Notices by pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com), page 23

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 08:05:52 JST

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cool_boy_mew

@coolboymew Missed opportunity, man. "Begone, merchant, or I shall release the hounds!"

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 07:48:09 JST

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> There was also a lot of interest in hobbyist spaces for parallel computing as well as other neat things like RISC.

Industry kind of expected that MIPS and SPARC were going to stay where they were, no one expected x86 to eat the world. Coming into the 90s, it was m68k and then all the Serious Business computing was RISC.

> Also fuck Apple for leaving PowerPC to die,

IBM continues get a lot of mileage out of it with Blue Gene et al, it's just not something people put on the desktop. Looks like, per https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2023/11/ , it's EPYC, Xeon, Xeon, A64FX, EPYC, Xeon, and then #7 is a POWER9.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:13:17 JST

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@lain @dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean Strategy pays off again.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:53:41 JST

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@dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean

10:50:10.552 [error] Could not decode user at fetch https://www.threads.net/ap/users/mosseri/, {:content_type, "text/html; charset=\"utf-8\""}

It looks like they federate worse than Lemmy. Fedi is safe for now.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:41:32 JST

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@dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean Yeah, but that's still a post of a guy that says that he fetched it.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:37:58 JST

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@emma @ocean @hellpie @dcc Yeah, I don't know if it's doing webfinger right or wrong or not even attempting it. Easier to just get an actor URL.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:37:30 JST

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@emma @ocean @hellpie @dcc Because that's a link to annihilation.social, not an actor URL or activity URL. :alexjoneswat3:

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:18:13 JST

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@dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean Yeah, but...can it? If you have a URL, toss a URL.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:18:02 JST

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@dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean

SELECT data FROM activities WHERE actor IN (SELECT ap_id FROM "users" WHERE (split_part("ap_id", '/', 3) IN ('www.threads.net', 'threads.net')));

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:15:19 JST

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@dcc @emma @hellpie @ocean I haven't seen any; last I heard it was going to be a whitelist of approved instances.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 19:08:03 JST

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oshy
HellPie

@ocean @hellpie Did anything happen recently? I haven't head about any policy change from them and I still see zero users.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:56:31 JST

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Failure_Personified

@FailurePersonified

> you mentioned that you are looking into Risc-V.

Have RISC-V core for DevTerm, very pleased. It is slow but it feels nice. Absurdly high battery life, too.

> Right now I'm just trying to figure how the support for Risc-V is looking, and see if I can learn more about the architecture.

It's absurd. It's easier to get shit working on RISC-V than on ARM.

> Also good to see you fam! :blob_wave:

:dance_top:
:dance_bottom:

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:56:30 JST

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Failure_Personified

@FailurePersonified

> Oh sick (maybe I misread the other post),

Cheapest one they were selling when I ordered the uConsole back in October 2022, and it arrived a couple of months ago finally. I might not have picked it up had it not been both weird and cheap, because I have not been excited about the hardware in the past. One of my big objections, though, was that no one was making them and it remained to be seen if it'd work out, my suspicion was that it was a wank, overspecified pre-silicon that was driven by wishful thinking instead of the practical realities. Even if it worked, I expected Pentium f00f bugs and whatnot and I expected flakiness, weird shit, I expected X to crash randomly and the kernel to throw "illegal instruction" errors and the thing to hard-lock. I've been using the thing for a while and it's delightful, it's solid, the compiler doesn't get weird on me, no heatsink or fan and it never gets too hot to touch.

> since it's open, and there's no licensing involved.

> The possibilities with specialized instruction sets for different things (kind of like MMX or SSE) could get really whacky and fun.

Well, the RISC-V Foundation seems to be keeping a handle on extensions. I read an interview with one of the designers, interesting stuff, he wants to revive some of Cray's ideas and do vector instructions instead of multiple-dispatch and I'm kinda excited about that.

I mean, see attached for some grounding (hardware should be boring), but something cool might be happening. Cautiously optimistic.

> I'm thankful to hear that;

Oh, yeah, everything's easy to work with, etc. It's beautiful.

> I'm a little weary

:reeEEE:

> I remember getting into ARM when it was fairly new and getting no support for most shit for over like 2 years. (this was VERY early on)

Oh, yeah, it was a little rough. (I don't know how early "early" is. Acorn desktops in the 90s? iPAQ? GBA?) ARM is still a little rough. It's actually easier to work with RISC-V already. And part of that is, like, they pushed some stuff into the ISA that might be in the ABI otherwise, like which registers are caller-save versus callee-save, and that alone simplifies a lot.
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pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:05:03 JST

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@meeper @pernia @allison @cvnt @lanodan @sysrq
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pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:04:53 JST

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@pernia @allison @cvnt @lanodan @sysrq It looks long but is not because it has a lot of diagrams: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/ .

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:04:25 JST

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@pernia @allison @cvnt @lanodan @sysrq The usage is intended to be like tar, so it does directory trees.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:04:24 JST

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@pernia @allison @cvnt @lanodan @sysrq The use-case (which is discussed in the papers, which you should read because this is kind of like asking if it is raining instead of looking out the window) is that it should be able to replace tar.

pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 17:04:19 JST

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