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Maemo Leste – Twelfth Update(maemo-leste.github.io)
2 points by wicket 7y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 7y ago
Me to Google: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Linux. https://leste.maemo.org/Leste_FAQ#What.27s_wrong_with_Androi...
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Regaining Control of Your Smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste(fosdem.org)
4 points by wicket 7y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 7y ago
PowerVR SGX. It's probably the last significant video hardware left that hasn't got any sort of open source implementation for the user space drivers. There has been recent work done on mainline Linux to ensure the closed drivers
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What's wrong with Android kernels?(leste.maemo.org)
3 points by wicket 7y ago|1 comments
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by wicket 7y ago
A couple more nitpicks for the author if he/she is reading this... > Alpine doesn’t support wheels You mean wheels do not support musl, or to be more precise they don't conform to POSIX 2008 or C11 standards. > Alpine has a
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Maemo Leste status update – January 2020(maemo-leste.github.io)
1 points by wicket 7y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 7y ago
unicsy_demo [1][2] is probably what you're looking for. It's packaged and available for Maemo Leste and postmarketOS, both of which run on the PinePhone. [1] https://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/139660.html [2] ht
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by wicket 7y ago
Very true that languages evolve and you're right, "created" was poor choice on my part. In the case of the US however, even they spoke British English at one time, and then some guy called Webster decided to write yet anothe
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by wicket 7y ago
I find it more interesting that some people expect the British not to use British English. It's not a choice, we just adhere to how the language was created. Apart from the US, British spelling differences are mostly followed by othe
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by wicket 7y ago
Thanks. This is closer to what I was looking for but it still lacks technical information like what hardware contains backdoors and how those backdoors are being accessed.
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by wicket 7y ago
This article, like others before it, doesn't give any technical information. I'm still waiting to see a published report detailing the extent of the "shoddy standards" or backdoors in Huawei devices. Some years ago, a t
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by wicket 7y ago
> ...and the menu features a list of $13 (£10) cocktails with ingredients like tobacco syrup... So instead of alcohol they serve nicotine-induced cocktails. Swap one drug for another. I'll stick to alcohol, thanks.
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Huawei tech would put UK-US intelligence ties at risk, official says(theguardian.com)
2 points by wicket 7y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 8y ago
Android kernels are forked up to six times [1] which results in kernels that have diverged significantly from mainline. Mainlining a device is no way near as trivial a task as you make it out to be. Have a look at how many Android mobile
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by wicket 8y ago
It's a stretch to call these "Linux-based" phones. The kernel [1] comes from an old Android fork of Linux 3.10 which is nearly 6 years old. Android kernel code is largely incompatible with mainline Linux which is the reason
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by wicket 8y ago
A word of warning. If you try this, make sure the last command is started on boot and runs before D-Bus! I completely forgot I had done this, and I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why my system was hanging on boot. It turns o
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by wicket 8y ago
That won't work because /etc/machine-id is supposed to return a 32 character hex string, but I like the idea. You could do something like this: # rm -f /etc/machine-id # mkfifo /etc/machine-id # w
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Bruce Perens: The Day Microsoft Disclosed Its Plans to Sue Open Source Projects(perens.com)
3 points by wicket 8y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 8y ago
I never used CompuServe forums but my understanding is that they were public internet forums, not exactly something that could be used for personal/private messaging. Newsgroups (often used with an email client) pre-dated CompuServe f
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by wicket 8y ago
Email is a different kettle of fish. It got in there first and only really competed with snail mail. Other alternatives were arguably more complicated. There was no easier alternative to fall back on. If you wanted to communicate on the
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by wicket 8y ago
> Registrations are closed. I think the lack of a common name/URL is the biggest problem that is preventing federated open source social networks from gaining mass popularity. I remember when identi.ca came out as an alternative to
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by wicket 8y ago
I'm not sure that the behaviour you describe has always been present. I may be mistaken, it's been a long time (years) since I've added a search engine to Chromium, but I seem to remember having to manually disable the predi
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by wicket 8y ago
Thank you both for pointing this out. Traditionally this has not been the case. When adding a search engine manually, "suggest_url" is not available as an option, so the prediction service would always send data to Google. It s
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by wicket 8y ago
I don't think this really changes anything. It's more important to Google that DuckDuckGo users don't disable Chrome's prediction service, that way they can still collect search data on them. Adding DuckDuckGo as a sea
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Maemo Leste – Eighth Update(maemo-leste.github.io)
3 points by wicket 8y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 8y ago
> I think it's subtler than that. It is mostly safe to run a process as "root" because in theory the ways that root access can be exercised is highly sandbox by the use of various namespaces, as well as things like capabil
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by wicket 8y ago
> However, it is blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace). In other words, this won't affect anyone who understands the implications of running a p
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by wicket 8y ago
I use a Firefox extension to protect me from CSRF attacks and tracking networks. It basically blocks all content from domains which do not not pertain to the page that I am reading. A side-effect of this is that it blocks most ads. The e
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Maemo Leste – A Debian/Devuan Based Mobile Hacker OS(fosdem.org)
1 points by wicket 8y ago|0 comments

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