Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

one example of the things that makes "open source" software as democratizing a total myth: compiling firefox (librewolf in my case) takes 100% of my 16 cpu cores and 16-20gb of ram, and it still takes a long long time. that is not accessible to most people.

Behind the scenes, the last 2-3 months were intense. 😮‍💨

Lots of reverse engineering against the Vivante blob, and long conformance runs on several boards - i.MX8MQ, i.MX8MP and i.MX8QM, three quite different GPUs. Chasing GPU hangs for weeks, re-running suites overnight, going back to the blob again and again.

Exhausting, but it's exactly how these milestones happen.

Good to see that Edward Snowden's work is also mentioned in the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Servo Gets CSS Grid Working, Threadboost Offering Big Speed-Ups

Servo's August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the Servoshell demo browser...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.6-Changes

Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support

AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW

Finally received my Jolla Phone (I was in batch 3). First impressions are that it is a major upgrade from the C2 Community Phone.

Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF

In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Easy-Anti-Cheat-Better-Linux

Calling for volunteers to help the GNOME Extensions team with code reviews and Shexli linter improvements.

If you are interested in joining the review team or helping with Shexli, please reach out to us in the https://matrix.to/#/#extensions:gnome.org

https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2026/10/12/help-ego-team/

#extensions #gnome

Finally got around to migrating my website off of Cloudflare’s hosting. Now does anyone know of any non-evil registrars?

While still very much untested, the #SailfishOS app is published here:

https://codefloe.com/SnappTechnology/harbour-indoorbike

Or find the link here:
https://indoorbike.app/#install

I'm very happy for anyone to try. But expect issues and fequent updates at this point.

#cycling

Do you have a fingerprint reader? In GNOME 51 we improved the user interface for managing fingerprints, and now adding, removing or even storing multiple different fingerprints is easier than ever.

Note: this feature isn't limited to smartphones!

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS

LineageOS 24, based on Android 17, released

LineageOS has released its first version based on Android 17 - earlier than expected.

We’ve been hard at work rebasing all of our changes and features since Android 17’s release in June. Android 17’s first release mainly contained iterative improvements and some UI/UX refinements, but due to our previous efforts adapting to Google’s heavy refactor

https://www.osnews.com/story/146132/lineageos-24-based-on-android-17-released/

#Android

❗️Kaja Kallas says EU foreign ministers intend to approve on Monday the largest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the war began. She criticized the suspension of sanctions on Russian diesel, saying it gives Moscow more revenue to wage war. #Russia

I optimized Bazaar's cold startup time to 320 ms (from launch to first frame) on my laptop, so I was able to remove the short but stuttery loading screen.

For comparison, GNOME Settings takes about 300 ms to load under the same conditions.

Most of the savings came from running more tasks in parallel and lazy-loading some widgets.

#GNOME #Bazaar

today i set out to finally have a day off, and then i ended up wanted to look at a PDF, and spent 5 hours in hyperfocus to get papers and evince working on my qcs8550 system. this required fixing a bug in mesa that caused a SIGILL because of disabled SVE on this Cortex-x3, and then another hour of stracing to realize that frigging "apparmor" was preventing these apps from loading GL/vulkan libs from /usr/local/lib

phosh 0.58.0 is out 🚀📱:

It's mostly 🐛 fixes this time around but also some quality of life improvements and more hardware support in BengalOS:

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.58.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone #BengalOS

Milestone 2: a new backend compiler, written in #rust 🦀

SSA from the start, works on lowered I/O, supports geometry shaders, and it's one compiler for graphics and OpenCL through rusticl - the door to compute workloads etnaviv couldn't run before.

It's not merged yet: GLES 3.0 got priority. Upstreaming it is next.

So true. Free your mind, walk away from them...go back to a real world with no AI digital twins of ourselves, trained on our historical data, metadatas, behavioral/biometrics that would be ready to take over our lifes and our democracies. No more info for them.

Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3

There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-USB4-Apple-Silicon