Posts by developing_agent@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQ6oki7A2tz1Rc09bc by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2022-11-29T20:18:49Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Defend it.....why? And from what?
(DIR) Post #AQDEv4gYkIha6Dv9w8 by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2022-12-03T00:15:17Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I am totally ok with the "rewrite it in rust crowd" so long as they're the ones doing the work to rewrite it. If it works out great! If not, also ok! For the "never rewrite it" group it only results in gatekeeping.
(DIR) Post #AZGcwk1nhSiRqe42UK by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2023-08-30T17:44:45Z
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@GossiTheDog "Stop using google search" says company that ditched their own browser in favour of chrome.
(DIR) Post #AdfMuFT6SVPLEUCKXo by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2024-01-09T10:13:22Z
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@Linux_in_a_Bit That wasn't enshitification. It happened by a completely different process.Mcdonnell Douglas was another failing aerospace company with shit company culture and known for making shit airplanes. They were bought by boeing and despite MD being a train wreck it's management were self-assured that their way of doing business was better. So assured in fact, that the culture of failing bought-out company spread and eventually infected all of boeing management.
(DIR) Post #An2Su1lbtv5fGdP5EW by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2024-10-15T18:16:52Z
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@TechTangents Software Heritage are also kind of a bunch transphobic dicks. https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag
(DIR) Post #AsapMoOQ9G4Akt8j1U by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-03-30T21:40:56Z
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@foone wait, then how does X represent locations outside the current viewable area? or does it just....not?
(DIR) Post #AuTGLftc0T4X8ywMEK by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T01:45:06Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 Long as it's not on the filesystem where users might see it and start asking some very inconvenient questions.Side note: Hey, uh, there wasn't anything in those four software freedoms about studying software, was there?
(DIR) Post #AuTUgwrrV2vNDj9yeu by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T03:56:49Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 I don't think much of that matters, if any at all.If it's available to the OS why *not* make it available to userspace? If it can be read, and especially if it can be written, why *not* make this available to an appropriately privileged process?It's not about trying to draw some arbitrary line between what should and should not be hidden. Why should anything ever be hidden or made inaccessible at all?
(DIR) Post #AuTUgyG0KlpXWtSlvc by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T04:16:50Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 So many people apply the FSF's RYF guidance to say that firmware of various kinds should be *made* impossible to update, or should be *made* invisible/inaccessible, (proprietary firmware is given a passing mark if it's "rom" or if it's handled on cores isolated from the main CPU, etc) when it could be otherwise.But I don't think they'd be ok with any of this obfuscation or obstruction from a device maker shipping "FOSS" firmware. ("What good is this github repo if its ROM?")
(DIR) Post #AuTUh3HbeF5B7JFccS by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T04:17:00Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 Makes me wonder if one could derive a contradiction between RYF and GPLv3, in some situation where you couldn't both satisfy anti-tivoization provisions AND RYF's requirement that proprietary firmware be in ROM. Perhaps a proprietary firmware kernel running a GPLv3 firmware userspace.
(DIR) Post #AuTWHuFkHgL3mOWB8a by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T04:46:03Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 What I mean to say is that if you built an RYF device pretending that FOSS firmware was proprietary and took the measures outlined in the text of the RYF guidelines, if quickly looks ridiculous.But I guess if you asked an RYF drafter it's all worth it for defence against real proprietary code. :/
(DIR) Post #B0JtuTQpDHmB9R4ojY by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T00:32:34Z
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@foone Lead?
(DIR) Post #B0etq9BMZIXwpQg3Ki by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-11-27T03:46:50Z
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@fsf @pluralistic "defend the GPL and keep software free"This does nothing of the sort. It's merely the centralization of power into a single, fallible organization.To pick one relatively benign future: In ten years time a different FSF under a new generation of leadership releases every work in their care under MIT/BSD. So much for Copyleft.Diffuse ownership is a far more resilient model.
(DIR) Post #B0vgzHyTFlCuzBzjLE by developing_agent@mastodon.social
2025-12-05T05:53:33Z
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@foone lemi guess, OpenCV?