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This is what corporate speech control looks like, kids. Not even once.
This is what corporate speech control looks like, kids. Not even once.
Ah yes, DRM… burn it down, burn it all down
TL;Dr licensed firmware is garbo - open firmware ftw
This - is what we need.
The only ones who can really push the envelope on getting RISC-V into the hands of consumer, and indeed up to an IPC comparable to ARM, are companies like Deep Computing and Si-Five.
The biggest problem in the computing world, bar none, are not the predatory companies, vendor lockins, or proprietary operating systems, it’s always been licensing. This is why BSD existed in the first place, because a $1000 a month per seat to copy a file without pulling and pushing bits around is a bit too much, even if it was the 70s.
Similarly, in a time of green washing, eWaste and even planned obsolescence, one of the things that help to underpin all of these afformentioned evils is secret sauce firmware.
No matter what you say, if you don’t have access to the source code for firmware and bootloaders, you’ve got a lifetime set by the vendor based on how long they can actually support the hardware - because employees cost money. You can’t realistically expect a company to support something they’re not making money on anymore, and they’d most likely just want to sell you new hardware.
This is where RISC-V comes in swinging. I’m not saying that all RISC-V hardware will come with open firmware, but the ball is rolling and with it we can finally bridge the gap spanned by tech companies, where the average Jane or Joe can in effect easily modify their firmware code, albeit through security principles of course.
Unlike Open Source, Open Firmware is a bit trickier. Decades of industrial precedent, and indeed vendor lockins the OEM’s are beholden to, like proprietary BIOS, makes it that much harder to establish - especially when designing an entire ISA and getting it to prefab is a Lord of the Rings length journey. There is no griffin shortcut.
No doubt I’ll have naysayers. Just mentioning open firmware in the average matrix chat riles the gallery, as is the style, but even the likes of NVIDIA are opening up their code (thanks, AI) to the point where NVK is not that far from stable, untainting your kernel. Yay.
Everybody ♥️ open source, don’t they? But how about giving some love to Open Firmware? In the FUTURE 🐙 we’ll hopefully have vendors and foreign interests shoved tf out of our hardware, and good riddance, because they shouldn’t be in control of it in the first place.
I await your ire.
And shout outs to the libreboot maintainer. What in the ever loving Carmack is FSF up to? Libre ain’t a brand, it’s a philosophy.
The sponsor of this war is VODKA! Here in Russia, we feed it to babies, to make new orcs!
Moving me tf away from the part of town I was being raised in… or, alternatively: not having a distant father. You can’t teach a boy what they need over just one weekend. FFS.
Laugh all you want, but you know Microsoft will make a TUI version of VSCode and Copilot+ will be implemented into BASH.
…are you okay?
No! Now take this slave labour cobalt and partake in the market place of ideas… I said partake! *shakes fist*
Good. The US shouldn’t get a blank cheque to just arrest somebody without a good reason.
That the leaked information caused the US government some pain is not a good enough reason, mostly because no power should be beyond reproach… because it’s extremely undemocratic and very anti free speech.
But congress gonna congress, I guess.
But the elusive hobo homeowner manages to hide in plain sight.
Don’t blame the Americans. They don’t see that we have our own slow crawl in a race to the bottom. The EU has recognised it and pays lip service, but that organ-grinder gotta spin, spin, spin…
…but yeah, regulation wise Europeans get a ton more representation. In the US representation means which talking mouthpiece is going to serve the instituons today, and then they go do a lil insider trading - as a treat.
Show this to someone who believes in the honour system and self regulation… see how they react.
I heard someone say that Nicholas Cage was almost cast as Superman…
We were robbed.
An economist, ey? Running low on shells? Need to nip, tuck a few budgets? Well…
With each passing day that is less and less true. Ask any Hong Kong patriot. Even though China technically hasn’t annexed them, the Hong Kong leadership leans closer towards Beijing every day. I wouldn’t put it past Hong Kong intelligence “doing favours” for Beijing.
You’ll have to install it onto your soul, once again revolutionising the video game industry - and the world at large.
Gosh darn it, Newell. It’s too much winning. So much good faith. Leave some for the rest of us! Look at Elon! He’s dying over there!
Why are people so confused? Microsoft wanted monopoly by acquiring a bunch of companies, to consolidate their intellectual property and shaft it’s employees, the people who created the software in the first place.
Classic Microsoft.
This person, nay, this legend, has reached across language barriers and opened up entire new worlds to people who suffer from lacking or outdated documentation.
If you or your loved ones are afflicted by bad documentation, please voice your grievances to whatever ticket or email chain deserves to be told their documentation is absolute ass.
Yes, I can read the code API, now delete that old ass mess. If you don’t want to communicate it, let someone else have those search engine results.
Ffs.