[DNG] fifth freedom

2019-12-11 Thread freemedia via Dng
free software force and golinux have expressed interest in a revised version of the four freedoms, which i was initially very shy about the idea of. for some time ive proposed as an alternative a list of companion qualities or "pillars" which i havent completely abandoned yet. still, while seek

Re: [DNG] fifth freedom

2019-12-11 Thread onefang
On 2019-12-11 05:29:21, freemedia via Dng wrote: > free software force and golinux have expressed interest in a revised version > of the four freedoms, which i was initially very shy about the idea of. for > some time ive proposed as an alternative a list of companion qualities or > "pillars" wh

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-11 Thread Simon Hobson
marc wrote: > > I wonder if writing 0xff instead of 0x00 is kinder to flash > media. In particular, if the controller is dumb/smart enough > to only erase, not write... I would imagine there's a command you can send to the card which tells it to bulk-erase itself. Function in one of the disk

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-11 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:32:46PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > I would imagine there's a command you can send to the card which tells it to > bulk-erase itself. Function in one of the disk utils ? Yup, hdparm. It works for SSD, I don't know if it would work for SD cards too. Greg -- web site

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-11 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2019 Wed, 11 Dec 13:24:46 -0700 Gregory Nowak scripsit: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:32:46PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > > I would imagine there's a command you can send to the card which tells it > > to bulk-erase itself. Function in one of the disk utils ? > > Yup, hdparm. It work

Re: [DNG] fifth freedom

2019-12-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:29:27 +1000, onefang wrote in message <20191211152927.7dnv67o7b554jf5f@true>: > On 2019-12-11 05:29:21, freemedia via Dng wrote: > > free software force and golinux have expressed interest in a > > revised version of the four freedoms, which i was initially very > > shy abo

[DNG] Please don't introduce yet more 'crayon licences' (was: fifth freedom)

2019-12-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting onefang (onefang_dev...@sledjhamr.org): > I had recently added what I call freedom -1 to the licence of > apt-panopticon. The price of using peculiar, and in particular one-off, licensing is that many people will forego even looking a second further at your work, as it's easier to do so

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

2019-12-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 05:01:24AM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Hendrik: > ... > > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > > /dev/sdb1 20483481532768 16M unknown > > /dev/sdb2 34816 31116254 31081439 14.8G unknown > > # file -s /dev/sdb1 > # file -s /dev/sdb2 > > Regards,