Niklaus 'vimja' Hofer

Hacker from #Bern, Switzerland.

In 2015 I helped bring to life the Chaostreff Bern ( #ChaostreffBern ).

I help organize the #CoSin, a local hacker conference.

Website: https://vimja.website
XMPP: ig@vimja.chat
[matrix]: @ig:vimja.chat
Threema: https://threema.id/HMF8J5ZM

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2026-08-25 20:45:06 UTC

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I don't expect to save any time or effort. Just interested to see if / how it would work.
No, wasn't aware of the change. Looks interesting though. I'll definitely read it in detail when I get a sec. :)

2026-08-25 19:41:21 UTC

@npub1mzh…dh9t Were I to use an AI to help forward-port the MNT kernel patches from 7.1 to 7.2, would you still be willing to merge the code (given of course that the result is good).
Not going to use it if you don't feel comfortable with that of course...

2026-05-06 20:15:36 UTC

Packaging software hosted on #codeberg is no fun :(
I keep getting 429 "too many requests" just trying to download all (5) dependencies for River. How annoying is that?!

2026-04-12 16:29:38 UTC

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AGOV FAQ 2.9:
> "Zurzeit ist für die AGOV access App GrapheneOS noch nicht zugelassen. Die Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei hat dem Anbieter die Freischaltung von GrapheneOS in Auftrag gegeben. Das Lieferdatum steht noch nicht fest."
https://www.agov.admin.ch/de/fragen-und-antworten#2-Probleme-mit-AGOV

2025-12-18 18:17:41 UTC

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OK, this has worked. Changed update channel to "Beta" updated again and rebooted. Now I get debug logs during the attempted update.
Is it safe to share these logs?

2025-12-18 11:53:52 UTC

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It's no good, logging does not start early enough.
I've found the right settings and now adb logcat shows logs even before unlock. But only when booting the fallback release. During the failed update attempts, no logs are printed, adb just says "- waiting for device -".

2025-12-15 10:22:02 UTC

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no, doesn't look like. Didn't even have the developer options enabled.
Very glad the automatic roll back is a thing. Pretty cool to have that safety and the update not just brick the phone :)

2025-12-15 09:38:05 UTC

The most recent @npub1kwa…e0nj update (stable channel) appears to be broken on my Pixel 9a.
The boot process shows the GrapheneOS logo. Then it starts over suddenly, rebooting the device again. It repeats that and only on the 4th reboot will it come back up. But a bit later it says an update has been installed and the device needs to be restarted again. It's done that three times now o.O

2025-02-06 19:45:46 UTC

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AAAAAAAMIGAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!¡!

2025-01-04 10:55:28 UTC

Running that piece of open source software on my open hardware laptop to update the open source firmware on my open hardware media player!
#OpenSource #openhardware #opensourcefirmware #MNT #tangara
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2024-12-12 17:08:41 UTC

Got my #tangara ! @npub1weh…ypj3
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