JC @jc@librem.one

US lawmakers are asking to restrict American participation in RISC-V "to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology". The request is misguided. I wrote a letter to the US government on the subject:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862

I'd appreciate if anyone can help amplify or route the message, so that US rule-makers can better understand the issue.

If you don’t agree with my stance, I encourage you to also send a letter expressing your views, so your opinions can be heard.

Updated preview of the upcoming changes to the #Jellyfin #Roku client.

Added controls, buttons, chapter navigation, and other functions to the pause menu.

Have you heard? Inkscape will be 20 years old this month!

We want YOU to create something for the #Inkscape anniversary! T-shirts, comic strips, embroidery...

Show us what you can do with Inkscape!

Post your creations to the November challenge page:

https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/inkscape-challenge-1-november-2023-30-november-2023/

#ArtWithOpenSource

BeagleV-Fire is a $150 single-board PC with a RISC-V processor featuring FPGA fabric #Beagleboard, #Beaglev, #Beaglevfire, #Fpga, #Riscv

https://liliputing.com/beaglev-fire-is-a-150-single-board-pc-with-a-risc-v-processor-featuring-fpga-fabric/

“Did I hear the word food?” 😂

From zero to full automation of lights, security system, and HVAC in 2 hours, thanks @home_assistant! (Got a Yellow, added on NVMe SSD and Z-Wave radio via GPIO). Video coming soon!

Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.

🤣🤣🤣

Hello World!

The Rust project now has an official presence on Mastodon! ✨

We'll be posting the same on our Twitter and Mastodon accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

Today is a huge day for Apple II software preservation. With the help of Antoine Vignau and @txgx42, we have managed to recover, make playable, and archive renowned game designer Dani Bunten's first game, Wheeler Dealers. Released in 1978/79 and published by Speakeasy Software, a small Canadian developer, Wheeler Dealers is a multi-player stock market simulation that only sold ~50 copies. It is the first (known) computer game to have been sold in a box. The game was considered lost until now.

hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

Looks like Adafruit is the first organization to reach 600 certified open-source hardware designs at @oshwassociation @OSHWA_OSHW , previously Adafruit was the first to reach 500 certified OSHW designs https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=adafruit we have a bunch more submitted and will do a post, at this time Adafruit is 24.9% of all certified open-source hardware. Special thanks to the Adafruit team submitting these, the API, and @ladyada for a ton of new open-source designs!

Playing with Renoise and monomes on the #MNTReform laptop (A311d CPU). The latency seems to be enough for a live setup, but I wish there were more plugins for ARM #Linux systems.

I gave a talk at Open Source Firmware Conference this year, Reproducible Builds All The Way Down:

https://www.osfc.io/2023/talks/reproducible-builds-all-the-way-down/

Slides available:

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-presentations/-/tree/master/2023-10-11-Reproducible-Builds-All-The-Way-Down

It was well received, highlighting many historic #ReproducibleBuilds issues in firmware projects that I maintain in #Debian and touching on the hows and whys of Reproducible Builds.

Open Source Firmware can be a great example of 100% reproducibility, with a narrow scope of code, and is often a key part in early system boot!