@bluqxu

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Ever wanted to use SSH to connect to an embedded Linux system over the serial port instead of suffering through some janky login program that supports very limited terminal features?

Well, I did, and the tooling didn't exist, so I made it.

It also supports ppp automatically.

cc @AMS @chaos

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ugetty

GitHub - ryancdotorg/ugetty: A modern, lightweight, multi-protocol getty.

A modern, lightweight, multi-protocol getty. Contribute to ryancdotorg/ugetty development by creating an account on GitHub.

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a second osx port has hit the nintendo wii

(the first one is still unfinished)

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

🎉 New video showing off running PCI express over COTS SFP modules and associated complications along with future plans.

And then a small side quest involving optical splitters and #ngscopeclient

https://youtu.be/XaDa9bBucEI

Definitely on the long side, sorry about that 😬 But I hope it's still interesting 🤞

What a surprise!

Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-insurance-claims-denial

Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before

Insurance companies are using AI to

Futurism

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116352453766199250

"OK we want our website to know which software you have installed"
"You can't do that"
"Sure, but we want to do it anyway. Maybe we have the software listen on a port and then we can try loading stuff from that port?"
"No. Zoom did that so it got banned"
"OK what about we edit their computer's local config?"

sigh. the shitty arms race continues.

The NixPKGs contracts implementation has another PR at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/506343. If this gets merged, it'd be another big (though completely optional) addition to how services can be defined (not only) in #NixOS, after the introduction of modular services in 25.11. No clue if this is the final PR or when it'll be merged, but it's a good step towards standardizing services #nix
contracts: init by KiaraGrouwstra · Pull Request #506343 · NixOS/nixpkgs

Implements contracts (NixOS/rfcs#189) by building on the work by @ibizaman (and earlier work by @fricklerhandwerk). Main differences between our implementation and RFC 189: Topology: point-to-poin...

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We have received more security reports against #curl in 2026 so far than we did during the entire year back in 2024.

During the first three months we have received twice the amount of reports/week as we did last year.

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

Mobile Device Vulnerability Management Concept - German National EUDI Wallet: Architecture Documentation

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

The mainframe is gaining a new instruction set: arm64

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/[email protected]/

[v1,00/27] KVM: s390: Introduce arm64 KVM - Patchwork