From lkcl at lkcl.net Tue Oct 1 08:22:38 2024 From: lkcl at lkcl.net (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 08:22:38 +0100 Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 - I have boards In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Helen Leigh wrote: > Hello > I work for Crowd Supply and I have been given a box of assembled EOMA68 boards. Most are in the office but I have a couple on my workbench at home right now. I am not fully up-to-date with the history of this project but I would like to do what I can to get these boards sent out. As I understand it, they have not yet been tested with Linux. that's massively incorrect. several versions of linux were installed and tested back in 2016. at least five OSes, plus initramfs's with barebones additional commands (a trick i learned from when i was doing HTC smartphone reverse-engineering) > What is the status of this project? it is, always has been, and will remain a community project where i expect the community - not myself with no funds - to take action. > Do you have a disk image? absolutely not. hosting of "images" is a major security risk and requires vast resources far beyond the meagre amounts of money available. there are however extensive build instructions to developers, on the wiki. > Do you want to/ should I tell people on the mailing list? all communication as a public FOSS project should be public and never to me personally, it has *always* been a given for the entire duration of this project that the very first thought you or anyone should have is to contact the mailing list, *not* myself, personally, directly, and certainly not privately [should be obvious what the exceptions to that are: admin, backers addresses and telephone numbers etc]. > Let me know your thoughts. i am so sorry to have to inform you that my ex-parter was a narcissist, embezzling money systematically, and her abuse caused me to develop chronic adrenal fatigue syndrome that resulted in me having at least two strokes. i had to report her to the police (twice) after fleeing for my life last year. she lied under caution when interviewed on the first assault: the second is still under investigation. in addition to that my former business colleagues turned out to be psychopathic, and by manipulating my family members and much more i ended up being assaulted, injured and almost killed by staff at a psychiatric "hospital" through neglect, forced-poisoning, and abuse. i have reported both to the police. as if that was not enough, i have been forced into the position of interacting with the UK NHS for the very first time in my life aged 54, which due to autism has gone so catastrophically badly that i am now up to a total of *EIGHT* abusive doctors to report to the General Medical Council to assess their fitness to practice medicine, and have the GMC's support to provide them with the meticulous documented evidence of abuse. in addition to that, NLnet has *also* been abusive, violating the Dutch Constitution, and has terminated funding. i am reporting them to the Dutch Equality Commission and when i am ready to do so (it is extremely risky for me, health-wise) i will be calling the police to report them for Defamation and Libel (criminal offenses in the Netherlands). i am now focussed exclusively on staying alive, and carrying out health research in order to recover. if i receive additional funds i can still run a team of people, however i will need help even finding that team, as i am in absolutely no health position whatsoever to go running around doing the work normally carried out by eight to ten people, as i used to do and a considerable number of backers assumed there was, all the time. l. > Kind regards > Helen Leigh > Crowd Supply > -- --- geometry: without it life is pointless the fibonacci series: easy as 1 1 2 3 From laserhawk64 at gmail.com Tue Oct 1 09:55:34 2024 From: laserhawk64 at gmail.com (Christopher Havel) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 04:55:34 -0400 Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 - I have boards In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:23 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > [...] w0wza, Luke, sounds like you've been given Satan's own personal handbasket-ride tour of Hell itself. I thought *I* had it bad -- here in the US I'm being bounced from doctor to doctor and while they're not overtly malicious, they sure as balls aren't giving me diagnoses or treatment, either. You have my sympathies -- and my regret that sympathy is all I can offer by way of assistance. I'm glad to hear you're still alive despite being put through all of that. I'm not sure I'd have that kind of fury in me. I'm just not made like that. I melt into a puddle of self-accusation much more easily then I take on the whole "I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU -- fire [...]" kind of persona. Hey, take care of yourself, OK? Good luck out there. Chris H. From lkcl at lkcl.net Tue Oct 1 12:00:22 2024 From: lkcl at lkcl.net (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 11:00:22 +0000 Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 - I have boards In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Christopher Havel wrote: > > > Hey, take care of yourself, OK? Good luck out there. appreciated Chris. I can't get angry. it places me at risk of death. part of Chronic Adrenal Fatigue. https://www.drlamcoaching.com/blog/adrenal-fatigue-and-narcissism/ l. -- --- geometry: without it life is pointless the fibonacci series: easy as 1 1 2 3 From laserhawk64 at gmail.com Tue Oct 1 12:49:46 2024 From: laserhawk64 at gmail.com (Christopher Havel) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 07:49:46 -0400 Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 - I have boards In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 7:00 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Christopher Havel > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, take care of yourself, OK? Good luck out there. > > > appreciated Chris. > > I can't get angry. it places me at risk of death. > part of Chronic Adrenal Fatigue. > > https://www.drlamcoaching.com/blog/adrenal-fatigue-and-narcissism/ > > l. > Oh geez. Well, do what you need to do to stay on the ambulatory side of a coffin, OK? Chris H. From lkcl at lkcl.net Thu Oct 10 09:04:38 2024 From: lkcl at lkcl.net (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 08:04:38 +0000 Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 - I have boards In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: hello helen i am top-posting to help preserve your message, i will start up my laptop to approve the membership (spammers) over the next few days. [i haven't provided details about what happened - i was almost killed by medical negligence that was initiated by DAVID CALDERWOOD, who manipulated members of my family including my brother DANIEL LEIGHTON who then in turn interfered with the process of extracting me from being tortured inside a psychiatric ward, by intimidating people helping me. no, not a joke: there are no euphemisms, untruthful statements or exaggerations in this paragraph.] leaving that aside. specific request: please can everyone *not* contact helen privately, this is and always has been a community project, i have just had my life devastated by NLnet seizing control of the running of Libre-SOC, where it took two weeks to retrospectively establish financial irregularites in their *private* communication with other team members, after they refused to consult me, the person with six years of administrative and financial records knowledge. it should be obvious we don't want that mistake repeated. so, for everyone who has contacted helen privately please forward your message again to the list: helen if you have begun speaking technically with them please forward those as well. yes it's a pain, but i guarantee if you're not strict about this you will get very quickly overwhelmed as you effectively de-facto "become" the project leader... ... with zero technical or historical knowledge... deprived of the bitter-experience-learned resources needed to manage any complex project. if you encounter *any reluctance even silence* please ensure you preserve those conversations - see three paragraphs below. so sorry to have to ask that. anyone and everyone who is on this list should know full well it is a FOSS Project and there should be no hesitation at all to speak freely and enjoy being part of the technical community. so, helen: if you are contacted privately please immediately and respectfully insist that they forward the message to the list, do *not* engage with them technically in any way (but don't be curt with them about it - best to refer them to this message). once they publish the message, *then* reply... on-list only. we need people to coordinate - helen you are not (sorry!) technically familiar with this project, and need help and guidance... *and so does everyone else*. the last thing we need is communications errors / failures / assumptions, and there is a perfect way to prevent that: *run as a community FOSS project* - i.e. *public* not *private* communication. bottom line, you may be given *wrong technical advice* and the only person properly qualified to identify and correct such: me and no other person. the exceptions i have already outlined previously (e.g. crowdsupply admin, orders admin, addresses etc) *except* a new one: if anyone feels intimidated *in any way* by the threats made by people who have been devastating my life and almost killing me multiple times (not a euphemism), please contact me privately in strict confidence as there is a crime of Perverting the Course of Justice under investigation, and any reluctance to speak freely and publicly without fear is *itself* crucial evidence. (once i have a solicitor i will publish their details in a followup if you are more comfortable with that, you would then be able to speak privately with them) On Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Helen Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:22 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> i am now focussed exclusively on staying alive, and carrying >> out health research in order to recover. > > I am sorry to hear of your ongoing difficulties. You must of course > put your health first. > > Hello to everyone on arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk and thank you to > those who sent me individual emails. There will be some latency in my > replies as I sort through everything. I am awaiting moderator approval > to join the mailing list. > > Please rest assured that I will do what I can to get these boards to > those who still want them. Once we have worked out a few key things I > also intend to communicate our plans with people outside of this > mailing list, via the campaign mailing list and also the subreddit. > > Many of you know more about the history of this project than I do. It > predates my tenure at Crowd Supply by some time. I am a hardware > person, not a FOSS dev, but I do have a well-equipped electronics > bench and a helpful embedded Linux dev spouse. > > My goal is to ascertain that the boards I have are functional at a > basic level, prepare them for distribution, and get them into the > hands of the community. We have around 500 boards. > > If there are any original backers on this mailing list who want an > unimaged compute card in lieu of the imaged compute card they > originally ordered, and hopefully help ascertain the state of the > hardware, please log into your Crowd Supply account and open a ticket: > https://www.crowdsupply.com/contact/other > > You can check on your order status by logging into your Crowd Supply > account. Here are some helpful links: > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/account/orders > https://www.crowdsupply.com/returns#order-cancellations > https://www.crowdsupply.com/contact/change-order > > Thanks again for everyone's feedback and help. > > Kind regards > > Helen Leigh > -- --- geometry: without it life is pointless the fibonacci series: easy as 1 1 2 3