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A good blog post about the Framework/Omarchy/DHH situation. It’s just sad. And support for far-right people in Open Source projects should just not be a thing.
https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

«The “big tent” claim, overlaid on with #Framework’s outstanding promotion of Omarchy, looks cartoonishly reckless in this light. People don’t want this for Framework, and they’re cautious to distance themselves because they’ve seen other projects claim to be a “big tent”, only for the tent to catch on fire, melt, and shrink under everyone’s feet, because nobody used a fire extinguisher when it was early enough to do so.»
Great summary of this clusterfuck by @…
https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/833

Framework supporting far-right racists?
The problem is that OSS (and especially FLOSS) is inherently political. The idea that we (and not some company controlled by billionaires) should have the final say over how we use our devices is political. The idea that software should be free to modify and transparent to users is political, as it puts control (and therefore power) in the hands of the users (rather than the company or organization making the software). The other, more specific problem here is that Framework made this politica…

Former Cowboys star shares brutal truth on team's NFL playoff chances https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/former-dallas-cowboys-star-shares-brutal-truth-teams-nfl-playoff-chances

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world/a

Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says
The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.

Alone at the (seeming) end of the world. The Hochjoch Hospiz at the end of the Rofental, near the former confluence of three (formerly) major glaciers in the central Alps: Hintereisferner, Kesselwandferner and Hochjochferner. Vernagtferner is also nearby, which at times interrupted the outflow of these other glaciers, caused an ice lake to form, which when it burst led to widespread destruction in the valleys below (several times since the early 1600s). These days all of these glaciers are s…

Former Trump official named NSO Group executive chairman https://therecord.media/former-trump-official-named-nso-group-chairman

Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro
has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison
for plotting a military coup
and seeking to “annihilate” the South American country’s democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/se…

Cowboys Announce Former Pro Bowl Running Back Is Out for the Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys-announce-former-pro-bowl-running-back-is-out-for-the-season