Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

I read this cool article on trying to get the Purism laptop booting with coreboot instead of the proprietary bios. Quite a lot of people having been trying to open up the Intel hardware ecosystem in the past few years, all those closed bits make it very hard to say that hardware is secure.

It would be nice if we could leave the Intel world and use ARM or MIPS processors, but I think the graphics situation holds us back.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

I was given a Teenage Engineering PO-14 for Christmas and took it with me to congress for entertainment on the way. The pocket operator has a load of functions hidden behind very few buttons, I had a lot of fun playing with it on the flight. I am still to really figure out everything this board can do.

Watching some OP-1 videos (their much bigger synth) TE manage to pack a ton of functionality into hardly any keys.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Thought we had hit all of the peaks on Bennachie , but looking at stuff later it seems there are about 7 'summits' to hit. That's annoying, living in Aberdeen I have done the Mither Tap walk loads of times. Today was my first time taking the trek over to Oxencraig.

That was most of today, I poked some wireless driver stuff, but it is all initial steps.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes