Notices by Charles Stanhope (cstanhope)

Lately I feel like I should add "(while the world burns)" to all my inane toots.

Ads during package installation except its demo scene like "greets" to a selection of other projects used in the creation of that package.

Idea: "home compute infrastructure" rack standard based around 3.5" half height HD as a form factor. Combine it with a DC supply and connector standard of some sort.

There's a project for making an opensource IC microcontroller that implements three different ISAs selectable at reset.

"Current popular microcontrollers are either based on the AVR instruction set of Arduino fame or on proprietary ARM sets. The Retro-uC is a fully open source microcontroller that can run some venerable retro CPU cores:

Zilog Z80
MOS 6502
Motorola M68K"

https://www.crowdsupply.com/chips4makers/retro-uc

Woke up with a thought. In light of the news of Microsoft thinking about buying github combined with the ever increasing trend of creating locked down computers: phones, ChromeOS, MS Always Connected, it occurs to me that the next steps will be to require permission not just to distribute software (app stores), but to also be a developer. Access to the tools will increasingly be through the cloud mediated through these locked devices. Permission to develop could be revoked at any time.

From the Atlantic and via cyborg lawyer Karen Sandler: "Cloud-connected medical devices save lives, but also raise questions about privacy, security, and oversight."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/my-pacemaker-is-tracking-me-from-inside-my-body/551681/

TFW you see somebody has started a project that you've only managed to think about for a long while... for the thousandth time... *sigh*

@pho4cexa There was an article in lwn about this, in case that is of interest: https://lwn.net/Articles/734766/

Yay! Software Freedom Conservancy is now on Mastodon! @conservancy