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seba_dos1on Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

Now run LLM inference on it.

I've been using touchscreen laptops for more than a decade now. It's been really useful when working on mobile stuff and occasionally handy in some games or when sketching something, but other than that - it just stays unused.

seba_dos1on R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

Maybe not a JSON parser in particular, but I've already seen a fair share of MRs that contained many thousands of lines that no human would have ever written without stopping to ask "do I really need to do it?". LLMs aren't bothered.

seba_dos1on R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

> But nobody says you have to stop there.

Yeah, but what's more likely to happen is that when you look inside the code you see thousands of lines of code of a handrolled parser and when you ask "why would you write your own rather than use some existing one here?" you only get silence in return.

seba_dos1on Free Software Is a Failure

> In this post, I use the term "Free Software" to mean software licensed with Copyleft licenses, and to explicitly differentiate it from permissively-licensed "Open Source" software (which is what the Free Software Foundation and Co. also do).

That's not what "FSF and Co." do at all. I'd expect someone writing an article about whether Free Software failed or not to understand that if they want to be considered seriously.

seba_dos1on Open Source Games

> Itch has this filter

I don't think it's a proper filter, looks like just a tag that needs to be manually applied to the game somewhere. I can tell it's not showing some FLOSS games with correctly filled out license metadata.

seba_dos1on Open Source Games

Also append /tag-no-ai as desired.

seba_dos1on Open Source Games

https://itch.io/games/code-gpl3

...and replace gpl3 with: gpl2, lgpl3, lgpl2, mit, bsd2, bsd3, apache2, artistic, epl, mpl, unlicense, zlib.

seba_dos1on I Love Software Rendering

It depends on particular renderer, obviously. Not all software renderers were being given appropriate care.

seba_dos1on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

   *** Eina Magic Check Failed !!!
       Input handle pointer is NULL !
   *** NAUGHTY PROGRAMMER!!!
   *** SPANK SPANK SPANK!!!
   *** Now go fix your code. Tut tut tut!

seba_dos1on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

I used to use e17 on my daily driver phone. Illume was a nice UI, but you (or your distro) did have to find a good revision to not have it crash indeed :)

seba_dos1on Where is all the new, good software?

If it even exists at all, it gets drowned in the sea of shit anyway.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

My personal experience. I've been using GNU/Linux on my daily driver phones for nearly two decades now. Started just before the first Android phone appeared on the market and went through a bunch of devices since. Android never appeared to me as a viable alternative during that whole time (it was in fact closer to being one in the past than it is now) and iOS has just never been something I'd like to use.

I have listed several reasons why I think so in other threads here already, but the main thing is that what I longed for in 2008 when I was getting my first smartphone was a connected personal computer that I can put into my pocket and carry around through a day, and that's what I was always getting with GNU/Linux phones, so I never really got used to the idea of smartphones as these limited, mostly vendor-controlled devices that effectively serve as a trusted runtime environment for adversarial software (and by "trusted" I mean trusted by apps, of course). Instead, I see my phone like I always saw my GNU/Linux PCs - as a tiny box full of useful tools that are there to serve and empower me to reach my goals and which I can put together and modify any way I like to. May not have the sleekest design out there, may not be a speed demon, may have a quirk or two to tolerate and may require me to scratch some itches by myself, but it does what I tell it to regardless of whether it's aligned with some corporation's interests or not and it's well worth the effort spent to configure it to my liking. It's also generally a wonderful thing to tinker with (though this mattered much more when I was still a teenager :))

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

It is more complex, but mostly for reasons that serve someone else than me.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

I had to build a patched Android image in the past, so no thanks, it's definitely not something I would want to do in my spare time just to tinker. It's a system that's designed to be user-hostile; you can fight it if you want, but why would I do that if I can just keep using GNU/Linux instead?

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

So yeah, 5 years ago it wasn't so critical to have it yet, and by the time it became critical it also became supported. Perhaps that's why you keep reading articles that don't mention it :)

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

BTW, isn't VoLTE on devices like OP6 pretty much a solved thing by now as well? These devices with no discrete modem had to configure all the IMS services manually over undocumented QMI interfaces (as opposed to a documented AT command than then makes the discrete modem do the same thing internally), but I believe that has been figured out some time ago already.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

I'm pretty sure both Librem 5 and PinePhone can use VoLTE in the US. The former you can even buy together with a MVNO service that's just guaranteed to work.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

I am the administrator of the system on my phone. It's the same OS as what I've been using on my PCs for decades, so it's very familiar. It's fully scriptable in whatever language I wish to use, so I can easily adjust its behavior. I can use sandboxes when I need them and ignore them when I don't. Its software components are replaceable and patchable - if something bothers me, I can write a patch, compile a patched package, install it and even send a merge request upstream right on the phone itself without using any other device - regardless of whether it's about desktop environment behavior, cellular middleware or a kernel driver. I can freely modify the system to my liking without being punished for it. I never have to wrestle with the system whenever I want to keep something running in the background.

It just feels like my little personal computer. No Android device ever felt this way to me. I don't want to feel like a guest confined to a sandbox within a computing device I'm supposed to own.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

> It throws most of Android’s strong security model out of the window.

If what you care about is protecting device and application providers' interests from their users, then I guess it does.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

Waydroid has been working fine there for years.

seba_dos1on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

I wonder whether Android/iOS will ever become a viable alternative to GNU/Linux phones. They failed to make me switch for nearly two decades now and only seem to be getting worse.

seba_dos1on Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

You don't need to go this far. Just ask it to explain the meaning of some song lyrics. The bullshit it comes up with can be absolutely incredible.

seba_dos1on Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

It would be great to contribute whatever's applicable to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-inf...

seba_dos1on Beauty in DVD Menus

For anyone interested, interactive DVD menus can be pretty easily made with spumux and dvdauthor. I used them a few years ago to make a silly DVD-menu game at a game jam, heavily inspired by these "looping clips and audio that don’t quite seamlessly repeat or have abrupt endings": https://dos.itch.io/pipe-inspector

seba_dos1on 'Neanderthals Among Us' review

The thing with Neanderthals is that there is much more crossbreeding observed in genetic lines between Neanderthal males and AMH females than Neanderthal females and AMH males, not that only the former is observed. Rh incompatibility is often proposed as a possible explanation, so I believe that's what was being (inaccurately) referred to here as "not being able to host the offspring".

seba_dos1on A third way of using Linux

Not JavaScript in this case, just CSS bloat (backdrop-filter).

seba_dos1on 'Neanderthals Among Us' review

Modern humans still have the exact same troubles with Rh incompatibility, we only learned how to overcome them very recently.

seba_dos1on Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

Replace `backdrop-filter` on `.backdrop::after` with `filter` on `.backdrop picture` for a free scrolling performance boost.

seba_dos1on Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI

Yeah, it's highly suspicious that two people happened to have watched the same highest-grossing, Oscar-winning movie sometime in their past and now reference it when an obvious chance to shows up.