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Literal #showerthoughts of the day: why isn't there a new boot firmware for personal computers that combines good ideas from iBoot and depthcharge, while keeping #UEFI as the interface for the OS and adding some cool extras? * (when preinstalled on a Product™) start out in normie mode […]

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I've been procrastinating on actual paid work today all day anyway, maybe it's time to finally get mainline running on that interesting tablet that's been on my desk for a couple months… it's from a local brand y'all probably have never heard of and it's powered by an MT8183 of all things :3

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Lightly refreshed the design on https://val.packett.cool/ – and the intro text but not really any other content. Kinda wanted to also have sections better organized by the "type of thing" I do, but well.. some other time. Thanks to a much lighter […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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LOLWTF is this spam newsletter that got through the filter?!?!?

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so I went to San Francisco for the first time ever this week. when I was a kid, I used to play this video game called Midtown Madness 2, where you could drive around in SF, and I had an awesome time looking at things I'd only seem in video game become reality here's a thread with the things as […]

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What in the actual flying fuck.. parsing binary data with REGEXPS is a thing people actually do?! 0.o I don’t want to dunk anyone, I’m just genuinely shocked

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I'm finally ready to release my desktop image dithering app, Dithertime! 🌟 It's more accurate, correct, and extensive than any other image dithering software out there. And it's fast too! I've been working on it nights and weekends for a year, and I'm […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

some cool stuff is coming for #HelixEditor : color previews, statusline merged with cmdline, icons, markdown tables in lsp docs, & more

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Great, our president is a literal shitcoin scammer now. Liberty is when.. first you pump.. and then you dump

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Just a small tip for #canadians from Argentina. A good way to convince your conservative neighbours who think they will do better with PP is to take a look at our president. He has been following Trump and Musk as a puppy for years, showing himself at every […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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The #Rust for #Linux debacle should be a wake-up call for accelerating safe OS innovation. #FreeBSD proves you can reuse huge pieces of Linux, with GPU and WiFi drivers ported in kernel space (LinuxKPI) and USB (input, video capture, etc.) drivers running in userspace (webcamd – RIP Hans 😔) […]

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Codeberg.org is under attack by right wing trolls over diversity, equity and inclusion. This is what you get when you enable the goons. They will spoil public resources. This is a good illustration of Popper's paradox on why one should not tolerate intolerance […]

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must be a very important announcement if it’s a 800 meg update just to deliver it

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#postmarketos #linuxmobile an annoying power management problem: VCM/Lens drivers typically just `pm_runtime_get` on `open()` and `pm_runtime_put` on `close()`… so these devices only get autosuspended when they aren't held open by anyone… and VERY HELPFULLY pipewire&wireplumber (via […]

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WTAF this is a new level of cursed so the `pilot` USB serial driver for #Palm devices in #Linux seems to have… some issues that affect whole system stability lol but now my laptop consistently freezes when i try to UPLOAD A SCREENSHOT OF THAT DMESG in tuba

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

new toy!! #palm

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The #postmarketOS Moto E5 out in the real world

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So, you've (I hope) actually read the Project 2025 document and thus know a big part of the stated policy objectives of this US government, if you're impacted by them. If you have, you're probably also confused as to where the hell the rest of the chaos that's clearly not in that plan came from […]

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My post from yesterday (https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/113962852422322623) generated some very interesting comments. It seems that this behavior is confirmed and not just on Samsung devices, but also on devices from other manufacturers. I knew that many Chinese manufacturers, in order to […]

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol but not serious] There is no going back to boring normal business as usual after this. The next US government must have an elite CATGIRL department tasked with quickly jacking into all the mainframes and forcibly taxing all the billionaires

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

heh, Hex Colordle) is pretty fun

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

singing while working on networking code: "LOOK AT THIS DATAGRAM…"

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

#postmarketOS : approved for artsy hipster photography. filters built in!

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#rustlang oops wow the tokio `write_vectored` default fallback impl is extremely un-POLA > Data is copied from each buffer in order […] must behave as a call to write with the buffers concatenated > > The default implementation calls poll_write with either the first nonempty buffer provided […]

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First photo taken with and directly posted from the Moto E5 with #postmarketOS yay #linuxmobile (don't have a driver for the focus coil on this yet so the rear cam is blurry for now)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty cool that #phosh lets you adjust the torch brightness. Not something my daily Android phone offers! #postmarketOS

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Woah, the Lumia 950 has the _FM radio_ of all things working in mainline Linux?? 0.o #linuxmobile Still no GPU for msm8992/msm8994, I wonder how hard that would be…?

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Uoooo, Claro habilitó el 5G en #BuenosAires No es que lo necesitaba pero bueno, el futurooo ya llegó

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that's a nice nextcloud theme the migadu webmail has,,

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I wasn't quiiiite on the "cancel Proton immediately" bandwagon but… I won't be renewing my subscription. Of course I don't like that the CEO said anything at all positive about the orange man, but that's not the only factor. The subscription is relatively expensive while the product… did […]

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can't believe we all just missed the moment to short the $NVDA stonks i'm sure the company that announced the "better chinese competitor LLM" did NOT miss the moment

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Queer anti-fascist assembly #BuenosAires #Argentina

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