trelane @trelane@librem.one
Joined Nov 2022
@killyourfm Too bad it's Windows only. Maybe they'll improve Proton or their code.
@danderson I wonder if there's a repo of the .inf files for them.
@azonenberg @artemist More DRM _so far_
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There's a series of books/engineer notes on electronics by Forrest Mims which I think is fantastic.
https://www.ersbiomedical.com/Forrest-Mims-Series_ep_126.html
@badlogic I have some of these! They were what I had to learn from as a kid, back when Radio Shack was well-named. And existed.
@rene_mobile Really, the root problem here is monoculture of proprietary software. Bugs happen, but the way a bug becomes a worldwide catastrophe is having the bug triggered worldwide.
Holy cats....
just noticed that any tweet to American Airlines gets spammed with hordes of bots pretending to be American support.
Stay safe out there, kids.
@popey Maybe this is the setup for *proper* doom emacs?
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[Question] If you were buying a well-supported, software-developer #Linux laptop for work, paid for by the company, either in the UK or the USA, what would you buy?
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(pls share for eyeballs and opinions)
@Linux_in_a_Bit @popey @system76 is not "a Clevo rebrand." Clevo is their ODM. System76 works with Clevo to design a system, but Clevo keeps the rights to ship the hardware themselves. The firmware is also going to be very different, since Clevo is targeting Windows users. And obviously you can't get System76 support for Clevo boxes.
System76 was working on an in-house laptop design, but afaict it has stalled out.
@system76 The link does not link
@colindean I hear this. I feel it in my bones.
@mattblaze it's not, though?
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Since the #xz incident started, I've been maintaining an FAQ/living document on what we know at https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27.
I think most people in my extended circle either already seen it but posting about it given there's likely to be a lot more questions as we go into the working week.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed tips, suggestions, and edits. Thanks especially to @cadey who has helped a lot with editing.
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This is the best timeline I've seen so far on what we know about the Xz backdoor. Some good info here for researchers: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
@wendynather No zero?
@KeithDJohnson Seems like pretty normal American units to me.
Joined Nov 2022
