Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 11:31:12 JST Rob Pike

   Does anyone have any technology that works? I am becoming despondent over the state of things. So much technological progress and yet everything seems to be broken (or must be updated, which amounts to the same thing in user experience) all the time.

   Sorry.

   • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 11:32:05 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

     in reply to

     • yuvipanda
     @robpike @yuvipanda All of those years of bit rot and dead code are catching up to us. It's the software version of the accumulation of space junk orbiting Earth.
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 23:47:35 JST 翠星石

     in reply to
     @robpike Yes.
     
     My https://libreboot.at/ KGPE-D16 with 2 6282 SE's, running GNU/GNU Linux-libre and only 100% free software is working.
   • Embed this notice
     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 00:13:38 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

     in reply to

     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki
     
     > KGPE-D16
     
     Doesn't that board have an IPMI? Is that replaced with Libreboot as well?
   • Embed this notice
     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 00:13:38 JST 翠星石

     in reply to

     • 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙
     @sallyNULL The board has slot for a BMC.
     
     On certain Chinese boards the BMC is soldered on, but I've desoldered the BMC from 2 boards so far without any issues.
     
     
     There is free BMC software available and you can flash the BMC with a patched version of flashrom (in case you're wondering, flashing all 0 to the BMC causes and hang and makes the mobo unable to boot until the BMC is removed).
   • Embed this notice
     dpnash (dpnash@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 13:29:50 JST dpnash

     in reply to

     @robpike The simple answer is that at room temperature, glass doesn't flow. If it did, all telescope mirrors, which need to have a surface figure accurate to about 1/10 of a wavelength of visible light (so, about +/- 50 *nanometers* across the entire surface of the glass) would be ruined within years, if not days. See, e.g. https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/how-does-glass-change-over-time/.

     翠星石 likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     dpnash (dpnash@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 13:29:51 JST dpnash

     in reply to

     @robpike I have three telescopes, built in 1985, 2001, and 2018. All work fine, though there's a rubber bearing in the focuser of the 1985 scope that needs to be cleaned a bit. It helps that precisely shaped glass doesn't rot, crash, require updates, throw up random paywalls, or eat all your CPU cycles if you look at it funny.

     (If we're talking specifically about computer/network tech, my almost 3 y.o. M1 Mac Mini pretty much just works as intended, albeit with the usual Apple quirky bits.)

   • Embed this notice
     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 13:29:51 JST Rob Pike

     in reply to

     • dpnash

     @dpnash But glass flows, and I've often wondered why large old lenses like the 40" in Yerkes can hold their figure. One of nature's mysteries.