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by white-flame 2y ago
The real problem is deeper than this. The actual question to ask is: "What if we just stopped distributing and blindly executing untrusted binary blobs?" A trusted compiler in the OS, and some set of intermediate representations f
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by white-flame 2y ago
I think it's more a case that browsers take security into account at the feature design phase, whereas other applications don't. That's actually a huge step in the right direction. Same thing with mobile OSes, which have a ve
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by white-flame 2y ago
Linux is now the best desktop OS. Not necessarily because it got that much better, but because Windows & Mac have gotten that much worse.
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by white-flame 2y ago
Besides proton/wine/VMs for gaming which are all very good, console/computer emulation for gaming is solid in Linux, including literal plug and play joystick support.
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by white-flame 3y ago
but it has been confirmed: EURISKO has been successfully run in Interlisp Medley! https://github.com/white-flame/eurisko
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by white-flame 3y ago
I added a github repository for the core of AM: https://github.com/white-flame/am We still need to figure out which files compose EURISKO.
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by white-flame 3y ago
The file LRR.DRI[AM,DBL] also contains what looks like a REPL log of starting & running it.
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Doug Lenat's sources for AM (and EURISKO+Traveller?) found in public archives(white-flame.com)
64 points by white-flame 3y ago|9 comments
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by white-flame 5y ago
REU is a bit of a cheat, and for some releases people are using cartridges with far higher capacities than ever sold back in the day. Cross-platform tools and emulation are also huge dev speedups. But a big thing is that back then, games w
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by white-flame 5y ago
I use onion addresses to have basically a hash-addressable socket on the internet, which can be relocated without any additional configuration. It can even work without any inbound ports on the firewall. However, I haven't done any se
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by white-flame 5y ago
Yes. I can't stand that IPFS basically took the Freenet model, stripped out all the anonymity & privacy, and added the weird "interplanetary" marketing push.
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by white-flame 5y ago
I don't even have a Facebook account. But with my relatives that do, this stuff leaks in from seeing their coworkers' & acquaintances' posts and escalates over time once there's even the slightest hook with the algo
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by white-flame 5y ago
Facebook (and most other businesses in the space) is a system of manipulating and editorializing individuals' social communication in order to extract engagement-related profit. This is not a common carrier, but an active distorter.
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by white-flame 5y ago
What do you define "social media" as? If it's communication kept within circles of family, friends, colleagues, and enthusiast/interest groups, I really don't see much problem with it, just as forums/blogs&#x2
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by white-flame 5y ago
> Forget the rest of the trash on Facebook The thing is, Facebook actively pushes the trash at you, because trash content monetizes the best. The only effective avoidance mechanism is to not use it (unless there's some facebook-spec
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by white-flame 5y ago
VMs imply a non-native bytecode execution. Garbage collection doesn't require any of that. It's just normal library code usually called by the allocator, and well-specified memory object/pointer layouts.
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by white-flame 5y ago
The actual ultra-tough material formed in Roman concrete seems to be Tobermorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobermorite
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by white-flame 5y ago
I hope they do like USB 3.0B and add yet another independent set of connector pins for 4.0, making it twice as large. /s
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by white-flame 5y ago
Across USB-C land, there's the various USB3s as well as Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, PCIe, and probably others, too, all sharing the same connector with arbitrary overlaps or omissions of compatibilities across the N-dimensional matrix.
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by white-flame 5y ago
> full stack web developer I think this is par for the course in that subfield. Part of it is the speed at which things change, both in the software ecosystems and in the change requests to sites. The reliance on comprehensive framework
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by white-flame 5y ago
Even if you like one, you should (_after_ you finished learning the first) also go through the other alternatives, for perspective. And even though you found one that worked for you, doesn't mean that others won't click even bett
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by white-flame 5y ago
Yes, Freenet. IPFS is basically Freenet with all the anonymity and privacy stripped out, and claiming it's some new innovation. Freenet allows connecting only to peers, and is the same sort of p2p hash-based storage cache. It's
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by white-flame 5y ago
Well within the last hour or so on #freenode, root (Andrew Lee) went off on a completely unhinged tirade about BIG FOSS and his perceived victories over it, as well as his totally "FOSS" irc client, which has no source code availa
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by white-flame 5y ago
The policy basically changes on a daily basis, depending on which action he needs to quickly justify. Generally speaking, mentioning anything about libera.chat in the topic is counted as "spam" or "advertising" or whatev
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by white-flame 6y ago
That puts the decision on where to put public good will and non-profitable money sinks solely into the machine of government bureaucracy, which I don't think would be very effective. Currently we incentivize private individual donation
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by white-flame 6y ago
Conversely, I'm sitting at a computer for the majority of my waking hours. My productivity happens there. For a phone, having calls/texts, web access (and most "apps" of any importance have a web version), calculator, c
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by white-flame 6y ago
The non-burning natural decomposition of wood also releases the carbon into the atmosphere, as CO2, methane, etc. It's a neutral cycle, as plants are recently grown from atmospherically-sourced carbon. Deforestation and pulling old oi
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by white-flame 6y ago
The US and state governments have long done controlled burns as well; this isn't some lost native american art. It's just that in more recent years, homeowners and tourism boards and the like really, really didn't want any f
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by white-flame 6y ago
The noise is that everybody's trying to extract money out of computing. The whimsy is in just enjoying it and exploring within it for its own sake, which is the willingness to simply put time & money _into_ it without that noise.
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by white-flame 6y ago
There's RPG-ish & enchantment mechanics to build up better tools & armor, different biomes to get different resources from, NPC villages to trade/upgrade/protect, and various enemies with varying drops, including in b

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