Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Major blow to the concept of software updates today.

Remember when developers would make an effort to bundle all their new features and bugfixes into a single stable build, and test that release thoroughly before sending it to users? We called it "shipping."

Shipping is old-fashioned now, and continuous deployment is in, which is why 5% of any given app is busted this week -- but don't worry, it'll be a different 5% next week.

JAAAAAAA! Mehr als 67.680 Menschen in Deutschland wünschen sich eine #Vermögenssteuer. Mit eurer Hilfe haben wir die erforderliche Anzahl an Unterschriften bei der Europäischen Bürgerinneninitiative (EBI) #TaxTheRich für Deutschland erreicht – ein wichtiger Etappensieg!

Damit die EBI erfolgreich ist, müssen wir nun zum einen mithelfen, dass weitere EU-Länder ihr Quorum erreichen – es braucht mindestens sieben. Sagt vor allem euren Freund*innen in Belgien, Dänemark und Italien Bescheid!

Außerdem müssen EU-weit länderunabhängig eine Million Unterschriften gesammelt werden, deshalb ist auch jede weitere Unterschrift aus Deutschland wichtig – teilt also bitte weiter so super wie bisher!

Für jeden Anlass die passende Kleidung im Schrank zu haben. So wichtig. #crowdstrike

Ah yes, let's ship a kernel driver that parses update files that are pushed globally simultaneously to millions of users without progressive staging, and lets write it in a memory unsafe language so it crashes if an update is malformed, and let's have no automated boot recovery mechanism to disable things after a few failed boots. What could possibly go wrong?

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"As our country continues to reel from this horrific event, we in Congress have taken action by enacting a nationwide ban on all roofs, roof terraces, and balconies." https://www.theonion.com/congress-bans-roofs-1851592883

"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans." https://www.theonion.com/investigation-finds-secret-service-failed-to-account-fo-1851592934

I’m now seven days into a ground-up rewrite of Movement, the community firmware for Sensor Watch, and this 2.0 update is going to be off the chain. Case in point: tonight I got FAT12 emulation working, which means the little file system on the watch can now mount as a USB mass storage device, for easily getting files off the watch. Read-only for now, but again: just seven days in.

Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System

All of the media subsystem feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel were sent out overnight. Arguably most notable with the media driver changes for the new kernel is introducing the Raspberry Pi "PiSP" driver for the image signal processor (ISP) found with the Raspberry Pi 5 for powering its camera system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Media-Raspberry-PiSP

Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs

The EFI changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. Notable this cycle on the EFI side is removing support for EFI fake memory maps and then a workaround to get dual GPU support working for some of the older x86-based Apple MacBook Pros by pretending that Apple macOS is booting rather than Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EFI

Alright, I’ve finally done a new #GNOME Shell Mobile release! Time for a little thread about the updates.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/verdre/gnome-shell-mobile/-/tree/46-mobile-0?ref_type=tags

#LinuxMobile

Victory! Supreme Court correctly rules that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users.

The Supreme Court’'s ruling is a big win for users and the First Amendment. It recognizes that the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media platforms must and must not publish. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/platforms-have-first-amendment-right-curate-speech-weve-long-argued-supreme-1

Chat control is back on the agenda of the #EU.

What exactly is this #ChatControl?

Watch this video (3:47 long):

https://digitalcourage.video/w/xziZATY2WtahJumeHCaavu

#StopScanningMe

GTK4 port of Disks for GNOME 47 is looking fantastic

Kudos @pothos @maximiliano Automeris naranja , Inam Ul Haq and Mohammed Sadiq

Also, this is the systemd sysupdate disk layout https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/GNOME-OS-systemd-sysupdate/

#GNOME

One from the blog archive! Repairing a 2nd hand desk vice with some new soft jaws designed in @FreeCAD and #3Dprinted with #DIY filament made from pop/soda bottles. #tools https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2023/10/desk-vice-restoration-3d-printed-jaws.html?m=1

#phosh 0.40.1 is out 🚀📱:

Basically the only (but important) change is a crash fix in #phoc introduced in 0.40.0.

https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.40.1/

somehow it's a suprising amount of work to make a totally new laptop?!?!

The whole "Biden should step down" thing stinks like Republican ratfuckery to me.

As far as I can see, the only safe way to do that at this point would be for Harris to take over RIGHT NOW (via 25th amendment), announce her candidacy, and pick a VP.

Then she needs to go to the mattresses to keep the Supreme Court majority from ganging up to disqualify her on some spurious grounds. (But at least they handed her a loaded gun in the shape of presidential immunity!)

They Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by #NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.
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New York City’s #Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials.

Victims are never told their cases have been buried.

#NYC #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Crime #News #Government #Courts

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-commissioner-edward-caban-police-discipline-retention-eric-adams

slowly losing my will to live as i dive deeper into apk-tools + Alpine + /usr merge + pmbootstrap

i mean, it's solvable, the constraints are just so tight. Like... dynamically fixing Alpine packages so they work on a /usr merge system at runtime requires handling every possible case, like all of these symlinks needs to be detected and skipped (since with /usr merge they become recursive):

/bin/foo -> /usr/bin/foo
/bin/foo -> ../usr/bin/foo
/usr/bin/foo -> /bin/food
/usr/bin/foo -> ../../bin/foo

then the same for /lib -> /usr/lib and /usr/sbin

Plus, simply making them absolute symlinks is extremely bad behaviour since it breaks operating on a foreign rootfs (apk --root ...), we just ignore this for now...

And then you get caught out by crap like /bin/go being a symlink to /usr/lib/go/bin/go

i think im getting close, but hitting some weird issues with pmb and apk3...

it would probably not be so bad if I didn't also have to write all this in C

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/apk-tools/-/commit/954af7ba48c492cca87b333b0be578a9877cce7a

MNT Reform Next status: keyboard and display work, and we can go on the internet