leahlibre

yes that is why i mention openbsd. i haven't ported lbmk to it yet, was going to months ago. i'll start up that effort again at some point. future releases will one day be built with openbsd, and when that day comes, my reasons to use linux will drop to near zero. i'm an avid fan and user of openbsd - i even maintain a port for it (librewolf web browser)

currently debian linux, though i have porting lbmk to openbsd on TODO. with a few small exceptions (e.g. recent tmux patch) they're generally quite hostile to use of AI.

bots are unworthy of any faith.

it absolutely is. appeasement never worked. i put my foot to the floor and that's it. without me, there would be no libreboot at all.

contributing to projects that have slop in them has legal liability. you'd have to essentially hardfork to remove the slop from git history and such.

for my part, when i do work on this, what i will do is this: re-use existing nuke.list mechanism in lbmk (used already to delete dubious files, e.g. code files with unclear licensing in u-boot) to delete the slopped files. then provide cleaned versions of the same files, with necessary patching re-written as necessary, and files that use it patched to include e.g. foo.deslop.c instead of foo.c - then git history is removed inside tarballs. filter out the changelogs for projects accordingly.

this is the most reasonable way to do it on projects with very little slop. with projects that become almost entirely slop, a hard fork becomes necessary.

yes i am leah rowe

there is upstream code but it's not well-integrated, and google's tree is largely optimised for their own payload called Deptchcharge. mrchromebox tweaks coreboot for use with edk2 so you can use normal operating systems, and the modifications that they make are extensive, e.g. mechanism in EDK2 to update EC firmware at boot time. mrchromebox is, for our purposes, a coreboot distro or indeed its own upstream. libreboot takes mrchromebox and makes several of its own modifications. "just use coreboot" is easier said than done :)

i don't live in a free country. the UK has enacted several laws impeding fundamental civil liberties in recent years. rolling back on several human rights laws, now they're even removing the right to trial by jury, etc. it's quite troubling actually.

how are they different? did the algorithms upon which they operate suddenly change?

some of the comments about ai policy are probably bots too. it's common these days to see political discourse spammed by bots on projects.

this IRC client is entirely vibe-coded

He was a great man. He will be missed.

A world of software freedom is possible. Please attend, if you can!

If passed, this bill will spread and lead the way to a world where everyone can use libre software, exclusively, if they wish to.

As someone who I respect once told me:

Freedom isn't free.

A hearing for a bill will take place in New Hampshire on February 16th, 2023, for a bill that, if passed, will require state agencies to accommodate libre software users in public-facing applications, so that people do not have to use proprietary software to access state services on the internet.

Your help is needed. More information is available in the linked article.

these machines have osboot, based on coreboot, that replaces proprietary bios/uefi firmware, and a libre OS like linux/bsd with full driver support. encrypted ssd by default. secure, private laptops for people who need it. no proprietary bloatware, just freedom. sales fund osboot development

It's on my TODO.