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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 23:05:35 JST 
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@secalinum Very nice, what license? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 22:13:50 JST
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@mangeurdenuage Gather data sampling: Not affected
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Mmio stale data: Not affected
Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Retbleed: Vulnerable
Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Spectre v1: Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and usercopy barriers only; no swapgs barriers
Spectre v2: Vulnerable; STIBP: disabled; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
(Don't worry, no slowdown as mitigations are compiled out).
Just don't run proprietary malware on your computer and you're safe.
Why not GNUboot a Intel Atom netbook and install GNU/Linux-libre and then you can have;
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Not affected
Spectre v1: Not affected
Spectre v2: Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 22:11:39 JST
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@GIMP Does the windows client still say; "Remember, GIMP is free software, go to gimp.org for free updates"?
It should really say; "Remember, GIMP is free software, go to gimp.org for free (and gratis) updates.". -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 22:09:38 JST
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@lxo @rayslava @Revertron Sure, which is why I've only ever used it to put 2 increments on the same line so far (no confusion possible there). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 22:07:53 JST
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@hfaust It's just; e (ellipse tool) -> Draw circle -> Edit -> Stroke Selection -> Stroke -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 22:06:27 JST
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@animepfp @verita84 @hfaust As yes, GNOME, designed and written with PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE;
Profile CMM Type : Apple Computer Inc.
Profile Version : 2.1.0
Profile Class : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data : RGB
Profile Connection Space : XYZ
Profile Date Time : 2025:03:16 11:51:55
Profile File Signature : acsp
Primary Platform : Apple Computer Inc.
CMM Flags : Not Embedded, Independent
Device Manufacturer : Apple Computer Inc.
Device Model :
Device Attributes : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color
Rendering Intent : Perceptual
Connection Space Illuminant : 0.9642 1 0.82491
Profile Creator : Apple Computer Inc. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:58:39 JST
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>Have never claimed to know it all
>People claim that I'm a know-it-all
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:56:42 JST
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@wowaname It's much easier to bootstrap than rust. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:51:57 JST
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@mangeurdenuage Such pseudorandom number generator would probably manage to make better decisions somehow. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:49:48 JST
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@lxo @rayslava @Revertron Thanks, you probably saved me some time there, as I hadn't yet decided to use it in a non-trivial case (so far I've used it do to `++i, ++j;`); -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:46:21 JST
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@eliseo01 @privateger No GNUbootable thinkpad can output 1440p (watching videos on a laptop screen is a bit meh anyway).
I watch videos on my GNUbooted KGPE-D16-based system. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:44:52 JST
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That's a good truth;
Weak licensors and their fetish for popularity at all costs have been a disaster for the human species. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:44:20 JST
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@hopland I have never claimed to be a know it all.
My communication skills are fine - I don't use insulting language first and people are informed very well. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:42:43 JST
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@hopland >made a big letter complaining about Intel not contributing back after the fact.
I've read the letter and in a typical weak licensing fashion, it seems he was only complaining that nobody at intel sent him an email informing him that his software was now taking the freedom of billions of users (it appears he was actually happy that so much freedom was taken, as his OS was the most popular).
Weak licensors and their fetish for popularity at all costs have been a disaster for the human race.
>You could have said that instead of spewing a giant wall of text that I nor anyone else will read.
The problem is that everyone refuses to believes my word, unless I start whipping out evidence and going through it in a big wall of text.
The first 2 sentences summarized the claim quite well and those with doubts can keep reading. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:32:53 JST
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@wowaname @Revertron @rayslava I love the type system of GNU C - it's great - if only any other language could have a type system as good. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:00:36 JST
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@eliseo01 @privateger AV1 plays fine as long as you don't use a garbage decoder.
dav1d is a free software AV1 decoder that does 1080p fine on a core 2 Duo. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:57:35 JST
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@hopland >it was a joke... see the history of Minix.
It seems that Intel didn't actually bother to work on MINIX themselves (they asked the guy who wrote it if he could cut down the memory usage for them and he did it totally gratis) and instead wrote a few programs that ran with MINIX and made everything totally proprietary.
>that was invented by academians who wanted to get away from big corporations.
That is not true.
It was coined by a few non-academics who didn't like that dastardly freedom and wanted funding for efficient development from corpos; http://catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
As you can see, the very reason for its existence is to attack free software, as; "the term makes a lot of corporate types nervous" and is only about the ideals of functionally better software, faster (technical excellence); "we can make serious gains in the mainstream business world without compromising our ideals and commitment to technical excellence"
His culture is clearly totally different to the free software culture, and he wanted (and still wants) to eliminate that culture; `We suggest that everywhere we as a culture have previously talked about "free software", the label should be changed to "open source".`.
The term was previously used (and still is used) to refer to journalism using whatever publicly available sources are available, which of course causes fractal confusion.
In fact, free software was coined by an academic that found what big corporate were doing was unacceptable and fought against it (Richard Stallman).
Software used to be freely available and if you had the source code, you had freedom (as software did not fall under copyright), but corporate ruined that freedom (first by refusing to provide the source code unless you signed an NDA, agreeing to betray humanity by not sharing, then by refusing to provide the source code at all, then by making software fall under copyright, meaning to have freedom, just the source code was no longer enough - you needed a free license).
>GPL ≠ MIT ≠ BSD ≠ CC.
- There is the GPLv1, GPLv2 & GPLv3 (and Lesser and Affero licenses).
- MIT released many licenses, MIT expat is only one of them.
- There is no "BSD license", there is the 4-clause, 3-clause, 2-clause, 1-clause & 0-clause.
- Creative Commons released many licenses (including disgraceful proprietary ones); i.e. CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0, CC BY 4.0 -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:32:44 JST
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@privateger For Intel, I use Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad CPUs and those can keep up with x265 - you just set the encoding and leave and do something else and when you come back it's done.
For the Core 2 ME, you just don't include the proprietary malware in the BIOS image and the ME does not load (it's only newer Intel CPUs that require proprietary ME software for init that are handcuffed).
I also use AMD CPUs - dual 6282 SE's of 32 core power and up to 256GB of RAM too. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:07:07 JST
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@lain Tell them you can feel your soul being surrendered to all the proprietary malware that runs on the eSIM demonic proprietary hardware+proprietary software setup I guess? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:00:00 JST
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@lispi314 Provides more sales?
The Chinese have undercut any of such market with their cheap clone HDD cages.
It's just laziness - you can sell a thinkpad for more if it includes a cage.
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