Mike Gerwitz @mikegerwitz@mastodon.mikegerwitz.com

@fsf @conservancy @fsfe #GNU Mes 0.24 released, closing the gap with Stage0: the Full Source Bootstrap is here!

The @GuixHPC package graph is now rooted in hex0, a 357-byte binary & ASCII-equivalent https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/POSIX/x86/hex0_x86.hex0…

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#reprobuilds #gnutools #NLnetFDN

“Keeping one’s home tidy”:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/keeping-ones-home-tidy/

This intro to #Guix Home 🏡 explains how it goes beyond mere “dot files” so you can configure and recreate your home environment anytime, anywhere.

I gave two talks at FOSDEM this year. Both of the recordings are now up!

Lisp, but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone (co-presented with @mlemweb) https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lispforeveryone/
Spritely Goblins Comes to Guile: Distributed, secure, asynchronous programming https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/spritelygoblins/

We've just published the Guix-HPC annual report!

👉 https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2022/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2021/

See how we support #ReproducibleResearch workflows, from core #Guix work to #SoftwareHeritage support to #Jupyter integration and more.

“Tuning packages for a CPU micro-architecture”
👉 https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2022/01/tuning-packages-for-a-cpu-micro-architecture/

Or how Guix’s new ‘--tune’ option allows #HPC users to get SIMD optimizations without giving up on #reproducibility.

#EmacsConf talk by Andrea Corallo on #Emacs 28 native compilation through libgccjit is exciting!
https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/native/

Amazing how much was achieved in little time.

Slides of my #PackagingCon talk earlier today: “The Packaging Grail”

👉🏻 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/plain/talks/packaging-con-2021/grail/talk.20211110.pdf

#GNU #Guix #FreeSoftware #Packaging #ReproducibleBuilds #Bootstrapping

We were granted almost all of the #DMCA exemptions we applied for last year! Read more about how you can now install alternate firmware (like OpenWrt) on your routers and freely investigate your own devices for #FOSS license compliance. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/oct/28/2021-DMCA-final-exemptions-win/

I got a working #kotlin compiler built with #guix! If you recall, this is a dependency I need to build #gradle, the build system used by #android apps and many others.

Don't get too excited though, it's only the first of a very long bootstrap chain. That kotlin I built is from 2012, the last that did not require kotlin to build.

This is all thanks to the excellent work done by Emmanuel Bourg, at https://github.com/ebourg/kotlin-bootstrapping, on top of which I bootstrapped all other dependencies.

Everyone's heard that "network effects" are how Facebook grew its user-base - but now the FTC is homing in on how "switching costs" let Facebook hold those users hostage.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

Watch video from #LibrePlanet 2021: “Adopting free software ideals” with Mike Gerwitz: https://u.fsf.org/3dx See all LP21 videos on PeerTube at https://u.fsf.org/pt-2021!

Projects such as #GCC, #glibc, & gnulib are considering ending #copyright assignment to #FSF. We urge everyone to think carefully what this means for the future of #copyleft, #GPL enforcement, and the software freedom of downstream users. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/

“Current trends in the automotive industry point to a future with you locked in a remote control car, your vendor holding the remote." https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/

#GNU #Guix 1.3.0 is out, woohoo! 🎉

👉 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/gnu-guix-1.3.0-released/

Lots of good stuff in there: usability improvements, performance improvements, #POWER9 support, and more!

Videos from #LibrePlanet 2021 are now live! https://u.fsf.org/3bn Watch them on our Peertube page at https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/ or on GNU MediaGoblin at https://media.libreplanet.org/.

The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps

"The Librem 5 makes its application development workflow extremely simple."

https://puri.sm/posts/the-simplicity-of-making-librem-5-apps/

#librem5 #freedom #apps