Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social), page 2

@nixCraft kinda. I'm always looking for existing code to do what I want, because usually it's only a tiny piece of what I want to do overall, and I want to get to the full solution ASAP. But I'll also read the source and profile it, and rewrite it if it's obviously sub-opimal in places.

@arstechnica 25/3 sounds about like what I got in LA. Meanwhile, out here in the wilds of rural northwest Ireland, I've got 1000/100 FTTH.

@arstechnica cool, so your $100/yr subscription puts you in their subscriber database, right?

@arstechnica forget it, just assume all porn videos are fake and they become irrelevant. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/111064161737603346

@arstechnica Is that going to impact automated voice response menu systems too?

@nixCraft what's the problem with algorithms? They're fundamental to software development.

@arstechnica any time a company reaches monopoly status it should be automatically and immediately nationalized.

@mntmn Nice, hadn't heard of panthor. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to get panfork to behave. Mainly, I wanted accelerated H.264/H.265 decoding to work. Looks like Rockchip expects someone to wrap their mpp libraries in a VAAPI backend but they won't do it themselves, and they deleted their repo of their older vaapi driver from github. Damned annoying.

@arstechnica
> Snyder has said his influences include the films of Akira Kurosawa, especially The Seven Samurai and The Dirty Dozen.

something something Oxford commas ...

@arstechnica if at first you don't succeed

@arstechnica Looking like not a great company to work *with* or *for*. Once is bad luck, twice is a mistake, after that...

@arstechnica MRAM needs to hurry up and reach DDR5 densities / capacities

@arstechnica typical nearsighted American thinking: restricting access to IP only erodes the value of that IP because it forces people to workaound its absence. And it's arrogant ignorance to think workarounds can't succeed.

IP is intrinsically worthless. The only thing truly valuable is the Intellect that creates it. IP, and ideas in general, can only have value when they're shared. If you keep ideas to yourself they can never influence the world. They go nowhere, as if they never existed.

@arstechnica seems like nothing special, it's just physics and math. Easier for computers to get it all correct than humans.

@arstechnica sounds like they should've pitted the Argentine ants against fire ants instead, if they wanted to be sure a fight ensued.

@arstechnica there are already companies (like Microfocus) selling Cobol compilers that emit java. Thing is, even when it works well, java still sucks for deterministic execution. Targeting java just isn't a smart solution.

@g0nz4 @eliasr @jplebreton @torproject what do you mean? Many of us are already there on monero.town.

@eliasr @jplebreton @torproject there are a few, you can find most of them with the #monero hashtag. We're also migrating from reddit to lemmy (see monero.town). But I have to say, there's so much open hostility to all things crypto here that I don't expect a lot of Monero folks to come this way.

@jplebreton @torproject while your overall point is true in 99.999% of cases, I feel compelled to point out that Tor's DDOS protection mechanism only exists because of work done by the #Monero Project. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt

We invented the PoW algorithm and a Monero developer customized it for use by Tor. Without our work there would not have been any viable solution.

More background: https://web.archive.org/web/20220212131605/https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/RandomX.html

@eliasr @jplebreton @torproject yes, exactly. Tevador, SChernyk, and myself, to be specific. Read the "more background" article I linked above.