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Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos
by John Luke Gibson 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

> The idea about a dot in the "O" of EOMA made me think of fonts where the > dot is in the 0 (zero) to distinguish it from O (capital letter O) As we > all are somehow computer related I would find such a design confusing. If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of blender, one would want to make the "O" not really in any particular font, but to look exactly the shape blender logo, except without the flay or the color scheme: a perfect solid-color circle within another perfect circle. It wouldn't theoretically be confusing because the mark you are thinking of is a hollow circle in an oval. Letter-o'es and zeroes can only sometimes be confusing because in some fonts they are both written as vertical ovals, not just the zero. I'm not sure on the required dimensions of a certification mark, however, the solid-shape flag-esque convention I've noticed among popular one's, often seems to detract from the continuity of the design on the objects that bear them, making them seem particularly foreign and like they don't belong. The vaporwave-esque color palate which most of them choose only add to this affect, as if they themselves are trying to distance themselves on some subconscious level from their endorsements. As a side effect to this, it makes them harder to trust. Any symbolism of any significant body, displays historical awareness.. It's what tells people whether they can trust it, before reading or attempting to judge it. Therein lies the axiom, there is no such thing as an original thought, so, if by means of arbitrary work dedicated to make more concise and thoroughly plastered an announcement of what historical or cultural event may have inspired such thoughts and such work, people will then engage in the arbitrarily difficult work of judging whether the project is sincere or not. In other words, if we don't display more than necessary effort in our symbol that can be recognized with several magnitudes less effort than it took to generate, then no highly-self-valuing person will have any sane reason to take us seriously, because if they took every slightly promising project, which failed to create a Sybil-certificate reputation in this manner, then they would never find a single valuable project in their lifetime (obviously this is an exaggeration).

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So this is kind of interesting, I thought...
by Christopher Havel 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solderable-processor/ A (barely) hand-solderable Linux-able ARM SoC. US$1 each if you buy a full reel from a questionable supplier, and the package is a 176-lead LQFP (!) with half-millimeter pitch (!!) -- but still only ~US$3 for qty/1 from reputable sources, and it is /technically/ hand-workable if you've got a temperature-controlled iron with the right tip and a particularly steady hand. I'm impressed. The bad news, though, is that it's an Allwinner part with all of the usual baggage. The /worse/ news is that it's actually ~6yrs old and plods along at 1GHz. Somehow I just don't see it running Android 9.0 Pie without melting down spectacularly -- although, it might be adequate for running eg Linux Mint or something similarly lightweight... I wonder how cheaply one could manufacture a complete all-in-one PC with one of these...? Back-of-the-envelope calcs makes me think one could compete with those ~US$100-150 Atom z8300/z8350 MiniPCs on eBay and Amazon and AliExpress (none of which have screens built in, mind you), but I've been wrong before, for sure...

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Shout out to EOMA68 in new article
by Pen-Yuan Hsing 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Dear list, Waaaay back near the end of 2017 I was invited to write a review of the book "The Hardware Hacker" (https://nostarch.com/hardwarehacker) by Bunnie Huang, the person behind the Novena project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena My peer-reviewed review article was finally published here yesterday under CC BY 4.0: https://doi.org/10.5334/joh.11 I mention this because I managed to put in a shout out to the "the EOMA68 line of computing devices" with a link to its Crowd Supply page. First of all, please feel free to refer to this article via the DOI link above, and share it widely in whatever forum you see fit. Secondly, I'd appreciate any/all critiques of my article that you're happy to provide. I suspect the most direct way is to use the article's built-in Disqus function which you can see in the "Discussion" tab on the article's page (again, via the link above). I am by no means a hardware expert nor a seasoned veteran of the free software movement. So your constructive criticisms would be appreciated. I just hope that this will, in a small way, help promote the amazing work Luke has been doing. Thanks!

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Thoughts on Why Blender should Fork
by Jean Flamelle 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

This post has trivially to do with arm-netbooks. I'll say, risc architectures would be optimal for an ideal virtual machine that minimizes hardware awareness in userland, which has to do with Urbit, and; has to do with what I perceive Blender could be. Blender to me, long seemed designed for discovery learning. I perceive that as, 'the [infamous] Blender way'. Why none could properly document nor tutorial'ize Blender. Always intended as a practical toy. Never to grow-out of... Until v2.8 . Violating potential for discovery learning, with a persistent toolbar where previously only the toolbox-selecting-multitool and the window-clone-or-close-multitool persisted, remaining the only tools needing persistence. Much like the Linux kernel aims for ideal hardware implementation, Blender should aim for ideal graphics processing for any given hardware. Named blender-modes shouldn't exist; only two blender-modes should exist: "Render" (for static media) and "Engine" (for dynamic media). Likewise, as the Linux kernel seeks to maximize its hardware targets, so too should Blender in to perpetuity. Even for hardware unpractical for rendering or compiling, Blender should integrate EVM render and EVM compile, or alternatively SaaSS (but only mainline SaaSS after EVM etcetera, On Principle). Blender shouldn't integrate a programming environment designed for aspiring programmers; Blender should integrate a "toy language" as a programming environment that aims to enable critical fun and intuition where even seemingly random language assortments generate interesting affects that encourage further exploration. Like every OS should have boot-to-browser as a function, so too every OS should have boot-to-blender as a function. All the while, both interfaces should encourage discovery learning. v2.8 removes "game engine" mode, as-if to say "yeah, we're narrowing our scope, so what?" while almost imagining "competing in the here-and-now is more fun than grasping at a future we won't get to witness ourselves". CC0

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Open-Source Streaming Service incentivizing Free Culture
by Jean Flamelle 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

So there are some fairly serious talks where someone wants to do this with my help. https://riot.im/app/#/room/#Anime:matrix.org/$1535508591230126PGsxV:matrix.… Discussions start with this link, where we moved to matrix from youtube comments and I pretty heavy handedly explained why talking about this in a private chartroom won't likely get anywhere. Basically the idea is to implement Taler in an ethereum DAO and create an liberapay like that, then tie that to a website integrating whatever existing peer-to-peer networks seem practical (peer.tube and IPFS seem like candidate). People could pool funds, delegate votes, and the delegates could then leverage those funds to commission free culture anime from actual studios like Trigger (a studio already has a Patreon) and these studios are desensitized to foreign piracy. Of course doing so while giving these studios artistic license and emphasizing that altruism now will support the model, support even larger // even more obsessed fandoms (from copying, modifying, and redistributing the art), and put your foreign audience in a position to directly gouge them by threatening to sell the anime to a japanese cable company and never sell the license to a foreign actor. There are two conversations after that comment, the first is immediately after, and the second has about 140 irrelevant messages about anime in-between that and the first. (tongue fully planted in cheek, with the word irrelevant :)) tl;dr I told them why it would take about 10 years to do alone, and they still seemed to want to do it after having their heart broken.

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So this just popped up on Hackaday.
by Christopher Havel 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Looks relevant to me... https://hackaday.com/2018/08/29/99-pinebook-gets-kde-neon-port/ Sorry to disturb the silence.

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Project status / 3D printing of resin cases?
by Vincent 18 Aug '18

18 Aug '18

Dear all, I'm a little bit worried since there has been no status update for quite a while and little to no activity on this mailing list for over 2 weeks. I started working on my own PCMCIA EOMA68 module and still rely on the 3D-printed case and everything related to it (e.g., power supply). In general, any news would be highly appreciated. In particular, I would like to know how the 3D-printed cases are making progress. I saw some development towards a custom 3D-printer and what appears to be PLA printing attempts. Since I ordered a resin-based case (+$150), what is the status here? Many thanks in advance, Vincent

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Linux now boots on 22nm RISC-V Shakti CPU
by Wean Irdeh 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Check out @ShaktiProcessor’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShaktiProcessor/status/1022384131064430593?s=09

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slashdot submission help needed on IIT Madras RV64 SoC
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

https://slashdot.org/submission/8436790/iit-madras-shakti-group-produce-ind… hi can people help hit "+" on this, to help get it onto the front page, many many thanks.

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riscv-basics.com
by David Boddie 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

This site popped up on the radar for me this morning. It's currently down - perhaps there was a public backlash, the server overheated, or something - but at least the Internet Archive still has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20180710130206/https://riscv-basics.com/ Time to start a riscv-netbook mailing list, perhaps? ;-) David

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