Leah Rowe / is on Nostr

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2024-02-17 09:37:31

I've recently been reading people talk about universal basic income / guaranteed income. The idea that the state should provide welfare to everyone. The idea being that it enables more people to be productive by ensuring that they have the resources to work / start businesses. Less stress. Reduced strain on healthcare. Long term higher tax revenues.
Did you know UBI was tried in USA? See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Assistance_Plan
I dropped this bombshell on IRC earlier. Anyway, I support UBI. It's a good idea.

2023-11-14 00:17:35

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@npub1yyx…qa5g What is awesome? People booting Linux off of FAT32?

2023-11-14 00:16:05

Today I learned that there are certain very special LInux distros/users who put /boot on a FAT32 file system.
Someone actually reported a bug in the recent 20231106 Libreboot release, because I removed FAT32 support in GRUB. Because our GRUB doesn't boot Windows/DOS directly anyway, and I didn't think some Linux users would boot Linux from a 1980s DOS file system. Really.
Anyway, patch:
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=39aad57873b9e6265d089ef7dbb4dc5add5c659f
I do find it quite amusing. Anyway, use SeaBIOS in 20231106 if you're one of them.

2023-11-07 10:21:30

I feel like randomly promoting a really good free software project. That project is none other than SourceHut: https://sourcehut.org/ - and the main instance of it is here: https://sr.ht/
It's a very unique git forge in that it's predicated around use of a mailing list, but it has everything else you'd possibly want built right in, like CI, tickets, really good markdown parsing, and generally it's just very efficient.
Very lightweight forge, and it works without JavaScript turned on.

2023-11-06 09:10:53

Libreboot 20231106 released!
https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20231106.html
Highlights:
* DDR2 fix and Dell E6400 support moved to its own tree coreboot/dell, rather than coreboot/default. The DDR2 patch for it was causing stability issues on DDR3; X200/T400 etc now boot again.
* GRUB prefix error message removed (still handled in grub_errno) - ditto module-related warnings (Libreboot GRUB excludes many modules, to fit in flash).
* GM45 and i945 coreboot configuration re-build from scratch.
Minor bugfix release.

2023-10-26 16:48:20

Very soon.
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2023-10-21 15:24:45

Libreboot 20231021 released!
https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20231021.html
* New October 2023 coreboot revision on most boards
* New October 2023 U-Boot revision on gru_bob and gru_kevin boards
* LUKS2 support (with argon2) added in the GRUB payload
* 4 new mainboards: HP EliteBook 2170p, Dell Precision T1650, Dell Latitude E6430, HP EliteBook 8470p
* Build system re-written, in much cleaner coding style (50% less code, but more features)
* Serprog firmware now available (RP2040 and STM32 boards) (for SPI flashing)

2023-08-21 14:04:03

This customer is getting FreeBSD. Libreboot T440p laptop, with stable release FreeBSD 13.2 and Xfce. Everything configured.
Yeah and the first thing I do is install Vim when configuring a system, FreeBSD included!
My company: https://minifree.org/
I sell laptops with Libreboot pre-installed, which replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Libreboot offers greater security and faster boot speeds, plus many more features. I'm the lead developer and founder of Libreboot; sales fund the project.
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2023-08-15 00:07:09

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2023-08-14 22:31:01

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2023-08-06 11:49:42

I have good news: Libreboot just got a big update. Not yet a new release, but Libreboot's build system now uses the latest coreboot revision on most boards; GRUB and SeaBIOS payloads have also been updated to newer revisions.
It is announced here:
https://libreboot.org/news/update202308.html
I would ask all those interested to provide testing, based on this. Information is given, on the announcement.
There *will* be two more Libreboot releases, this year - possibly three. I'm starting a massive push, as of today.

2023-08-05 19:41:31

Bram Moolenaar, creator of the Vim text editor, died this week, on 3 August 2023.
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4
RIP Bram Moolenaar. You were a genius; Vim will always be the best text editor ever.

2023-07-08 18:47:42

I feel deja vu. Have I been here before?
I'm implementing the ideas listed here: https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/92
In response to the issue described here: https://libreboot.org/news/safety.html
I need to modify coreboot's ifdtool for this, but the code quality in ifdtool is horrible. I re-factored it once before, but they've updated it a lot since. I re-started from scratch. Implementing cleaner coding style in ifdtool, and I'll send patches to coreboot.
I might end up forking it, to ifdutil in libreboot's lbmk.git
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2023-01-31 09:50:33

I've reduced the cost of the 960GB SSD upgrade, for laptops sold via https://minifree.org/
These laptops come with Libreboot and Debian Linux pre-installed - or if you request it, another distro or a BSD (e.g. OpenBSD/FreeBSD) will be installed.
These are secure machines, with full disk encryption by default. Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware.
5 year warranty and free technical support for all orders. Sales fund the Libreboot project, which I'm founder and lead developer of.
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