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And don't forget the "Berateraffäre", centered around the person that was then rewarded with a promotion to head of the European commission. https://www.politico.eu/article/the-sca…

OpenBSD explicitly supports Pine 64/64+ and even ships the firmware to boot it with the install media. ROCK64/ROCKPro64 are also supported, but it's necessary to separately install…

Yes, unfortunately you're right in that there's lots of room for improvement. Nevertheless I'd call the rk3399 a decent SoC, but then for me the fact that it runs without proprieta…

Haven't heard of levinboot yet, LGTM, thanks for the hint! Where do you get your entropy from? Does levinboot provide some (enough?) to the kernel? Right now I delay booting via a …

> Rockship (PinePhone) which is reversed engineered so only old SoC have support and it require massive effort from the community. PinePhone has Allwinner A64. [0] And Rockchip SoC…

I like to build things from source, but I'd also like to hear more details about the problems encountered. The whole tiers thing is first of all a chicken and egg problem. Which pr…

After digging through some resources on the web I now believe that this is indeed still true - at least I couldn't find anything to the contrary (apparently you have to provide the…

> If you are familiar with work done in the FOSS community to procure devices with fully open firmware, the name Synopsys may ring a bell here. Synopsys is a company which sells IP…

Thank you for all your efforts. The way you appear to have handled google's unjustifiable action is really impressive. Clearly that's one of the main reasons to be optimistic that …

General mobility in Berlin 2020 compared to 2019 [0] according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in: Sep -5 % to -13 % Dec -20 % to -41 % [incomplete data] [0] https://www.covid-19-mo…

Significant amounts of plastics are also found in plants.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611874

Née Betrusted[0], in case anyone is wondering. [0] https://betrusted.io

Considering solid materials with ultralow friction (e.g. fullerene-like nanostructures) might be worthwhile. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21825776/?dopt=Abstract https://pubmed.…

As you said it depends on the context, I agree, but thus the chances someone's using a generic query to find vendor independent resources like blogs are not zero. With regard to th…

It often doesn't even matter to click wrong boxes to a certain degree. Green or red points are usually accepted as traffic lights (often no need to click the whole traffic light) a…

Using the Tor Browser from torproject.org with the so called "safest" security settings (that I usually use) I am not unique (currently 1 in 15k browsers have the same fingerprint …

Creating a firewall akin to China's is actually seriously considered by the EU [1]. [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487... (Page 37, section 5.1 "Europ…

A study from the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies (EU Directorate-General for Internal Policies) suggests implementing a firewall akin to Chi…