Notices by jn RA, RB (primary opcode 31) (jn@boopsnoot.de)

This blew up a bit. I got many replies, ranging from harassment and gore to pretty thoughtful ones.

So, what's my problem? I think jokes and art based on fascist materials make space for those who genuinely enjoy these materials.

I wish the release collage came with a paragraph stating what is obvious to many but not all: It's a fucking disgrace to deport people and rip them out of their lives, and if we don't watch out we'll be reliving the 1940s faster than we're prepared for.

@lanodan @novenary fair points, thank you both. after sleeping on it for a night, i've distilled my gripes somewhat:

https://boopsnoot.de/@jn/114671594749757068

Although there are things I like about the Plan 9 family of operating systems, I cannot in good conscience promote 9Front.

Among the first commits in the git history was "Added /lib/meinkampf", followed, three months later (with a lot of regular development in the meantime), by "replaced /lib/meinkampf with something more sensible". You'd think this means they removed the nazi propaganda, but no, they replaced it with an english translation.

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the manual page for ns(1), a tool that lists the namespace of a process, to this day states: "46:The name of this tool is reminiscent of National Socialism and NeXTSTEP, it's hard to decide which one is worse", which is at best an incredibly trite attempt at humor.

and it isn't all in the past. the poster for the current release ("clause 15 common elements of maus and star type") is a collage (credited to sl) of a drawing by prahou (whom i respect as an artist), and a photo

the photo isn't credited. it shows men with shaved heads in cheap, uniform clothing, sitting in shelves. the photo was taken at the concentration prision in El Salvador (CECOT), to which the US has been deporting "gang members".

the "back" side is even worse: just straight up nazi shit, namely the table of "Markierungen der Häftlinge", signs that prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear.

When Plan 9 was developed at Bell Labs, it wasn't like this, this nazi shit (that no amount of "nazi punks fuck off" can paint over) is a 9front addition.

if i work with Plan 9, which i intend to do at some point, I'll be using 9legacy, which isn't... like this.

https://github.com/0intro/9legacy

@whitequark i am intrigued

I'm not a huge fan of GNUisms (calling things by other names to better fit the ideology of RMS and GNU), but there is one that i quite like: Digital Restrictions Management.

normally, it's Digital Rights Management, but it's the right to sue people over using their computers in unapproved ways— everyone would be freer of those "rights" did not exist. Digital Restrictions Management captures this modality accurately

@whitequark yes! not sure about when, but sometime, yes.

@whitequark 25-series SPI (like @th 's spispy) sounds difficult due to the tight timing.
Not sure about ONFI.
SD/MMC/SDIO emulation sounds very possible, as it would be possible to do the timing-critical parts in the FPGA and delegate everything else to the host, which allows for some interesting usecases such as exploiting TOCTOUs in eMMC access, or emulating SDIO WiFi (and the enormous driver attack surface that comes with it)

@whitequark i have a pile of them, they have inconvenient TSOP-48 flash and i managed to brick one while porting U-Boot --- which is what inspired me to research their JTAG :)

A set-top box with PPC, curious! the last one i opened had an ST40 CPU (SuperH but from ST Micro)

@whitequark PowerPC 603/603e/e300. I have some unpublished research on how the (undocumented) JTAG interface works there, implementing a probe will let me check and clean up my assumptions.

@whitequark yes, for glasgow

@whitequark this is pretty cool to have, i will use it for inspiration when i get around to writing my own JTAG-based debug probe for a different processor

@a1ba someone should boobstrap a community distro

Saarbrücke

@a1ba most important aspect

@mastone @domi the car feels very period-accurate for the image quality

someone help me budget this, my foundation is dying

@adrianyyy for the MIPS lovers