📢 Save the date! The 2026 Linux Security Summit North America (LSS-NA) will be held May 21-22 in Minneapolis, MN, co-located with OSS-NA.

🐧 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/

picolibc has been reformatted with clang-format. All PRs will now be checked to make sure they are formatted correctly, so any pending requests will need to be fixed and resubmitted. I'm looking forward to having only one coding style to deal with.

Thanks to all of the picolibc contributors over 2025 and best wishes for 2026.

Right on time to coincide with the end of the year I finished my #systemd259 series of posts. And I now also prepped a blog story linking to every single one of them here:

https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v259.html

Make sure to stay tuned for the #systemd260 series, most likely starting already in a few weeks!

Also, happy new year! 🎇

A few weeks ago, Michelle @abraxas3d visited us. She wrote a very nice report on "A day at Dwingeloo", detailing some of our recent experiments. The full story is at https://www.openresearch.institute/2025/11/12/a-day-at-dwingeloo/

Idle thought: I’ve been working as an IC for a few months again after many years of management. I fundamentally enjoy the development work and open space on my calendar. Digging deeply into some new technical area and solving a difficult problem with few distractions is very much my thing and does not feel like work at all. But with this also is the realization that I can accomplish at least 10x of that by helping a team to solve some larger scale problem—moving the needle in a meaningful way, which also means delivering that to people.

British Airways AI. Glad they’re not trying to do anything difficult or life-critical with technology.

1️⃣5️⃣ Here's the 15th post highlighting key new features of the recently released v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd

Here's a quick one: you might have noticed that whenever a systemd service deactivates we'll log a brief journal message saying the amount of CPU time consumed, and the peak memory used by this unit cycle. With v259 that message is slightly extended: it will now also indicate the wall clock time passed since activation of the unit. This is particularly nice when…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@flypig/115731062513471615

If you are going to #FOSDEM in 2026, stop by the FOSS on Mobile devroom!

Regularly asking yourself "What if everything I know is wrong?" is important.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EMV0VXpvPgo?si=fcOg6mfNWn-0kvUX

@mpi_grav great opportunity to work & study in a fundamental and concrete field.

RE: https://academiccloud.social/@mpi_grav/115724935735282096

The website for #LSFMM 2026 is up:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf

LSFMM 2026 will take place in Zagreb, Croatia May 4 to May 6.

I have the privilege of acting as chair for this year and I'm very excited for one of the best conferences out there.

I presented an overview of the Ultraviolet project at @linuxplumbersconf today. This is a proposed architecture and reference implementation for generalised code integrity in Linux. The goal of the presentation was to seek early feedback from the community and to invite collaboration. The slides are here: 🖥️ https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2222/

Meteor scatter is fun & addictive. Should be a good opportunity for folk (in the US and EU, at least) to try receiving over December 11/12.

Receiving is actually pretty easy on 6m. You can do it with a simple dipole, an RTL-SDR, and WSJT-X. Better with a gain antenna like a Moxon. Use the pskreporter site to see where other stations are active on 6m msk144, aim roughly at the "radiant" midpoint and leave running overnight.

If you've decoded AIS, ADS-B, APRS etc., you can easily do this.



📡 See: https://www.hamsci.org/msqp

@stgraber nice!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@stgraber/115645419902489080

A couple of shell aliases I use all the time:

alias gg="git grep"
alias gt="glow -t"

The last is for viewing .md files.

FYI. This is/was a strong password & supposedly protected.

Kind of weird to think that Voyager 1 is 25 billion km away, transmits with about 22 watts of RF power, and we can still hear & decode it here it on Earth.

Video of reflow soldering with an MHP50 hotplate. Works pretty well for small boards. I was previously using a hot air gun but it would blow the components around. Can also more accurately follow the manufacturer reflow specs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdS6JTRX_HA

@strangeparts not sure I would enter such a room.

RE: https://mastodon.strangeparts.com/@strangeparts/115515407911086704

I can highly recommend getting a ferrule crimper for connecting wires to these kinds of terminals.