AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@inference Glad to hear it. Those shots would send students and faculty back home when they got a dose. People walking out mid class with side effects and looking like they were quite ill.

Maybe the vaccine is safer now. I hope you have some time between the next shot and the journey. The second dose is the one that will have the side effects. Perhaps it was because the pharmaceutical companies couldn't be bothered to make sure that a dose wasn't two doses. The US government gave them immunity from being sued so why care right?

@PawelK I think VDHL or Verilog would work better for that kind of work. That code and a beast of an FPGA are going to be the proving grounds for a custom core. The architecture is so flexible that the ISA for the core I worked with was wrong in the memory mapping.

Even the D1 core doesn't make sense as anything but a 4x4 configuration. It just works as a single core. It's absurd. You want the fastest embedded controller? RV64GC quad cores with custom extensions and more cache. It could fetch information faster than an interface could handle without issue.

It's so crazy but power isn't going to be an issue. China used OpenSPARC for accelerators that out performed the Xeon Phis they were using. Then Ali introduced the Xuantie C910 which is RISC-V. SiFive barely out performs it and it sounds like it is a derivative of the C910.

This is what real competition and progress looks like. In two decades the architecture has gone from curiosity to Super Computer applications. This is the power of an open standard. The only thing Intel and AMD have discovered in the same amount of time is how they are going to have to swap over or die off.

Hopefully RISC-V graphics are coming along well because it's time to end the plague of Red, Blue and Green. With 400w cards being estimated, they are coughing up blood. No one will miss them. They can't mine crypto anymore.

@PawelK pcode and two others It's in Sleigh and Sled documentaion along with their build system Skeleton?

Someone had already made the RISC V processors and they used something different than what I had to read in all that documentation. In Mathematics it's called slick but they are based af for simplifying it like that.

It took the complicated part and made it link to smaller portions to build the processor. They made a modular system in a modular system.

I just hope you have an accurate ISA to use. Apparently they change. It is the kind of clarity that a few stiff drinks bring to the surface. I don't remember how many different codes I had to learn and understand to get a working custom processor but I didn't sleep much during that time. Might have been around 48-72 hours of work. That's essentially how that project went.

I've heard that sleep deprivation causes brain damage. It's a wonder how scientists can know a subject so well and not understand how to function socially. Perhaps it's akin to having spare magazines. One can burn through more and still have more than others.

@thendrix Oh no, not my Hellcat!

@igelsQTs I have approximately 7-8% body fat so I give off heat but I don't have much insulation. The weather during the summer is in Red or Black for how long it will take to get heatstroke. It's very humid here so sweat doesn't evaporate well.

It's what the Deep South of the US is known for. Not that hot but humid all the time. When taking voltage measurements I usually see around 70% relative humidity.

The PowerPC Architecture is supposed to be around into the 2030s.

@igelsQTs I usually sleep in 27-30C temps during the Summer and 4-10C in the Winter. I have low body fat but I do like to be somewhat acclimated to the weather I'm in.

@thendrix They end up being Briggs & Stratton 3.5 hp engines.

@thendrix Those look like absolute trash. The Uval carbine looks like the barrel isn't to spec. It looks like it has harmonic problems. The full size barrel versions look like they were attempted to be free floated.

They look incredibly scuffed. The rear optic is just a cheap rail mount. These seriously look like ban era parts kit AKMs made with the wrong parts. It should have been a sign when police weren't being hit in that fine china.

Politicians want to ban them. They might have luminescence as it takes craftsmanship to make trash like that functional.

I've tried another FSF Approved Distribution and it is surprisingly good. The test computer was a 4th gen Intel board with iGPU. Linux-libre did what it could to mitigate and it managed to do well. It's a 4rd Gen Intel CPU and microcode patches don't exist for all the vulnerabilities. 5 are mitigated by Linux-libre, 3 require microcode patches and one is just there. Perhaps there are other exploits but I didn't install this to be secure.

Performance is great and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants a FSF distro. It's Guix and I'm enjoying it. It's not like every other distro unless I'm using a terminal. I haven't compiled and tested my usual software for it yet. It feels very solid and mature. I used Trisquel for a few years and I might use Guix for a few years too.

Tl;dr I have been testing a FSF Approved Distribution and it is really cool. Skip their other distros and pick this one. It is one of the few Linux distros that really impressed me.

@inference You still feel okay?

@igelsQTs When it's red it's larger and more threatening.

@inference @jeffcliff @MischievousTomato @Hyolobrika apple benchmarks

@MischievousTomato This is why one builds their own Kernel and goes through the tedious process of dealing with SE Linux. All of those explicit permissions and users who are allowed to access files are very important.

GNU/Linux isn't behind as much as it is divided. There are around four separate MACs that can be used. Beyond the MACs, there's IDS and the hardware security like a TPM. Make no mistake, Linux can be locked down tight. Nothing is truly secure and it's only a matter of time before it's broken.

The true reason why Linux and Mac are seen as more secure is because of their past. They both are Unix Like and Unix had to manage multiple users without dying immediately. Windows wasn't designed for this type of environment and it really became apparent.

Does all the above mean that Linux is better? Not really no. One should stick with what they know best. Apple and pricing make it difficult to say positive things.

Knowing the code one runs is important. A trusted codebase should be reviewed frequently. Even though the biggest problems can be difficult to find, there's no reason not to explore how something works.

It's a journey and not a boot camp. Just try to enjoy the ride and don't try to learn how to harden or trim a Kernel in a day. It's not going to happen.

@thendrix Idk why I thought that. It's crazy to think about games being made in assembly too.

@thendrix Wasn't that what Quake used?

@thendrix They probably just added stuff, CPU microcode patched and possible performance decline.

Time for a retired Xeon server to shine.

Mixed news on two old projects. One would just need traces cut and appropriate firmware.

The other project has a new volunteer that is older than the previous microcontroller. Older interface but a good performing controller. I think I could get some basic firmware built for it and flashed. I haven't checked out what communication protocol it uses but maybe it will function with open source.

That's progress.