Vasco Dias vascorsd@identi.ca
Lisbon, Portugal
Random dents about free software, anime and manga.
uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs at 2014-08-10T15:56:32Z
Susana Martinez makes list of US' worst state governors. I voted for her in 2010, and I've been extremely unhappy with her performance.Vasco Dias likes this.
Jason Self at 2014-07-25T02:56:51Z
A sad summary of a discussion in #libreboot on Freenode today:
AMD has been contributing source code to coreboot since 2011 but now they have stopped. AMD has started to release it as binary-only from now on, and the coreboot developers are accepting the submissions: http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6274/ (It has +2, indicating it will be merged.) When they were submitting in source form I hear:
- there are parts that are for newer hardware (not yet released) that AMD has to remove before submitting to coreboot
- there are parts that have to have comments removed before submitting to coreboot
- there are other parts that also have to be removed for "other reasons"
(But otherwise, what they were submitting was free software.)
That "cleaning" process above, as the coreboot devs say, costs AMD a "lot of money" in terms of engineering time and AMD has ceased releasing source code for new AGESA versions, as a way of cutting costs, so any AGESA source that you see in coreboot is prior to AMD's decision to no longer release it.
coreboot has an opportunity to correct AMD's behavior. AMD relies on coreboot for a lot of their hardware, so coreboot developers should have at least some influence over them. If they refuse to accept new submissions from AMD now, then it creates a precedent: either AMD reverses the decision (releases source again) or coreboot recieves no additional support from AMD in the future. By accepting blobs now, they are saying to AMD that it's ok: this makes it harder to get them to reverse the decision in the future, as time goes by.Vasco Dias, Yutaka Niibe, Mike Linksvayer, testbeta and 3 others likes this.
Kete Foy, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), maiki, maiki and 3 others shared this.
@moggers87@microca.st Yes, blobs in coreboot is "nothing new", all routine and totally acceptable, right? (Not.) Anyway, going from free to non-free represents a regression, IMO. It is unfortunate that some people dismiss it.
Does coreboot have an explicit rationale for this? I see http://www.coreboot.org/Binary_situation "While we aim for a 100% free boot process, recent developments (and general unwillingness by some hardware companies to provide specifications) make it hard to achieve" but this does not actually explain their thinking. Compare with Mozilla, which has explicitly said (I'm paraphrasing) that they're doing non-free formats and DRM because if they don't they believe they'll lose market share, and in order to have any leverage they need market share. At least that's a calculation that one can argue about.
Lim Yuen Hoe at 2013-07-09T15:44:15+00:00
More anime projects hitting, and succeeding on, Kickstarter. This is a nice trend :) http://ur1.ca/ekwr7Vasco Dias likes this.
Vasco Dias shared this.
Dj_Dexter at 2013-07-08T01:27:53+00:00
Vasco Dias, Cyber Killer likes this.
Vasco Dias, Yutaka Niibe shared this.
Carlos Solís at 2012-11-03T18:54:04+00:00
@kesara ...until you're using more than one application at any given time. Fortunately that functionality is less and less often used.Vasco Dias likes this.
"Gnome 3…Beautiful", @kesara…"using more than one app"? select it & #GNOME automagically creates another workspace ;-) http://ur1.ca/asflw
Jacob Barkdull at 2012-08-10T05:04:56+00:00
Vasco Dias likes this.
Taha, Taha, Vasco Dias, Vasco Dias shared this.
Rafael Sanchez at 2012-08-06T14:29:34+00:00
‘MooGNU’ alternativa !copyleft a Nyan Cat creada por entusiastas !GNU - #nyancat - http://goo.gl/bWyWVVasco Dias, Pablo Barrera, JC likes this.
Vasco Dias, Vasco Dias, Pablo Barrera, Pablo Barrera and 2 others shared this.
@rafaels76 ¿Y cómo se pronunciaría? ¿"Mu-gah-niú"?@rafaels76 A la lista de versiones libres de cosas que no deberíamos liberar, junto con la banda sonora liberada de los cortos de Blender...Carlos Solís at 2012-08-07T04:05:49+00:00
a(n) person likes this.
@rafaels76 ...que me va a tocar hacer porque @wavecaster, el autor, no quiere relicenciar la música. Ya llamé a @dbautistadecabo.
Patrick McFarland at 2012-07-21T15:52:53+00:00
Vasco Dias, Klaus likes this.
PS (inactive), PS (inactive) shared this.
Command Line Magic at 2012-07-06T12:45:30+00:00
A command line lets you get intimate with your computer, data and protocols. GUIs are like wearing full body condoms.Vasco Dias, Behnam Tavakkoli kermani, Shahrzad, Ali Mousavi and 3 others likes this.
Vasco Dias, Vasco Dias, Guruprasad L, Guruprasad L and 8 others shared this.
Now i really hope my command line isn't a slut!
whitone at 2012-07-02T11:48:31+00:00
Doubts about Unicode on !linux? Read this FAQ http://j.mp/ObNHv3Vasco Dias likes this.
Vladimir Savić at 2012-06-29T14:15:13+00:00
Quite good article - The !Linux Graphics Stack http://is.gd/MTGWfTVasco Dias, Alexandro P. likes this.
Junichirô at 2012-04-30T17:38:43+00:00
I think a guy listening a Michael Jackson song must have more than five years jail!Vasco Dias likes this.
Guy K. Kloss at 2012-03-10T21:04:55+00:00
♻ @talios: Nerd Joke: How do you generate a random string? Put a first year CS student in front of VIM and tell him to save and exit.Vasco Dias likes this.
uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Vasco Dias, Vasco Dias shared this.
Benjamin Mako Hill at 2012-03-05T23:12:12+00:00
Turns out, not everybody is a fan of http://ur1.ca/8j4pd (http://ur1.ca/8imwi).Vasco Dias, Klaus likes this.
grmpyoldman (Tysk Gamlingen), Stefano Zacchiroli, Stefano Zacchiroli, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs and 5 others shared this.
Vladimir Savić at 2012-02-27T14:15:26+00:00
!Bash Shell Scripting - 10 Seconds Guide http://t.co/2mm0m7HS /via @newsycombinatorrozzin, Vasco Dias likes this.
keyist at 2012-02-23T13:52:28+00:00
Great reference for coreutils commands and their availability on various *nix systems: http://ur1.ca/8bs4g !cliVasco Dias likes this.
Funatiker at 2012-01-09T15:22:41+00:00
Vasco Dias, Rajit Vikram Singh likes this.
@funatiker Not really for kids, but definitely nice and simple
Plamen Stoev at 2012-01-07T22:46:14+00:00
http://rubymonk.com/ - a fun way to learn Ruby :) !gnuAlexandro P., Jenny Ondioline, Vasco Dias likes this.
remin raphael at 2011-10-10T22:38:43+00:00
Deep C (and C++) - http://ur1.ca/5cwhz http://b1t.it/G1MVasco Dias, Azlan likes this.
