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<midnight>lfam: I've never seen Mr. Huang before. "driving a mania to try to solve this problem [ about closed silicon/firmware ]". What a great turn of phrase.
<midnight>It *is* a kind of mania, because there is no solution, so it's slowly driving a whole bunch of people absolutely bonkers.
<midnight>*yet
<midnight>argh this talk is so good
<lfam>I'm watching it now midnight, thanks for the reminder :)
<midnight>argh it's so good.. and I'm discovering that the reason my questions to some projects about their hardware (SiFive included) are receiving essentially blank stares back is, I think, because of the exact problem Huang mentioned: these silicon openness issues aren't widely understood.
<midnight>This should absolutely be required watching for every FLOSS advocate in the world.
<midnight>He's really good with the questions, too.
<midnight>lfam: Super satisfying. A near-complete (from a reasonably educated layperson's perspective) layout of the issue and some thoughts on how to move forwards; plus clearly self-identifying as someone to whom the "mania" label also applies. (Re: his side comment about how his phone is probably running six rootkits just because he's in China among others.) Thank you.
<bauen1>midnight: could you share a link to what you're discussing ?
<fossy>OriansJ: thoughts on making kaem comply with "normal" shell behavior and accept an argument that is not a flag as the script
<midnight>bauen1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXwy65d_tu8
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