So, for anyone who cares, here's a long-form response, personally and from my POV as head of #Teckids, regarding the discussion around birth date in #systemd:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2026-March/052087.html

LiteLLM on PyPI is compromised

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064479/ #LWN #Linux #security

Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work!

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-talk-wayland

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

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

I found @soatok's argument for E2EE encryption in this post quite interesting:

End-to-end encryption doesn’t just protect the users, it protects the people operating the infrastructure. And that’s why it still matters.

That's pretty much the only reason why http://mega.io/ is end-to-end encrypted: the previous Kim Dotcom project - Megaupload - was seized by FBI and hadn't E2E, making it a easy target. MEGA's encryption isn't good (source: me) but it's good enough to avoid making them an easy target for law enforcement.

River 0.4.0 is released, introducing the river-window-management-v1 protocol!

See my blog post for an in-depth explanation of the protocol: https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/