The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories

During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a career-ending event everyone feared). He refused every time. The University administration backed him up. A decade later I overheard some faculty (partygoers at our house) talking about the events with respect.

I never thought those days would come again.

Don’t be a snitch on friends and colleagues. Don’t cooperate. Keep your self respect and earn the esteem of others. Plus it is the right thing to do.

Claude is down again and I am seeing people basically go through withdrawal.

If you are feeling it, recognize it for what it is.

a fairly detailed analysis of the california "age assurance bill" by fellow #AlpineLinux contributor @RunxiYu

https://runxiyu.org/comp/ab1043/

Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

to be honest, i am kinda just not into the idea of even being staff on a mastodon instance anymore. this is no longer "fun" to me.

for example, two people got into a fight yesterday -- a local user got into a fight with a remote user that went *very* sideways.

what does that have to do with me? well, a fucking fediblock post was made specifically tagging *me* into the fight, a fight that i had absolutely nothing to do with, in order to pressure me into taking the side of the remote user.

so then what happens? i get blocked by a bunch of people for no reason. the instance gets blocked by a bunch of instances for no reason.

i am sick and tired of it. i am probably going to just move to my own personal GTS instance or hachyderm or something.

but to be absolutely clear: I *do not* run the day to day affairs of treehouse anymore, and haven't in a long time. it has been run by a collective for the past 18 months.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now exceeded 120 hours with connectivity still flatlining around 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, an increasingly Orwellian environment is emerging as telcos threaten users who try to connect to the global internet with legal action.

Hi everyone! We are still fighting with an ongoing DDoS attack against our service on the network level. We do not yet have any ETA on recovery time, as we're still investigating different mitigation strategies.

As always, we are very grateful for your support and patience.

There's nothing controversial about E2EE.

Unless you think it's controversial for private conversations to be.... private?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

I love the EU

 19:27 <@f_> https://xcancel.com/vonderleyen/status/2027756878575362119
 19:27 <@f_> "Please respect office hours"
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> look we need the EU to pass a law saying websites should only be accessible during business hours
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> to combat, uh, internet addiction. yeah.
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> and then we need the US to do the same.
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> and then Japan
 19:28 <@f_> great idea

How is KDE Plasma nowadays regarding being lightweight? Back ages ago I remember it being one of the heavy desktop environments, but it ran just fine on my 15 year old laptop (was ~10 years old during that time) alongside gnome which IIRC worked better under nouveau...

but now I see GNOME has gotten heavier (which wasn't unexpected), libadwaita apps are inefficient. How's KDE Plasma on that regard?

check out this aliexpress motherboard gacha https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006100511771.html

IRCv3 is shaping to be amazingly good!

here's the things it offers, today, right now, on a chat server we just set up in one evening:

• you don't need a bouncer (friggin finally)
• there are moblie clients that work well
• you can see backlog when joining a channel
• you can browse chat history
• you can connect from multiple devices with one account and nickname
• if you disconnect, your nickname is still present in a channel you joined, marked as away
• you can highlight or DM people who are away and they'll see your message when they join (without crutches like MemoServ)
• there is a "last read message" marker and it is synchronized between multiple connections
• messages have identifiers (and server timestamps) and replies can be tagged with the message you're replying to
• messages can be redacted (for moderation)
• you don't need to deal with fussy nonsense like NickServ authorization, ghosting, or such; connect with your username and password and that's it
• there are typing notifiers, if you want them
• there are message reactions, if you want them

here's the things it does not offer:

• image, video, or file uploads (actively worked on: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/562)
• stickers
• complex onboarding tools

caveat: since IRCv3 is a true extension of IRCv2, the features listed above work if they're supported by both the server and the client. in my onboarding experience so far, people do not find it difficult to find a suitable client, but your mileage may vary. on the flipside, legacy clients will work just fine.

unexpectly, i realized that IRCv3 can completely replace Matrix rooms for my own group chat purposes, and i'm probably not going to set up any Matrix homeservers again; it's just not worth it and frankly I should instead put that effort into coming up with a file upload IRCv3 extension or something

@osuosl is raising funds to cover critical extra expenses that incurred while moving and modernizing their data center.

They host and maintain not only our gitlab instance, but also a bunch of services for a long list of important free software projects, including @alpinelinux, @armbian, #busybox, @chimera, #Debian, @fdroidorg, @fedora, #ffmpeg, #fosdem, #freedesktoporg, #gcc, @gentoo, @gnome, @inkscape, @kde, #kodi, @LineageOS, the #linux kernel, @llvm, #openbsd, #qemu, @reproducible_builds, @rust, #tor, #vlc and many more:
https://osuosl.org/communities/

Consider donating to them or boosting this post if you want to help them out. Thank you!

https://fosstodon.org/users/osuosl/statuses/116048416100183283

Heads up for edge users: we briefly had a version of mkinitfs (2.8.0) in edge that didn't generate proper boot images for OP6/6T, FP5 and Pixel 3a, resulting in boot failures. This has been fixed in mkinitfs 2.9.0 and boot-deploy 0.23.0. (This is a good example why the hardware CI work is so important.) Edge post: https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/02/10/mkinitfs-2.8.0-break-boot/

Let's gooo, got working DSI before going to sleep and officially declaring the weekend to be over :) :) :) so this is sm6115-motorola-guamp also known to normal people as the Moto G9 Play. Coming to actual upstream Linux (and U-Boot) soon!

Amazingly, just like river this one has a PMI632 (so battery % and charging do still need WIP drivers and the fuel gauge one is very funny right now). And just like on the SC7180 mini-PC, the missing MDSS reset was causing trouble again! (Except while there it was causing a visual artifact due to the EFI framebuffer still being on, here it was not letting the display show any image at all)

#postmarketOS #linuxmobile

Happy to announce that @ayakael is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!

He is getting postmarketOS comfortable on eink and cyberdeck devices, improving rockchip support, maintaining Alpine Linux packages and learning how to mainline linux patches. Regarding eink devices, he made a bunch of improvements to the e-ink powered pine64-pinenote and moved it from the testing category to community.

📜 TC page:
https://postmarketos.org/team/#antoine-martin-ayakael

#Megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketOS Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #PinePhone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main alternative Snapshot—which unfortunately runs at what seems to be less than 1 FPS on it.

Remember the "One Laptop Per Child" project, that developed a low-cost computer for children in developing countries? I was always amazed by a certain feature: The "View Source" button.

When you pressed it, the source code for the currently running application would open. This was supposed to encourage tinkering with the software on your device! <3

I've been pondering what it would take to build that button on modern machines. Has anyone seen something like that?

(Prototype in next toot.)

Oh #irix, I didn't miss this.

#retrocomputing