Did you know you could control brightness of the red dot on the i of the "ThinkPad" on the top-side of your thinkpad? I sure didn't:

this turns it off:

echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:lid_logo_dot/brightness

and this turns it on:

echo 255 | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:lid_logo_dot/brightness

I don't really know what this information is good for, but hey, isn't it awesome to have a 1px display on the outside of your laptop?

The EU is considering a very bad law called eIDAS that would:

- Force browsers to accept government certificate authorities

- Ban additional security checks on certificates (such as Certificate Transparency) unless the EU agrees to them

This would undo 10 years of improvements to encryption on the Web and create an environment very favorable to MitM attacks.

If you're an EU citizen, consider writing to the MEP responsible for the eIDAS file, Romana JERKOVIĆ (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/112747/ROMANA_JERKOVIC/home), to voice your concern.

Learn more at https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

@LWN is hiring: https://lwn.net/Articles/949461/ -- we'd all benefit from someone excellent in this position -- spread the word.

#foss #linux

REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

Help wanted at LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/949461/ #LWN

My laptop *really* doesn't want to be interrupted while it's learning new things... #machinelearning

The things you miss when you take the plane to travel from Cologne to Helsinki, instead of using train and ferry:

– Copenhagen, Malmö and Stockholm
– Breathtaking views of Northern Europe
– Incredibly delicious food and super friendly staff onboard the swedish high speed train
– Sleeping onboard a ship while crossing the baltic sea
– Europe‘s longest railway bridge

Thanks for the inspiration, @sebwilken and @jon!

#CrossBorderRail #SlowTravel #StayGrounded #Finland #Helsinki

😂

would anyone be interested in remote access to any of the following devices for the purposes of #Linux mainline development and testing? You'd be able to power cycle the device and boot an Android boot.img (kernel + dtb + ramdisk), I'm also open to using these devices in CI

* OnePlus 6/6T - #Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
* OnePlus 7 and/or 7 pro - #Qualcomm #Snapdragon 855 / sm8150
* OnePlus 9 Pro - Snapdragon 888 (sm8350), however i haven't yet found out how/if UART is exposed on this device.
* Google Pixel 2 XL, 3, or 3 XL - Snapdragon 835 (msm8998) or Snapdragon 845 (sdm845). (Only have one usb-cereal adapter so only one of these is viable right now)
* #Fairphone 2 - MSM8974
* #Fairphone 5 - QCM6490
* #LG G6 - msm8996 (if someone can find UART and find a workaround for the "charger wet" detection being stuck on)
* #Samsung j3 (j3xnlte) - some spreadtrum SoC - Only if you can find UART for me

I don't have things fully set up here but I'm trying to figure out what i should prioritise.

If any of these sounds useful to you then please get in touch with me! I'm especially interested in folks from the #LinuxMobile community, #Kernel maintainers, or anyone else with an interest in upstream Linux support on phones. Please have some kind of public presence in a related field and tell me what your usecase is.

* DM me on matrix - @ caleb:postmarketos.org
* Email me - caleb@connolly.tech

Please boost for reach!

#FOSSMobile #postmarketOS #Android #Embedded #BoardFarm #Testing #CI

If you're an #EU citizen, I strongly encourage you to take a look and consider signing this European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) that calls for the establishment of a #tax on great #wealth to fund a just ecological and social transition: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en

Boosts very welcome.

#environment #policy #taxation #TaxTheRich

You can make body facts sound weirdly threatening by adding 'currently' to them.

Your teeth are the only parts of your skeleton currently visible

The femur is currently the longest bone in your body

#GenX

Ken Thompson's original Unix backdoor of "Reflections on Trusting Trust" fame was apparently never published. 40 years (!) later, here it is: 99 lines of code plus a 20-line shell script. That's it.

Nicely annotated and explained by Russ Cox:

https://research.swtch.com/nih

Holy shit I think I’m in love.

#Protomaps, a way to serve vector #maps of the entire world using a single static file and HTTP range requests.

It’s basically a static site generator for interactive maps. Tile servers are pretty much obsolete now. No database needed, you can run your interactive, smooth-zooming vector map from any HTTP storage. S3, Caddy running on your Wi-Fi router, even GitHub pages.

https://protomaps.com/

It’s open source & free to use. Wow. 🤯

via https://chaos.social/@djh/111280447304607540

the writing on this is haphazard but there are some absolute zingers https://helvede.net/@trexplex/111040860600211293

Hey developers!

YEAH?

Do you like solving problems?

YEAH!

Do you like reverse engineering?

...YEah..

Do you like having zero documentation?

..uhm..

Buy a house! Enjoy a lifetime of fixing other people's undocumented hacks while introducing your own!

I will never talk positive about VSCode nor use it anymore.
Read:
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.

If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.

Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Web Summit CEO was forced to resign over this tweet:

“shocked at the rhetoric & actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception...of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing."

“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, & should be called out for what they are,”

The fascism of the tech industry knows no bounds. Anything other than aiding & abetting a world sanctioned genocide is not acceptable apparently.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ceo-prominent-tech-conference-resigns-amid-backlash-public-104197638