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by mswann 5y ago
And don't forget the "Berateraffäre", centered around the person that was then rewarded with a promotion to head of the European commission. https://www.politico.eu/article/the-scandal-hanging-over-urs...
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PostmarketOS Second Beta Release: v21.03(postmarketos.org)
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by mswann 6y ago
OpenBSD explicitly supports Pine 64/64+ and even ships the firmware to boot it with the install media. ROCK64/ROCKPro64 are also supported, but it's necessary to separately install an UEFI capable U-Boot. [0] [0] https:&#x2F
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by mswann 6y ago
Yes, unfortunately you're right in that there's lots of room for improvement. Nevertheless I'd call the rk3399 a decent SoC, but then for me the fact that it runs without proprietary firmware is certainly more important than
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by mswann 6y ago
Haven't heard of levinboot yet, LGTM, thanks for the hint! Where do you get your entropy from? Does levinboot provide some (enough?) to the kernel? Right now I delay booting via a sleep in the initramfs so that I have time to randomly
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by mswann 6y ago
> Rockship (PinePhone) which is reversed engineered so only old SoC have support and it require massive effort from the community. PinePhone has Allwinner A64. [0] And Rockchip SoCs have a quite decent track record of not only supporting
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by mswann 6y ago
I like to build things from source, but I'd also like to hear more details about the problems encountered. The whole tiers thing is first of all a chicken and egg problem. Which probably could be solved faster by keeping Drew invested.
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by mswann 6y ago
After digging through some resources on the web I now believe that this is indeed still true - at least I couldn't find anything to the contrary (apparently you have to provide the firmware blob outside of U-Boot, which then loads it a
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by mswann 6y ago
> If you are familiar with work done in the FOSS community to procure devices with fully open firmware, the name Synopsys may ring a bell here. Synopsys is a company which sells IP blocks[...]. One of their IP block products is a DDR4 me
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by mswann 6y ago
Thank you for all your efforts. The way you appear to have handled google's unjustifiable action is really impressive. Clearly that's one of the main reasons to be optimistic that matrix has a bright future - if I was in charge it
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by mswann 6y ago
General mobility in Berlin 2020 compared to 2019 [0] according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in: Sep -5 % to -13 % Dec -20 % to -41 % [incomplete data] [0] https://www.covid-19-mobility.org/current-mobility/
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by mswann 6y ago
Significant amounts of plastics are also found in plants.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611874
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by mswann 6y ago
Considering solid materials with ultralow friction (e.g. fullerene-like nanostructures) might be worthwhile. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21825776/?dopt=Abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11001
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by mswann 6y ago
As you said it depends on the context, I agree, but thus the chances someone's using a generic query to find vendor independent resources like blogs are not zero. With regard to the given example "nrf wifi", I'd prefer D
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by mswann 6y ago
It often doesn't even matter to click wrong boxes to a certain degree. Green or red points are usually accepted as traffic lights (often no need to click the whole traffic light) and anything white painted on a street is usually accept
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by mswann 6y ago
Using the Tor Browser from torproject.org with the so called "safest" security settings (that I usually use) I am not unique (currently 1 in 15k browsers have the same fingerprint as mine - which is not exactly great but still bet
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by mswann 6y ago
Creating a firewall akin to China's is actually seriously considered by the EU [1]. [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487... (Page 37, section 5.1 "European Cloud &#x
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by mswann 6y ago
A study from the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies (EU Directorate-General for Internal Policies) suggests implementing a firewall akin to China's (Page 37, section 5.1 "European Cloud &#