I never thought this would pay off, but here we are.

My date of certificate expiry is now automation actually triggered.

#manjaro #linux #manjarolinux #ssl #tls

the #pkgconf maintainers would like to talk to humans, not bots which have gone on a wild ride. this wastes our time as maintainers, and is why pkgconf does not allow LLM-generated contributions, especially agentic ones.

https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/pull/592

(I'm tired, boss)

suddenly felt like I was transported to an alternate reality

You may fascinate a hacker with 20 year-old e-waste

On a fun topic: what in the world is postmarketOS? (wrong answers only)

I really need to get around to deleting my account

#getOffGithub

This month's annoyance: people non-consensually assigning me tickets in their organisation's ticket tracker.

As #PuTTY maintainer, I'm often asked to fill in annoying government paperwork, usually from someone else's country. "All the software our organisation uses must comply with the National Foo Directive, so please fill in this huge questionnaire to confirm that you do."

Often without bothering to even mention which nation's National Foo Directive it is. Often without noticing that a lot of the questions are obviously meaningless (e.g. assuming the product is hardware, or a cloud service, or something). And _always_ without thinking through the difference between a commercial software vendor (who has a financial incentive to do this kind of paperwork, and can employ staff to do it out of the revenue stream from selling the software itself) and an unpaid free software maintainer (LOL no).

In the past, this has generally involved an email from some actual employee tasked with going through the Big Spreadsheet of all the software that (they know) they're using. So you can reply to the person and explain their misunderstanding. (Generally I wait until the followup email before bothering, in case they manage to engage their own brain before then, which sometimes they do.)

But a new and unwelcome development is that they're starting to do it by automated ticketing systems, so I get an email saying "[employee] has assigned you a task" and I have no doubt it's going to carry on automatically pestering without any way of making it listen to reason. Probably I have no choice but to start blocking these ticketing systems' email addresses.

I've (finally) got the talk recording from Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ("We need an open-source phone OS - postmarketOS!") on my YouTube channel, as always with proper subtitles!

https://youtu.be/Wi5DpVYozUc

#postmarketOS #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

Real hacker.

77-year-old Carl Gunn legally blocks a Flock license plate camera in St. Petersburg, Florida, by sitting on a public sidewalk and holding a 12-foot pool skimmer pole with a “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS” sign. Because he remains on public property and never touches the equipment, police confirmed his protest is lawful. #flock

I may need to unfollow the postmarketOS hashtag due to a weird flood of negative doom posting about it not being ready to fully replace Android yet. I know people are worried about Android locking down app development and such, but don't take that out on one of the few projects trying to remove Google and Apple's dualopoly :( Complaining can't make development faster.

going to the javascript store anyone want anything?

Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.

Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.

Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!

As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.

That's it for this post, all in all it's a bit bleak for the Linux devices, but in the meantime PineStore still have a great lineup of MCU powered devices which will continue to expand with more exciting devices.

Alrightttttt, have a great Monday! (or Tuesday, if you're up that early)

#pine64 #pinetime #pinenote #pinetab2 #pinetab #pinetimePro

Made it to my bed Super eepy but very happy with how FrOSCon went and that I got to talk to soooo many awesome people :) I even lost my voice very late into Sunday

Also fixed some functionality in the postmarketOS kernels for two generic x86_64 laptops on both days! linux-postmarketos-mainline 7.2 with the changes will be available later today and should fix all issues that were reported since the switch to the new kernels so far

So many familiar faces said they'd come to our conference with Alpine Linux in September, I'm SO excited and I hope we can put together an event that does our incredible community justice

"Claude watermarks your code now."

Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

last year The Linux Foundation had $300 million in revenue in 2025.

can't hire a designer.

absolutely pathetic.

green is my pepper? no, we are innovating today

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/117094103503360926

For my English-speaking audience:

Macron's recent law that was adopted in Parliament earlier this year and set to impose a nationwide ban on social media for under-15-year-olds via systematic age verification, was just declared unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Council.

Namely on these grounds:
• the council considers the law disproportionately infringes on the freedom of expression of minors,
• it considers that the establishment of a nationwide age verification system may have dire consequences for any citizen's right to privacy.

there is nothing these days that has the vibe of cyanogenmod. ad-hoc wifi support built-in? a completely custom system theming engine?
WHY IS THIS NOT ALIVE ANYMORE??

type of programmer who, when their C code does an out-of-bound read then crashes, moves their hands up & down and says "SIGSEGV-en"