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davel, 3 days ago

How to install Libreboot in 2024?

That’s an oddly specific question. When else but now? Did you arrive by time machine?

davel, 11 days ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4a0e377c-d25e-4821-9631-3615dabe1d36.jpeg

davel, 10 days ago

It’s not that complicated: US tech companies are constituent parts of the US military-intelligence-industrial complex.

Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths:

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”

davel, 11 days ago

This was an anticommunist addition during McCarthyism, but they couldn’t just outright say “under capitalism.”

davel, 11 days ago

I’ve shot myself in the foot enough times over the years with rm -rf. Now I use trash-cli. I don’t know what package manager(s) you use, but I install it via Homebrew.

davel, 12 days ago

It has nothing to do with open source really

Only if you think that open hardware and open software are totally unrelated things, but most open hardware people and open software people think that they are related things.

davel, 12 days ago

Open specifications may not be sufficient for open hardware, but they are largely necessary. …wikipedia.org/…/Necessary_and_sufficient_conditi…

OpenHW Group: CORE-V Family of Open-Source RISC-V Cores

davel, 12 days ago

That’s fine, but I’m not making that claim. RISC-V is free of patent & licensing encumbrances as well as copyright ones, which allows for the possibility of open hardware developing on it. Open source software is likewise about patents and other encumbrances, not only copyright.

davel, 12 days ago

You misunderstand the Luddite movement. They weren’t anti-technology, they were anti-capitalist exploitation.

The 1810s: The Luddites act against destitution

It is fashionable to stigmatise the Luddites as mindless blockers of progress. But they were motivated by an innate sense of self-preservation, rather than a fear of change. The prospect of poverty and hunger spurred them on. Their aim was to make an employer (or set of employers) come to terms in a situation where unions were illegal.

davel, 12 days ago

Linux doesnt need GNU components at all to be a functional operating system.

Indeed: look no further than Alpine Linux.

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure. It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd. This makes Alpine one of few Linux distributions not to be based on the GNU Core Utilities.

davel, 12 days ago

I s👀 you

davel, 13 days ago

Common grillman L

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83a7f2e9-03c3-4012-b3a3-26eed5f84852.png

davel, 16 days ago

I’m no expert, but that sounds about right, unless you de-Google your Android, which I have no experience with, never having used Android myself.

davel, 16 days ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/feda1c4e-493e-4bce-b94c-7a2a858edb68.webp

davel, 17 days ago

EndeavourOS is easy to install but unclear how to maintain.

• Don’t use GUI package managers, but here, have some GUI package managers.
• pacman, pacdiff, yay, eos, AUR??? The Complete Idiots Guide did not clear things up for me, either. AFAICT they made something more confusing than Arch, not less.

davel, 17 days ago

The welcome app shows several package management buttons, but no clear explanation of what they really do or if & how they relate to each other. What’s a beginner to do, click each one multiple times and hope for the best?

By introducing more package management commands than came with Arch, they’ve made it seem more complicated, not less. Am I supposed to use eos-update as well as the other commands, or is it supposed to replace one or more of the other commands? Admittedly I’ve only spent half a day with EndeavourOS—the first Arch-based distro I’ve ever used—but I have no idea.

I don’t think it compares well to a beginner’s experience of package management on Debian or Red Hat or Alpine-based distros.

davel, 18 days ago

This shit is bananas
B-🍌-N-🍌-N-🍌-S

davel, 20 days ago

That’s a poor analogy given that the Pi 5 & Pi 400 are incomparably more powerful than 1980s home computers, and I don’t think OP was asking if a Pi 5 can run WordPerfect or VisiCalc.

davel, 22 days ago

To mention anything remotely associated with Russia is to be a paid Putler puppet; a lot of people are saying. See you at Tolstoy & the Dostoevsky book burning.

davel, 23 days ago

You spelled donations wrong.

davel, 26 days ago

@d3Xt3r, did you actually look at the options in this poll? Because some of them are as racist and as fascist as can be imagined.

davel, 30 days ago

This is especially concerning given that citizens […]

Not everyone with a US driver’s license is a US citizen.

davel, 1 month ago

Erik Prince? Who’s the target market, white suburban men who drive F-150 Raptors and play prepper games on the weekend?

davel, 1 month ago

And he will continue to do so. Maybe give “⊘ Block user” a try.

davel, 1 month ago

I don’t live in those places, so 1) they don’t affect me or anyone else in my country and 2) there’s nothing I can do about them.

davel, 1 month ago

China is no utopia and Russia much less so, but neither is nearly as bad as imperial core governments & corporate media try to convince us they are, and neither holds a candle to my own country.

davel, 1 month ago

It’s an old South Park meme www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3K2rkkU7g

davel, 1 month ago

no thanks xi

It’s coming from inside the Instagram! specter

How much US military-industrial Kool-Aid have you drunk?

davel, 1 month ago

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schrodinger%27s%20joke

davel, 1 month ago

@Pluto what is this spammy-looking YouTube video that you spammed to several comms? What are you doing?

davel, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

archive.today, otherwise known as archive.is & archive.md & archive.ph & archive.li en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

I use it when Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox fails me. In fact BPC itself makes use of archive.today in some cases: github.com/search?q=owner%3Abpc-clone+archive.tod…

davel, 1 month ago

I don’t put my passwords in the cloud in the first place, so what it means to me is: keep backups.

davel, 1 month ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

On February 19, 2014, one year after a venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.

davel, 2 months ago

I’m not here to defend capitalism, only to say that capitalism and open source have had a more complicated relationship than that.

The Apache HTTP Server was the preeminent dot-com era open source project. It’s hard to imagine the dot-com boom without it. People seem to forget that it was corporate open source. It was “a patchy server” developed (from NCSA HTTPd) and maintained largely by internet startups like Organic, Inc. Many other critical components of the dot-com tech stack were similarly developed.

• Apache HTTP Server Project » How Apache Came to Be
• History of free and open-source software » The dot-com years (late 1990s)

davel, 2 months ago

Seriously, don’t sign a CLA

A contributor license agreement, or CLA, usually (but not always) includes an important clause: a copyright assignment.

This is a strategy employed by commercial companies with one purpose only: to place a rug under the project, so that they can pull at the first sign of a bad quarter. This strategy exists to subvert the open source social contract. These companies wish to enjoy the market appeal of open source and the free labor of their community to improve their product, but do not want to secure these contributors any rights over their work.

List of some companies that use CLAs: en.wikipedia.org/…/Contributor_License_Agreement#…

davel, 2 months ago

Maybe your browser doesn’t like Let’s Encrypt certificates.

davel, 1 month ago

When you run out of evidence, there’s always insults.

davel, 1 month ago

Good point: I didn’t click upthread to see the beginning of the conversation.

davel, 2 months ago

Yes, this is a communism diet site. It’s a weight loss program. Also we all share the same toothbrush and no iphone.

Are you Captain America, just unfrozen from Red Scare propaganda? specter

davel, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

CableMonster is a libertarian petit bourgeois property flipper.

davel, 2 months ago

I heard that it’s three Satoshi Nakamotos in a trench coat.

davel, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

cracker christ is not risen because he is unleavened

davel, 2 months ago

I had no idea. If the body of Christ were in the form of Popeyes biscuits, I wouldn’t say no. About the Eucharistic Bread: Sould It Be Leavened or Unleavened?

In the ninth century the use of unleavened bread had become obligatory in the West, while the Orthodox continued the exclusive offering of leavened bread. The issue became divisive when the provinces of Byzantine Italy which were under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople were forcibly incorporated into the Church of Rome following their invasion by the Norman armies. At this time the use of unleavened bread was forced upon the Orthodox of southern Italy.

davel, 2 months ago

Learn to give some fucks or don’t come back to lemmy.ml.

davel, 2 months ago

Same as for every other website: Firefox.

davel, 2 months ago

Companies pushed for us to install their apps on our phones so they could force ads on us and extract (meta)data from us that they couldn’t from our browsers.

Cory Doctorow: How lock-in hurts design

More than half of all web-users have installed ad-blockers.

This is why services are so horny to drive you to install their app rather using their websites: they are trying to get you to do something that, given your druthers, you would prefer not to do. They want to force you to exit through the gift shop, you want to carve a desire path straight to the parking lot. Apps let them mobilize the law to literally criminalize those desire paths.

An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it (or do anything else that wrestles value back from a company). Apps are web-pages where everything not mandatory is forbidden.

Seen in this light, an app is a way to wage war on desire paths, to abandon the cooperative model for co-innovation in favor of the adversarial model of user control and extraction.

And now this corporate brainworm has infected our desktop environments, even Linux ones. Just say no.

davel, 2 months ago

Thank you. I was having a hard time imagining that this hasn’t been a thing for decades.