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Standards Organization as a Potentially Universal Free/Libre Software Developement Sustenance Model
by John Luke Gibson 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

Neverminding the ridiculous length of that subject line.. I just thought an interesting thought. First, a little context, (I know how rms feels about blockchains) I was investigating slock.it and thinking to myself "why don't they just make a hardware standard like eoma instead of closing their development and calling it open?" (Like, Pi-Top is [n]ever gonna release those stl files) (I realize that's a loaded 'just' cause it sounds easy, but is one of the most difficult possible) Then, it dawned on me: Lulzbot doesn't do that.. Wait, Lulzbot exclusively uses open software in their development.. Then *bam* like a boulder (nothing to do with Lulzbot): GPL-violations, improper GUI training, failing to extend using APIs/Addons, failing to bugsmash/'track-issues', failing to participate in mailing-lists and irc, failing to simply fork when development goals conflict, planned esoteric-ism and/or planned obsolescence, failure to secure clientèle data by using fully free systems (when relevant), failure to participate-in and be-aware-of public conversations about the underlining security of said systems (when relevant), failure to disclose supplychain information/identities (when relevant), failure at general transparency. All of these things traditionally go wrong with not only companies that use open source, but companies in-general. Then, it truly truly dawned on me, free software needs standards organizations as well.

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Free software possibly abusing network effect
by Jean Flamelle 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

https://github.com/urbit/urbit/issues/911 Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. "Mencius Moldbug") leads a project called urbit to 1. create a virtual machine using lambda calculus instead of bytecode and 2. create a reputation network based on purchasing stake on namespace and stakeholders ruling the network how they see fit. I outline my chief problem with this in the issue which was closed literally within minutes. I would like more people to weigh in here. What do any of you feel about my predictions and my morals in this situation?

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https://youtu.be/DRXH-apu2YQ
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

woo! that's running a RISC-V 64-bit RV64G ISA with a *BOOM* core (Berkeley Out-of-Order) rocket-chip. it was a little hairy getting it set up. l.

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FOSDEM Hardware Enablement Devroom
by Paul Kocialkowski 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

A Hardware Enablement devroom will be taking place at FOSDEM this year, on Sunday 10 December 2017. This newly-created devroom is the result of 3 proposals that were merged together. It is co-organized by several individuals. The devroom covers all aspects related to hardware enablement and support with free software, including aspects related to boot software, firmwares, drivers and userspace tools and adaptation. Proposals for talks related to these topics are welcome and can be submitted until Sunday 26 November 2017 via the pentabarf interface. Short talks are encouraged over longer ones in order to cover a wide range of topics. The announcement for the devroom, that contains all the useful information, was published at: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002649.html Cheers and see you at FOSDEM! -- Paul Kocialkowski, developer of free digital technology and hardware support Website: https://www.paulk.fr/ Coding blog: https://code.paulk.fr/ Git repositories: https://git.paulk.fr/ https://git.code.paulk.fr/

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zc706 risc-v
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

ha! cool!

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Mali / Lima
by mike.valk＠gmail.com 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

It seems that someone has picked up the tainted project. https://github.com/yuq?tab=repositories

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EPROM programmer
by David Niklas 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hello Luke & list, I was blindly typing search phrases into my computer today (no, not really), when I stumbled onto a site advertising UV EPROM programmers for less than I had read about them being (was it $10,000 or $100,000?) I immediately searched ebay and found several William models for less than $70. "Cool" I said, "But is the SW open source?". So I did a single search. Duckduckgo was merciful and I soon found myself here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/geepro/ As you may or may not remember I've been trying to break into the HW field and I'm curious as to the list member's reactions to this as I was (am), a bit excited. Small chips don't seem that expensive either! Thanks, David

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FOSDEM 2018, Stand / Talks / BoFs - ssistance / volunteers needed
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

ok so thank you to wim for prompting me about FOSDEM 2018, i've applied for a stand there and also put in 3 talks in the "hardware track". now, here's the thing: taking 50kg of equipment to Shenzhen Maker Faire was... well... it wasn't fun. the actual faire, fine, but decanting that much equipment FORTY TIMES on international plane flights, taxis, buses, trains and walking around 3km in total, definitely wasn't. so a heads-up: this time i'll be bringing around 30kg on a 10,000km *international* overnight flight: if i'm going to FOSDEM 2018 i will definitely, definitely need some assistance getting to and from brussels airport to the hostel, and from there to the university. also, if anyone is already attending or is planning to attend, i'll need help covering the stand. last time another person named wim helped out, which was amazing of him, he just happened to be the person at the stand next door :) _also_.... what would really make it worth-while would be, if anyone's interested, to do a BoF: discuss and plan what needs to be done and so on. any thoughts and assistance appreciated. l.

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New 3d printing technique
by Bill Kontos 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

I don't know how far in your 3d printer design you are Luke, or even if something like this is useful/feasible( it's a completely different extruder and servos), but I'm leaving it here for future reference. http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counter… The actual paper is unfortunately behind a paywall.

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pocketchip's keyboard for pc card?
by ronwirring＠Safe-mail.net 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip I have been told, the pocketchip's keyboard is i2c. Can you connect the keyboard to the pcmcia/eoma68 breakout board? Then configure the keyboard's keys using a piece of software? I asked the chip company if they would sell a version of the pocketchip having an usb keyboard and no display. A version like that would be useful for people, should they want to combine a pocketchip with a raspberry pi, pc card or other computer. The chip company has not answered. Thanks.

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