Bob Ham @rah@librem.one

Home Chip Fab
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/

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FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions

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#1yrago UK government accidentally includes Scarfolk poster endorsing culls of rabid children in official publication https://boingboing.net/2018/07/20/shoot-to-kill.html

People on the german atari-home.de forum are looking for the extensive printed documentation for Thomas Tempelmann's TempleMon debuger/disassembler for #Atari ST/TT/Falcon. Apparently those 120 pages never had a digital distribution, and the original file has been lost. Does anyone happen to have any leads?

The application itself has been made available for free a long time ago: http://www.tempel.org/files-e.html#TMON

Original thread (in German): https://forum.atari-home.de/index.php/topic,15356.msg242731.html#msg242731

#retrocomputing

I often don't know what my expectations are until they're not met.

Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/06/fast-radio-burst.html

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Better Than Floating Point? - https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/08/new-approach-could-sink-floating-point-computation/

Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/03/balkanizing-the-balkanizers.html

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"Rather than remaining insistent and righteous, we can recognise our views as partial understandings of a more complex whole, and work to integrate different and seemingly opposing views. Our polarised culture—on right and left—doesn’t reward this. Yet."
http://alterego.network/

From today anyone in the UK can request their phone's PAC code from their network and they are obliged to provide it immediately.

Text PAC to 65075 and they are supposed to text you your PAC code within the same minute (but in reality it might take 5-10mins to arrive).

I just tried it with EE and they sent my PAC code back after about 5mins, valid for 1 month.

@hannibal_ad_portas you'll be interacting with the DRM/KMS and GBM subsystems. My friend Scott has written some early docs on this from the userspace perspective:

https://github.com/ascent12/drm_doc

But unfortunately your best bet is to read existing implementations. Here's the wlroots DRM backend:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/backend/drm

It may also be helpful to reference libdrm and the kernel drivers:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm

That is, if you're interested in the graphics infrastructure. If you're just interested in writing a Wayland compositor and less so in the deep technical work, check out wlroots:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots

Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf]
https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf

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In Capitalist America, website looks at YOU

Signs I'm getting old: I can't even remember which Linux kernel version I'm running.

drebrez got a 5.1.0 kernel (with minor patching) running on the Galaxy Nexus - and he started with nothing but forced reboots and kernel panics, then worked his way up to the display and earphone audio!

It's time to grab your favorite drink and celebrate this tale and a lot more with us in the two years of postmarketOS blog post:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/06/23/two-years/

New #postmarketos blog post! https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/06/23/two-years/

Summer solstice is upon us. Happy midsummer.