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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hi. | Mar 05 04:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > xxxxxxxx contacted me…. As well as multiple ppl on LinkedIn. | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > He sent over some information and there’s like ongoing Request by him | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > because they suspended his membership, etc. | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Are you interested in a story? He doesn’t want to be the story… Just | Mar 05 04:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > contribute to the . By the way. | Mar 05 04:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-openai-launch-partnership-to-expand-ai-research/ | Mar 05 09:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # more m$ entryism in umich | Mar 05 09:04 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-record.umich.edu | U-M, OpenAI launch partnership to expand AI research | The University Record | Mar 05 09:04 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/03/1622232 | Mar 05 12:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | The UEFI Hype and Microsoft's Lies - SoylentNews | Mar 05 12:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a small, insecure, embedded operating system touted as a replacement for computer BIOS. OS hacker and small scale farmer Sami Tikkanen has a guest post over at Techrights debunking UEFI hype and Microsoft's lies, yet again. UEFI has a lot of baggage and controversy. Some here may remember the debates prior to its forced roll out. | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | More than a year ago I wrote a document that I named "UEFI fact sheet". The purpose was to create a more truthful counterpart to a similarly named document which the UEFI forum was spreading on various Internet sites. For a long time my document was the first search result on most search engines when searching for "UEFI fact sheet". Recently I noticed that Bing (which is owned and maintained by Microsoft) had put my document to | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the second page of search results, and the first result now points to a disinformation document that is published by the UEFI forum. | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | For some reason the UEFI firmware is often being advocated by telling actual lies about both UEFI and BIOS, which is supposedly meant to be completely replaced by UEFI. Although these lies are technically not true, they have somehow achieved the status of an "official truth", to such extent that those claims are now everywhere and it is easier to find online sources that support them than it is to find those that don't. Those l | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ies are being spread in such a determined manner that if you try to correct those claims in the articles of the Finnish Wikipedia, the changes are immediately reverted and you even get personally attacked by the user who reverted the changes. | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In general the most hardworking UEFI advocates seem to be people who don't do stuff like install alternative operating systems on their computers. They certainly don't write computer code that would have something to do with the motherboard's firmware or interface with the peripheral devices. | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The need for UEFI-type motherboard firmware is usually reasoned with seven main arguments: [...] | Mar 05 12:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Coreboot is a Free and Open Source option to replace UEFI, and generally considered safer. Some OEMs provide the option to provide Coreboot.' | Mar 05 12:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/03/1622232 | Mar 05 12:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I've installed it on a couple of computers and will give it a try. | Mar 05 12:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Part of the reason is that I keep getting 'update' instructions for UEFI firmware which, when I try to install the update, says it cannot find the UEFI software that it needs to update. How did it know that it needed updating then? I will see if they continue with coreboot installed. As the updates only relate to a Microsoft problem - and I do not have MS installed anywhere - I am hoping that the pointless update instructions will | Mar 05 12:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | cease. | Mar 05 12:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So far, it has installed faultlessly, and is doing just what I expected of it." | Mar 05 12:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Page title unreadable | Mar 05 15:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Hey, | Mar 05 15:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reading the RMS AI interview, the page title is super small, i was even looking for the title of the article, the font of the title is even smaller than the main text. | Mar 05 15:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Something is wrong in your CSS? | Mar 05 15:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Best," | Mar 05 15:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264724 | Mar 05 15:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | The UEFI hype and Microsoft's lies | Hacker News | Mar 05 15:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "More than a year ago I wrote a document that I named "UEFI fact sheet". The purpose was to create a more truthful counterpart to a similarly named document which the UEFI forum was spreading on various Internet sites. For a long time my document was the first search result on most search engines when searching for "UEFI fact sheet". Recently I noticed that Bing (which is owned and maintained by Microsoft) had put my document to th | Mar 05 15:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | e second page of search results, and the first result now points to a disinformation document that is published by the UEFI forum." | Mar 05 15:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Yes, something is certainly wrong with the CSS if he is seeing small text. However, I cannot duplicate the problem on any of my systems (obviously, since it was on these systems that I configured the CSS). | Mar 05 16:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ideas on how or what to fix are welcome." | Mar 05 16:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Can you tell me which browser, version, screen res etc? | Mar 05 16:42 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-submits-amicus-brief-in-neo4j-v-suhy">FSF defends user freedom in amicus brief submitted in Neo4j v. Suhy</a></h5> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The case before the Ninth Circuit is the appeal of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC. The case involves, among other issues, the application of Section 7 of the GNU AGPLv3. In the case, Neo4j appended an additional nonfree commercial restriction, the Commons Clause, to a verbatim version of the GNU AGPLv3 in a version of its software. PureThink subsequently removed this clause from its license | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | , based on the following language in Section 7: [...] </p> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | FSF defends user freedom in amicus brief submitted in Neo4j v. Suhy — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software | Mar 05 19:07 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/free_software_foundation_agplv3/">Free Software Foundation rides to defense of AGPLv3</a></h5> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 – the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. </p> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> At stake is the future of not just the AGPLv3, but the FSF's widely used GNU Public License it is largely based on, and the software covered by those agreements. A core tenet of the GPL series is that free software remains free forever, and this is woven into the licenses' fine print. This ongoing legal battle is a matter of whether people can alter those licenses and redistribute code as | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they see fit in a non-free way, or if they must stick to the terms of an agreement that says the terms cannot be changed. </p> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Mar 05 19:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Mar 05 19:07 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Mar 05 19:07 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Free Software Foundation rides to defense of AGPLv3 • The Register | Mar 05 19:07 | |
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