For hardware folks: Using RISC-V.
Legit, some dude in US Congress is wanting to crack down on China via… RISC-V exports, because oh no, the technology is too open and might give China some of our IP. Oh and by the way, dude has a pretty big Intel portfolio, but nevermind that!!
As an aside, why the hell are lawmakers allowed to trade stocks?
When you trust people in power to hold themselves accountable, accountability seems to disappear over time.
There’s no trust there. They’re in power and have a good deal of money, so there isn’t a whole lot we can actually do about it. Arguably, wanting power for the express purposes of making a buck and being less accountable for anything is a good reason for running for office.
It’s especially dumb because RISC-V is – dare I say it – inevitably the future. Trying to crack down on RISC-V is like trying to crack down on Linux or solar photovoltaics or wind turbines. That is, you can try to crack down, but the fundamental value proposition is simply too good. All you’ll achieve in cracking down is hurting yourself while everyone else gets ahead.
I’d compare it to the RSA encryption algorithm. It was classified as a weapon by the US and was banned from being spread internationally, so open source advocates put the source code basically everywhere. It was even printed on shirts
While we’re on the topic, can anyone recommend some good RISC-V computers? It seems interesting and I’d like to try it out.
Right now RISc-V has the same problem that ARM has in that anything that is affordable is pretty much only single board computers. Luckily for RISc-V someone made a list of all the SBCs http://krimsky.net/articles/riscvsbc.html
guess I gotta get familiar with RISC-V then
This talk, given by David Patterson (a legend in computer architecture and one of the people who helped create RISC-V at UC Berkeley) is an excellent (and accessible) introduction.
I HATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I HATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IP is a fake concept
internet protocol:
Ownership is a fake concept.
you understand there is a difference between personal property and corporate property right? and then beyond that, there is a difference between owning a tangible product and information.
Ownership is when one is allowed to keep all others from accessing or using a thing.
If that one is a person or corp., or the thing is physical or imaginary, it doesn’t change the nature of ownership itself.
A person or a corp could make different choices with their ownership rights. And ownership of physical or imaginary things have different enforcement challenges. But none of that changes the fundamental concept of ownership.
But as I said elsewhere: “The real point I meant is that fake concepts can still be useful. Like the concept of ownership.”
ownership of tangibles and intangibles (specifically information) are entirely different, regardless how you wanna define ownership or whatever.
The enforcement of that ownership is entirely different, yes.
Basically the only way to maintain ownership of intangibles is to keep them a secret.Also, don’t all intangibles fit the definition of information? I don’t recall running across any that wouldn’t, but I’m curious. Can you give an example of what you mean?
i couldn’t think of anything either I was just covering all my bases lol
-2028
-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
-excited to play some halo 2k29
-“xbox on”
-…
-“XBOX ON”
-"Please verify that you are “annon332” by saying “Doritos™ Dew™ it right!”
-“Doritos™ Dew™ it right”
-“ERROR! Please drink a verification can”
-reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k29™ War Chest
-only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
-still feeling sick from the 14
-force it down and grumble out “mmmm that really hit the spot”
-xbox does nothing
-i attempt to smile
-“Connecting to verification server”
-…
-“Verification complete!”
-finally
-boot up halo 2k29
-finding multiplayer match…
-“ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!”
-my mother just walked in the room
-“Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?”
-“NO!”
-“Console entering lock state!”
-“to unlock drink verification can”
-last can
-“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
-drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
-pour the last half out the window
-“PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE”
-the mountain dew ad plays
-i have to dance for it
-feeling so sick
-makes me sing along
-dancing and singing
-“mountain dew is for me and you”
-throw up on my self
-throw up on my tv and entertainment system
-router shorts
-“ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF”
-“PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”I laughed out loud to this soon to come dystopia.
2030 is in 6 years :)
Don’t be hasty, there’s still 16% of this year to be lived.
Fuck
ads will be considered as individuals and cancelling ads is analogous to manslaughter at the least.
what a great time to be alive~!
Electrocution ends for an ad break, then starts again, and again.
Ad blockers are financial terrorism in 2030.
Some say it’s extremism in 2023
Felony contempt of business model.
Don’t say doing your wife…
Don’t say doing your wife…
Don’t say doing your wife…
…doing your…son?Finally
I shouldn’t have lived this long
I never knew adblockers were a thing until the most recent hubbub with YouTube, so I went down a rabbit hole and the world is a better place.
Imagine what I might learn tomorrow.
Adblockers can do more than just block ads, they also allow you to customize websites. As a simple example you can remove the annoying headers on youtube channels that take half the screen:
It’s also great for news sites. I have a filter to remove articles on topics I don’t care about. I also have rules to prevent these sites from automatically reloading after certain amount of time, something that I find very annoying.
Whoa! You can do that? How?
Which one?
Different person here, would love info on removing headers, if you would be so kind!
You should be able to right click the banner and then click “block element”
Huh, I’ve never thought to do that for like a YouTube header. Just those irritating autoplaying videos on web sites that scroll with ya.
I was thinking there was a way to automatically block all banners there hahaha
Next up, install DeArrow to fix that guy’s horrid thumbnails
Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Blocking ads is like getting a bad tooth pulled. You never realize how awful it is until you find out what it’s like to be rid of it!
That’s also a good description for mechanical keyboards
I got a mechnical keyboard after listening to you internet nerds and have been sorely disappointed
Really? That’s surprising. Are you just indifferent about the clickiness?
I definitely aren’t as fanatical about them as most people, I don’t mind using non mech keys. But I definitely prefer using a nice mech keyboard when I have the option.
Do I need a mechanical keyboard if my typing speed is around 60 wpm? I don’t type fast, which is why I never saw the appeal of mechanical keyboards
Well a mechanical keyboard could help you type a little faster actually. I think the primary appeal of them is that they feel nice to type on though. Another reason people buy them is because they’re good for playing games competitively such as CS:GO.
Thanks. I was looking at this boring looking keyboard (a look which I personally like, I’m ashamed to say): https://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIBOARD-428-Mechanical-Keyboard-Backlighting/dp/B08F3V93KS
I like low profile keyboards, and don’t like the sharp noise from blue switches. This seems OK. What do you think?
That’s a nice keyboard, I personally can’t stand the “gamer aesthetic” so it looks good to me. I used to use a Cherry keyboard which looked like one of those large beige keyboards from the 90s, which I liked not just because Cherry manufacters the switches you see in more expensive mech keyboards so it was nice having a Cherry brand keyboard, but also because it looked quite unique compared to modern keyboards. That keyboard had Cherry blue switches, unfortunately I broke that keyboard (entirely my fault.) My current keyboard looks very similar to that one, with Kailh blue switches.
There’s two main companies that manufacture the keys for mech keyboards, Cherry and Kailh. Cherry is a German company and their switches last longer and are usually considered to be a little better to use but that is quite subjective. Kailh is a Chinese company, like I say they don’t last for quite as long but you’ll definitely still get minimum 3 years out of them, most likely they’ll last 5+ years with daily use. Kailh switches are cheaper and so the keyboards are cheaper (except for Razer, they use Kailh switches but charge the same price as companies that make keyboards with Cherry switches lol.) I haven’t used Cherry/Kailh brown switches (that keyboard has Kailh browns) but I understand they’re good switches for general use, especially in an office context. They’re less clicky but otherwise similar to blues.
You might want look up a comparison of the various switches, but here’s a graphic I could find with some basic info. Linear switches have no “bump” where you can feel the switch being actuated, tactile and clicky switches do but with tactiled you only feel it, there is no corresponding click sound (or much less of one.)
Hey, thanks for the great reply! I plan to go for this or the Lenovo Thinkpad wired keyboard because I’m used to laptop keyboards and like the low-profile keyboards more.
Cheers
What kind of mechanical keyboard?
Sure, my razor one is kinda crappy, but I’ve used a very nice one at a friend who did the build your own thing.
Keychron is pretty good for entry level. I highly recommend the C2 Pro with brown switches for office work
I’m very curious as to how you survived on the Internet without an adblocker for the last decade.
My guess is they grew up with it like that. Us old fuckers privy to the Internet of the 90s and 00s, know what it should be.
Scrolling marquees, blinking text, background midi music, hit counters, guest books, and web rings?
Bring back hit counters
And guest books
And don’t forget huge signatures with GIFs and all sorts of crap for your favourite forum.
In Max Headroom: Twenty Minutes Into The Future power-switches were seriously illegal. Not sure if a capital offense, but prison-worthy for sure.
I’ll be surprised if I’m still alive, to be honest. The way things seem to be going, affording any ongoing healthcare won’t be possible. Hell, I’d be surprised if I can still afford rent anywhere (there’s no way I can afford to actually buy property anywhere that isn’t in the middle of nowhere, let alone property with a house of some kind on it) by 2030.
“You wouldn’t download a car.”
“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”
The fact that this was a legit proposal by cable companies and even got patented serves as evidence of the lengths that corporations will go to enshittify services for profit.
You wouldn’t shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman’s grieving widow, and then steal it again.
Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting real mean!
I see myself blowing up a pipeline.
I am intrigued to know what is the original message.
“Millions of people doing lower waste”
Basically saying that reducing the problem in smaller steps on a larger scale does more than a few fanatics doing everything all by themselves.
Its also to help alleviate the guilt of not being able to reduce waste to nothing.
The problem is getting millions on board. In the 1970s, the zip code was a hard sell, and it had PSAs
It’s sad and hilarious that people hear “zero waste” and think “I need to take aaaaall my cans to the recycling center and compost my scraps”, when the waste that is actually destroying the biosphere is the exhaust from your car. If we’re talking about “doing lower waste”, the first priority is to stop driving a car. Recycling bottles and composting scraps is the thing we can afford to do imperfectly. But not cars, ditching cars is the big important thing and the first step to sustainability.
