Happy Hardware Freedom Day 35
Blug_fred writes "For the first year the Digital Freedom Foundation (ex-SFI) is organizing Hardware Freedom Day. With 66 events worldwide split over 36 countries, they are not yet covering the whole world but it is a good start. So if you have always been wondering about hacking your own stuff, be it a piece of wood or some more complex electronic gears then it is time to join an open door day type of event. Sixty-six events is definitely less that the total number of hackerspaces around the world and you can check for other events happening in a hackerspace near you if none are celebrating today. Hopefully they will join the movement next year."
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why don't they just come clean and call it "bash microsoft and uefi day" so that people won't turn up to these events and wonder what the hell is going on
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I've always thought they should replace the single "hosts" file with a "hosts.d" directory.
This would reduce conflicts between programs that edit the file, and improve flexibility.
p.s. we don't need 2 paragraphs about why all your posts are currently downgraded. (A single one line is fine.) Furthermore, you don't need to make such a long argument on your main post either. More words just make it seem you like to hear yourself talk.
4/20? (Score:3)
So who's the idiot who decided put this on 4/20? :D
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Yeah, that George Soros and Richard Branson, they really messed up their lives, smoking pot. Such bums!
So? F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were great writers, and alcoholics.
Their alcoholism didn't make them great writers, nor did it make them better writers. The two qualities are orthoganal.
There are (generally ex-) heroin addicts who become successful artists, musicians and so on. That doesn't mean that becoming a junkie is a good idea if you want to become an artist or musician.
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I guess you could say both are relevant on the basis that they are protesting misguided laws designed to protect us from ourselves.
Happy *** day (Score:1)
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i have a shop with a mill and a lathe, a scope, a fine pitch iron, a torch, and few tons of material
every single day out of the year i try to eke a living by building things. cutting threads and gears, welding structural frames, repairing old shit. i work 80 hours a week, and my hands are cut to ribbons
i don't need a 'day', just throw me a bone. maybe the ability to see a doctor
Why don't you just get a job instead?
yep (Score:3, Funny)
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I don't have a complete list.
However, a lot of hardware has quite open specifications for making drivers, even if open source drivers aren't available yet.
(For instance all Radeon hardware has had complete developer's documentation released, but the Open Source drivers for the latest cards are far from complete.)
Confused (Score:2)
I visited the site and am not sure what they're talking about. All I can say is there is a lot of non-open hardware in their photos. Oh, well... Time to free my monitor from displaying this bullshit.
Low response very disturbing (Score:3)
"Hardware Freedom" day is a great idea, to teach people all over how to free devices they have they may think are not free.
And the place I would naturally go to see interesting reports of what people are doing is Slashdot.
But after a whole day only 15 replies? Is this saying something about Slashdot, or about the userbase? There were a lot of comments in articles covering topics like CLANG, so it doesn't seem like there are a lot less people on Slashdot today - just few interested in hardware at all...
For anyone throwing up hands because they think all devices today are closed off and hacking is impossible, read the book "Hacking the XBox" if you can. It gives a lot of great insight into how people still can analyze even modern apparently closed devices, and approaches to modern reverse engineering.
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Also hack your Tivo (Score:2)
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As to the gradual decline in hardware/tech/software postings on
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