I dunno who needs to hear this but I got a D in Linux operating systems in college. If you’re passionate about something don’t let some institutional structure tell you that you’re not good at it

New monthly blog post is up!

"postmarketOS in 2026-04: new boot splash"

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/05/10/pmOS-update-2026-04/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile

Read root-owned files as an unprivileged user:

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn/blob/main/README.md

If a "security researcher" files a GHSA advisory that's obvious slop (e.g. quoting function signatures that don't exist) is it right to somehow make the report public (as way of punishment) or just close it by clicking really hard and getting on with your life?

If the former, is that even possible in GitHub?

Really nice job @fun tracking down **and** fixing a 20 year old bug in #openrc 🎉

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/1007

#postmarketos

why would you write if (x) ; else y; instead of if (!x) y;?

(ignore the horrible indentation, it’s 4 spaces then 1 tab then 4 spaces again)

today in "huh, they built it with THAT?"
Asus ProArt ChromaTune. It's a little app that sits in your windows tray and can switch between your monitor's color palettes. You can either do it manually, or you can tell it to automatically switch when you run certain programs, so you can do things like "always use sRGB mode when I'm in photoshop".

Wanna guess how they built this?

faith in humanity restored

Heads up for edge users:

We've switched to Plymouth for displaying the boot splash! This allows screen rotation to work, and to toggle between splash and boot logs by pressing ESC on devices with a keyboard, or the power button 🔌 on phones and tablets.

More information:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/04/30/Switching-from-pbsplash-to-Plymouth/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile

\o/ VLC in space

@videolan

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

in the wake of Blender’s unfortunate, “dropping a banana peel on the ground and slipping on it”-type post a few days ago, i feel like it should be noted that they did, in fact, post a response today where they apologized and announced policy changes and open discussions that i think pretty reasonably address the problems. thank you, blender.

https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

tell someone that they're cool, what happens next may surprise you

The recent announcement about Anthropic joining the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron member has raised concerns from the community around how we engage with AI topics.

This is how we plan to address the issue: https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

#b3d #DevFund

RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116483835313862451

Seth was the leader of the GNOME Usability project, which led to the creation of the human interface guidelines; the words might have changed over 25 years, but he's one of the people that made the Linux desktop, and we're still walking in his footsteps.

This is epic, first time camera is working in #Waydroid 🤩 Thanks to @supechicken and the WayDroid-ATV project!

#LinuxMobile #NixOS #postmarketOS

Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.

Scientists are famous oversharers.

Dear #gitlab a Work Item is not something I want to be concerned with in #FreeSoftware stuff I do in my free time. Can't we have names that are more motivating like "Puzzles to solve"?