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libreleah

@libreleah@mas.to

passionate nut who rants on irc and likes coreboot and openbsd. libreboot founder and lead developer (libreboot.org). bios on social media accounts are so asinine because you can't really say much that is meaningful. everyone has a different perception than you do. judge me on merit. every post by me reflects the opinion of my employer (also me). i don't know everything but i try to know enough - if i say something wrong, i want you to challenge me. they/them

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I literally forgot how fast a Raspberry Pi is at flashing. My old one fried and I just didn't bother setting up a new one until today; I was using my spare CH341A, 3.3v-modded, but CH341A is sloow (16MHz SPI) versus RPi (33MHz+ SPI). RPi is also just very reliable, whereas CH341A craps out all the time.

This is for Libreboot laptops, that I sell on https://minifree.org/ - I'm working on laptops as I write this.

I really recommend Raspberry Pi if you're going to flash one of these yourself.

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I've madly reduced Libreboot 9020 prices:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-9020/

Intel i7-4790k, 32GB RAM, 1TB/2TB SSD. Choose Intel HD4600 / AMD Radeon RX6400 / RX 6600XT. GPU

Intel AX210 WiFi. Debian Linux, other distro or BSD of your choice.

Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI offering greater freedom; I lead the project and use sales to fund it.

Libreboot 9020 has PWM fan control now so fans are regulated. Runs much cooler without needing prior mods. Other costs cut, without reducing quality.

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Fun fact:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/23/russia-war-ukraine-based-on-lie-yevgeny-prigozhin/

There's a military coup underway in Russia. Putin might get deleted soon.

Of course, the plotters in the coup are the Wagner group, who have committed many serious war crimes.

Because, you know, they kill people for money. They're mercenaries. Here are some facts about Wagner mercenaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

Evil bunch of cunts trying to coup an evil bunch of cunts, but maybe Ukraine will have the momentum it needs to re-take its country amid the chaos.

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I did this for fun:

https://gnuboot.vimuser.org/news/gnuboot20230717.html

https://gnuboot.vimuser.org/

And now I'll actually get back to working on Libreboot. GNU Boot is inferior, for reasons explained here: https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html - but they wanted to fork Libreboot. Here is GNU Boot:

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuboot/

They struggled for months to get devs. They use super old revisions of Libreboot. I decided to help them, for fun :)

This version that I made is based on Libreboot from today, intended for re-use by the GNU project.

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Random fun fact: Chile was building an analog of our modern internet way back in the 1970s. A massive, national communications network for business and government to coordinate efficiently. The engineer (Stafford Beer) who designed it was from Surrey, in the UK, and worked for the Allende goverment that was building this system.

After the 1973 coup, General Pinochet had the system destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Had it caught on, we might have had global internet in our homes in the 1970s.

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1920x1080 screens now available for the Libreboot 820 sold here: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-820/

This is an Intel Broadwell series laptop that I started selling recently. It comes with Librebot preinstalled and your choice of Linux/BSD along with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

I initially sold with 1366x768 screen resolution but I now provide 1080p panels as an upgrade option.

I'm the lead developer of Libreboot. Minifree sales fund my work. Libreboot is free software replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware.

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Very soon.

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I added a Libreboot installation guide for HP EliteBook 2170p: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/hp2170p.html

Other guides coming soon, for other machines that I recently added (HP EliteBook 8470p, Dell Precision T1650).

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Nice paywall blocker:

Use "Bypass Paywalls Firefox Clean" https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It was nuked from the mozilla addon store due to DCMA order so you know it's legit. Source code on git. You can just install it from their repo. I use it and it's great.

there is also one that should work on chromium but i don't use it: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

With this, one can read sites like New York Times easily. I also recommend Ublock Origin adblocker, Privacy Badger and "I still don't care about cookies"

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Today I learned that there are certain very special LInux distros/users who put /boot on a FAT32 file system.

Someone actually reported a bug in the recent 20231106 Libreboot release, because I removed FAT32 support in GRUB. Because our GRUB doesn't boot Windows/DOS directly anyway, and I didn't think some Linux users would boot Linux from a 1980s DOS file system. Really.

Anyway, patch:

https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=39aad57873b9e6265d089ef7dbb4dc5add5c659f

I do find it quite amusing. Anyway, use SeaBIOS in 20231106 if you're one of them.

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The new Libreboot article is now live:

https://libreboot.org/news/10.html

It is technically 12 December 2023 in the UK; in 3 minutes from this post being published, it will be 13 December 2023.

Libreboot's first ever release was on 12 December 2013, so today has been Libreboot's 10-year anniversary.

I've spent all day writing the article. It explains the history of the Libreboot project, through my eyes.

Thoughts welcome. I'll likely tweak it, despite having published. What's there should be complete.

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Libreboot Build System Audit 3 has begun.

I've decided to do yet another audit before next Libreboot release, but I don't anticipate this one taking as long as the last one.

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Some nice Libreboot patches today

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Canoeboot 20231107 released!

https://canoeboot.org/news/canoeboot20231107.html

It's based on Libreboot 20231106, which has several important fixes.

After this, simultaneous Libreboot and Canoeboot releases are planned for 12 December 2023. That is the ten-year anniversary for Libreboot, whose first release occurred on 12 December 2013.

Canoeboot is a fork that I maintain in parallel, showing what Libreboot be if it followed GNU FSDG; Libreboot instead has its own policy, since November 2022: https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html

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what if we lived in a world where our political leaders saw holy wars between two states, both of which commit war crimes, and condemn both of them while calling for peace?

what if our media focused on the plights faced by normal people on both sides who are the victims?

or what if we just continue having a world where normal people don't matter and we send money and weapons to hostile states because bigger and more dangerous states back the other side.

i hate the world and want to change it.

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the libreboot build system audit... continues

i'm most likely going to write a formal coding style guideline on the libreboot website, based upon my recent work

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Editing Wikipedia is so much fun! I logged into my account for the first time in years today, and I've been submitting improvements to random articles. I'm currently improving an English article that has poor sourcing, by translating the German version, which is well-sourced, and using that to replace the text of the English version.

And I added a bunch of cites to random articles.

Everyone should edit for at least a day each month or an hour here, hour there on evenings if they have the time.

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I've once again greatly reduced the Libreboot 9020 price. Base price for SFF now £258.

I've done this by excluding certain upgrades by default; i7-4790k, noctua fans, 32GB RAM upgrades etc are now add-ons. Base spec now i5-4570, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD.

I've split SFF/MT into separate product pages. See:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-9020-sff/

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-9020-mt/

This is a desktop machine with Libreboot pre-installed, replacing proprietary BIOS. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD system.

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Fun fact: countries have the right to retaliate when they are attacked by a foreign state or to otherwise defend themselves from attack.

People everywhere deserve the right to life, happiness and civil liberty. Being alive and healthy is a prerequisite to that.

Your government has the moral authority to provide the strongest possible deterrent to attack/invasion.

Ukraine, Palestine and Iran all have the right to respond to attacks on their sovereignty. But our media says the latter two don't.

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I'm sitting here working on orders. But in the morning I always read news. I found this amazing:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/tories-reform-local-elections-rishi-sunak-culture-war

Finally, a fucking sane Conservative in the news. I'm a conservative myself, but I wholly oppose the current leadership of the party; it has been swayed this way or another by the extreme hard-right; the racists, the xenophobes, the shitstirrers - Susan Hall for instance (failed london mayor candidate) is a fucking nazi bitch.

All I want is sound money, sensible government.

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I made another interesting change earlier:

libreboot change: https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/commit/839ef680cd8f25650d8fb59a3e6fe6bf3f84786b

canoeboot change: https://codeberg.org/canoeboot/cbmk/commit/3e5db248dd3f730d1ddab61329bc52f125c23cd3

i regularly maintain sync between canoeboot and libreboot, ensuring that they have the same functionalities (with canoeboot excluding certain behaviours/code)

this change, on both projects, makes merging changes between them much easier, by reducing the number of merge conflicts

libreboot build system audit 5 is ongoing, and i'm keeping caoneboot in sync throughout.

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14:48 <@leah> gonna go home tonight
14:48 <@leah> and work on libreboot
14:48 <@leah> that is a fact, not a threat

idk why i found it amusing but i did so posting it here. from just now

only tonight, because i'm working on minifree orders all weekend. not only am i the founder / lead developer of libreboot (free/opensource BIOS), i sell it pre-installed via this company:

https://minifree.org/

i'm doing a major libreboot build system audit. improving code quality / fixing bugs

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https://canoeboot.org/news/gnu.html

The Canoeboot project provides free (libre) boot firmware based on coreboot, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM based motherboards, including laptop and desktop computers. It initialises the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) and starts a bootloader for your operating system. GNU+Linux and BSD are well-supported. Help is available via #canoeboot on Libera IRC.

Should Canoeboot become GNU Canoeboot?

Discuss!

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Update on GRUB issue reported earlier: it was caused by XHCI patches which I've since removed so there shouldn't be a problem for now.

The xhci patches work on newer machines but seem to cause problems on some older ones. Again see:

https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216

Bug left open because I wish to see this fixed. However, I will modify lbmk to make GRUB multi-tree like coreboot is, so that the one with xhci can be used on select machines.

Something in the xhci driver is causing a double free. Fix TBD.

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