Notices by Jason Self (jxself@social.bobcall.me)

@codewiz "Of course it runs NetBSD" right?

@codewiz Wow. And no evacuation?

On this day 37 years ago Richard Stallman incorporated the Free Software Foundation with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition to acting as fiscal sponsor for the GNU Project, a lot of the FSF's work has been to educate people about their rights. The FSF is an organization with a strong history of achievement, and I'm proud of what they've accomplished during these last 37 years. Happy Birthday, @fsf

This is depressing to think about nonfree firmware eating the world:

Uncompressed source code of Linux 5.16.7: 1.1GB

The "source" of nonfree firmware: Over 700MB and growing so it's a good percentage of the size of the ENTIRE KERNEL ITSELF.

Free firmware with actual source code? 24.5MB and not growing

Yay Trisquel version 10 ("Nabia") is out: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-10-nabia-release-announcement

Now that Trisquel 10 is out I suppose it's time for pay for my "license fee" again 😉
https://trisquel.info/en/donate

@codewiz Windows?! Shock.

@codewiz Sadly no the trip was cut short because of hurricane Pamela but I did hang out at Medano Beach for the day.

@codewiz Hey I was just there a couple of weeks ago.

Today the Free Software Foundation was founded October 4 1985, which was a Friday. Happy birthday @fsf and thank you for your never-ending commitment to software freedom! Free software is vital for humanity. Everyone, please join me in celebrating 36 years of spreading and advocating free software. The free software movement never sleeps, never quits, and cannot be stopped. As long as one computer on this Earth is running free code, we will be here. Let's make software free forever! #fsf #gnu

Today the GNU Project was started 38 years ago, on September 27 1983. Happy GNUiversary.

Exactly ten years ago today on September 12 2011 Alexandre Oliva (the maintainer of Linux-libre) posted the announcement that my APT repository for Linux-libre was available, saying "Jason Self's Freesh apt repository carries binary .debs for 32- and 64-bit x86 systems, and support for more architectures is planned. Thanks!" It was named Freesh as the intention is to always serve up freshly-baked kernels that respect your freedom. It has since expanded to twelve supported CPU architectures.

Sadly my IRC logs from back then have been lost due to an accidental deletion, but my memory is that my Linux-libre APT repository got started 10 years ago today when one of the sysadmins at the FSF was wishing for pre-compiled Linux-libre kernels available for easy installation. It may have been @codewiz ?

er I guess I meant @codewiz

Each week I usually build 101 kernel packages to go into my APT repository for Linux-libre (see https://jxself.org/linux-libre). This comes from building all supported kernel versions across all supported architectures. This number doesn't include the packages built for testing before the actual releases happen. I have setup 2 more machines to help with kernel compiling, for a total of 4, and can now do the equivalent of make -j128 across the 4 machines.