fl42v 16h ago • 100%
I'm wondering if syncthing in gplay can show some kind of warning that the app is discontinued pointing to use the fork version on f-droid, or, if that's prohibited by play's EUFOA (end-user fuckover agreement), discussion on the forums mentioning the existence of said fork... [addit: So, kinda like what termux folks did, but less covertly]
fl42v 17h ago • 100%
Ooo, pretty, thanks!
fl42v 17h ago • 100%
I'm not sure you can classify this as a failure, as explicitly prohibiting interfacing with non-agpl stuff would greatly limit the amount of stuff you can license under it, perhaps up to the point of making it generally unusable. As for "not like that"... Well, yeah. But you can't deny it's misleading, right? Free software kinda implies you can modify it whatever you want, and if it's a free ui relying on a source-available middleware... Turns out, not so much.
Although, a posdible solution would be require explicitly mentioning if you're basically a front-end for something; but I'm not sure if it can be legally distinguished from the rest of use-cases.
fl42v 18h ago • 100%
Is there a similar list of good stuff [sry, ofc I mean notorious criminals stealing what little money a licensor needs to buy a new yacht] but for music?
fl42v 19h ago • 93%
I doubt it. What'll probably happen is them moving more and more of the logic into the SDK (or adding the back-end of new features there), and leaving the original app to be more or less an agpl-licensed ui, while the actual logic becomes source-available. Soo, somewhat red-hat-esque vibes: no-no, we don't violate no stupid licenses, we just completely go against their spirit.
fl42v 19h ago • 100%
I mean, I see a usecase for that, given you make a separate community for that, and not, say, spam c/technology with everything posted on XDA. So, kinda like RSS with comments. I personally follow hackaday both here and via RSS.
Alternatively, one can mirror someone who publishes rarely and only cool stuff. I remember mr.d0x being such a guy (now I don't really follow security-related things much, so mb it's changed, but I doubt it)
fl42v 20h ago • 75%
Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
- the SDK and the client are two separate programs
- code for each program is in separate repositories
- the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
I.e. "fuck you and your foss"
fl42v 1d ago • 87%
Well, there's also "punk goes pop" stuff, like the good old https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbMbCbEp5cA
fl42v 1d ago • 100%
Nope, it didn't when I last checked (mb ½year ago). Also, it has analytics and stuff.
I personally ended up cloning mercury and adding a few of those patches myself, which is quite easy since you don't need to add toggles (you always use what you use, and can skip adding what you don't use)
fl42v 1d ago • 100%
Wait, you can compile coreboot without google's vboot support. If it's the only problem, why drop motherboards?
fl42v 1d ago • 100%
So, the "[edit: last] previous update" was built from ac41318, since then there were exactly 2 commits:
Both do not immediately look malicious. So, either the release is poisoned (in which case you can build it from source and see if still detected), or the repo was poisoned before, and the payload didn't activate until those changes, or AVs decided to crackdown on random shit running their code in other law-abiding processes' address space 🤣
fl42v 2d ago • 75%
Well, I guess nixos itself isn't too overcomplicated, but fun begins when you start layering abstractions over abstractions 😁
fl42v 2d ago • 100%
Idk, being born in the early 2000s didn't make torrenting any harder. Dare I say, it was the opposite: in the 10s, when I got into all this this, there already was a bunch of well-established trackers with tons of content one could use without fear of downloading a piece of malware instead of a new shiny game, for example.
fl42v 2d ago • 100%
Yeah, some drivers seem to DGAG about the rules. Like I'm cycling straight and you're turning, asshole, honk whatever you want. [Note: applicable to Russia, your experiences may vary]
fl42v 3d ago • 70%
fl42v 3d ago • 100%
If a hacker planted [your] random seed, you're in deep trouble, generally
fl42v 4d ago • 100%
But better keep things dry, you'll really do yourself a solid
fl42v 4d ago • 100%
What exactly happens when you try to switch ttys? Literally nothing likely means you're on tty2 already, and should try going to the 3rd one, and do on. If you're getting a new installer session, they may've made it autostart on all ttys, but I don't see the point in that
fl42v 4d ago • 100%
Lineage is not fully degoogled, they just give you the option to not install Google services, AFAIK, and leave the hardcoded google deps be. So, if you need something graphene-ish on a broader range of devices, you should go with divestos (developed by the same guy who makes mull/mulch). Although, it's a bummer there's no storage/contact scopes, those are pretty useful at times (sandboxed play services are cool, I just don't have a purpose for them)
So, yet another "if you're in the middle of nowhere and can't/don't_want_to wait for proper tools to arrive" kind of post. Firstly, there's [pico-serprog](https://codeberg.org/libreboot/pico-serprog) with quite good [instructions](https://libreboot.org/docs/install/spi.html#raspberry-pi-pico) from the libreboot project. Unfortunately, it didn't want to detect the chip at all in my case (in hind sight, likely due to the board pinouts being different between my board and a regular pico and them providing pico pins and not gpio numbers) What worked, albeit rather slowly, was [pico-dirtyjtag](https://github.com/phdussud/pico-dirtyJtag). If using this one, the connections are as follows: * cs - gp19 * miso - gp17 * mosi - gp16 * clk - gp18 * gnd - gnd * 3v3 - 3v3 The chip pinouts can be sourced from the libreboot guide/a laptop schematic/ic datasheet. Flashing with `sudo flashprog -p dirtyjtag_spi -w rom.rom` (or `flashrom` instead of `flashprog`). It may complain that there are multiple definitions matching the chip, in which case you manually choose one of the mentioned with `-c` (in my case `-c W25Q32FV` and `-c W25Q64BV/W25Q64CV/W25Q64FV` for top and bottom chips respectively). Also applicable to stm boards with the main [dirtyjtag](https://github.com/dirtyjtag/DirtyJTAG) repo.
So, I've dug up my corebooted t440p and decided to check if it'll work with the battery from my t480, and it did! Well, sort of. Since coreboot also replaces the embedded controller firmware (mb sometimes they keep blobs of it, idk, but certainly not in case of t440p), we won't get those nasty "battery not supported, pay me" messages even if they've changed the verification since then. However, I suspect some batteries may be unprepared for the power draw of earlier models. I've tested it on 2 batteries, one was a 22wh → 72wh conversion with BMS built on top of a cheap controller with rather unpleasant feedback from battery repair people; the other one was a more trustworthy 72wh clone powered by bq8050. The latter one worked ootb, while the former somewhat worked: fine in uefi, fine in grub, drop voltage to 0 as soon as the os starts loading → poweroff. If the power supply is plugged in during boot, the battery works fine (may drop voltage again under load, haven't tested it myself). Soo, basically the use case is that you can try to retrofit the guts of a newer battery into older thinkpads if those run core/libreboot.
I've replaced cells in my fake battery a few days ago, and while recalibrating the bms I noticed what looked like it trying to overcharge the cells -- the voltage went up to above 12.6v and stabilized at around 12.9 (which amounts to ~4.3v per cell and is 0.1v above what cell manufacturers generally recommend). Idk if that's the intended behavior or clone manufacturers trying to shorten the lifetime of said batteries, so if the owners with genuine batteries can provide that info, I'd really appreciate it. On linux, you can check this with `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/voltage_now` (as your usual user, those files are world-readable); not sure about windows, tho.
Out of curiosity, I've been watching a few restorations of those spectrums, and I've noticed the keyboards having a rather peculiar construction, judging by today's standards. They have 2 springs, the small one, as far as I understand, presses the membrane layers together, and the larger one returns the key into neutral position once the key is released. I personally haven't used any spectrums, yet I've encountered the very same construction on a keyboard of a Russian clone of said machines (namely, zx atas), and to this day I haven't touched anything worse... The only way I can describe it is like trying to type on a piece of raw meat. So, if anyone here had a chance to type on the original spectrums, was it this bad? I suspect otherwise since I haven't heard of crowds of people requesting PTSD treatment, but the whole thing still somewhat bothers me 😅
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Just thought I'd share. Probably nothing new or fancy, but may help some of you find a way to repurpose devices that aren't worth repairing into home servers or something: e.g. op5 I've used has better CPU compared to raspberry pi 4, can run linux (postmarketos, albeit with some caveats), and costs less if bought with broken display (or nothing if you have one lying around)
Decided to share an older "project" of mine - ms sculpt wireless to wired conversion (also, it runs qmk, so we get all its features). A sensible person would order a custom pcb (such projects exist on the web, take a look if you're interested), but I went with removing all the components except from the ribbon cable connector, sending the PCB smooth, gluing a piece of discount card to isolate the traces, gluing a Chinese rp2040 on top, and wiring all the necessary traces to it. No, it wasn't fun. Yes, it works. Bonus: when I disassembled it now I found out the type-c wasn't soldered well and decided to separate from the board:  So, here we go: using phone as a poor man's microscope (note: also, still works)  The end result kinda doesn't give it out, so whatever (insert your frontend -- backend jokes here) 
x-post from tg: https://t.me/theaftertimes/15396
So, a while ago I bought a cheapest oneplus 6 available in my area to subject it to a few experiments with running Linux. Among the other issues that came for that price, the power button was almost flush to the frame, hard to press, and had almost no feedback. Today I finally got tired of it and decided to check what's wrong. The button itself turned out to be just fine, but the thingy that presses it looked weird:  After a few tries of gluing smth to extend the middle pin, I found out that I can just cut off a piece of plastic from the blister of my favorite headache pills and place it between the button and said thingy. Works wonders 🤣  Btw, the actual problem is that it was missing a few rubber spacers, as far as I understand, but whatever 
Forked from https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/19c35a4/pictured_avg_linux_user_fixing_thier_pc/
Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought bouncing in your head: "damn, what did I expect to happen?". Off the top of my head I remember 2 of those. Both happened a while ago, so I don't remember all the details, unfortunately. For the warmup, removing PAM. I was trying to convert my artix install to a regular arch without reinstalling everything. Should be kinda simple: change repos, install systemd, uninstall dinit and it's units, profit. Yet after doing just that I was left with some PAM errors... So, I `Rdd`-ed libpam instead of just using `--overwrite`. Needless to say, I had to search for live usb yet again. And the one at least I find quite funny. After about a year of using arch I was considering myself a confident enough user, and it so happened that I wanted to install smth that was packaged for debian. A reasonable person would, perhaps, write a pkgbuild that would unpack the .deb and install it's contents properly along with all the necessary dependencies. But not me, I installed dpkg. The package refused to either work or install complaining that the version of glibc was incorrect... So, I installed glibc from Debian's repos. After a few seconds my poor PC probably spent staring in disbelief at the sheer stupidity of the meatbag behind the keyboard, I was met with a reboot, a kernel panic, and a need to find another PC to flash an archiso to a flash drive ('cause ofc I didn't have one at the time). Anyways, what are your stories?
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a word in English that ends with "is" while being singular, only plurals and uncountables come to mind, so I can't really follow the examples of other words. What makes it even weirder, I'm not sure how to pronounce Illinoises... Would it be as written, or as if an Illinois was pronounced by someone who has never encountered it before? Illinoi are also meh, since now plural looks as a singular and the other way round.