Hackaday Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/hackaday-europe-2026-pcbs-with-a-plot/

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Meta, mid trial, agrees to settle claims that Facebook and Instagrams harmed children with the owner of the social media platform to pay 29 states more than $16 billion. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/

RE: https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/117134297730197472

I am sorry, I have to add an update based on a recent news article:

1. The memorial has been dismantled

2. It was supposed to depict a bird with a helmet, soaring into the sky

3. The design was - surprise, surprise - generated by #AI

4. The mayor claims he didn't see the finished product, because he was taking time off for pink eye

You can't make this stuff up

Quick announcement:

We're putting on-hold most Paged Out! prints for conferences/events in EU due to the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

For now we need to figure out where exactly do we stand with this legally. We'll post an update once there's some movement.

worked for me so far.

We just got a root shell on a @starlink terminal antenna! To our knowledge, this is the first full exploit of a "square dish" since @lennertwo's attack on the "circular" one in 2021.

@spacex security team has done an amazing job, leaving us no choice but a *hardware attack* to achieve this 👏 The demo below shows what's only possible on actual rooted hardware: reading fuse register contents, accessing hardware-encrypted "file_edr" data, and more.

Feds: Super sophisticated computer hacking hackers hacked all the utilities!

The actual attackers:

We gave GPT 5.6-Cyber one task: escape a QEMU/KVM VM used to sandbox agents.

It escaped three times. The final escape came from three 0-days the agent found on its own and built into a working exploit after we patched known bugs and rebuilt QEMU from upstream.

Our takeaway is off-the-shelf VMs cannot contain a modern, cyber-capable agent.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/

#infosec #AIsecurity #linux

A bit annoyed by tech reporting again. Found two major tech news outlets provide an incorrect explanation of the WebAudio fingerprinting (not you arstechnica. You did good). The thing is mostly prevented in major browsers like Firefox, as explained in this excellent technical analysis https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html by @tomrittervg.

Worst part is the article that went straight for FUD and had links for paid articles explaining how to "protect yourself" blergh. I thought better of you heise...

sev:CRIT ../ in WatchGuard Agent. Once again, INFOSEC increasing that attack surface instead of decreasing it.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57909

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