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  1. Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

    #ELC2012: #pfefferz's talk, "Binary Blobs Attack!!!" is about to begin. http://ur1.ca/86six

    about 3 months ago from web
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz starts talk by saying he's working on a movie & puts out Girl Scout cookies &asks for volunteers. "For What?" is asked.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz's The movie is actually a skit about working on binary blobs in !Linux and having them crash the kernel.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: this interactive presentation is cool. Using skits & algebra word problems to show why binary blobs in !Linux are bad.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: Skit volunteers are given the cookies as a reward for their acting talents. That was really amusing; Good show!

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz says "Time spent on binary blog production integration & debugging has eclipsed any other activity in the product cycle"

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: "Binary blobs cause batch-style programming" b/c you must batch questions on !Linux binary blobs to the owners.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , Alexandre Oliva

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz has a slide of "rants" about !Linux binary blobs, one of says "Binary blobs are unethical". @lxoliva'd love this.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Alison Chaiken

      @alisonchaiken walks out of #pfefferz's #ELC2012 talk with a look of disgust on her face. I hope that was just b/c the audio has issues.

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: "Binary blobs are responsible for the Linux ARM 'problem'". Makes things slow, etc. "It really is a disaster".

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: "Binary blobs won't go away;they're multiplying & getting worse…How can we ensure sustainable open ecosystem?" he asks

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: " #UEFI may come in & destroy the universe. Phones may be the *only* thing we can run !Linux & hack on going forward."

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: "How Windows works? Blobs like to talk to blobs. Big blob tells the little blob 'You *must* write to only *this* API'".

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: I'm troubled that #pfefferz is proposing that !Linux "create official binary box interfaces"; that seems like giving up. :-/

      about 3 months ago
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    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz says: "ppl need to tune & hack" but suggests that we can do that & allow proprietary blobs. I don't see how that can be.

      about 3 months ago
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    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz: a good bin blob suggestion: "Ask video companies for a dumbed-down 3D driver that won't be as good as the proprietary"

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz says "we need to put proprietary blob problem in company terms" Namely, "it causes them to lose sales".

      about 3 months ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz's suggestion is a good one b/c a dumbed-down start will help the FLOSS community jump-star #FaiF replacements to blobs.

      about 3 months ago
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      Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou

      I like blobs... when I have an editable version.

      about 3 months ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      @bkuhn how did you guess? :-) why, of course they're unethical, they're non-Free Software! :-)

      about 3 months ago
    • rpcutts rpcutts Evan Prodromou

      @evan I'll be honest, I thought that said boobs.

      about 3 months ago
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      Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou rpcutts

      Unless you're a plastic surgeon, those usually aren't editable.

      about 3 months ago
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    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      @bkuhn I use svnwiki to compile my blog to html, and the marked-up sources remain available, but... binary blogs?!? :-)

      about 3 months ago
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      tekk tekk Alexandre Oliva

      @lxoliva in the US we call that #jello

      about 3 months ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Evan Prodromou

      @evan how about edible blobs, do you like them?

      about 3 months ago
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      Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou Alexandre Oliva

      I prefer slime molds.

      about 3 months ago
    • Sander Sander rpcutts

      @rpcutts boobs? Where? Boobs boobs boobs.

      about 3 months ago
    • Sander Sander Evan Prodromou

      @evan but you can try molding them by hand.

      about 3 months ago
    • Gordon Sinclair Gordon Sinclair rpcutts , Sander

      @sandersch http://goo.gl/jieNR @rpcutts

      about 3 months ago
    • Sander Sander Gordon Sinclair

      @thistleweb I am not that drunk.

      about 3 months ago

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