Is it right that we spend £100billion or more on weapons that could only possibly slaughter millions of people simultaneously - use of which would probably lead to retaliation that in turn deletes (from existence) every human being currently alive in the UK.
Why not scrap it and cut taxes instead?
Save money and use it to not have the highest taxes in decades.
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.
One of the mitigations is that SeaBIOS is now the only primary payload, with GRUB now only as a secondary payload. This affects the hardening guide, because it relies on password protection in GRUB.
I modified the guide to tell the user how to ensure that SeaBIOS only loads GRUB, and how to disable the SeaBIOS menu so that nothing but GRUB runs.
in about 99% of cases, GRUB works just fine, but on some machines, a fatal bug is caused by a broken pointer during grub_free() or grub_realloc() (in GRUB's own kernel), and so far only on sandybridge-based dell latitudes has this been reported.
most users will be safe on GRUB. again: read the link.
this will be mitigated in the next release. and it's being investigated.
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 #librespeech 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:
@leah (#librespeech is a channel i run on libera irc, alongside #libreboot - #librespeech is the off-topic channel for #libreboot, where i send all the trolls, and we generally just banter/shitpost)
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.
@libreleah Let me just say that I am very happy that you continue t.o support canoeboot, while I'm inclined to agree with you assessment of the RYF policy, it is great to have the option on more limited hardware (some of which I happen to own ;-) )
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.
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.
I need a decent VPS host that specialises in #BSD, specifically #OpenBSD based hosting. One that has a good track record for reliability, also good customer support, and general security practises.
I can google this, but I have a lot of BSD people following me, so I'm asking this here, because my followers will know better.
I'm moving all my self-hosted servers over to OpenBSD but some of it is intentionally outsourced, for a few reasons. If people can reply with suggestions that'd be super.
Just did my civic duty: I voted in today's local council elections (UK elections).
I backed the loser, if polls are to be believed, but that's OK.
Fun fact, I used to be a member of the UK Labour party, even ran for local elections in my local area; at the time, I was proud to beat the local liberal democrat in the ward I fought. 2018 local elections, Castle Point:
Libreboot release soon. ETA May 2024; likely May 4th or May 5th. I'm in a crunch between now and then, patching up whatever I can - what's already there is essentially ready.
This is going to be a new stable release. The previous stable release was on 25 June 2023, and several testing releases have come out since.
Development has been at a more conservative pace since February 2024, because I said to myself on the day of the 20240225 release, that the next one would be stable. It will be so.