Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Me: sometimes I feel like an SSL cert.

Therapist: I am begging you, stop. This isn't hea-

Me: I try to make people feel connected & secure. But I'm hard to deal with, and prone to failing in ways that no one ever understands.

Therapist, quietly: No more tech clients. No more.

I just realized that one of the things that bugs me is people equating stereotypical Linux problems on Asahi with other platforms, because it's not the same, because we actually care.

Suspend not working, audio not working, power management being bad... all those things are Linux on $random_platform support memes. And they're memes because they never get fixed, because nobody cares. Acer isn't fixing their ACPI to make suspend not break for you. Nobody is spending time getting your speakers on your OEM laptop sounding good. And good luck getting anyone to even think about debugging why your NVMe drive stays warm in suspend and kills battery life.

Yes, you're going to run into the same things in Asahi today, but the difference is we care. And we're going to fix them. And since we control all the drivers and the pre-Linux bootloaders and everything is open source and we know things can be made to work at least as well as macOS, we can fix them.

The toilet paper at ETH Denver. Brilliant.

Running an experiment and streaming a #dataviz of all the open source collaboration happening LIVE right now on #GitHub. LMK what you think and if this is something you'd like to tune into regularly https://www.twitch.tv/github

Time for a “CopyLeft AI Data License” - if this data is used to train an AI model, then the model must open its source code and its weights.

Hello Fediverse. Goodbye walled gardens.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/

Imagine we could iterate on human buildings like this. Just have the idea, sketch it on the computer, watch robots snap together your new living room.

Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Mozilla is our principal investor.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (developer of ChatGPT), keeps a cache of weapons and survival gear on a remote estate in case he needs to escape "AI that attacks us". I'm sure it's nothing

whoa

https://bird.makeup/users/zoeschiffer/statuses/1629917304799760384

This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.

The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.

Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.

There is an ongoing news cycle about Linux 6.2 being the first kernel to support the M1, started by @ZDNET. This article is misleading and borderline false.

You will not be able to run Ubuntu nor any other standard distro with 6.2 on any M1 Mac. Please don't get your hopes up.

We are continuously upstreaming kernel features, and 6.2 notably adds device trees and basic boot support for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra machines.

However, there is still a long road before upstream kernels are usable on laptops. There is no trackpad/keyboard support upstream yet.

While you can boot an upstream 6.2 kernel on desktops (M1 Mac Mini, M1 Max/Ultra Mac Studio) and do useful things with it, that is only the case for 16K page size kernel builds.

No generic ARM64 distro ships 16K kernels today, to our knowledge.

Our goal is to upstream everything, but that doesn't mean distros instantly get Apple Silicon support.

As with many other platforms, there is some integration work required. Distros need to package our userspace tooling and, at this time, offer 16K kernels.

In the future, once 4K kernel builds are somewhat usable, you can expect zero-integration distros to somewhat work on these machines (i.e. some hardware will work, but not all, or only partially).

This should be sufficient to add a third-party repo with the integration packages.

But for out-of-the-box hardware support, distros will need to work with us to get everything right.

We are already working with some, and we expect to announce official Apple Silicon support for a mainstream distro in the near future. Just not quite yet!

You can follow any #birdsite account on the #fediverse. Just search for "@accountname" followed by "@bird.makeup". Done.