Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Arch, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian

"Many eyes make bugs shallow" doesn't apply to security bugs. You need the *right* eyes auditing the code. Until then, backdoors like this can hide in plain sight. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/for-years-a-backdoor-in-popular-kiwisdr-product-gave-root-to-project-developer/

@akhilvarkey @artelse @purism Thank you for finding that!

@artelse @purism That would be up to the owner of that podcast--I don't have control over how the interview is distributed.

Buidl Crypto just published an long-form interview with me where I touch on just about every aspect of @purism. It's a great conversation, check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/290Apvlx688VWT4vPqBl6n

There are certain songs that are always dangerous if they come on the radio while you are driving because they make your foot... heavy. Mine's Jerry Was a Race Car Driver by Primus, what's yours?

@dukethereal I prefer translators that prioritize readability and accuracy to *meaning* than literal word-for-word accuracy. It's poetry after all and I've found the translations I enjoy reading the most are from authors who have a poet's sensibility themselves.

I'm not a book nerd because I read The Iliad and Odyssey, and I'm not a book nerd because I'm about to read The Aeneid, and I'm not a book nerd because I picked the same translator (he's really good).

I'm a book nerd because I made sure all three books matched.

But even in the US you'd have some measure of RISC.

Smuggling some chips is easier in the US because we have a right to bear ARMs.

This brings a new meaning to "Intel Inside" https://www.pcgamer.com/chip-shortage-sees-people-cling-filming-cpus-to-their-bodies-and-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-components-seized/

I'm pleased with how quiet this Librem 14 is when running Qubes. No apparent electronics noises and the couple times the fan spun up (which is less often due to the faster CPUs) the low RPM was barely audible. I'm sure at full RPM it'll be loud of course.

I'd like to eat these, but I have to remind myself that I work in technology, where you must always keep currant.

@ajmartinez After the dkms install it automatically loaded for me. Very odd. While I am using the very latest EC firmware on this, I doubt that's the reason.

@ajmartinez I think that's the kernel I used. The complaints I saw were warnings about it not being built for older kernels.

For any other Librem 14 users running Qubes, I was able to install the librem-ec-acpi-dkms package in Qubes dom0, which lets you have more control over the embedded controller including setting charge thresholds. I documented my steps here: https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1170

Guns of August (which you should read if you haven't) describes how quickly one event cascaded into a world war. Take that, combine with flash crashes from AI-controlled high frequency trading, and you have my main worry w/ autonomous weapons: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/07/ai-weapons-us-military/

@twrightsman @ajmartinez I haven't tested with hubs yet, but I imagine if you are seeing that it could be a function of the extra power draw of that particular hub. We are tuning power thresholds in the firmware at the moment to account for some of the reports we've gotten in the field so stay tuned.