wondered why vscode was running like total shit after a recent update, then it popped up telling me the extension host crashed and offered to do an extension bisect so im like sure why not

i go through picking can/can't reproduce just based on vibes of how shit it was running

i have 116 extensions installed and THIS was the end result of that, joker moment of a fucking generation. fuck microsoft

(if you reply to this telling me to not use vscode i will probably block you, yes that includes suggesting codium or whatever. i wish this wasn't the workflow i ended up with but it is and now isn't the time for me to switch)

sooo i tried using the new b4 review TUI for my last U-Boot PR and it was a bit of a disaster. I understand the process being a bit clunky to begin with but the whole process of actually setting up a branch was really involved. It failed to update a bunch of series on pathwork, and the b4 ty emails it generated had completely wrong commit SHAs

I get that the intention is primarily patch review but even for that it feels less like a tool i can utilise to automate the process and more like an imposed workflow that offers little flexibility

the thing that really pissed me off in the end though was realising that b4 review was VIBE CODED, kinda explains everything... This tool had so much potential but i struggle to see now how it will deliver when AI is involved in building it

#kernel #maintainer #b4 #mainline #patchwork #foss

hot take: if you think that you have to fear that contributors will abandon your software project because you ban llm contributions, there might be a bigger problem around

🟪 okay, whoever the fuck is emailing the Rust Foundation, threatening various Rust team members, and threatening to literally stalk people at a public event next week

fuck you

this discussion was supposed to be over and we were supposed to spend the rest of the day distracted, not trying to do even more damage control because you fuckers don't know how to actually do activism

you are an active harm to the causes you support and you're making a lot of work for people who are on the same fucking side as you

responsible disclosure in the future: not dropping the vuln on a Friday afternoon or the weekend.

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/