Bob Ham @rah@librem.one
Computer programmer, transpersonal psychologist. Occupied with freedom in the mobile phone space.
This is my personal account. My views are my own.
Joined May 2019
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How UK security services neutralised the Guardian newspaper
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
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What's a good typing tutor? Free software I can install on my Debian machine, or online service type would both work.
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Popular UK Transport App Reverse Engineered to Provide Free Tickets for All
https://reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/cyefu5/activists_release_code_to_generate_free_public/
(submitted by baloki)
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The talks from #GUADEC2019 (GNOME conference) are available https://guadec.ubicast.tv/
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Psychiatric Diagnosis Found to Be “Scientifically Meaningless”
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/psychiatric-diagnoses-found-to-be-scientifically-meaningless-321555
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UK involvement with CIA torture https://gnusocial.no/url/1634082
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More GNOMIES! Met up with Heather from Purism. Our group is growing! #GUADEC2019
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Home Chip Fab
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/
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This heat wave keeps reminding me of J. G. Ballard's novel, The Drowned World. I'm a little unnerved by this.
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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
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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
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I often don't know what my expectations are until they're not met.
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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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PSA: The National Grid (in the UK) cannot distinguish between sources of electricity. One cannot be "switched" from one source to another. The idea that one can change one's electricity supplier and then get "green" electricity is about economics and marketing, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the electrons that enter and exit the home through one's distribution box. It's a fantasy.
When I see marketroids talking about "green" electricity I feel sad for them and the people who believe them.
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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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"ROCm, a New Era in Open GPU Computing
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Closed source components
The ROCm platform relies on a few closed source components to provide functionality such as HSA image support."
-- https://rocm.github.io/ROCmInstall.html
AMD #openwashing
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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/
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@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:
Computer programmer, transpersonal psychologist. Occupied with freedom in the mobile phone space.
This is my personal account. My views are my own.
Joined May 2019
