Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

@lupyuen It's beautiful to see China doing well. Through the USSR, Russia and US restrictions on the export of knowledge, China has succeeded.

The Article points out Alibaba and SiFive as manufacturers of RISC-V while it would be T-Head that makes a physical product. SiFive is fabless which means they hoard any information and only take from the community. T-Head posts Verilog of their creations for the world to see and use. SiFive doesn't deserve to be on the same list.

RISC-V was indirectly and likely unwittingly helped by DARPA. It's odd that the US is so anti freedom that it forced RISC-V out of the country. So perhaps a better summary is that the US was incompetent and China did something smart. That move was apparently not allowed because the US government allows corporations to own thoughts and ideas.

As an American I find it humorous but I'm still waiting for the punchline of the CCP messing it up like the RISC-X talks. Leave it to governments to take credit for something they had no part in and make it political. At least the surveillance systems in China will be less expensive.

Hopefully the inexpensive SoCs will be functional and have accurate documentation. RISC-V has always had challenges with all three and I suspect that the first few generations are going to be ewaste. That should sum up my commentary on the article. The hints of propaganda were appreciated.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (49/2023): #Phosh 0.34.0 and #Sxmo 1.15

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-49-2023/

#LinuxMobile #PinePhone #Librem5 #postmarketOS #UnifiedPush #PinePhonePro

I am happy to share that my #FOSDEM talk "PineTime: A Programmer's Toy and Beyond" was accepted. See you in Brussels!

#InfiniTime #Amazfish

https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/talk/review/BTPDMQMUUM7KDGHETWWDAAGBNJETUGDC

Wow, it's been less than a day and we've already steamrolled our goals for covering our current and near-future infrastructure costs! Thanks so much to everyone who donated so far, we really appreciate all the kind comments.

We hope to have more news in the coming weeks!

But before that, a new stable release 🚀

https://opencollective.com/postmarketos

NEW:

Created a fork of Ick's Squeekboard-Layouts on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/user0/Squeekboard-Layouts


Created a fork of the postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox repo on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/user0/mobile-config-firefox

(Technically, this is a modified mirror, since Codeberg does not support forking non-Codeberg git repos)

I'll try to keep changes in sync between my Mobile-Friendly-Firefox and my mobile-config-firefox repos.

#Firefox #FOSS #FreeSoftware #GNOME #GNU #Librem5 #Linux #LinuxLibre #LinuxMobile #LinuxPhones #LinuxSmartPhones #mobile #MobileLinux #phosh #PinePhone #PinePhonePro #postmarketOS #PureOS

Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,

https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/

developers are working hard on getting #PlasmaMobile 6 ready for the #megarelease scheduled for February.

#Plasma6

Playing around with face detection on the @PINE64 PinephonePro, with opencv and my @libcamera based app