Mastodawn

Other NLnet funding recipients in Germany might find it interesting to know that my local tax office has reviewed my MoU and agreed (subject to further review, although that's apparently rare) that the payments from NLnet indeed do not require VAT to be charged.

Alyssa Ross Mar 12

Alyssa Ross Jul 20, 2024

Does anybody know a good PeerTube instance that would host stream recordings for me? The one I'm currently using is asking people to migrate because storage is getting too expensive.

Alyssa Ross Mar 5

I have a ticket for @FOSSBackstage I won't be able to use. Anybody want to buy it for the €150 I paid? That was early bird — current price is €260.

Alyssa Ross Feb 4

qdot Feb 4

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Alyssa Ross Jan 31

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁Jan 30

Here's a prototype of "b4 review" with a nicer textual ui. What do you think?

https://asciinema.org/a/776900

b4 review tui demo

This is a prototype and not yet functional.

asciinema.org

Alyssa Ross Dec 26

phosh Dec 25

Happy holidays everyone 🎄, Here's some update on how we'd like to inform client apps about display cutouts https://phosh.mobi/posts/xdg-cutouts/

#Wayland #Phosh #LinuxMobile

Alyssa Ross Dec 22

David Heidelberg Dec 21

Upstreaming progress on Snapdragon 845 phones: OnePlus 6/6T now working with the Linux -next tree after a focused month of mainlining. Pixel 3 and Shift 6MQ followed with incremental enablement. Hard lessons in patch rebasing, subsystem reviews, and feedback from kernel maintainers. Real steps toward sustainable mainline support. Read more on the blog.

https://ixit.cz/blog/2025-12-21-upstreaming-0

#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #sdm845 #OnePlus6 #OnePlus6T #Pixel3

Alyssa Ross Dec 5

Wolfie Christl Dec 4

Spyware vendor Intellexa's "Aladdin system infects the target’s phone by forcing a malicious advertisement created by the attacker to be shown on the target’s phone ... Possible target identifiers or selectors could include a known advertising ID, an email address, a geographical location or an IP address", i.e. identifiers supported by the ad network or Demand Side Platform (DSP) used in the Aladdin system"

On deploying spyware via digital advertising, wild:
https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/12/intellexa-leaks-predator-spyware-operations-exposed/

To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab

Drawing on leaked internal company documents, sales and marketing material, as well as training videos, the “Intellexa Leaks” investigation gives a never-before-seen glimpse of the internal operations of a mercenary spyware company focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile devices, which enable targeted surveillance attacks on human rights defenders, journalists and members of civil society.

Amnesty International Security Lab

Alyssa Ross Dec 1

@nlnet @NGIZero is the LLM community workshop going on right now? https://nlnet.nl/workshops/#LLMs still says "Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date."

NLnet; Community workshops

Alyssa Ross Dec 1

It's amazing the difference having a candle burning on my desk while I work in the winter makes to keep the seasonal depression away.

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