Notices by Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)

Yagami Raito was born to speak German. Hearing his maniacal delusions of grandeur in German is just... so klasse.

Been doing Minifree work today. Got some orders to catch up on, hopefully will have everything done by Friday.

I always have a cartoon or TV show on in the background while I work. Usually something I've watched hundreds of times, as like, background noise, to stop myself from thinking.

Today's background noise is... Death Note. One of my favourite Japanese animes, but I'm watching the German dub as part of my German learning.

I have to say: this is the *best dub* I've ever seen, of any show.

FUN FACT: Yesterday, I updated my LibreWolf OpenBSD port to version 151.0.1-2. Please read: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/librewolf-openbsd-port

LibreWolf is a privacy- and security-hardened fork of Mozilla Firefox. It removes telemetry otherwise present in Firefox, attempts to resist fingerprinting techniques, and so on.

My current thread on the mailing list is quite large, and I've made several design changes throughout; I will start a new thread for my port, which I intend to have merged before OpenBSD 8.0 is released.

@joel gonna update the port this weekend probably. working on other stuff at the moment.

FUN FACT:

A record 20 million tourists, 13% of them Germans, visited Morroco in the past 12 months, alongside a general windfall of tourists, visiting the country of Morocco.

I heard this on tagesschau24 just now. My German language learning has not stopped whatsoever since November last year. I watch the news while working (currently working on Minifree orders).

I'm getting to a point now where most of the time, unless I'm really tired or distracted, I understand every sentence I hear on TV.

FUN FACT:

A record number of approximately 20 million tourists visited Morocco in the past year, a 13% increase compared to the previous year. A large number of German tourists.

I heard this on tagesschau24 today. My German language learning has not stopped whatsoever since November last year. I watch the news while working (currently working on Minifree orders).

I'm getting to a point now where most of the time, unless I'm really tired or distracted, I understand every sentence I hear on TV.

i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects for years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects from years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

this annoys me

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity

ai could be wonderful, if implemented soundly and used responsibly, if you need to double the world's electricity usage, then centralised AI tech is unsustainable.

if everyone had solar/wind on their roofs, and batteries, it would greatly reduce baseload demand, and we could have a fully open source, democratically operated AI network. everything including training done p2p - is this possible?

we should write to our governments and demand such research.

@Hello @kaidenshi @MaddieM4 seems i'm dehydrated. i neglected to realise you already mentioned tweaking apmd/obsdfreqd

yeah, openbsd runs hot. just something you have to accept. it's not as power-efficient as linux. but it is better in lots of other ways :)

@Hello @kaidenshi @MaddieM4 You can control CPU frequency, check apmd manual. Or use obsdfreqd (i think it's called that). Probably still not as efficient as Linux, but you can get pretty close. I use the latter on laptops, when I'm out and about. obsdfreqd is in ports. You have to reconfigure apmd to disable some of its automation; check both manuals. Or just disable apmd when using obsdfreqd.

Also, I'll update librewolf soon. Got other work on at the moment. But will update the port after 7.9

@moses_izumi the libreboot documentation needs a massive audit and cleanup, and add a few missing bits.

i did this for the libreboot build system from 2023-2025, essentially re-writing it incrementally over a two-year period. that same obsessive love is needed for lbwww.git i think

@evangeligal correct! i've fixed this now. i simply put it in the title of each product page. i don't even think about screen sizes myself, easy to overlook.

@moses_izumi i mean, i didn't do that, someone else did and i merged their patche. making your own battery packs should be feasible. e.g. a bunch of lipo batteries wired in parallel for amperage. there are probably already solutions for this that you can just buy. generic portable power supplies. for a high power desktop, yeah get a large UPS (that's what i use at home and at the lab)

so long as the voltages match you should be fine

@wombatpandaa If free boot firmware were supported, you could just use whatever they/someone provides. As I said, I'm almost certainly not touching Framework at all. I don't want to be associated with that company in any way whatsoever.

@wombatpandaa I have no such plans, and I'm aware that the company responsible for Framework products has made some rather problematic political choices as of late; if a Libreboot port were to become technically viable, I still very likely would not touch Framework with a fourty-kilometer barge pole.

I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.

https://minifree.org/

Libreboot is free/opensource boot firmware, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI. I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer, and I use sales to fund the project.

Libreboot gives you better security and customisation. As a Free Software project, Libreboot democratises the boot firmware, giving you control. It's your computer, nobody elses.

Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD of your choice can be preinstalled.

@yetiinabox @boud I run OpenBSD on several of the machines that I sell. I've been porting a lot of my stuff to it. It should work fine.

Other BSDs should also be OK.

@tom ja, mich ~$ cd Project/lbdev/lbmk
ja, mich lbmk$ ls config/coreboot/x270_vfsp_16mb/

just build with that target name. see https://libreboot.org/docs/build/

@tom We do have x270 in libreboot now. It'll be in the next release.