Mastodawn

New blog post introducing the WIP Duranium project (immutable postmarketOS), some of its major features, and explaining why some design decisions were made.

> Either the new image works, or the system falls back to the previous one automatically. No partially-applied state. No debugging audio when you need to make a phone call and no fussing with a broken web browser when you just want to doomscroll cat photos. It also means developers can reproduce the exact state of a user's device, making it much easier to track down and fix issues.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/17/introducing-duranium/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos #duranium

Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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Jens Finkhäuser 2d ago

@postmarketOS Ah, Duranium implies solidity, but it's based on AI slop.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3

No thanks.

"Vibanium"

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes

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kcxt 2d ago

@jens crazy take considering it's been less than 2 months since systemd started using AI for code review. Critique all you like but at least don't disrespect us by doing it in blatant bad faith

we switched to systemd over 18 months ago! if we wanted to avoid it we would be setting our progress back half a decade at least.

at the end of the day there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, it's a constant battle between harm reduction and moral principles, the pros did (and imo still very much do) outweigh the cons. but by all means give us an alternative that meets your standards

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Jens Finkhäuser 2d ago

@cas My blatant bad faith is with AI slop, and I absolutely disagree: the only way this can be reversed is by mercilessly shaming everyone who uses it.

Sorry it's you 🤷

But it's not *my* choice to support AI slop, so don't try to turn this "bad faith" argument around. Putting AI slop into code is bad faith.

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kcxt 2d ago

@jens *we* have a strict anti-AI policy for our contributors. Why don't you go and shame Ubuntu or Fedora who are actively pursuing shipping AI features in their distro rather than focusing on us purely for using the same init system as every other mainstream distro?

im on board with your anti-AI stance, it would have been nice if systemd had stayed away altogether, but what practical outcome do you want from us?

https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html

AI Policy - Policies and Processes

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bluca

@cas take it from someone who's been around this particular block a few times: you will _never_ reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place. There is only one way to deal with lunatics with utteraly destructive and deranged takes on social media: the block button. Hit it and move on.