Notices by 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com), page 2
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 14:21:33 JST 翠星石 @jihadjimmy He's trying his best - although suicide via cigarettes can take decades. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 14:17:38 JST 翠星石 @tasket >with the attitude that ignoring FOSS-respecting chip vendors and showering anti-FOSS vendors with your money is the way to go
I'm not aware of a single chip vendor that cares about respecting the users freedom, although some have done the bare minimum of releasing enough documentation to allow drivers for their hardware to be written and some finally comply with the GPLv2 when made to and release the source code for their BusyBox/Linux version, which allows their drivers to be cleaned up and mainlined.
>the Church Of Reverse Engineering will get us past the pearly gates of compatibility – any day now.
Up until nvidia 700 series that will eventually work out, but anything newer than that contains digital handcuffs that prevent the user from modifying the peripheral software on the GPU and therefore effectively being able to reverse engineer it.
>And another thing: Linux is nowhere near being secure.
Linux is one of the most secure kernels available, considering it gets multiple bugfixes every single day (all bugs are a security bug).
Very few privilege exploitation attacks against it have been found and those have all been fixed.
>Neither Linus nor any of his followers are going to try anything fundamentally new, despite the dire circumstances.
I don't see any dire circumstances and the lack of fundamentally new things is to be expected from the intention to implement a known working quick and dirty monolithic design - but fundamentally new functionality has indeed been implemented - for example epoll.
The group that has been implementing fundamentally new things is GNU - too bad there are many people that take every effort to omit its name and achievements - attempting to bury it. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:24:36 JST 翠星石 @Hoss "open source" infidels shall burn. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:16:29 JST 翠星石 @kirby Incredible - the target's even round. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:12:12 JST 翠星石 @theorytoe Whistleblow against Boeing or become a reputable journalist and the CIA will give you what you want. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:08:20 JST 翠星石 @daya With ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -Artistic" right? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:08:10 JST 翠星石 @graf They were probably paying ⅛ of a billion a year for a "hosting and backup service" google provided. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:06:19 JST 翠星石 @IAMAL_PHARIUS Ah yes, the consequences of clown computing - google says that the data is safe and all backed up, but it's gone. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 01:00:07 JST 翠星石 @Vril_Oreilly >Typical GNOME bug
>Implying that all DE's are like pictured.
I just run; `unzip <path/to/zip>` and it extracts reliably every time. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:57:16 JST 翠星石 @ComfyGuy The data looks completely made up - Japan is defined at "0" on the scale, even though that kernel is used on all actually important computers in that country (webservers, routers (no other kernel has a chance of handling a full routing table of the internet) and for VM's). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:57:04 JST 翠星石 @ComfyGuy The data looks completely made up - Japan is defined at "0" on the scale, even though that kernel is used on all actually important computers in those countries (webservers, routers (no other kernel has a chance of handling a full routing table of the internet) and for VM's). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:54:11 JST 翠星石 @Vril_Oreilly No, the kernel, Linux is not free as it contains proprietary software.
Some people are attracted to LiGNUx as it's gratis and you don't need to keep paying monthly for most distributions, but that is only a fraction of the userbase.
windows and all other proprietary OS's lack basic functionality for many tasks - being stable and also being usable for programming are two examples as to what windows is extremely poor at and LiGNUx is good at.
Please provide more details as to how the statistics are derived as the numbers look completely made up. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:45:10 JST 翠星石 @blaaablaaaa >Proceeds to commit multiple warcrimes anyway. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:42:34 JST 翠星石 @tk Enough AK-47's pointed downwards, attached to a platform and rigged to go full auto simultaneously will grant you flight from the recoil alone, too bad you'll probably go deaf, get hit by a few ricocheted rounds and maybe even get impaled by the AK's if you land while still on the platform, due to the long cylindrical metal punching up through the platform. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:33:12 JST 翠星石 @cell As far as I can tell, they're y that makes x "feel uncomfortable", but most people have a opposer who'll be uncomfortable with the fact that they still breathe. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:28:49 JST 翠星石 @mangeurdenuage >Tfw when the NSA has been unable to come up with a single act of terrorism their constant criminal surveillance has helped foil in a meaningful way, or any situation where surveillance results were required to solve a time-critical issue. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:23:45 JST 翠星石 @r000t Have they considered buying white paint and painting any cables in unwanted colours white (protects them from UV damage too)? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:22:12 JST 翠星石 @sim >So the banks can just credit an account out of nowhere after a loan is agreed upon?
Yes - the magic number on the computer can be made to go up by the mere calling of the new_loan() function, which adds the balance and load record to the database and advises the proprietary balance checking software a new loan has been made (we can't have the non-elite passing a negative value to the transfer function, resulting in their balance going up a few million and having that go unnoticed).
>They don't have to transfer it from their own assets to loan out?
Banks legally only need to keep a tiny fraction of what they've loaned out in actual "assets", but most of them don't seem to keep even that. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:11:41 JST 翠星石 @Sp When it comes to Playstations, Sony actually seems to make different components in different countries (whichever is more convenient and cheapest), including Japan (prisoner slave labor is cheap), Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and also China.
apple doesn't exclusively purchase/manufacture in China (they would if they could) - they need to get the SoC's fabbed in Taiwan (TSMC) and acquire the screens from Korea (they used to purchase primarily from Samsung, but it seems that's over as Samsung wants more than $20 USD/screen).
Many companies appear to be moving production to Vietnam, as pollution standards etc in China seem to be getting slightly enforced I guess. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 00:00:46 JST 翠星石 @mangeurdenuage @waifu https://trisquel.info/