As it came up in a few conversations during "FOSDEM week", here's a link to the OpenSSF blog post about why the idea of "attestation for open source projects" is, in my opinion, and others, a bad idea:

https://openssf.org/blog/2026/01/21/preserving-open-source-sustainability-while-advancing-cybersecurity-compliance/

Yes, FOSS foundations and projects need ways of getting funding, that is very important, but thinking that "attestation is how we will get that money!" might not be such a good idea given the risks involved, and the past experience for those that have attempted it.

I got an "it's AI generated" warning on the ad for this ad, but not on the site trying to look like a newspaper...

All aboard the #FOSDEM #train!

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

The @europeanOSacademy‘s Excellence in Open Source Award 2026 goes to @gregkh #opensource #OSAwards #eosawards26, presented by @bagder. #linux

I am thrilled to be back at FOSDEM. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with the open source community and connect with fellow developers at such a great conference!

Please join me this Saturday in the FOSS on Mobile devroom. I will be presenting the technical evolution of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, demonstrating how we achieved full mainline support—from power management to the Adreno GPU—running on actual product hardware.

I look forward to seeing you there.
Saturday, 18:30 | Room UB4.132

#FOSDEM #Linux #UBoot #OpenSource #Snapdragon #Mainline

RE: https://mastodon.social/@amutable/115967747219090945

Today I'm super excited to announce Amutable, our new company together with @pid_eins and @blixtra.
I couldn't be happier to have @cyphar, @daandemeyer, @zbyszek, @pothos, @michaelvogt,
@rodrigo_rata, @davidstrauss as part of our team.
I've known them for a very long time and I'm very happy they are on board for the ride.
I can't wait to show everyone what we're building.
Made with ❤️ in Berlin.

https://amutable.com/blog/introducing-amutable

#amutable #linux #systemd #⊼mutable #integrity

RE: https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115641227139781680/statuses/115967747219090945

new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

Heyo Fediverse,

Did you ever want to run your VHDL code on someone else’s FPGA and see the results as a video?

No?

With @icepi-zero-bot you can do it anyway!

Just send the account an ask containing your VHDL code (see the account’s bio for an example) and the bot will synthesize your code, flash it onto my Icepi Zero FPGA board, and record a 30s video of its HDMI output!

I know this might not be the most useful bot, but I’ve mainly made it just for fun.

Feel free to play around a bit with it! :D

I’ll add SystemVerilog support soon, once I figure out how to reliably differentiate it from VHDL based on only the code.

#FPGA #VHDL #bot #fedibot # Icepi Zero

WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

I could think of a better illustration if I tried. 😂

You can get a 100% compliance score, but it will all just be wasted effort if Gmail Just Doesn't Like You.

This post by Bruce Schneier contains so many thoughtful soundbites:

> The question is not simply whether copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose.

> Like the early internet, AI is often described as a democratizing force. But also like the internet, AI’s current trajectory suggests something closer to consolidation.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html

korgalore demo: yanking arbitrary lore.kernel.org threads into generic gmail

https://youtu.be/wOi_qHSO7KY

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054547/ #LWN

Frowned upon in video games, loot boxes are back in real life–and one’s in the Pentagon.

https://www.404media.co/theres-a-lootbox-with-rare-pokemon-cards-sitting-in-the-pentagon-food-court/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/115871045863565861

Be sure to request an invite to #lsfmmbpf 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia!

Car Brain.

There's a lot of stupid in the world, but here's some more. For those of you not in San Francisco: we have an old freeway running right past the ocean. It is falling into the ocean, and for decades had been closed like 20% of the time as...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1T

Hey #linux nerds. Anyone interested in a #mac pro 2013 trash can?

This is an 8 core Xeon with 32 gigs of ram. I got it for free and had a good play.

I was never able to get #nixos running on it because the graphics cards are problematic. But it seems to run Linux mint perfectly.

I'm happy to simply pass it on for free. If your local you can pick up or if want to pay shipping from Olympia, WA, I'll send it to you.

Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!