Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com), page 4

It’s not okay to pretend your software is open source

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/30/Its-not-okay-to-pretend-youre-open-source.html

How does virtual memory work?

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/29/How-does-virtual-memory-work.html

Thanks for answering the survey a couple weeks ago to pick this topic 😁

Trying to connect to some blind linux users to talk about accessibility, please boost

Don't sign a CLA

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html

Disclose your passwords at the border or pay a $5,000 fine

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367642/travellers-refusing-digital-search-now-face-5000-customs-fine

New Zealand is offically closed

https://www.xkcd.com/743/

http://fabiensanglard.net/bloated/index.php

>Ever wonder why your phone needs 30 to 60 seconds to boot?

YES, ALL THE FUCKING TIME

My calculator has a CPU which is literally 4,000 times worse than my phone's CPU and it boots to an interactive graphical user session on a fully preemptive multitasking Unix system before you can even take your finger off of the "ON" button

If you deprecate support for a proprietary software product you should be legally required to make it open source

@iank @grainloom nonfree firmware is far from unique to AMDGPU. It's _far_ more open than the Nvidia driver, and there are no alternatives that don't require firmware. That's why I endorse it. If something with free firmware and free drivers becomes available, I'll jump ship.

Further shout out to the Lobsters mods for supressing discussion on my article by merging it into a loosely related discussion AGAIN

@faissaloo @kitsune electron is an embarassment. The javascript community literally just makes computers worse and worse year over year, particularly for the poor who can't afford newer, nicer computers necessary to run their dumb bullshit (unlike IRC, which you can run on a toaster)

Slack is IRC for idiots. How the fuck is it worth 7.1 billion (with a B) dollars?

Great UX from Imgur for visitors with Javascript disabled, because "display an image" requires web 6.0 javascript meme tech

Mozilla selling your browsing history AGAIN

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/07/firefox-experiment-recommends-articles-based-on-your-browsing/

Petetion to rename The Linux Foundation to The Anti-Linux Foundation

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Rust doesn't have a specification
Therefore all Rust code is undefined behavior
Therefore Rust has more undefined behavior than C
Therefore Rust < C
Checkmate athiests

Reminder to all the people writing wannabe top replacements in node or python or ruby right now:

A performance monitoring tool which is the biggest CPU hog on your system is fucking dumb

sway 1.0-alpha.4 released:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-alpha.4