~1600 hours uptime... no rebooting after patching?
You... you do patch your web server... don't you...?
But, a good blog... must give my BIOSes a good looking at and see if I can change some of mine
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of course! probably not as frequently as i should. i oughta do a patch-job sometime tho...
Your website is refreshingly simple and also manages to be unique looking. I like it!
I don't. Please make the header and footer smaller or non-floating on mobile. And padding of the text is too wide too.
And on desktop, * {…} rules are not good behavior. Firefox complains about quirks mode too.
Edit: this is about the website, the tech, not your blog. Didn't got to read that yet.
yeah, it's pretty unoptimized for mobile. on my todo list.
where does firefox complain about that?
also i should change the license footer, you're right
Yeah, sorry, that came a bit harsh. I'm just a bit salty, because i dislike monospace and white-on-black for reading. But i'm working on something, that lets the user choose the reading settings. In the meantime, i just create a usercss (Stylus) for pages i see often.
But that's another reason i'm salty; please don't do * {…} CSS hacks. Just set the rule on body, because children inherit, if not set otherwise. And * is the worst for performance, use the rightmost selector instead.
no problem! i'm frequently described as "abrasive" so i guess what goes around comes around...
i do appreciate the CSS tip(s) -- that stylesheet is a few years old with many alterations over time, so there are bunch of weird hacks that i'm not even sure why they're there. off the top of my head, for some reason the header is a div-within-a-div: #header and #header_internal. no idea why. :P
thank you! html pandoc template + nginx; i write my pages in markdown.
Does this even count? Not even running on an open core written to FPGA using Foss tooling 😉
Just wanted to say my experience running a Librem 5 was amazing until I realized my social groups are religiously against texting or using anything besides Snapchat.
Also ran a PPP for a while but it seemed harder to stabilize for me at the time.
Been running FOSS everything else except for some firmware, bios, microcode, silicon, etc for many years now with no complaints. Sometimes I purposely chose hardware that is supported though so I suppose I have tailored my experience.
i tried to build a risc-v smartphone but the ox64 is a pita and i gave up, lol using an ARM core for that project now (once i get my damned shipment)
I have an orange-crab running Linux right now for an entirely auditable system up to that point and something reasonable secure but yeah I have not made the time to crank out some software/drivers for a screen, keyboard, and Internet.
I have a clockworkpi uConsole with the R-01 RiscV board and a cellular modem that works great but again we're back to square 1 since I couldn't find much auditing done on the chip and I have not personally opened up any of mine. Although if my memory serves me right the sister core (XuanTie C910) had some holes in it so I guess it's good someone looked at part of the family at least and published it. Also if I'm not mistaken the modem has an Arm in it running who knows what too like any other modem. The only auditable modem firmware I know of is the one for the pinephones.
Within the rabbit hole, I think I'd trust anything between:
- My own, or some other people's, discrete transistors or vacuum tubes and diodes.
- Most hardware made before ~1985 Ofc, running entirely FOSS.
Idk what the upper limit is though I'd like to know.
fellow u-console owner! i have the a-06. the modem is shite, in my experience. i can't say for sure but i'd guess it's arm. the pinephone (pro) uses the eg25-g (as i discuss in the article), which runs an android bootloader, older linux kernel, and generic gnu(?) userland. the bootloader, kernel, and userland are all FOSS (well, they can be flashed to be, anyway). the ADSP (the code that directly interfaces with the radios) is proprietary, for practical and regulatory reasons. this doesn't really effect my threat model, as i assume that anything a sophisticated attacker could glean from an ADSP backdoor they could much more easily glean through the radio traffic itself. the TZ (arm trustzone) firmware is also proprietary, for technical reasons. iirc it's signed by ARM, but this is just off the top of my head, so don't quote me! or do, i'm not your dad...
Good work!
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Oh your typing is driving me mad. I can't do it, my man. I just can't.
you hate lower-case or monospace? hopefully not dr seuss, too, or shoo, shoo, you!
I love monospace, I hate lower-case. Which is a shame, because it looks terribly interesting.
I COULD MAKE IT ALL UPPERCASE IF THAT'S BETTER SPV.SH/BLOG/POSTS/LIVING_FOSS_UPPERCASE.MD
EDIT: UPPERCASE
What is your reasoning for not just using capital letters where grammar requires it? I agree with OP, it makes it very annoying to read the way it is now.
hipster stubbornness
or a lengthy argument about how language is whatever we make it, pick your poison
soz :P
I've got a buddy who texts like this. It's madness, but I love him and texts are short. I didn't realize the ability to write like this long form. It's just a style, but it makes it hard as hey for me to actually get my brain to not just error out and quit is all. This isn't a blog for anyone though, it's for you so you do you!
Yes, actually! I love Knifepoint Horror, but I can't ever read any of the books because the tell-tale signs of readability weren't there and it breaks my brain. I can read all caps fine though.
not familiar, though i'm not much of a horror guy myself
i'm gonna assume based on context it's the kind of work my senior-year english teacher would have spent two classes having us discuss the meaning behind the punctuation (or lack thereof) and capitalization, with my attention divided between [i have redacted this for several reasons...]
I went back and looked and I think old boy just uses big chunka paragraphs. School sucks, you do you. I just figured I'd tell you I just can't read it. Uppercase is good stuff though, you had good things to say and I thought it was cute and you're very intelligent for a youngun'. You'll do well, just keep fostering your voice, skills and more of that purposeful consumerism. I'd like to read more about your phone, so I hope you share it some time.
Also horror sucks, I just love it. Don't worry about it.
thank you! the bananapi should be here tomorrow. maybe a video this sunday if i have time? idk
Oh yeah, of course! I hope to see it, but I update by the hour so who the hell knows if I will. Either way best of luck. I often remember fucking up is just part of the learning process. So if you break something, just learn from it. When you make your first public phone, I'll line up.
LoL... looks like a EULA in Uppercase
Much prefer that you do your stuff the way you want, and lowercase makes it feel like it's hand written
yeah, i prefer lowercase as i find it comes off more casual / authentic
shit, i am a hipster, aren't i