> After a few years, the codebase shrank from about 200,000 lines of
> code to about 30,000. (I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but they
> were of these orders of magnitude.)
Dats bootiful (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
On 6/6/17, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 08:01:02AM -0400,
Hendrik:
> A lot of file formats, especially those used by artists, are hostile
> to the essential 'merge' operation in version control.
A lapse on my part. I didn't think of that when I was typing that
whole thing up.
That makes it quite a bit difficult, as multiple forks can't be merged
and one
> "well everyone does it so we don't need to take
> special note of it" is how, historically, utterly valuable knowledge
> has been lost through the ages.
That's a very valid point. However I think the point of a standards
organization should be to spread information about their standards
that are
Alrightie~!
Foremost, since "existing" free software and cultural works aren't
likely to be sold, I think a libre software standards organization
wouldn't certify individual works or pieces of code, so much as
projects as a whole including roles performed by non-developers
Version control is almo
On 5/31/17, ronwirr...@safe-mail.net wrote:
> You have a tendency to magnify the impact of one persons actions.
> Do you actually believe, that me writing manufacturers and making
> demands, right or wrong demands, has any impact on the situation
> of libre software? Do you think acer in any way t
On 5/31/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> huh. hmmm, if it's ok with you i might run that by dr stallman, see
> what he thinks.
That'd be awesome; be awesomer if you mentioned me ('d love to win zeh
brownie points xS)
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On 5/31/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:19 PM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> Then, it truly truly dawned on me, free software needs standards
>> organizations as well.
>
> or something like that.. yeah.
It would a great opportunit
If I may put in my two cents, I look at it from the perspective of two
cultures.
We aren't a country and don't have our own language, so it's a bit of
a strange analogy to take literally but I mean it literally.
I see this as the same with being Vegan, different culture, different ethics.
The most
Neverminding the ridiculous length of that subject line..
I just thought an interesting thought.
First, a little context, (I know how rms feels about blockchains) I
was investigating slock.it and thinking to myself "why don't they just
make a hardware standard like eoma instead of closing their
d
On 5/30/17, Christopher Havel wrote:
> ...I wouldn't even go that far. I would say that I have a very limited
> faith, insofar as I believe that living things have some sort of spirit or
> soul that gives them life. That's quite literally the extent of it. I
> certainly don't believe in some sort
On 5/29/17, David Niklas wrote:
>> The mountains of religious thought pumped into this thread has it
>> visibly oozing (I mean no offense).
> Ooh, it's coming to get you :)
Yes it is xD Spaghetti is gonna come to me in my dreams now and slap
me (I'm very much kidding!)
>> Nietzsche considered ch
On 5/12/17, Louis Pearson wrote:
> I don't know if you know about this or not, but there is a community
> wiki at http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/Main_Page
> It has examples on using buildroot to flash images to chip
> http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/Flashing_Buildroot_Image_from_U
On 5/10/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> *intelligence* is an inherent property of the fabric of the universe,
> and we (and all intelligent beings) simply "borrow" that capacity by
> being *in* the universe. which is something that never really
> occurred to me before and i find to be
On 5/9/17, zap wrote:
>
>
> On 05/09/2017 08:14 PM, John Luke Gibson wrote:
>> On 5/9/17, Lyberta wrote:
>>> do...@mail.com:
>>>> I think you're caught in the same trap, unable to realize your own
>>>> potential for lack of a moral stand
On 5/9/17, Benson Mitchell wrote:
> Seems like you're confusing back-quote (`) with single-quote ('), maybe?
>
I just want to say that alone makes for pretty terrible design within
a fundamental language which an entire os can't run without.
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On 5/9/17, Benson Mitchell wrote:
> On May 9, 2017 7:02 PM, "John Luke Gibson" wrote:
>
> Like, the first file initiated by the main make file is
> support/setlocalversion which looks to just check a whole bunch of
> un-special variables which weren't set
On 5/9/17, Lyberta wrote:
> do...@mail.com:
>> I think you're caught in the same trap, unable to realize your own
>> potential for lack of a moral standard (it also suffers as a result of
>> an Atheistic philosophy), and unable to accept a pointless existence.
>
> When I was 19, I was in a very ba
On 5/8/17, Pablo wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 04:36:40PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Pablo wrote:
>>
>> > To flash your deblobbed image beware of the closed-source flashing tool
>> > for the Chrome browser and use the strange “Ubuntu virtual
On 5/4/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:13 PM, mike.v...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> That is apparently a Allwinner R8 pared with an external rtl8723bs Wifi/BT
>> chip.
>>
>> The R8 i
On 5/4/17, Bill Kontos wrote:
> Why is there an intel blob on the chip. I didn't know there was intel ip in
> there.
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:04 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> Since it seems like a trivially simple task that for some reason no
>> one
Since it seems like a trivially simple task that for some reason no
one has taken up, I would like to take the opportunity to exercise a
learning experience and simultaneously benefit the community, by
liberating PocketCHIP by deblobbing the source and re-compiling.
Browsing the archives to see if
On 5/2/17, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> I'm really really excited about a possible 100% libre RISC-V based computer.
> Though I'm a backer of the most recent campaign (and can't wait to get it!
> :)), I lack the knowledge/skills to actually help with the technical
> development of this upcoming RISC ca
On 4/28/17, Hannes Schnaitter wrote:
> Then you have to consider that in many countries the programming of
> such a targeting algorithm, one that decides who is killed, would count
> as planning a murder. And every casualty in an accident would be
> murdered by the people that created the algorith
On 4/27/17, Bluey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> For what it’s worth, I’d like to thank all of you involved for taking on
> this important project.
>
> I started subscribing to this list just a few days ago so please forgive me
> if specific design requirements/parameters have already been decided for the
>
On 4/25/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:21 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> Well the problem with that truism unfortunately is that in this
>> situation that particular use of the word "problems" is tooo abstract.
>> Ul
Well the problem with that truism unfortunately is that in this
situation that particular use of the word "problems" is tooo abstract.
Ultimately, what that could mean is too many different things. When a
system's components are damaging each other simultaneously, who gets
to decide which one's the
On 4/24/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
>> lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and
>> relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic,
>> in some of the wors
On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and
> relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic,
> in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding
> and "status" academic environm
On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Lyberta wrote:
>
>> There is a line that you may cross after which there is almost no
>> return. If the whole world is extremist and fascist, then you fix it
>> with extremism and terrorism.
>
> y'know... there's
5 in a guy's basement when the
> ecosystem was much less mature and they had almost no funding at all( or
> because they call it linux and not GNU/Linux).
>
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:40 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> On 4/22/17, Lyberta wrote:
>> >
On 4/22/17, Lyberta wrote:
> zap:
>> System76 isn't really a good idea due to the ubuntu and linux rather
>> than even debian or free software and libre... Trisquel would be by far
>> better free software wise, but I think you get my point,
>> Ubuntu is nowhere near as free software friendly as de
considered]
> On 22 April 2017 03:17:19 GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>>Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping
>>proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure
>>to the ethical concerns, think about this in t
On 4/22/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Allan Mwenda
> wrote:
>> Quick, someone make a graphic!
>
> that'll be the fish-logo :)
>
Lol, that would be beautiful xD
>> Ni
Having less proprietary software, means less backdoors, less
surveillance, less knowledge barriers, less remote theft of computing
resources, etc. It's not perfect, but it's less of the disturbing
stuff.
On 4/21/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> Let's do bear in mind that they do
Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping
proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure
to the ethical concerns, think about this in terms of a much more
grossly obvious circumstance: if a barbarian kills two people in
bandit raids everyday, and you c
On 4/21/17, Allan Mwenda wrote:
> Compromise is a trap and why theres no libre wifi and gpus
>
> On 21 April 2017 21:24:38 GMT+03:00, Stefan Monnier
> wrote:
>>> Couple of points that got my attention. They say Linux instead of
>>> GNU/Linux. Open source instead of Free/Libre Software. They als
On 4/21/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> See, now the symbolism only looks religious if your not looking at
> where the symbols are taken from. The Blender logo is an eye, which is
> supposed to be emphasized by the switching of the eyelash in the
> traditional one with a different on
See, now the symbolism only looks religious if your not looking at
where the symbols are taken from. The Blender logo is an eye, which is
supposed to be emphasized by the switching of the eyelash in the
traditional one with a different one. Inside of the fish, the eye then
thusly makes the whole a
Didn't notice that it didn't go through.
Here's the attachment.
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The fish borrowed from Wenqing Yan's Fisheye Placebo.
I'm sure it's modified enough to be fair use, but contacting them
might be a good idea.
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On 4/16/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> so, first things, it wouldn't work (because it is necessary to ship
> with the sunxi 3.4.104+ kernel as it is the *only* linux kernel that
> supports the *FULL* set of hardware, and systemd is *NOT COMPATIBLE*
Look what I found while investigatin
On 4/18/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:44 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> Also, I forgot to mention: Chris, sleep well my good fellow. Luke,
to learn how to program.
Also, I forgot to mention: Chris, sleep well my good fellow. Luke,
what are you still doing awake :P
On 4/18/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:01 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>
>> For many individuals without a cre
Indeed! Chris, I believe the issue to actually be linguistic in
nature. I also believe that complexity requires either a thin spread
of attention with very little specialization or specialization which
depends very much on always being in arm's reach of "someone smarter".
Using a grand variety of i
On 4/17/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:55 AM, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>> I apologize in advance for any duplicate messages, but I feel the need
&g
Reinventing the internet isn't reinventing the wheel when on an
ethical basis we can't expect people to be ignorant of what they are
running on their devices. Without having a centralized authority or
admin to load commands and tasks on "modems" over the air and "manage"
the network, the system nee
I also want to apologize for how horribly intimidating those sets of
parenthesizes must be for one whom has never seen one of those used
like that before outside of advanced and very nerd-y philosophy xD
On 4/17/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> Yes, however don't discount that, in substitu
bitcoin miners, but failed to realize: only sentient beings can
> effectively measure the potential meaning to be had in helping another
> sentient being or the so-termed "goodness" in doing so; that No
> protocol can account for what it's like to help someone specific or
e up to every individual exactly
who they help or what kind of Sybils they help or to what degree and
for what purpose. We are fundamentally human, and we must remember our
value is in our decision.
On 4/16/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> I apologize in advance for any duplicate messages, but I feel
I apologize in advance for any duplicate messages, but I feel the need
to touch up that post a bit, as people already have had the chance to
begin reading it.
On 4/16/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> Well, in this context artificial is often meant to describe scarcity
> which is the resul
Well, in this context artificial is often meant to describe scarcity
which is the result of a decision. I would probably adapt that
definition for my purposes, to say a decision made by an identifiable
mint (a whole decision by a group or a decision partially weighted in
favor of any group) on beha
Ultimately, isolation of the sim card or otherwise modem, should
probably be the biggest concern. There are ethical concerns around
artificial scarcity from telephone numbers and, to be fair, ipv4
addresses, (metaphorical mints thereof having absolute decision-making
authority giving infinite lever
I'm not entirely sure why resolution should be relevant. Something
without small defining characteristics that are unclear or illegible
when the resolution is low might be desire-able, but I would assume so
long as any is still atleast 10 pt font when shrunk to 3cm on its
widest dimension, it shoul
On 3/18/17, Mike Leimon wrote:
> Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well.
>
> In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm
> just using inkscape to trace out the characters that I want show...
>
> http://imgur.com/GrnfRHe
>
> Of these two logos th
I'm still of the opinion that there should be some intersexuality with
other groups, organizations, projects, events [historical or
otherwise], and/or popular culture. :P
No offense though(!), since it looks like ya put quite a bit of effort
into those.
On 3/17/17, Tor, the Marqueteur wrote:
> O
@Chris, isn't the acronym for Embedded Open Modular Architecture?
On 3/17/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> If that really was the very block font used by Gutenberg, that would
> be interesting.
> Wish the source for that stanza wasn't a book :c
>
> On 3/17/17, John Luke
If that really was the very block font used by Gutenberg, that would
be interesting.
Wish the source for that stanza wasn't a book :c
On 3/17/17, John Luke Gibson wrote:
> On 3/17/17, Wolfram Kahl wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:42:08PM -0400, John Luke Gibson wrote:
>
On 3/17/17, Wolfram Kahl wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:42:08PM -0400, John Luke Gibson wrote:
>> What do y'all think of this letter E? Much more clear?
>>
>> http://txt.static.1001fonts.net/charmap/ttf/0/olde-english.regular.character-map-1.png
>>
>> H
ple. Looks as much like random stuff settled in a crescent
> moon as it does an E.
>
> Tor
>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:55 PM John Luke Gibson > <mailto:eaterjo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering what people think of the Cloister Black
I was wondering what people think of the Cloister Black letter E for
the EOMA logo. I can imagine that some people might find it hard to
read or understand. Legible enough any one would suppose?
http://www.deathnotenews.com/uploads/1/7/3/9/17393465/5192168_orig.png
In case anyone is worried about
On 3/2/17, zap wrote:
>
>
> On 03/02/2017 03:42 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> ---
>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:37 AM, zap wrote:
>>> On 03/02/2017 03:33 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
---
>>
And, Luke mentioned inquiries being made about using RISC-V in a 100%
open core board. That's probably a more longterm slightly optimistic
subject.
On 3/1/17, Adam Van Ymeren wrote:
> I believe the next generation of EOMA68 cards will use the Rockchip RK3288
> SoC.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
>john i appreciate your support, do try to be... less forthright than
>i am when focussing on things :)
I am afraid :>
Being overly forthright will forever be my crime
It is my over compensating for a perceived blindness in the world.
If an extraterrestrial ever saw through it, I would be thoroug
I think you read this:
>well, thanks to some questioning last month we worked out a way to
>increase (negotiate) power up to 10W, and i am working on a proposal /
>concept to get an 8-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC produced.
And, didn't read this thread: RK3288 PCB first prototype assembled.
I hate to a
Sorry, I just read your reply Mike. I think that answers any curiosity I had.
I appreciate it very much.
This is makes sense as I imagine it to be part of the problem GNU/Mach
is trying to solve (separating components of the system better, and
with more micro-managed permissions?).
Anyway, above
it is getting expanded
by. I presume that might be extra firmware for more support of more
hardware, but idk.
Anyways, I can see this topic is tiring so readers hereof need not
respond to this thread :P
On 2/15/17, Philip Hands wrote:
> John Luke Gibson writes:
>
>> Perhaps it i
Perhaps it is the idea that a linux machine should be wholly modular
and attaching a library to a critical component of the system,
shouldn't be a viable strategy for popularizing one's work.
When a distro is forced to carry a package due to a dependency of a
dependency, or any magnitude there of,
> The idea about a dot in the "O" of EOMA made me think of fonts where the
> dot is in the 0 (zero) to distinguish it from O (capital letter O) As we
> all are somehow computer related I would find such a design confusing.
If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of
blender,
nce FSF
> something is libre, there's very little chance it isn't. A good example is
> the Librem 13 laptop, which was initially marketed as libre ( but wasn't
> even close) which breezed it through funding and is now marketed as "privacy
> respecting" after fail
o that, I think we should not put libre in the logo. If someone
> wants that let them sweat extra for RYF certification.
>
>
> On January 26, 2017 10:04:56 AM GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson
> wrote:
>>I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical
>>ref
I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical
reference. One of the problems with traditional Linux icons, are that
they are very un-iconic. It's better to be textually based, in my
opinion, than to use disorienting imagery. At this point, most of the
clay has already set s
Noticed the cards themselves jumped from 40 to 65, and I was wondering
if that was due to unforeseen costs per card or to attract wholesalers
and retailers with special discounts? I don't really have an opinion
either way with wholesale, in terms of economic
responsibility/efficiency it has it's dr
Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki.
There isn't much information on the page however.
The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with
an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre
system would be
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