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> since they have a low quality default conf file without commented out defaults Try `man fwupd.conf` for all the options.

You're going to have to be more specific on why a failing HSI attribute contributes to the undoing of your privacy? You're aware the security attributes are each based on mitigatin…

> it devolved into a rabbit hole of turning on all the privacy bugs What does that mean? We've got a very comprehensive privacy policy... https://lvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/priv…

Yes, mostly that. Depending on local policy, it might be possible to upgrade [only] signed firmware from the correct vendor without authenticating. Downgrade always requires authen…

blush -- my blog is https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/ for the important stuff, and https://mastodon.social/@hughsie is for the inane stuff.

> this is probably leaking information thru its comm channel It's really not. The fwupd process doesn't have any internet access at all -- all communication is done through a socke…

Can you open up a discussion on the fwupd GitHub project please, and maybe we can make things better.

Is Slackware a major Linux distribution? There's nothing wrong with Slackware, and no reason why fwupd wouldn't work on that distro -- but it's not one that most people would consi…

Samsung actually upload firmware to the LVFS on behalf of a few different OEMs, so they certainly know how. It's a policy decision, not a technical or legal one.

Make sure you open a support ticket asking for LVFS updates -- it's easy to ignore one person, but much harder to ignore hundreds of people asking for the same thing.

Is afuefi now open source?

The ColorHug is a colorimeter designed to calibrate screens with an approximately-sRGB gamut. If you're trying to calibrate a wide-gamut screen with a ColorHug it isn't going to wo…

Apply hasn't cared about ColorSync for years. Every release they break something.

It's barely more than the device costs to make. It turns out making batches of 50 at a time is an order of magnitude more expensive than building them 50,000 at a time. Source: Am …

Not an easy thing. The ICC-in-X specification specifies the index as the Xinerama screen number, which has no meaning with XRANDR-on-XOrg, and even less meaning on Wayland. There's…

True, Red Hat have been awesome with my time. Lots of donors are sponsoring the hosting; including Amazon for the bandwidth. There's a link on the lvfs page if you'd like to throw …

True, I have. I've sent many hundreds of emails, but also some companies have reached out to me proactively. We're getting there, but it's going to be a slow burn.

It doesn't look like any work at all is actually being done on fwupd from my point of view. I've basically given up hope at this point that System76 is going to do the right thing.…

It's disappointing System76 can't just use LVFS and fwupd like all the other vendors: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendorlist