AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@niclas @lupyuen China 2025 is going well. The US is going to have to get off its ass or we'll be left behind. It really shows when China tries something.

@niclas @lupyuen The T-HEAD cores are open source. I suspect they are odd because they were pulled from their targeted applications.

You can get on GitHub and run a C910 if you have a powerful enough FPGA because they have the Verilog up. It's not going to be the 16 core module that was supposed to be part of a larger system.

At least T-Head released information when alleged competitors hide their information. RISC-V was a good idea but it just lets others blatantly copy and obfuscate the fact that they copied a design. If you want a good example, look at the C910 and other manufacturers who made innovations after it. They outperform it because they took inspiration and made it on a smaller process with some improvements.

If one thing is clear about RISC-V, to me, it's that copycats love open source and T-Head processors show their heritage by being difficult. It's almost as if their processors aren't as trashy as the implementations are but are instead being obtuse because they are not working with hundreds more cores in a system cared for by scientists who know how to make them work properly.

If you have read this far, congratulations. We still don't have an Open FPGA that hasn't been reverse engineered. The problem with RISC-V is that it got controlled by companies and it has little to no integrity. Applaud the company that took a RISC-V processor and paired it to nearly dead GPU technology that still refuses to make it open.

Perhaps I'm too cynical about the open hardware aspect that could have been and I should just embrace the shameless desecration of ideals. Perhaps I'm bitter about past experiences that lead me to believe that a man with an interest in open hardware was misled by a few companies and it rocked their business. Just put legal landmines in the mix and we are at the current state of RISC-V. There's good, there's bad and there's the reality that this is how it's going to be. I don't see RISC-V as a path forward for those who want open source or open hardware.

With all that being said, I could see T-Head destroying competition with what would be a considerably small investment and make a fully open source and open hardware SoC that has its own open GPU that's wrapped up with a non commercial use clause. It might sell poorly but it would be yet another first they could claim. The Party wouldn't like it, their competitors would try to destroy it and the US would be bribed to not accept it. Perhaps it would be successful as it's ideologically pure, modern computation is plagued by inefficiencies which are legal landmines and the fact that no intelligence agencies can trust their own hardware because they had the foresight to embed backdoors in everything.

@freemo An actual calendar that I put misleading information on, a small notebook with the information mixed in with nonsensical rambling and pictures of things. It takes all three to put it together.

I'll set alarms on my smartphone at the wrong time and label them the wrong thing.

For you, I'd recommend a picture and NFC tag that stores a key. You just embed a photo with a bunch of encrypted information and use a Yubikey to decrypt it. You can do the same with Wav files and then embed that. The NFC tag should just link to a website that lets you know who touched it.

@thor I've never had problems with it in my gut. I've never had a hangover.

I did stop drinking when I realized that I had the shakes and had to keep drinking as I watched the sun rise. I suppose I could have chugged a bottle of wine but it was an adverse interaction with a medication.

On the wallet, only cocaine could ever compete to be a fraction of a waste of money as an American college. One doesn't waste time and that would be the drugs.

@thor Chemists love to make jokes about Biologists and go back to the same reactions that involve Mercury salts.

@thor Why would one stop drinking?

@thor Dr. Freud was the greatest Psychologist in the field. Most of his work has been discarded which is why Psychology is not a science in any way. It's stereotyping and manipulation much like Political Science. They all love cocaine but do nothing to deserve it.

@thor Real estate.

@thor It's non polar so it's possible that it helps with Bipolar too.