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by lrvick 1y ago
Never accepted the terms of service of any proprietary models-as-a-service providers and never will. Be one of the few humans still pretty good at using their own brains for those problems LLMs can't solve, and you will be very employa
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by lrvick 1y ago
Are there any instances of OSI licensed code that are not Free Software making my statement here invalid? I was attempting to direct that when software is called Open Source and actually is based on OSI licensed sources, then they are likel
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by lrvick 1y ago
Meta is indeed leading the gaslighting efforts to convince the press and masses that binary blobs provably built from pirated sources are actually Open Source. The sad part is it is working. It is almost like Meta is especially skilled at m
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by lrvick 1y ago
The older I get the more I fear I am turning into Richard Stallman, but it is absolutely offensive to continually see corporate proprietary freeware binary blobs built from unlicensed sources be confused with Free Open Source Software which
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by lrvick 1y ago
Can we all please stop confusing freeware with Open Source? If something can not be reproduced from sources which are all distributed under an OSI license it is not Open Source. Non public sources of unknown license -> Closed source &#x2
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by lrvick 1y ago
Want to give some more detail or context of your view?
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by lrvick 1y ago
You keep confusing me saying open source is a -prerequisite- for maintainable freedom and security, and does nothing for security itself. You only ever read the parts of what I say and continue to argue as though I think open source code is
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by lrvick 1y ago
I never payed attention to maker youtubers as a young adult. What changed everything for me was visiting a hackerspace and getting my own hands dirty making things. I got so distracted making things in the 15 years since that I have never h
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by lrvick 1y ago
I really wish Open Sauce made more effort to showcase Open Source solutions as the name clearly implies. So many things presented are proprietary, which makes them useless for significant community improvement and collaboration. Those pushi
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by lrvick 1y ago
I was referring to CalyxOS doing signing over LineageOS which does not (in any useful way), as the two popular operating systems that happen to share a lot of hardware compatibility overlay with GrapheneOS (but admittedly little else in com
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by lrvick 1y ago
Note I described MNT reform as -mostly- open and the Precursor as -maximally- open (as in the the maximum extent currently possible to mass produce). If Bunnis ASIC efforts succeed, then we have auditable reasonably fast chips in the next f
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by lrvick 1y ago
I am not qualified to actually diagnose you with anything, but I think you are brilliant with normally well reasoned threat modeling, yet also you seem stuck in a revisionist history narrative that people were trying to rip off or steal fro
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by lrvick 1y ago
> Well at that point buying a GPU is definitely not worth your money. You're better off using a CPU's integrated graphics unit. Yeah I only use dead simple workstation cards or integrated graphics on my workstations, and AMD GP
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by lrvick 1y ago
The binary firmware on an external module over a PCI bus should not have the ability to manipulate my current operating system and exfiltrate data without being noticed, but it is a non zero chance which is why on all my x86_64 workstations
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by lrvick 1y ago
An Nvidia GPU is never going to run at maximum clock speed etc on open drivers right now, but the point is if you prioritize security/privacy/freedom you have choices. If you are not running games (which you should not on a system
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by lrvick 1y ago
> Also, you are pretty much factually wrong on a bunch of items on your list. If you are going to call me misinformed, please take the time to prove it so I can stop sharing information I otherwise have no reason to believe is incorrect.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Open source drivers is a big step forward we must not discount, creating a separation between hardware trust and OS trust. That said, to your point, both are misrepresented as fully open frequently which is just not true, and obscures effor
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by lrvick 1y ago
The entire point of Replicant was replacing all mutable closed software, firmware, and blobs with open alternatives and they did to a large degree succeed at that isolated goal. Sadly this was, to your usual points, at the major expense of
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by lrvick 1y ago
Plenty of laptops exist you can get away with running fully open source and auditable firmware, and a few that are mostly open hardware too, by the MNT Reform team. The Precursor is the only pocket computer platform that is maximally open h
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by lrvick 1y ago
Yet another reminder to never trust corpotech to be around long term.
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by lrvick 1y ago
No production ready -mobile- hardware, I would agree. The Precursor is promising, but software is not there yet. I sit down at my desktop computer and send emails and type messages like this one. Then I get up from my desk and spend time wi
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by lrvick 1y ago
> Lol. I hope you like working with geese, but be careful, they can't be trusted! Geese? That is offensive. I raise chickens. I also run a successful tech company, and have a full EE lab, several full server racks, and more tech in
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by lrvick 1y ago
> don't use a smartphone at all, which isn't possible I run a b2b tech company in Silicon Valley and have not carried a smartphone in 5 years or had an LTE subscription in 6. I have a family and hang out with friends, mostly te
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by lrvick 1y ago
I have run nvidia cards without proprietary drivers for years. Nouveau. With the right hardware choices running blob-free linux is pretty straightforward.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Replicant was the last time we had fully open Android devices. We have regressed.
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by lrvick 1y ago
> I can't believe this amazing software is free in all senses of the word. I wish that were true, but if you delete the 100s of binary blobs (many with effectively root access) copied from a stock donor vendor partition the phone wo
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by lrvick 1y ago
GrapheneOS (like all modern AOSP based ROMS) can literally not function with just the open source code. It requires hundreds of binary blobs from the vendor partition of a stock Android ROM, many of which have root access and have not been
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by lrvick 1y ago
I do not have time for lots of exercise beyond the occasional walk but I hated that I was 40lb over my healthy/ideal weight I used to be. So I simply ignored all the tactics of others in my life chronically struggling to lose weight or
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by lrvick 1y ago
There is a comparison section in the stagex README: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex Let us know if you can think of any ways we could communicate how we differ better!
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by lrvick 1y ago
Plenty of wildly unsafe behavior is common in production infrastructure today. This is also why compromised corporate infrastructure is in the news so often. Few orgs hire or even contract security engineers with Linux supply chain and hard

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