zach wick zachwick@identi.ca
Ann Arbor, MI United States
Hack and modder, free software ideologue, and practitioner of general tomfoolery.
Jason Self at 2016-03-30T02:32:08Z
After much poking and prodding over what seems like forever a proprietary program and proprietary documentation are finally free. Time to take a little break.zach wick, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), X11R5, lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
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@jxself@identi.ca Congratulations, what program?
Couldn't be happier about Matthew Garrett joining the FSF board of directors: http://www.fsf.org/news/matthew-garrett-joins-free-software-foundation-board-of-directors
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Great choice. I'll take it as confirmation of some of my post-free-software (why not, post-open-source-software has been exploited, right?) biases: to actually have control over their own computing and the ability to participate in constructing their computing environments, people have to be safe (their computers and themselves). Estimated probability of increasing FSF relevance in coming years increased. Just for good measure: increase increases.Mike Linksvayer at 2014-10-17T01:38:28Z
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Jason Self at 2014-09-16T16:12:55Z
Ahoy there persons of the pumpiverse. tzag and such.X11R5, zach wick, lostson, a(n) person likes this.
Aaarrrrr! Ahoy, matey! o/
avast o/
Freemor at 2014-09-15T20:25:50Z
add:
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{=b}%{G}%{b}%w %=%{kG}%C%A %d/%M/%Y "
to your .screenrcLuis, zach wick, jrobertson, jrobb likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-08-04T12:58:51Z
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Your ascii art depiction of joeyh is perfect.David Thompson at 2014-08-04T13:13:45Z
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David Thompson at 2014-07-25T11:52:12Z
GNU Guix 0.7 has been released. This release comes with the first image allowing the GNU operating system to be installed from a USB stick.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-07/msg00292.htmlKete Foy, zach wick, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Stephen Michael Kellat and 4 others likes this.
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but gnu hasn't come up with its own kernel? have they?gnu has been the ideas fort, we needn't people how passionate developers and users are when it comes to free and open, that's an achievement superseding release of it's own full system. http://xkcd.com/225/@testbeta - GNU has two kernels. One you already know, but Linux-libre was dubbed as part of GNU back in 2012. That means GNU has two official kernels and so yes, this is using GNU's kernel. I understand that support for GNU's other kernel is also planned. :)Jason Self at 2014-07-25T14:48:41Z
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Wow, I wasn't aware they were calling it the GNU System now, even without the Hurd.
Jason Self at 2014-07-25T15:36:50Z
I hereby recommend that coreboot rename itself to blobboot.
Matt Molyneaux at 2014-07-24T19:44:32Z
Today wasn't going so well, but then I managed to get the word "frivolous" into a commit message.
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That's what I call true commitment. XD
mray INACTIVE at 2014-07-24T21:02:34Z
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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.
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@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.Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-07-23T20:39:40Z
Wow, these CC BY-SA 3d printable OpenForge tabletop RPG dungeon tiles look amazing.
Might need to print some of these out now that my reprap is up and running again.
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So bad ass! Makes me want to play grid-based RPGs, just to play with terrain! So fun! ^_^
We sure have come a long way... I remember 5 years ago we were using our super-fancy printer (we were doing a lot of print work back then, really super-fancy) to print out tiles for our game, and we were saying, "well, never have to buy physical tiles again, we can even edit these to make them specific to our games!"
This is so next level!
Very amazing indeed!
I need them! And I'm not playing any RPG campaign right now...
Free Software Foundation at 2014-06-13T21:23:08Z
This is why we need a free software replacement for Skype!
"Witnesses allowed to testify via Skype in some trials"
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You just need to choose a good client-xmpp jabber and a good serverjuansantiago, cuenta alrernativa, alternative account at 2014-06-13T21:53:22Z
Mark Holmquist at 2014-05-28T17:42:09Z
Jobs page.
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Bloody hell
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(keep up to date with twitter)Mike Linksvayer at 2014-05-28T21:30:54Z
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Jason Self at 2014-05-28T19:02:24Z
I sat in the audience and watched someone check Twitter using an app on iOS while they listened to Eben Moglen about surveillance and freedom at LibrePlanet 2014.Christopher Allan Webber, sazius, zach wick likes this.
Free Software Foundation at 2014-05-21T19:50:02Z
Mike Gerwitz assigned copyright to GNU ease.js! Contribute to GNU: https://u.fsf.org/xezach wick shared this.
Free Software Foundation at 2014-05-21T21:13:18Z
Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter now FSF-certified to respect your freedom. https://u.fsf.org/xvOlivier Berger, jrobertson, zach wick, Yutaka Niibe and 5 others likes this.
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Jason Self at 2014-05-15T00:16:16Z
A mere 8 months after getting the W3C HTML Working Group to say that DRM was “in scope”, all major browser developers support it or are planning to. Big Media must be thinking “wow - that was easy.”
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Free as in Freedom at 2014-05-13T14:41:06Z
Bradley and Karen are pleased to announce the end of the hiatus of Free as in Freedom, with Episode 0x44 which explains some of the reasons for the seven month hiatus and then discuss the recent Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision.Richard Fontana, j1mc, aether, James Dearing 🐲 and 14 others likes this.
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Show all 5 repliesYay!
Yeah! I was really starting to wonder what your definition of 'bi-weekly' was :D
Huzzah! I was worried that you two were eaten by bears (the only possible explanation)