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@mike_hales @mako Most coop people don't understand software, let alone Free Software. Most Free Software people don't understand coops. The intersection of these two groups is tiny, but hopefully growing.
What I would like to see would be more people interested in learning, and less people trying to impose their very particualr views on the other camp.
The implied assumption that Free Software projects can't possibly stay honest is indicative that a lot more work is needed.
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@jjg Jeri Ellsworth: First to fabricate logic gates in a garage, developing her own process from scratch.
https://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/jeri-makes-integrated-circuits/
Zeloof: First to make integrated circuit in a garage, following Jeri's lead.
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/
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Microsemi announced a “HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board” built on its PolarFire FPGA that adds PCIe and USB expansion for the RISC-V-based, Linux driven HiFive Unleashed SBC.
http://linuxgizmos.com/fpga-based-add-on-board-brings-pcie-to-the-first-linux-based-risc-v-sbc/
cc: @vertigo @jjg @LinuxSocist
#microsemi #pcie #fpga #hifive #riscv #sbc #linux
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I think it's excellent to commemorate significative events like the Haymarket Massacre on #MayDay. I also think workerism is a drag and we must learn to think beyond the industrial era that created the concept of the subordinate worker. The show must move on.
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@jjg I wrote a comment on your blog but I don't know if Wordpress saved it, ate it, or what it did with it.
Anyway, it was basically praise, and the suggestion that you take a look at WABT (Webassembly Binary Tools) which is a pretty straightforward C++ package with minimal or no dependencies.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt
It looks like the best place to get started
(definitely not what you'd think a web development environment would entail)
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RISC-V Go Port
Home of the RISC-V port of the Go programming language
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-go
I don't know what's the maturity, coverage, or completeness of this project, but it's already great news that it exists at all.
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Trekkies attend Klingon language lecture in Taipei
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeas/201801140009.aspx
via @ryusei
[I don't care much for the pop culture aspects, or about linguistics of the Klingon language, but this is very interesting to me from an anthropological point of view, because of the continued existence of Klingon a constructed language around the world]
#taiwan #news #constructedlanguage #constructedlang #constructedlanguages #community #tribe #startrek
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Try to:
1. Write a program that has some struct
2. Enable it to send this struct to another program.
(Serialising and sending over sockets is cheating. There is no need to waste cycles in serialisation between two programs running in the same memory space, on the same architecture)
3. Write a program that can receive that struct and print it.
4. Make sure it compiles and runs on all major platforms.
If you can achieve that effortlessly, then hard barriers don't exist.
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@vertigo An appliance is physical, with hard constraints. The barriers between programs are conventions and tradition. Only in rare cases due to best practices.
h
Background:
In multiplexed text, the first stream is always plain text (utf8) content. The parallel streams are for layout, style, and hyperlinking.
This is so the text is always clean and the graph structure is separate from the content.
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@aeonofdiscord @enkiv2 @Gargron Just a gang of mercenaries and assholes. This is why.
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@RussSharek There's that for sure. And Batman's creation is now more distant in time from us than it was from Arthur Conan Doyle's last Holmes adventure.
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It's interesting that the idea of the superhero isn't just a modern western thing. It obviously can be traced back to titans in Greek mythology, but also to completely unrelated myths in ancient China.
These ideas have been with us since forever.
h
Driverless cities:
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport"
@p_tricio@twitter.com
via @greatdismal@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/942859041084030976
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When a FOSS organisation behaves the way that Mozilla did, adding insult to injury with their statement in denial, it's the job of the FOSS community to tell them they're fucking up.
Not optional, it's a duty.
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By the way, I used Twitter since early 2007, shortly after it launched. Not even in the early days there was anything like this on Twitter.
It was refreshing at the time, compared to the things that were available. But there never was anything like the effervescent passion for creative cross-pollination and delightfully libertine thinking that happens on Mastodon as a matter of course.
Mastodon is nothing like Twitter, Mastodon is what Twitter should have been.
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I like many things about Masto. But what I like most is that out-of-the-box, left-brain things happen often here. Like stumbling upon someone who understands a relatively obscure French film from 1996 based on an even more obscure 1916 French film, a guy who builds supercomputers as a hobby, a subculture that publishes poetry using the long-deceased, now-revived Gopher system.
And I could go on with the whimsical, and the unbounded creativity that emerges when the profit motive is removed.
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@vertigo Now I remember, it was @Angle who showed me their graph threading Mastodon discussions view.
It has improved a lot since I first took a look many months ago, great work @Angle .
h
Remember, this also couldn't possibly be done, just 12 months ago.
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The means of memorisation must be seized and distributed.
#periodicalreminder
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