David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.

I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.

Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated.

Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.

No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

I've been working on porting #FreeBSD to the #PinePhonePro and happy to report that I am releasing a developer build that you can try out! If you are a FreeBSD developer, the image contains the kernel source and build tools for development on-device.

FreeBSD developer build for PinePhone Pro https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro

https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1745739555-0.jpg

freebsd-pinephonepro

Porting FreeBSD to run on the Pinephone Pro

Codeberg.org
Ok, all y'all that did all the research into Recall, you can tell me how to detect and disable, right? Cause it is in violation of every NDA I have ever signed.

The Good Law Project crowdfunder "Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights"

£148k of the NEW target £180k goal so far (update, looks like they knew they'd hit £150k fast and have raised their ambition)

Started at £137k, now up to £140k
Now £142k ...
Now £145.5k ...
Now £148k

Please boost or if you can afford to, contribute 

https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/supreme-court-human-rights-for-trans-people/

#UK #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

Good Law Project
Sometimes I feel weird, usually because I’m weird. But also for other reasons

To my American friends,

Know that this Monday we have a very important election in Canada.

We are trying to stop Musk-backed Canadian-Trump Pierre Poilievre from becoming our Prime Minister (President).

We are also trying to stay a country.
Just that.

Wish us luck! 🤞🗳️🇨🇦

#Canada #ElbowsUp #CanPoli #CanPol #USPol

Reform sent a flyer to my house yesterday with a photo of Farage (no mention of the candidates I can actually vote for) next to a dog.

After reading it, I would like to hear the dog’s platform. I expect it would be more intelligent.

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/

from _Where's Your Ed At_. I know I share his rants a lot, but that's because he's one of the only people pointing out the emperor's bare bum.

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and vote for Better Offline? I have

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The hip bone’s connected to the toe bone!

The toe bone’s connected to the ankle bone!

The ankle bone’s connected to the head bone!

But not directly, of course!

(This version of the song was brought to you by the folks that write installation instructions for F/OSS projects)