You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the freakin' #Pope.

#AI #Vatican #BigTech #lobbying

What wallpaper shall we use in the upcoming v26.06 release?

Thanks to dikasp, MultisampledNight and foobtech for creating these amazing AI-free wallpapers!

Little project I've been working on for the past two days. A reverse engineered implementation of the Android Auto server, running on my OnePlus 6 with PostmarketOS. The implementation is incredibly basic, only has basic video, but it's enough to display Sway and firefox :D

Next major step is getting it to work on a "proper" headunit. It works with my generic Chinese portable Android Auto / CarPlay screen but on a proper Toyota headunit inside a 2019 Toyota Aygo it fails somewhere along the way on the authentication chain.

#postmarketos #mobilelinux

Alpine Linux and PostmarketOS conference sponsoring:

https://opencollective.com/alpinelinux/updates/alpine-linux-and-postmarketos-conference-sponsoring

#AlpineLinux

How do you securely chat in 2026? easy, you just wall each other on sakamoto, the most secure privacy-oriented and e2e encrypted chat platform available

 ellyqw │ no doxxing ourselves on alpine irc though
@panekj │ we should use a secure communication
@panekj │ wall me on sakamoto
 ellyqw │ good idea

excited to announce i'll be giving a talk at this year's @piwo about making ARM SoCs work in Linux! (that's *this saturday*, 30th May, at 4:05pm)

slides will be in english, but the talk will be in polish. i'll publish the slides after the talk if anyone else wants to take a look (and most likely there'll be a recording/livestream as well) :D

Gotta love when some excited developers share some ideas they have on their head, only for some unrelated troll to pretend to be a developer and troll people with extremely deceptive replies.

These excited developers, instead of getting constructive feedback and all, they get insults, deceptive feedback, attacks. All that because they wanted to share ideas they had on how to move forward (no code was yet written).

Sound familiar?

Introducing systemd-diskd: A new tool to manage your disks. It can create a systemd partition table and format your partitions using the systemd file system. It can also automatically bootstrap a systemd os install using systemd-repart and make the install bootable with systemd-boot. Upon booting this new os, you are greeted by systemd-greetd, a new login manager using systemd-userdb to show a list of users. After logging in to your user, you are met with the systemd desktop environment where you have access to the full suite of systemd graphical applications.

New factory image for PineTab2 (2026/05/24)

https://echo.danctnix.org:7269/factory_images/pinetab2/20260524/

#pine64 #pinetab2 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile

It's not normally a good idea to share internal security processes, but I did want to offer the funniest trivia in my work to fight spam - I just added gamepad support to my spam-fighting client, meaning I'm literally using a joystick and buttons to do the work.

Turns out, if you can consolidate part of your job to an Xbox controller, you can speed it up significantly.

Don't worry, Android 2 on the PinePhone isn't real, it can't hurt you.

Android 2 on the PinePhone:

Port by Amy on Discord!

#pinephone #pine64

just got CC'd in an insane email along with a bunch of other kernel devs, seems like someone went off the deep end with chatGPT. Documented it in a Gist, anyone have any theories? XD

https://gist.github.com/kcxt/2489f17398cd1ea10da8be516323582d

I would recommend jumping to line 490 for the weirdest bits https://gist.github.com/kcxt/2489f17398cd1ea10da8be516323582d#file-prepare_our_fighters_100k_1_million_30_million-c-L490

I have to say, this new MacBook Neo is really pretty

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help save the planet by reusing and recycling your old passwords

Ocean Design keeps moving forward in Plasma. The next generation of design in #KDE A rundown of May events was just posted. Check it out!

https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/ocean-design-for-plasma-may-updates/

This is what peak I/O shield looks like.

VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, or HDMI? Yes.
Analog or optical 5.1 audio? Yes.
PS/2, USB2 or USB3? Yes.
eSATA? Yes. Two.

Bonus RS232 with a 3D printed bracket on the side~

(From an old home server I just shut down after many years ^^)

Testing request for Qualcomm devices on Mobian:

We’d appreciate more testing of Linux 6.18 on Qualcomm devices before considering it as the default kernel for testing users.

Relevant packages:

linux-image-6.18-sdm845
linux-image-6.18-sdm670

If you’re running an SDM845 or SDM670 device, please test and report:

boot success/failures
suspend/resume
modem/Wi-Fi/audio/camera status
regressions vs current kernel
stability and battery life

Feedback and test reports are very welcome.

I do not understand why I get criticism from Dem voters for being critical of Dem electeds.

I do not vote for MAGA.
I do not campaign for MAGA.
I do not donate to MAGA.

BUT

I do vote for Dems.
I do campaign for Dems.
I do donate my money to Dems.

So I demand accountability when they fail to uphold justice. We face fascism, an existential threat to our republic. Weak leadership won't stop fascism. If you want a party you can't criticize, join MAGA.

Let us adults alone to do the actual work.

Big fundraiser for @osnews, in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post. Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

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