Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

@freemo Consider this.

You release you wonderful piece of software for anyone to do anything they want with it. Mr. Monopolist comes along, sees some merit in it, throws their huge team of developers/marketers at it and produces a proprietary product based on it, that from users perspective, your original, oh so free, project can never hope to compete with. No matter how hard you(or the community) strive to keep up, you are always behind Mr. Monopolist, cause you give away all you work, while they just laugh at you and continue to dominate the market.

After some time even the knowledgeable little guy can't freely use your software anymore, unless they are willing to use ancient software/hardware, cause the whole ecosystem surrounding it is proprietary.

OSS is a way for monopolistic mega corporations to keep FOSS under control and make sure they are always ahead.

@freemo Ah yes, of course, the freedom to abuse other peoples rights is very important to uphold.

If you throw a breadcrumb in a pond, the biggest and strongest fish is going to get it, and become bigger and stronger.
If you throw money on the street the "toughest" gang on the block is going to get it and get "tougher".

In a world that is clearly and obviously dominated by proprietary software monopolies "I don't care, let anyone do what they want" is equivalent to "I love megacorps owning everyone left and right!".

GPL is not a license that grants you freedom in heaven, it's a license that fight for your freedom in hell.

"First they came for #Assange and #Chelsea, and I didn't care because I read too many articles about #Assange's persona and was gullible.

Then they came for #Greenwald and I didn't care because I 'had no time' and because 'hacking is a crime, you see?' and because Brazil is far away..

Then I realized: 'oh wait?! what?! Shit!!!', shortly before I got arrested myself by fascists hordes."

#MastoFiction #OrIsIt? #FreeAssange #FreeChelsea #DontExtraditeAssange

Does anyone know any #linux #distro that is in need of #mirroring ?
I do mirror the popular ones already at https://mirror.linux.pizza/ but I am looking into helping out smaller #distros that does not have the money or capacity to spend on bandwith.

@tindall found this.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/733/zhaoxin-launches-their-highest-performance-chinese-x86-chips/

some x86 patents are already expired and x86-64 is set to be free in 2023. amd and intel have an agreement between them but this'll open the market to more companies

some thoughts on the future of null.media

https://xj9.io/posts/2020/null-media-next/

simplicity, correctness, performance

in that order

What shall I name this new RISC-V assembler project of mine? (My current assembler, the one written in Python 2, is named simply 'a'.)

It will target the RV32I and RV64I instruction sets. (A, M, etc. extensions can be added later if/when needed.) I intend on emitting hunk-formatted output files. See http://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/01/29/on-elf and http://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/02/01/on-elf-2 for the reasons why.

I am partial to asm myself. But, I'd love your thoughts on the matter.

#Kestrel3

@Shamar
original author: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/history/2004S/chaokul.html

found it here: https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html

divergefs-fix.tgz is the one that works

the way i actually found the sources was by grepping through /n/9pio/contrib

more progress towards #Plan9 packaging, because i'm tired of unsafe uninstall rules in mkfiles
https://git.sr.ht/~raingloom/package

there is power in a union

9th International Workshop on Plan 9
14 — 19th June 2020
http://iwp9.org/

#plan9

⚠️ New study by the Norwegian Consumer Council exposes how the advertising industry is systematically breaking the law

This is yet another example of how the #AdTech ecosystem is breaching your privacy and putting your #security at risk

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising-industry-is-systematically-breaking-the-law/

This is neat: There's a microcontroller with RISC-V 16/32 instruction powered only by ambient radio power

https://www.onio.com/technology.html

There's no onboard battery to replace so the thing can potentially run for as long as there's a strong enough signal in any of the ISM bands or 800, 900 etc... GSM frequencies

It's got 1K of ROM and up to 32K flash and can access reads down to the milliwatt range in power

Collisions with the windows of buildings kill more birds than wind turbines do, by some orders of magnitude. And that's before we get to cats ...

(Current numbers for the US; ~250,000 per year killed by turbines, ~1,000,000,000 per year by windows. 2.4 billion/year by cats. Numbers via Dunning, B. "Wind Turbines and Birds." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 7 Jan 2020. Web. 12 Jan 2020. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4709 )

So switching to Linux might reduce the use of Windows ... but probably increases use of cat ...

Malwarebytes says low-end smartphones sold to Americans with low-income via a government-subsidized program contain unremovable malware at https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/us-government-funded-android-phones-come-preinstalled-with-unremovable-malware/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/luqh71ksfb #freepost