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1. Trade Minister Tagomi (trademinister@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 17:42:57 JST Trade Minister Tagomi

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   > > Chopping it up into modules
   
   > I've never seen this kind of effort succeed past a certain threshold. I mean, look at the Mozilla codebase.
   
   I did a long time ago, ain't never been right since.
   
   One apparently successful approach is microkernel OSs. One puts the most basic stuff, process and memory management, probably device IO, stuff that talks directly to hardware, into ring 0, and all the other stuff, filesystems and such, outside as 'servers'. Somewhere on top of all this is a server which emulates an OS. It seems like this is a strict enough separation that one could be a Mach geek (where I would be) and not know or care what is using the interface one provides.
   
   Apple seems to have made this work.
   
   > >For all I know, it's already Skynet.
   
   > This was a big chunk of the premise for the Metal Gear Solid series. Shady government cabal turns out to have been getting *its* strings pulled by a network of AIs that were built by a globalist that had himself gone senile about twenty years before they took over.
   
   Judging by the AIs that turn out to be based af and LiterallyHitler, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the WEF is one, has gone full-tilt vjer and wants to eliminate carbon-based lifeforms except the Klaus, the Kreator.
   
   Just past midnight here (gunfire reminded me) . Happy New Year! 🎉
   
   > I followed the Web Assembly link. If not for the damned speculative fetching/execution stuff, fully-sandboxed Webasm might be OK
   
   It's a backwards attempt at arriving at a VM, but Fabrice Bellard did manage to port the Linux kernel to compile without all the required gcc extensions so that his tinycc could build it, then get Emscripten to build and boot a kernel in the browser.
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 17:42:58 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
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     > Chopping it up into modules, with strict interfaces (the Ada approach, I think) is not satisfying, but may be the only way to grapple with them
     
     I've never seen this kind of effort succeed past a certain threshold. I mean, look at the Mozilla codebase.
     
     > Basic instruction in not burning/freezing fingers off, good to go.
     
     I think that's pretty reasonable.
     
     > For all I know, it's already Skynet.
     
     This was a big chunk of the premise for the Metal Gear Solid series. Shady government cabal turns out to have been getting *its* strings pulled by a network of AIs that were built by a globalist that had himself gone senile about twenty years before they took over.
     
     > I followed the Web Assembly link. If not for the damned speculative fetching/execution stuff, fully-sandboxed Webasm might be OK
     
     It's a backwards attempt at arriving at a VM, but Fabrice Bellard did manage to port the Linux kernel to compile without all the required gcc extensions so that his tinycc could build it, then get Emscripten to build and boot a kernel in the browser.