@evan LLM scraper bots are a big problem. They crawl the whole website including expensive-to-generate pages such as git blames, and in many cases ignore robots.txt, use browser user-agents, and come from residential IP addresses.

@q66 @famfo @jn @domi @tufo @merlin I don't know about others but the wifi card is replaceable in every thinkpad supported by coreboot/libreboot, although all of them except T480/T480s have a wifi card whitelist in the proprietary boot firmware.

The fact that the UK protests had to be renamed to "No Tyrants" sort of underscores the need for no kings.

@sharlatan How many node.js packages? (The frontend requires node.js to build)

-funsafe-math-optimizations
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︀︀fun AND safe math optimizations? sign me up!

@mcc @pcman x23, not s23

@elly @domi It couldn't be 2008, that's the new Lenovo logo on the laptop.

@q66 @fun CC-BY-SA (or even CC-BY) would probably be enough to prevent AI from legally being trained on them, since it can't really provide attribution and CC-BY-SA's copyleft would likely be incompatible with the licenses of other stuff the model is trained on. Although AI companies will probably not care and do it anyway regardless of the license.

the CA/Browser Forum and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

#cyberpunk

starting the ASO (anarchist standards organization). it’s the same as ISO but all freely available and also purely by coincidence our standards all end up the same as theirs

@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"

@atax1a If they wanted to write code then why would they get copilot to write it for them?

We have now reached the part of the gangster movie, where they are fighting over who gets what share of the money from the bank robbery.

@grumpygamer No, because Vulkan is only partially supported on the IGPU of the last generation of Intel hardware to support running with no non-free software on the main CPU (Haswell, newer generations require FSP for raminit which hasn't been replaced yet), and the IGPU of the last generation of Intel hardware to run with no ME (Penryn) only supports OpenGL 2.1/ES 2.0.

@valpackett @ariadne Anything pre-bootguard (Ivy Bridge and earlier), and also any Haswell ThinkPads with socketed CPUs (ThinkPad T440p/W450/W451/L440/L540) do not have bootguard. Anything with MEv11 (Skylake and Kaby Lake/Kaby Lake Refresh, so T460/T470/T480-era) has bootguard, but it can be bypassed with deguard.

people are MISSING OUT on U+2044 FRACTION SLASH!

9400723⁄205473
👆 this does NOT use sub-/superscript letters!

@ariadne Disappointing. Why not Codeberg?

@missionlibre The text of the petition says:

Today, there are no fully-free Linux kernel drivers for contemporary Wi-Fi hardware.

This isn’t true. The drivers (the code that is running in the kernel, on the main CPU) are fully free, but the firmware (the code that is running on the wifi card) isn’t.