Alright, following some discussion in the Spade Discord we have an "LLM policy" that I'm very happy with

https://gitlab.com/spade-lang/spade/-/merge_requests/556

TL;DR: No LLM contributions please, they
- Take maintainer time for less reward than human contributions
- Are questionable from a copyright perspective
- Have ethical concerns

RE: https://mastodon.social/@evemassacre/115888801835574185

AI bubble barons are getting pretty desperate it seems.

service announcement: postmarketOS now has a binary repo for loongarch64
...but it is not usable at the moment because Alpine's repo is broken :(
Once that's resolved, you can now install pmOS on any* loongarch64 device by selecting the generic-loongarch64 device with e.g. the os-installer interface, flashing it to a USB stick, selecting it in the UEFI and you should be booting right into the installer :)

* Loongson-3 series with new-world compatible firmware

Heads up for edge users: alpine edge repositories are temporarily broken due to the ICU upgrade:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/13/icu-upgrades/

my #39c3 art project is done! I took a VHS-C camcorder to the event and did my best to capture the vibe and art installations without violating the photopolicy.

It’s my first highly-edited video in over 5 years, so please excuse the roughness around some edges. Hope you enjoy it!

• https://youtu.be/I7fRj4pxOkQ
• http://tv.ol-worldwi.de/The%2039C3%20Supercut.mp4

Don't forget, LLMs are an attempt to rent-seek on things that are just basic cognitive abilities, providing you keep using those abilities.

Even ignoring all the other ethical problems with it (and you really shouldn't), do you really want to offload things like "writing", "reading", "drawing", etc, to the same kind of companies that have brought you great innovations like surveillance capitalism and the gig economy?

ICE training session exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/how-ice-training-works/

live life to the fullest. write code that will make others go "well that shit (derogatory) couldn't have been written by an LLM".

Long live FireWire

okay, after not getting an answer for an hour on that, I'm officially worried. does anyone have an ACTIVE way to contact wolfman2000/"dance dad" (who used to be on GDQ streams) other than their discord? I strongly suspect their account has been stolen

EDIT: confirmed that it's stolen and confirmed that they're aware

#gamesdonequick #agdq2026

Thank you @elly for hooking me up with a new coreboot build for an old thinkpad x220!!

She even created this amazing boot splash for me 🤣

don't use automatically generated alt text
also consider not running automated accounts

happy rockchip new year!

it has been 10 years since Pope Rockchip I decreed that November shall have 31 days

https://git.kernel.org/linus/f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716

GrapheneOS version 2026011000 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026011000

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/30465-grapheneos-version-2026011000-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

for what it's worth, I *do* think there is too much shit talking in free software, and I think it *has* harmed the mental health of maintainers in general. i don't know what to do about it though.

me: "so I switched to GrapheneOS to have better control of where my data is stored, specifically only syncing to my NAS at home"

my mom: "I did that when Trump got elected again"

(my mom is a highly technical person who maintains library management software)

EDIT: please don't use the comments to attack grapheneos or Daniel Micay, that's literally doing the thing they are accusing me and the postmarketos community of doing! We are better than that.

The post that motivated me to write this has been deleted, I would much rather live and let live

To Daniel and the rest of the grapheneOS team: I would very much like to clear this matter up, maybe a discussion with a neutral moderator present? I'm open to ideas. You can reach me via email: kcxt@postmarketos.org

I was 21 back when the events i described below happened, I'm not going to pretend I did nothing wrong, but I certainly didn't intend or expect for events to play out the way they did. If i'm forever marred with no opportunity for recourse then so be it, but I would rather avoid that outcome since it clearly hasn't gone great so far.

I want to be able to collaborate and lift each other up, GrapheneOS have done a lot of great work, their web flasher genuinely blew me away when i used it back in 2022. It directly inspired flash.postmarketos.org!

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I've spent the last 3 years explicitly avoiding talking about GrapheneOS or Daniel Micay online because I assumed good faith after last time when he said my behavior (dunking on him on twitter) was deeply distressing to him.

I'm breaking my vow of silence cuz I'm feeling kinda gaslit right now, I'm pretty sure I don't deserve this shit

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115867751108659970