Mastodawn

#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users

Samsung has released a controversial update that disables a tool widely relied upon by power users and service centers.

Android Authority

chrissicool ✅3d ago

bluca 4d ago

Init scripts will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that #systemd v260 is out. The last remnants of the old unix philosophy have been swept away - unit files now have direct control over their services

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v260

chrissicool ✅6d ago

LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴6d ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/

#linux #foss #nannystate

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Opinion: Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

The Register

chrissicool ✅Mar 14

joernchen

Mar 14

RIP FX

We collected some texts from the community in memory of FX. You can find them here https://phenoelit.de/fx.html

Phenoelit

chrissicool ✅Mar 12

Cutie-PHY Mar 12

15$ #jlcpcb coupon code at Embedded World #ew26

chrissicool ✅Mar 11

Sam Bowne

Mar 11

kubernetes-el Compromised: How a Pwn Request Exploited a Popular Emacs Package - StepSecurity https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/kubernetes-el-compromised-how-a-pwn-request-exploited-a-popular-emacs-package

kubernetes-el Compromised: How a Pwn Request Exploited a Popular Emacs Package - StepSecurity

On March 5, 2026, a threat actor exploited a classic "Pwn Request" vulnerability in the CI workflow of kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el, a popular Emacs package for managing Kubernetes clusters. The attacker stole the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN (with full write permissions), exfiltrated CI/CD secrets, defaced the repository, and injected destructive code.

chrissicool ✅Mar 5

scy Mar 4

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

chrissicool ✅Mar 3

Craig S. Kaplan Mar 3

In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.