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The EPP Group wants European Parliament to declare Holodomor in Ukraine as a genocide.

The Group proposes to put this on the agenda of the next plenary. The Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament will decide on this request on Thursday.

#Holodomor #StandWithUkraine

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/

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@fsf Take legal action against people violating GPLv3 for Creality Ender-3 or shush

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@dgr @fsf it's arm-based system so it manages system resources differently so that e.g. your web browser doesn't need to use as much RAM and can be further optimized compared to x86_64 systems for me i can use 200 tabs without much of an issue on firefox.

Works for programming quite well assuming that you do offloading to a system that has more resources for compilation of complicated things e.g. using gitpod or nix daemon otherwise you will have to wait +- the average amount.

e.g. Pinebook and Pinephone (non-pro) are using A64 (though i discourage their use):
* invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch
* invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch

Note that this is just an example in general A64 is used for prototyping (bcs it's well documented and cheap) to then use whatever different chip you want e.g. the mentioned TUSKLA or RK3399/RK3588 and all the way to Snapdragon 845 (wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qua) and beyond or if you want RISC-V, MIPS, etc..

@dgr @fsf For a practical example lets use the Allwinner A64:

This is all you will need to make the schematics linux-sunxi.org/A64, if something is missing then ask the sunxi community and they will help you the documents are 200+ pages majority of that is just for developer reference and marketing garbage soignore most of it and just look though the table on page 2 for the things you are looking for.

doing that this way would take you around 9 hours of work which you can skip through using github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/tr

now you have a dirt cheap linux computer (A64 is +- 2 EUR) that can be used without a problem as daily driver and can be adjusted to do whatever you want

e.g. you want to make a drone -> you add motors to the "bus" (read up on this it's a solution to manage additional devices such card readers, joysticks, etc.. etc..) which basically works by soldering 1~2 wires to the right place and they will then be available for you to manage on the software-end

once you are happy with the spaghetti monster you've created then you open KiCAD and remove things you don't need and use your spaghetti wires to figure out where to put in the traces you want (very easy)

@dgr @fsf I am software developer for almost 15 years now and i do hardware for almost 4 it's significantly easier.. it's like graphical programming language compared to enso you just read the "backtrace" more as the "linting" for the PCB tells you where you've made mistakes..

I would compare that to regex from a junion dev perspective as it looks scary and complicated but when you invest few min learning it you will realize that it's stupidly simple..

Like you basically just open schematics and connect lines based off of documentation and then use the schematics to then make the layers which is like making images in inkscape just computer guided to help you make them..

@dgr @fsf It's really the company's fault if they have a business plan that is vulnerable to other companies making the same design as there are professional services with CNC machines that take all of the components off of the PCB, remove the solder mask and then slowly remove layer by layer to take high resolution pictures to make their own design such as in china and like if you have a precise enough CNC then you can do that yourself it's not really difficult to do..

@dgr @fsf According to my lawyer the schematics do not fit the scope defined by GPLv3 so best treated as proprietary, bcs despite my efforts and desperate calls of the reprap project to make stallman understand the problem and update GPLv3 he's just incompetent and doesn't care which enables people to take OSHW ender-3 printers licensed under GPLv3 and fabricate proprietary forks off of without any legal consequences..

It should be using CERN license or alike instead.

@dgr @fsf and FSF's certification is actively causing harm to the OSHW as they encourage proprietary developers to develop more hardware that doesn't respect the user freedom to fix that @fsf should rename the campaign on "respects your software freedom"

@dgr @fsf The skill gap is not really a thing.. hardware development is easier to learn than learning python as kicad makes that really easy.. consider investing few hours into it

@dgr @fsf It's not just "Open-Source Hardware Creators like me" ultimately it's the consumer who suffers with worse design that can't be customized and are overpriced.. It's the same argument against using proprietary software just on hardware.

@DarthPutinKGB hell no i want ukraine in NATO to so that they can't attack us, they could probably go all the way to paris

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