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duncesplayed,

And not all GNU is Linux! Beyond the world famous GNU Hurd, there’s also Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, and Nexenta (GNU/Illumos, which is the OpenSolaris kernel).

I think the most esoteric of them, though, is GNU Darwin (GNU/XNU). Darwin is the open source parts of OS X, including its kernel, XNU. There used to be an OpenDarwin project to try to turn Darwin into an actual independent operating system, but they failed, and were superseded by PureDarwin, which took a harder line against anything OS X getting into the system. GNU Darwin took it one step further and removed just about all of Darwin (except XNU) and replaced it with GNU instead.

duncesplayed,

It definitely could scale up. The question is who is willing to scale it up? It takes a lot less manpower, a lot less investment, and a lot less time to design a low-power core, which is why those have come to market first. Eventually someone’s going to make a beast of a RISC-V core, though.

duncesplayed,

At a minimum they’ve got to design a wider issue. Current high-performance superscalar chips like the XuanTie 910 (what this laptop’s SoC are built around) are only triple-issue (3-wide superscalar), which gives a theoretical maximum of 3 ipc per core. (And even by RISC standards, RISC-V has pretty “small” instructions, so 3 ipc isn’t much compared to 3 ipc even on ARM. E.g., RISC-V does not have any comparison instructions, so comparisons need to be composed of at least a few more elementary instructions). As you widen the issue, that complicates the pipelining (and detecting pipeline hazards).

There’s also some speculation that people are going to have to move to macro-op fusion, instead of implementing the ISA directly. I don’t think anyone’s actually done that in production yet (the macro-op fusion paper everyone links to was just one research project at a university and I haven’t seen it done for real yet). If that happens, that’s going to complicate the core design quite a lot.

None of these things are insurmountable. They just take people and time.

I suspect manufacturing is probably a big obstacle, too, but I know quite a bit less about that side of things. I mean a lot of companies are already fabbing RISC-V using modern transistor technologies.

duncesplayed,

Not quite. By the most common definitions, they’re born between 1997 and 2012, so 10-26.

duncesplayed,

Article reads as propaganda

More like advertising. I’d put down a pretty big bet that Life360 sponsored this article and probably wrote a fair chunk of the copy, too.

duncesplayed,

Can I make a polite request to dial down the opacity a bit when highlighting?

duncesplayed, 

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duncesplayed,

The usual Islamic flag/Jihadist flag is white-on-black.

The Taliban flag is black-on-white and I haven’t seen any other group use the same black-on-white flag that the Taliban uses.

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    duncesplayed,

    No, it’s considerably more safe than that. Unless the .deb has been cryptographically signed by the Debian maintainers, it won’t install, no matter where you download it from.

    For this reason, apt intentionally did not support any secure protocols (such as https) until just a few years ago. There’s no point to downloading it securely or from a trusted source: all the security is in the signature verification. (And insecure protocols like http are usually easier to cache/proxy)

    duncesplayed,

    Who are “the two idiots” here? Kylie Jenner and Mia Khalifa?

    duncesplayed,

    sex positions besides missionary

    Lol good one. Next you’ll try and tell me women can have orgasms.

    duncesplayed,

    It wasn’t even doing that. The translation was happening any time someone put the word/flag “Palestine” in their profile with the phrase “praise be to God”. There didn’t even any protest or any mention of the war.

    duncesplayed,

    It wasn’t, by the way. Though it could have been flagged by the dumbest of online translators (or even anyone who could read Cyrillic, since some of it uses English loanwords, like “sex” and “gay”). It should never have made it in release, but I disagree with categorizing it as “hate speech”. I feel comfortable posting it here, even though it’s pretty crude and #3 in particular is very vulgar. If anyone’s curious, here are the Google Translate translations of the vandalized parts (except for one of them, fullInstallationSubtitle, which I think is too offensive to be repeated here. It references the Israel-Palestine war):

    Suck dicks in this {DISTRO}
    Your pants aren’t off yet
    .
    Classic gay sex
    Only the bare essentials, circumcised beards and Jewish pornography.
    Warning: This feature is not supported by your synagogue and cannot support updates to future versions of the Podor system. Please, take off your pants already.
    It’s not that difficult, just take and take off your pants
    Experimental encryption of the ancient Hebrew language
    Complete infection with syphilis
    Turn off RST, spread your buttocks, and continue
    Everything is a hook
    You left with your pin point
    Too much grease on the primary socket
    Leave unwashed
    The mount point should start with removing the pants "/"

    duncesplayed,

    That “airline pilot speaking over an intercom” is spitting mad fire

    Keeping on top of emails

    I’m a university professor and I often found myself getting stressed/anxious/overwhelmed by email at certain times (especially end-of-semester/final grades). The more emails that started to pile in, the more I would start to avoid them, which then started to snowball when people would send extra emails like “I sent you an...

    duncesplayed,

    I actually did write up my own tiny little IMAP client (kind of like an email program, except not very interactive) that automated the process of moving them every day. I’ve found that I don’t (personally) really need it, though.

    I haven’t thought about making a Monday, Tuesday, etc., folder. I feel like I’d get the days mixed up, but maybe it would work well for some people.

    duncesplayed,

    Ironically neither GNU nor Linux has a clipboard (well GNU Emacs probably has like 37 of them for some reason). “Primary selection” (the other clipboard that people don’t tell you about) started off on X11, which of course had to implement by XFree86, which became Xorg, and then it copied (ha ha) by other non-X-related software like gpm and toolkits like GTK when using Wayland.

    Why is Debian the way it is? (blog.liw.fi)

    Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the...

    duncesplayed,

    It’s a really good question which seems to have a complicated answer. This page here led me to this here (among other documents).

    The short of it seems to be have that if you think of Rust in terms of “crates” instead of “libraries”, then it’s still possible to package in a way that conforms to Debian’s self-contained avoid-redundancy style, though the details of it seem a bit tricky.

    duncesplayed,

    Many don’t know about DuckDuckGo and even more don’t care.

    I should say that DuckDuckGo is generally much more strongly censored and controlled than Google. This won’t affect people in say, the US. But in many places around the world (like my country of South Korea), using DuckDuckGo is not realistic as a daily driver without using a VPN or making heavy use of the “!g” bang to fall back to Google (which doesn’t blanket censor words). Overall it makes it less accessible.

    And I know, part of the reason people use DuckDuckGo in the first place is to avoid region-aware results. But that does not change their censorship policies.

    duncesplayed,

    I hadn’t heard of it, but apparently it was briefly used as a racial slur? etymonline.com says:

    The derogatory racial sense of “black person” is attested from 1945, perhaps from the notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe.

    duncesplayed,

    You’re not wrong, but there’s a kind of irony in it when you talk about ending humanity because of it. There’s a lot to hate about humanity if you have humanity and have human values. There’s nothing objectively wrong about being cruel or destructive or dishonest or greedy or abusive or murderous and I imagine most hypothetical alien species would look at those things and say “what’s wrong with any of that?”

    But because humans evolved as social creatures and our survival depended upon trusting one another, we’re constantly trying to judge ourselves against values that can’t actually be met. So we look at ourselves and say we’re a really horrible species, but that statement only makes sense because ironically we’re a really glorious species that’s fabricated these completely irrational things like love and compassion and empathy and honesty and sacrifice that no other species has (though many other social species do have bits and pieces of them).

    And we’ll forever hate ourselves for not being able to live up to our own values.

    Can someone explain Usenet to a long-time torrent-er?

    I’m a pretty heavy torrent user, running a media server complete with sonarr/radarr for automatic downloads. I download a lot, and have multiple TBs of upload on various private trackers. I’ve been torrenting forever, but I’ve always wondered about usenet. Over and over on this, and other, forums I see people saying that...

    duncesplayed,

    You’re paying them money, so it’s in their best interest to keep hosting.

    The uploader uploads their stuff to their own Usenet provider (whom they’re probably paying for). Usenet servers are frequently mirroring/syncing with each other. So very quickly after the uploader uploads, you will find their post on your Usenet provider, and you download directly from them.

    If a Usenet provider someday decided not to host any more, they would be out of business (because who would use them), and so you’d switch to a different Usenet provider, where you’d find exactly the same stuff mirrored.

    Usenet providers compete/distinguish themselves mostly based:

    • Cost (duh)
    • Speed (duh)
    • Retention. This means “how long is a post kept on our servers after it’s been uploaded”. Some cheaper providers might have only 30 day retention while some might have 180 day retention, etc. If you’re only interested in recent posts/releases, it might not matter as much to you.
    • Tooling. Most Usenet providers have a web-based interface, with varying levels of service. Can you search for a specific filename, do different types of filtering, etc. Many providers will automatically package together files that have been split up, so you only have one download, and don’t have to worry about par files and unrar and all that. Some will give you thumbnail previews, or even short video previews, of videos before you download, so you can check quality and language (important!! Some people on Usenet don’t even bother to label the fact that they’re uploading, say, a Spanish language version of something)
    • Obscure communities. Many people do still use Usenet for discussion, its original purpose. If that’s you, you’re going to want to check that the provider you choose is going to have alt.fan.obscure.howdy-doody-berenstain-bears-crossover-fanfic.bonk.bonk.bonk or whatever weird interest you and 3 other people in the world have. You might think since the discussion communities are so low-bandwidth every provider would just carry everything, but you might be surprised.
    duncesplayed,

    It’s the standard for industry research, as well. And for education (e.g., textbooks) and a lot of technical documentation.

    Basically any job where you may have to type math (and make it look okay), (La)TeX will be the standard. Anything other than TeX, LaTeX or Typst for typesetting math would be pure masochism.

    But if your job is to actually do things applied, and your math can be limited to scribbling on a whiteboard or a notebook and never showing anyone other than maybe a coworker or two, you will probably never have a need for LaTeX.

    duncesplayed,

    This is the major reason why maintainers matter. Any method of software distribution that removes the maintainer is absolutely guaranteed to have malware. (Or if you don’t consider 99% software on Google Play Store the App Store to be “malware”, it’s at the very least hostile to and exploitative of users). We need package maintainers.

    duncesplayed,

    Cancer and clean-shavenness aside, I disagree with much of his talk. I don’t see making social media (or “anti-social media” as he calls it) illegal is the best solution.

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