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Apple’s “notarisation”: blocking software freedom of developers and users!

The #DMA is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice.

Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile apps contradicts these objectives. A civil-society complaint against Apple’s monopolistic control over app distribution aims to change that.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

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#CyanNyan is officially returning with a 3-day comeback & birthday stream 🎂💻🎤

🩵 10/9: New model/Sing till midnight — Theme: HAJIMI
🎂 10/10: Install Gentoo/Cover release
🥇 10/11: 100k YouTube Plate unboxing & chatting (US time!)

⏰ Oct 9–11
🎉 Let’s celebrate together

Model reveal tomorrow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vKxeMUzWh4

""WE ARE NOT PREEMPTIVELY SUPPORTING BIG-ENDIAN ON RISC-V""

Linus send that to #LKML a few hours ago, after somebody asked if some of the big-endian work will make it into #Linux 6.18.

For the full thread, see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%[email protected]/t/#mce138059dc56014643bbda330810183031ef5c06

There he calls the reasons documented on riscv.org as "craziness" and insane:

""In other words, it is suggesting that RISC-V add a big-endian mode due to

(a) internet protocols - where byte swapping is not an issue

(b) using "some RISC-V implementations don't do the existing Zbb extension" as an excuse

This is plain insanity. First off, even if byte swapping was a real cost for networking - it's not, the real costs tend to be all in memory subsystems - just implement the damn Zbb extension.""

That's from https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%[email protected]/t/#m2fcaa49a910fec7475d313f01abfc861bd588ad5

#riscv #kernel #LinuxKernel

From Linus Torvalds on big-endian RISC-V:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%[email protected]/t/#mce138059dc56014643bbda330810183031ef5c06

> Tell people to just talk to their therapists instead. That's *much* more productive.

I get the sentiment on this, but it's not hard to interpret this as a personal attack tbh. Pretty much only gotten away with because Linux isn't corporate.