Notices by Richard Hughes (hughsie@mastodon.social)

@spot eek, delivery from LVFS/fwupd? https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-dell/ with haste if so.

@adamw I think that pretty "normal" for the crowd here 🙂

New stable #fwupd -- get it while it's still warm: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/1.9.28

Notably, this one can also apply the new dbx to fix CVE-2024-7344 -- with more details here: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2025/01/20/fwupd-2-0-4-and-dbxupdate-20241101/

I'm just building it for #fedora 41 now.

@mntmn I want this to succeed so hard. From someone in the trenches of a closed hardware ecosystem this is exactly what the world needs.

If anyone needs convincing, I've seen first-hand how the MNT team do the right thing and how much they care. I'm sure they'll hit the funding goal, but please boost and share to your networks to make sure they smash it.

I'd purchase one myself, but I already have dozens (literally...) of laptops, and my wife would kill me if another turned up.

Some good news; yesterday the LVFS won the Security category at the #OpenUK awards, hosted at the House of Lords in London.

As an open source maintainer 99% of my communication is receiving bug reports and feature requests from sometimes less-than-polite users.

Events like yesterday remind me of two things: that people appreciate what I do, and that there's a whole family of people who understand why open is so very important.

This little video is the answer to the question I get asked at social events "so what *exactly* do you do at Red Hat?"

Presented without comment: aiBIOS

Who doesn't want a LLM in their BIOS setup screen?

https://www.insyde.com/press_news/press-releases/insyde%C2%AE-software-brings-higher-intelligence-pcs-aibios%E2%84%A2-technology-be

@pid_eins is it expected a service can do mlock() when it has just allow-listed SystemCallFilter=@system-service? I couldn't find any docs on what caps system-service actually maps to.

We're trying to move from denying-listing caps to allow-listing in #fwupd. Thanks!

My "Use fwupd to deploy Linux firmware updates and more" blog was published to the @rhdevelopers site, comments most welcome.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/06/08/use-fwupd-deploy-linux-firmware-updates-and-more

It explains a bit how to use #fwupd from other programming languages or in frameworks such as #Puppet and #Ansible, so might be useful for people thinking of using fwupd in a customer project.