Hector Martin

I'm following all people involved in tech. RT this if that's your background, I want to see more positive things on my TL

If you have an interest in controlling the hardware that you own, I'd keep an eye on @Puri_sm (some of their @coreboot_org-related blogposts are very interesting), and @RaptorEng/@RaptorCompSys who develop/sell #OpenPOWER hardware. For people, @tekwendell @marcan42 @justinrwlynn

Just watch out for @Puri_sm 's tendency to over-exaggerate the owner controllability of their hardware. Many of their products require some form of Intel ME or have other owner-hostile characteristics.

Indeed. I wish @puri_sm the best when it comes to making the best of a less than ideal position with generally excellent engineering but they do have a tendency to over exaggerate their solution to those fundamental design flaws. A soft foundation makes for a shakey skyscraper.

Yeah, @Puri_sm do good work, but they are unfortunately held back by their goal of wanting to get FSF "Respects your Freedom" certification (which does anything but). I've ranted about this on Twitter before. They are having to engineer horrible anti-user hacks to meet it.

On a more positive note, a couple of times I've basically said "nobody does open X", someone said "@RaptorEng do" and @RaptorEng immediately followed up with a Git repo link. <3