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by floatboth 5y ago
> renamed .jar files .ja so Microsoft System restore wouldn’t corrupt Firefox OHH that's why it's called omni.ja.. But why was it "jar" in the first place, for a thing that's not Java?
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by floatboth 5y ago
> psychological drag of knowing that my interactions are being tracked, logged Remember last.fm? We used to track music listens very deliberately to share with the public… Back in the day I had a "minor psychological drag" when
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by floatboth 5y ago
The RPi4 SoC has a busted PCIe controller (can't do 64-bit operations), the Rockchip one has a very small BAR size limit, so neither can run GPUs for example. The real ARM board options are SolidRun MACCHIATObin and SolidRun HoneyCom
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by floatboth 5y ago
Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop. It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals, but
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by floatboth 5y ago
How do BitTorrent trackers successfully encourage seeding? Information wants to be free, fuck economic incentives. Stop financializing everything.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Hyperscalers have already moved their custom stuff in a direction quite far from x86 PCs (how many new form-factors and interconnects and whatnot are under the Open Compute Project already?) while the typical Supermicro/Dell/HPE&#
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by floatboth 5y ago
AFAIK they won't even sell individual machines, the product is a whole rack. Since they aim to open source everything, there probably will be a way to use their management plane and stuff with a homelab eventually :)
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by floatboth 5y ago
It's an embedded project. It's for microcontrollers . It's the Cortex-M kind of ARM, not Cortex-A. x86 isn't even a consideration in this space.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Definitely no SMT (lol). Multicore is quite rare in the deep embedded space, though FreeRTOS has added some SMP support now: https://www.freertos.org/2021/10/freertos-adds-reference-imp... — note that it's j
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by floatboth 5y ago
> esp32 and […] are the most common exceptions Well, nearly anything having to do with wireless is typically blobs :/ Even Nordic has blobby SoftDevices, though you don't have to use them since Apache NimBLE exists (and rubbl
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by floatboth 5y ago
Those ( https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/amd-whistler.g103 ) are Northern Islands (GFX4), really old stuff.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Sadly the cryptocurrency garbage is likely to continue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29381806 says that the CTO who will become CEO is also kind of a buttcoiner.
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by floatboth 5y ago
No idea, I never cared about that kind of thing. I've used it for a couple classes recently, that's it.
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by floatboth 5y ago
One day it's a project start-up with A Whitepaper™, the next day it's just the word "penis": https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7tn6ld/a_shitcoin... "Anti-fraud" is
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by floatboth 5y ago
> did you enable the telemetry that lets them know you use it? I have all telemetry and Nightly studies enabled wherever I can (unfortunately the option is unavailable in custom builds, and I use custom builds on my main OS, since I cont
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by floatboth 5y ago
Google Meet works perfectly in Firefox, what are you talking about?
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by floatboth 5y ago
Settings → Tabs → Tab View := List
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by floatboth 5y ago
> elite of devs and mining pool owners You forgot a (perhaps even more) crucial part: the exchanges/stablecoins! They're the whole reason this clown show is considered "finance" rather than funbux. And they're al
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by floatboth 5y ago
Because "security of the blockchain" doesn't necessarily mean "good for society". Cryptocurrencies are most widely used for speculation, and then fraud, ransomware, all those very fun and pleasant things.
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by floatboth 5y ago
so, it is proof of work, it's just not "a proof-of-work lottery "
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by floatboth 5y ago
> nobody is going to gamble serious money on the robustness of such new constructions Thounsands of buttcoiners would gamble their entire life savings on shitcoin, pisscoin, asscoin, PonziCoin, whatever. When there's enough of them,
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by floatboth 5y ago
To define "new" more precisely, there is an "Enhanced REP MOVSB" flag in cpuid that tells you you can use those. It is set from Ivy Bridge and Zen 3 up. It's still not always faster: https://stackoverfl
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by floatboth 5y ago
> LPDDR5 is around 6 times faster than LPDDR4X 6 times?! What? No generational improvement in the last decade (if not two) was six-fold. https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/dram/lpddr5/ Samsung marketing
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by floatboth 5y ago
> generation leap in RAM You mean the exact same LPDDR4X that everyone else uses now? Maybe not in huge quantities but there are a lot of AMD Renoir and Intel Tiger Lake laptops with the same 16GB setup.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Ohh. *facepalm* Yeah that's way better.
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by floatboth 5y ago
~~The "100GB is actually only 1GB per region" thing is some sneaky stuff :/~~ Good move on CloudFront though.
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by floatboth 5y ago
What goods and services are cryptocurrencies exchanged with? A couple people buying VPN accounts and weed are a tiny drop in the ocean that is all the speculation. The vast majority of cryptocurrency usage is fueled by the "get rich qu
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by floatboth 5y ago
Now you need to trust developers who wrote the client code, trust large mining(/staking whatever) pools not to collude and 51% you, and uhhhh trust yourself to not lose the fucking keys, or to be an expert in all the various "prot
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by floatboth 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies can also be legally seized. Anything can be.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Don't forget enough tech expertise to be able to use any of this crap in any "decentralized" way (if they all just use coinbase, where is that decentralization?)

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