fedi is such a place because you will meet someone who just posts “mraow meow im a silly kibty :3” and find out they are a core contributor to a programming language used by millions, or that they are a top security researcher in their field

Alpine Linux 3.21.1 has been released. This includes U-Boot tarballs for riscv64 and StarFive VisionFive2 boards.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.21.1-released.html

#AlpineLinux

not that i'd recommend it just yet (just a few more weeks!!!) but it is possible to switch your existing #postmarketOS openrc installation over to vastly superior #systemd

the future is now old man

I've just opened an MR to postmarketos-release-upgrade to script this, but it's not difficult to do by hand either.

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/postmarketos-release-upgrade/-/merge_requests/19

Here's a demo (at 2x speed) of this in action

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/-/project/184/uploads/a27c95c867955eed16f08326f2e61146/pmos-upgrade-to-systemd.webm

Transnational hacking and FOSS bonding in action! Family trip brought me across the Atlantic, but got a chance to meet @pan and bring a FairPhone for development. It's amazing when we can not only hack, but also meet and enjoy the human part of it :)

#FOSS #postmarketOS

Are you curious about our new infrastructure and can't wait to see what's possible? Yes? Now, you get your hands on an early testing version. We have set up a first test instance of the FOSS Public Alert Server for you to play with under https://alerts.volkerkrause.eu. To use it, you can install a pre-release of #FOSSWarn https://github.com/nucleus-ffm/foss_warn/releases/tag/pre-1.0.0-alpha_0

(Be aware that this release is not yet ready for production and is for testing only)

Any questions? Find us on the #38c3

#FPAS

‪After 9 months of work, we're happy to announce that Veloren 0.17 is almost ready!

Join us in-game at 18:00 GMT on December 28th, when we will hold a release party on the official game server 🎉

More information at: https://veloren.net/release-0-17

#veloren #floss #gaming

Ok, so as I’m closing to a highscore release, there’s a specific thing I want to know. How many people are still using gnome-games or (never released but I know a few distros packaged it anyway) pre-rewrite highscore?

The reason I’m wondering is - data migration. If there’s a lot of people still using the old app, I will have to have a simple way to migrate data from it. If not, I don’t need to bother ^^

I have a feeling that it’s not a lot of people, since gnome-games is EOLed on flathub and was dropped from everywhere since it was never ported away from tracker 2.x, but you never know, so asking anyway.

If you’re using it, please reply. Otherwise, please boost

if you're interested in actually overthrowing Big Android (rather than living off Googles scraps) be sure to come by the #LinuxMobile assembly this congress. There's a revolution brewing :3

https://linmob.net/38c3/

#38c3 #MobileLinux #ccc #postmarketOS

Bring it back to life! Kids Edition

#FOSS for #sustainability at #38C3.

Have an old computer in the drawer?

For the holidays give your kids and yourself a “new” old Linux gaming device in this drop-in workshop with #KDEEco.

Avoid CO2 in device production and have fun doing it!

Bring an old laptop and give it a second life on Sunday 29 Dec. from 12-15h, GF1 Saal 5.

If you want to set up a full-on gaming device, don't forget a controller :)

@kde

#KDE #OptGreen #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

iio-sensor-proxy 3.6-RC1 is just released! Just in time before Christmas! 🥳🥳🥳
Me and @agx took over the maintenance from @hadessuk a while back and this is our first release.
This release is packed with many nice features and bugfixes! If all turns out well, we will tag a final 3.6 release soon.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/releases/3.6-RC1

#sensors #Linux #linuxmobile

libcamera v0.4.0 "Tibb's Eve" has been released.

A new virtual pipeline handler, IPA support for the Mali-C55, updated control handling and better support for reporting controls in GUI applications, and lots of work everywhere. Interesting new support for full dewarp control on the i.MX8MP, and updates to tuning processes too!

This release brings 253 new commits, check out the release notes at

https://lists.libcamera.org/pipermail/libcamera-devel/2024-December/047898.html

postmarketOS v24.12 is out now! ✨

"The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux"

Read all about it on our blog:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/23/v24.12-release/

Big thanks to everybody who has been contributing to this release, without you this would not be possible! ❤️

We would also like to thank @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release. If you would like to get your project funded, consider applying for a grant!

#linux

If you are working on Free and Open Source technologies that improve the digital landscape for everyone, know that NGI0 offers financial & practical support.
We offer grants between €5k - €50k, open to everyone.
Calls currently open:
NGI0 Commons Fund: Reclaim the public internet
NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments
NGI MobiFree: More ethical mobile software
NGI Fediversity: Creating the hosting stack of the future
Deadline February 1, 2025
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241201-call.html
#FOSS #NGI #NGI0

anyone looking for a christmas project? here's an idea...

once https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5920 is merged it won't be necessary have a fat32 boot partition for #postmarketOS anymore, just a root partition.

this means that for a buuuunch of Android devices it would be super easy to install postmarketOS from a rooted Android install (e.g. lineageOS) just by

• flashing the boot image + erasing dtbo
• mounting the root partition image and cp -a'ing the whole thing to userdata
• patch the UUID of the userdata partition to match the one in /etc/fstab using tune2fs, OR patching the cmdline (in the boot image) and the fstab to have the correct UUID

Then you can just run (from your rooted Android phone)

curl switch.pmos.org | sh

GNOME Software received a brand new systemd-sysupdate plugin. That was one of the last pieces needed to complete the migration of GNOME OS from OSTree to systemd-sysupdate.
https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2024/12/20/a-systemd-sysupdate-plugin-for-gnome-software.html

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap

Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) has decided to invest €384k over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.

read more: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/20/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-openstreetmap/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Funding

a friend of mine is interested in attending #38c3 for the first time. if anyone has a spare ticket they'd be happy to sell on please lmk!

#congress #congress2024 #ticket38c3

edit: she found one! thx folks :D