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Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.
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Sunshine piefed.ca Sunshine@piefed.ca
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keisatsu infosec.pub keisatsu@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Libreboot is also anti-LLM! Grab the chance to run a slopfree BIOS/UEFI

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Sunshine Moderator Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Libreboot is also anti-LLM! Grab the chance to run a slopfree BIOS/UEFI

Perfect software for feddit.uk culture.

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Kokesh lemmy.world kokesh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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Any difference between this and coreboot?

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sem lemmy.blahaj.zone sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-09
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I found out a while back that one of their main contributors is absolutely unhinged but writes good code

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frankenswine lemmy.world frankenswine@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-29
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Any difference between this and coreboot?

and what about GNUboot?

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FurryMemesAccount lemmy.blahaj.zone FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-03-06
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Can we stop doing the year.month thing ? I hate it, semver is superior in all aspects.

Actually having major.minor.patch carries over information if the dev respects the spec...

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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
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and what about GNUboot?

And oreboot?

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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
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Can we stop doing the year.month thing ? I hate it, semver is superior in all aspects. Actually having major.minor.patch carries over information if the dev respects the spec...

Some projects only tag by date, no idea about LibreBoot, but it makes sense in some cases, hating it does not mean there isn't any reason.

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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
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I found out a while back that one of their main contributors is absolutely unhinged but writes good code

Can you even do this sort of thing without slight levels of madness at least?

(no idea about their contributors, though)

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sem lemmy.blahaj.zone sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-09
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Can you even do this sort of thing without slight levels of madness at least? (no idea about their contributors, though)

Great point

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fruitycoder sh.itjust.works fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-11
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Can we stop doing the year.month thing ? I hate it, semver is superior in all aspects. Actually having major.minor.patch carries over information if the dev respects the spec...

I like both. Beauty of tags really. Sem ver is for professional releases. Year.month just to capture a projects point in time

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coreray00 discuss.online coreray00@discuss.online
Joined: 2024-01-13
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Can we stop doing the year.month thing ? I hate it, semver is superior in all aspects. Actually having major.minor.patch carries over information if the dev respects the spec...

I strongly disagree :)

CalVer is 100% accurate, conveys information that's highly related to what I want to know when I'm looking at a version number (how outdated is this information or software), and dictated by Pope Gregory the 13th.

SemVer is only as accurate as the release manager is clairvoyant, conveys 0 information with a single version number, and is dictated by the marketing department.

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Zombie feddit.uk Zombie@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-06-01
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Perfect software for feddit.uk culture.

Feddit.UK culture?

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Sunshine Moderator Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Feddit.UK culture?

No AI slop is in the rules.

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FurryMemesAccount lemmy.blahaj.zone FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-03-06
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I strongly disagree :) CalVer is 100% accurate, conveys information that's highly related to what I want to know when I'm looking at a version number (how outdated is this information or software), and dictated by Pope Gregory the 13th. SemVer is only as accurate as the release manager is clairvoyant, conveys 0 information with a single version number, and is dictated by the marketing department.

Then in the example you gave, the product isn't following semver. If there is no major feature, there should be no major number bump.

I think we're both against poor semver but we have different solutions.

There is no need for the RM to be clairvoyant, there are rules to semver :

  • Major : New feature breaking existing configurations
  • Minor : New feature that doesn't break existing configs
  • Patch : Security and bug fixes only

The reason why I hate CalVer is you can't know if it's safe to update or not and if you have to expect to spend time fixing possibly broken configs... Also you can't gauge the activity of the project either. They could just as easily release stuff every 6 months and the project will feel just as active as another releasing features left and right...

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