@GrapheneOS @domi @elly @mei To be clear I don't think your project is non-viable or a dead end, nor do I think you're not doing any valuable work - quite the opposite!

I like what y'all do on the technical side of things, I know some people who use GrapheneOS as a daily driver and are very happy with it. I personally don't use it because it doesn't support my current phone (Fairphone 5) and I am very reluctant to buying a Google Pixel, but you're still doing nice work and it's great that this is another available option that can be used.

hmmm. do you think steam link is going to work well on my oscilloscope

For those who missed my #Asahilinux #39c3 talk, it's available at https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-apple-silicon now.

I've also just pushed my slides to https://github.com/svenpeter42/39c3 and uploaded them as PDF to https://cfp.cccv.de/39c3/talk/YGHB9K/

America's engine. Cartoon from one year ago.

#Trump #lies #democracy

If you’re upset and trying to guilt people of color for rightfully pointing out that nobody gave a shit until it happened to a white lady, maybe sit down and shut the fuck up

RIP human(-made) creativity? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

Note: this cartoon was made without any use of AI.

#AI #creativity #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech

It's been zero days since I lost time on a GH repo before realizing 'oh wait, this is slop, that's why none of this makes any sense' after 15 minutes.

Is there some nice community list/plugin that I could use to give me a big red border around repository pages of vibe coded garbeoleum?

I know about open-slopware, but that's not what I'm looking for - I want a baseline filter for obvious useless slop, not one where well established projects might fall into just because someone used an LLM once.

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

In the early 2000s the ReactOS team paused development for years; to engage in a project wide audit, under accusations that a developer may have SEEN leaked windows sourcecode.

In the 2020s developers keep insisting it's cool for #FLOSS projects to use AI's trained on random other people's code to generate code for their projects; when it is known that such AI assistants occasionally reproduce code verbatim, without regard to the original software license. #llm #AI #eliza #generativeAI

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..

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