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Bram Moolenaar, creator of the Vim text editor, died this week, on 3 August 2023. https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4 RIP Bram Moolenaar. You were a genius; Vim will always be the best text editor ever. In today's Libreboot news: ASUS KGPE-D16, KCMA-D8 and KFSN4-DRE mainboard support re-added. https://libreboot.org/news/fam15h.html Among other things. i did a thing https://codeberg.org/vimuser/rmac usage: ./rmac generates random mac address. can also specify e.g.: ./rmac 00:1f:16:??:??:?? or maybe ./rmac ??:??:??:??:??:?? ? means random. code taken from nvmutil, from libreboot. adapted into a standalone util. someone showed me their script that runs when they boot, and it uses all manner of... bash.... to generate random mac addresses. i wrote this for them, but decided to publish it. just a stupid simple utility pipe it to whatever you want. I decided to make it official. https://libreboot.org/news/microcode.html New Libreboot release soon!  Documentation added by Riku, for 3 Libreboot board ports that Riku also added recently: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/hp9470m.html And these: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/hp2570p.html https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/hp8300usdt.html These boards will be present in the upcoming Libreboot release. Thank you, @rikuv ! How is the hardware support for intel GPUs? Can someone tell me how to put "citation needed" on Russian wikipedia? I'm translating a Russian article into English and noticed un-sourced material where I'm adding citation needed on the english text. I don't know how to do it properly on the actual Russian wikipedia. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.  FYI to Minifree customers: I'm taking the rest of the week off to work on a Libreboot release. Shipping to resume next week. I'm finishing some emails, and I'll email current customers the above. I don't have much work on at the moment since it's the middle of the month. Most workload is at the first ~10 days and last ~10 days of each month, the middle is always quiet, that's why libreboot releases usually happen in the middle of the month). I'm very close to a new stable release of Libreboot! Libreboot T440p prices on https://minifree.org/ are once again reduced. They were reduced in April 2023 (last month), but temporarily went back up after last month's sales surge. I have a big surplus again, that I got for a really good price. The current price reduction is £40. Will probably last til at least ~mid June. These are secure machines, running Debian Linux and Libreboot, my project based on coreboot, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. (BSD/other Linux available on request) Now that my Minifree backlog is cleared, my next priority is *another* new Libreboot release. I have a bunch of sandybridge, ivybridge laptops and (one) haswell laptop, all HP, that i plan to add to libreboot i also have these: dell optiplex 7020 and 9020. they are on coreboot's gerrit site, but not yet merged in coreboot my d16 should also arrive in the next day or so. the psu and case i bought for it have arrived i also have a special "new" project in the works :) Remember that brutally complete, thoroughly and relentlessly detailed Nginx server guide I wrote, that teaches you how to run a complete Nginx HTTP server with LetsEncrypt auto-renew, on Debian Linux? Well, @vt60 translated it into Ukrainian. The translation is now available, live: https://fedfree.org/docs/http/debian-nginx.uk.html Thank you, Vladislav! can someone please make me a logo for a new software project i'm cooking up. the logo should be... something cool. something that makes you think of coolness. e.g. sunglasses the project i'm thinking of may or may not be launched.. and release it to me under a libre license. i won't use the logo unless i release the project. 50% probability i release it, and if i do, it will be soon :) i'm vague on purpose. email me. leah@libreboot.org doesn't have to be fancy, just has to look cool/fun  Pro-tip: never ask ChatGPT anything, let alone Libreboot questions. My curiosity got the better of me! @libreleah what do you do with consumer boards that get removed from upstream coreboot?
 That is **AMAZING** news! And here I thought we'd be stuck with 10-year-old Thinkpads forever ;) I feel like promoting a really cool project: Cycle-accurate IBM PC emulation, covering hardware from 1980s up to Pentium 3 era; the author @qeeg forked 86box because 86box didn't want Pentium 3 emulation. It emulates real mainboards. You can run old Linux distros or classic DOS games and such, faithful to original hardware. Coreboot supports (and boots) on some of the emulated boards. I host her DNS! The website was re-done (not hosted by me) plus docs added recently. |