (SPL) amlogic S905(X) support patches are now in U-Boot next!

I'd like to take this moment to thank everyone who got involved in this effort, I believe it was a collaborative effort and many people contributed to reach this goal. I'd be lying if I said it was a one-person effort. :)

No matter if it's small things like some hints on how things work, or writing the whole mkimage amlogic handling, or pointing me to old Amlogic u-boot sources, or taking the time to review my patches (suggesting cleanups along the way that, in retrospect, just made the patch series a lot cleaner), or offering to expense money on boards, or donating them, or just quickly testing on a few boards, or even just encouraging me to continue working on this, it all matters a lot to me and I think without any of that we probably wouldn't have gotten to this point.

Back years ago a U-Boot SPL port to replace the proprietary bl2.bin blob was unheard of, I never thought we'd go this far!

So thank you so much for your help, no matter how small, it really did and still does mean a lot to me.

❤️

With that I'm ready for what's happening next :D

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115815542706568264

Because unlike commercial social media, fediverse doesn't attempt to silo you with people in the same linguistic & geopolitical bubble to make you more lucrative to advertisers and less of a threat to nationalists.

Vondelkerk in Amsterdam is burning down, neighbourhood is being evacuated 😞

Help from neighbouring cities was called in because the local firefighters were also very busy with people being assholes with fireworks 😒

Gotta wonder if the two are related, heh.

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/236202/grote-brand-vondelkerk-toren-ingestort-en-veel-woningen-ontruimd

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vondelkerk

#News

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone

interesting talk!