Notices by 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 19:08:50 JST 
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@lain The fruit in that fictional story was a fig.
Looks like a proprietary apple, so yes an abomination regardless. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 15:37:23 JST
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@dcc @dj @ryan @djsumdog @phnt @p @ins0mniak @verita84_automata @lanodan Easy - tape 3 32-core KGPE-D16 systems together. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 15:29:07 JST
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@dcc @dj @ryan @djsumdog @phnt @p @ins0mniak @verita84_automata @lanodan I sure payed it in the GNU/Boat, but I paid much less than 1000 bucks for it.
It's the best server you can get, as it's free of proprietary malware, stable server grade hardware (even without proprietary microcode updates it's very stable) and very fast with acceptable power consumption (hardware really hasn't got that much faster since then either).
Furthermore, used ECC DDR3 is very cheap, meaning you'll never be short on RAM. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 15:20:15 JST
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@dcc @dj @ryan @djsumdog @phnt @p @ins0mniak @verita84_automata @lanodan Yes, those CPUs at least respect my freedom and don't have digital handcuffs.
I'm enjoying my 32 cores. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 15:12:25 JST
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@dcc @dj @ryan @djsumdog @phnt @p @ins0mniak @verita84_automata @lanodan >Just for 64 cores you are looking at 5000 for the cpu....
You can get 64 cores via a quad CPU Opteron 62XX system for less than a thousand?
Now if only the supermicro G34 boards had a GNUboot port... -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:16:53 JST
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@p @dj @ryan @phnt @ins0mniak @lanodan >the joke is that proprietary software is assumed to be compromised by state actors and he hopes to work around this by relying on the state actors' adversarial relationships.
Yes, I saw that immediately, but a good joke doesn't rely on false premises that cause the security to totally fall apart, which is what I was pointing out.
>I don't think they make GNUboot for ARM SOCs/SOMs.
Those are future targets, but for ARM stuff coreboot is not relevant, you need a free version of u-boot instead. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:16:24 JST
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@p @dj @ryan @phnt @ins0mniak @lanodan >No protection against CISCO backdoors.
>No protection against Huwei backdoors.
>No protection against Juniper backdoors.
>No protection against Checkpoint backdoors.
Someone can come along and exploit every single backdoor regardless, as if a backdoor exists, it can be exploited by more than its authors.
The only solution against backdoors is to use a free software firewall that is free of any backdoors by installing GNU/Linux-libre and configuring netfilter. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:16:22 JST
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@p @dj @ryan @phnt @ins0mniak @lanodan >That's what the other three firewalls are for. You'd need four backdoors!
Yes, the attacker just exploits each of the 4 backdoors in sequence.
>No protection against IME backdoors.
I forgot to mention installing GNUboot and once that done there is no IME backdoor, as such proprietary software is not included in the images (on GNUbootable intel computers that came with an IME, the IME is an extra processor added to the NIC and can be disabled by simply not loading anything onto it).
You'd really want to use an KGPE-D16 GNUbooted systemd, as the Opteron 62XX processors appear to not even come with a backdoor processor. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:15:57 JST
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@p @dj @ryan @phnt @ins0mniak @lanodan >Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer. >They still wanna do that.
It's already done.
What do you think one functionality IME or PSP or ARM Trustzone is for?
Most people also carry around demon rectangles that could operate as a computer if not heavily restricted and every single one of them contains a spy chip (mobile chipset running proprietary software). -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 22:21:09 JST
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@Cyrillic @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @hispanicweeb @kilostere @lunarised JPEGXL has patent problems. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 22:12:24 JST
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@lunarised @Cyrillic @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @hispanicweeb @kilostere webp is supported in pretty much all imaging relevant free software, as the library implementing it is free software (even in old SDLv1).
Proprietary software tends to lack support for it, same as most other image formats (proprietary software developers tend to only make animated gif functional for animations), so lusers and itoddlers can't handle receiving a webp. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 18:12:27 JST
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@nyanide >Checks license
>License: GPL-2-only BSD-3 BSD-2 CC0-1.0 GPL-2+ ISC LGPL-2+ Expat PSF-2 ZLIB
Yeah, I don't think so.
GNU bash is by far the best shell in the world, as it has a better license (GPLv3-or-later) and has fine GNU functionality as well. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 03:04:15 JST
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@SuperDicq It would be fine if total proprietary death was implemented, as the proprietary software in the anime would be mere fiction as it doesn't exist in reality, but the proprietary software in the anime does actually have a real implementation. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 03:04:11 JST
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@menherahair @phnt @SuperDicq Ubuntu is proprietary software?: https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 01:58:42 JST
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@SuperDicq >ultra GNU autists
I was professionally diagnosed not autistic, but I am ultra-GNU.
It does ruin the experience if the characters are surrendering their freedom to proprietary software, although in most cases it's not so bad to make the show unwatchable. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 00:46:56 JST
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@SuperDicq I'm writing about how modern ones portray demon rectangles and other proprietary software being run, which is much less common in older Chinese cartoons. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 23:14:24 JST
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@SuperDicq Newer アニメ is too proprietary and contains too much proprietary software.
Older アニメ tends to lack proprietary software and often has a base level of quality. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 21:37:26 JST
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@SuperDicq Wouldn't you want the Teto model rather than the proprietary Miku one, with proprietary flowers and candles? -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 16:04:38 JST
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@nyanide glibc or gcc take a while to compile, but not too long.
ccache speeds the compilation process up a lot, as most of the files are the same on upadte. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:47:20 JST
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@nyanide @rar Non-garbage GtK+ and GtK3 software compiles just fine (you appear to have made the error of compiling apps.
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