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British right to repair law comes into force today, but excludes smartphones and computers

9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/british

@BigSkyRider @lupyuen I've had a look at this for an upcoming publication on embedded data distribution. Delta compression looks feasible, as long as there isn't too heavy optimization in place (LTO and similar) -- but the network has to support full updates anyway (eg. for compiler updates), and then update diffusion can cut traffic to a fraction.

Several fixes have been committed to the #OpenBSD iwm and iwx #wifi drivers. My goal is to have a stable base for upcoming changes.

If you have been seeing "iwm0: fatal firmware error" and such in the logs, upgrading to -current will hopefully fix this (with build date after June 30, 09:45h UTC).

And if you aren't seeing any issues then please try the next round of changes :flan_heart:
marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=16

@lupyuen Huh, neat how much "closed source" code is out there if you only look for it.

@lupyuen You a ham radio operator by chance too? Or this all public domain frequencies?

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