Notices by 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com), page 3
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:53:04 JST 
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@dushman @thatbrickster @raccoon A M.2 SATA SSD plugged into USB 3.0 is a flash drive, as the SSD is made out of flash.
The differences between a usb flash drive and a SATA or NVME flash SSD is poorer vs higher-quality proprietary flash control software and a single lower quality and slower NAND vs higher quality and faster NAND chips. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:49:27 JST
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@thatbrickster @dushman @raccoon That would really be a waste of money, as USB 3.0 is slower than PCIe.
A M.2 SATA SSD in a USB enclosure would be acceptably fast. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 21:28:28 JST
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@Wiz @waifu @romin @RA2lover @caronnov >spending hours compiling your own kernel is fine
Compiling with a custom GNU Linux-libre .config takes 20 minutes on an old thinkpad.
If that's too long, you just download a precompiled kernel from the website.
>running a few powershell scripts to fix
You need to run no scripts to limit the spying, as GNU/Linux-libre does not spy on you, which is time saved.
The scripts only work partially and temporarily anyway - soon comes along a proprietary forced update that adds more spyware and undoes changed settings. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 21:28:27 JST
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@waifu How are you so dumb?
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 22:20:01 JST
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@MoeBritannica Fixed. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:41:27 JST
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@dcc @iska >He uses DHCP
SLAAC all the way.
It really shouldn't matter if a DHCP lease gets renewed - if it does, you've done something wrong. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:33:44 JST
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@dcc @iska I use GNU/GNU Linux-libre on a GNUbooted server as a router.
You can enable livepatching to update Linux-libre without a reboot if you want. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:31:04 JST
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@dcc @iska >His proprietary router can't be updated without a reboot. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:56 JST
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@iska Making it difficult to update is quite sad.
My router is GNUbooted rolling release and updates are easy. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:53 JST
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@iska You lose installed packages. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 23:41:43 JST
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@PurpCat @matrix >There are people who don't spend new years on IRC.
Sad! -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 22:57:37 JST
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@r000t Imagine using computers that don't respect your freedom or any of your privacy. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:44:02 JST
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@p I'd like to point out that, GNU had in the past put a lot of work into ensuring that existing free software on Unix could be compiled on GNU without having to be re-written and of course such compatibility remains.
Such compatibility was implemented long before Linux was even a thing.
Linux does barely anything really - GNU bash passes the elf to glibc's ld-linux-x86-64.so (or ld-hurdxxx.so), which loads the program for execution and all Linux really does is schedule the machines resources (the program is allowed unfettered access to CPU cycles until its scheduled time is over and then Linux goes and halts execution and dumps the current execution state to a stack and runs the scheduled program) and implement SYSCALLs (via glibc, which does a lot of things internally, but does need to call SYSCALLs for things like a read or a write to a file).
Although efficient scheduling and SYSCALLs and drivers are exiting as they are complicated, they are a far cry short from what you need to get an operating system. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:57 JST
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@p (In case you were wondering, with the exception of GRUB, every nontrivial bootloader I've looked at has been chock full of proprietary software, as is typical of software not written for the users freedom). -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:36 JST
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@p The kernel, Linux was never anything like a Unix and never tried pretending to be one either.
The only similarities Linux has to Unix kernels is that it is monolithic and is proprietary software. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:34 JST
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@p >Sure seems to support the standard Unix kernel interfaces and run Unix software.
>Look at the photo.
>It is GNU bash running GNU Compiler Collection to compile and link the software against glibc.
Facepalm into the nether realm.
>cal instead of gcal
Sad!
>uname
name --help;
Usage: uname [OPTION]...
Print certain system information. ***With no OPTION, same as -s****.
-s, --kernel-name print the kernel name
...
-o, --operating-system print the operating system
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
uname -o;
GNU/Linux
uname --version
uname (GNU coreutils) 9.5
Packaged by Gentoo (9.5 (p0))
Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie.
>When did GPLv2 turn "proprietary"?
Linux was proprietary software in 1991, but was released under the GPLv2-ambigious in 1996.
It only took until 1996 before the first proprietary program was added to Linux and Linux became proprietary software again.
One of many examples of proprietary software added to Linux is this; https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/micropatch.c (the binary form is array encoded and there is no source code).
When it comes to the license of Linux, generally it is only enforced *against* freedom, rather than in support of it. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:33 JST
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@p *was released under the GPLv2-ambigious in 1992. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:30 JST
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@p >If the kernel doesn't respond to syscalls, nothing happens.
If GNUboot doesn't init the hardware and then launch the GNU GRUB OS on my computer and then launch GNU Linux-libre and then launch the init and then launch the rest of the GNU and other software, nothing happens.
Of course you can boot Hurd from GRUB instead just fine and the Church of Emacs runs just as well.
>it emulates the interfaces well enough that it runs Unix software from the 1970s
Any of such interfaces have been implemented by GNU and not Linux.
In this case, printf() is a function implemented by glibc, not Linux.
>it does not present a Unix interface to the software it runs?
If you try to pass a proprietary binary compiled for a Unix to Linux via a loader, Linux won't be able to make any sense of it, as it does not re-implement *any* Unix interface - it implements its own custom interfaces.
The thing that presents an interface to software is GNU, although in certain cases the programmer can decide to interface directly with Linux's non-Unix SYSCALL interface.
>you are trying to make the case that it is not a complete operating system
It is a FACT that Linux is only a kernel and is certainly not a complete operating system, but many people don't want the facts to get in the way of their proprietary dreams. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:43:28 JST
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@p >But you should use a smaller one
I should run a proprietary bootloader that doesn't respect my freedom because it's smaller?
Are you kidding me?
>See linux-0.11.tar.gz's include/unistd.h
I am absolutely certain that such internal header file is not compatible with Unix's interfaces, therefore it is nonsense to claim that was "implementing Unix interfaces".
While it was written to be a Unix-kernel-like, it never pretended to be Unix, as a kernel cannot pretend to be an OS, no matter what. -
翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:42:19 JST
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@Kopimi >You are welcome to compile kopimi and play with it as much as you like!
Unfortunately, such informal license doesn't grant the four essential freedoms; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
The "Kopimi" mark alone unfortunately just gives an indication you probably won't be sued if you merely distribute a copy of such work, but such actions would still infringe copyright, as the mark isn't a license.
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