https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/enContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:elliot@yieldsfalsehood.com">elliot</a> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:06:19 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/what-if-your-laptop-had-a-foss-firmware-0b12df09/LibreNews<p>Statistically, your computer's firmware is proprietary. However, Libreboot is an interesting, if niche, option to boostrap a computer with free and libre code only.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/what-if-your-laptop-had-a-foss-firmware-0b12df09/Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:16:25 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/kde-plasma-6-4-is-out-9f24ccfb/LibreNews<p>What's new? What's old? What's the meaning of life?</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/kde-plasma-6-4-is-out-9f24ccfb/Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:05:16 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/let-s-talk-about-xlibre-f060cd29/LibreNews<p>Or, maybe, let's *not* talk about this? And just move on as nothing happened?</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/let-s-talk-about-xlibre-f060cd29/Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:27:43 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/actually-what-is-a-freedesktop-portal-3e3b5ad5/LibreNews<p>Getting complex Linux applications to work in the same way across many setups seems tricky at first, but all you need to do is “think with portals”.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/actually-what-is-a-freedesktop-portal-3e3b5ad5/Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:25:52 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/ghostty-in-review-how-s-the-new-terminal-emulator-cbcf555c/LibreNews<p>Survey says, pretty good.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/ghostty-in-review-how-s-the-new-terminal-emulator-cbcf555c/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:23:24 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/here-s-why-linux-market-share-isn-t-going-to-skyrocket-anytime-soon-1567b48d/LibreNews<p>Let's get real!</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/here-s-why-linux-market-share-isn-t-going-to-skyrocket-anytime-soon-1567b48d/Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:08:50 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/flatpak-is-not-perfect-but-it-s-getting-better-debe2d18/LibreNews<p>Flatpak is stable and widely used, but it still has some pain points when used in certain environments or for certain ends. However, most of those drawbacks are being worked on, and fixes are planned.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/flatpak-is-not-perfect-but-it-s-getting-better-debe2d18/Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:00:55 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/fosstodon-s-drama-reveals-a-much-deeper-mastodon-problem-77806d42/LibreNews<p>We should be a bit more careful in how we structure the federated internet.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/fosstodon-s-drama-reveals-a-much-deeper-mastodon-problem-77806d42/Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:15:06 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/opinion-is-the-linux-community-really-elitist-573170e3/LibreNews<p>The Linux community is often portrayed as elitist or prone to gatekeeping, but, nowadays, the opposite is true: the community really wants to help you grow, so you can give back one day. You should, however, be careful about niche sub-communities where people's behaviour is not ideal.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/opinion-is-the-linux-community-really-elitist-573170e3/Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:02:30 GMThttps://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/fedora-is-aiming-for-fully-reproducible-builds-ef3a6093/LibreNews<p>Fedora Linux is aiming to get support for fully reproducible builds. This change represents state-of-the-art security practice, and it will greatly help alleviate supply chain cyberattacks and inconsistent builds from hardware failure or other causes.</p>https://yieldsfalsehood.com/aeolus/posts/fedora-is-aiming-for-fully-reproducible-builds-ef3a6093/Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:17:39 GMT