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SiFive is a fabless prop chip designer, they build no fabs. Yes building fabs is heavy industrial investment, and thus less amenable to open models. Drawing the masks is not. Lot o…

Awesome news. The world is healing. Having a big player as the "ARM of Risc-V" funded by VC was so toxic. It takes the oxygen out of the ecosystem. The next step in open hardware i…

If it becomes a problem consensus can evolve to trim inactive data (say expiring unspent outputs after N blocks in UTXO chains, "move it or lose it" model) or explicit charging for…

They use the occasion to get more commission, by encouraging renewals further in the future to "lock" the current price. Presumably they get the full 10 years worth of commission t…

Sounds inferior to the "no cookies no banner" solution. The GDPR does not mandate gratuitous and pointless personalised spying, which is the only case that requires consent. Normal…

Are these vendor kernels good enough to run some sort of hypervisor and pass through devices at the lowest possible level to (updatable) guest kernel(s)? The idea here would be to …

nim with a bureaucracy would quickly turn into rust, so corporate heads can just adopt rust and let the world of niche opinionated tools be themselves.

the argument seems to be that redhat is/was playing fairly and then Oracle/AWS/Google/etc (which for legal reasons obviously cannot be named explicitly) came and started freeloadin…

maybe a "click here to continue receiving these updates" link at the end of the first message would have solved this. :o)

Has the cost of lawyers and moderation been modelled? At $2/month spammers break even if they get like 5 clicks from all their posting on the platform, huge magnet for them, and co…

Sounds like the "is DJing an art form" debate. :o) Unlike classic "hiring a musician", here it's practical to "hire" the (robot) musician 10000 times with a feedback loop between t…

A "usenet 2.0" that only does (short) text and links/embeddings for media (to youtube etc) would already be a very useful thing, notwithstanding the risk of take-down of controvers…

Same as people who also "can no longer work" under that age? There is no need to give blanket age-based pension rights to fit people to coincidentally help the disabled, who can be…

Quality-adjusted maybe?

Nothing a tweak to the parameters (retirement age, pension value net of taxes on pensions) can't fix. Pension "rights" are not immutable physical constants. Counter-intuitively, in…

That feed anecdotally looks similar to the accountless (not logged in) feed. Makes sense, "no follows" is pretty similiar to "no account". BTW accountless twitter got better under …

In true Knuth fashion, this page is better formatted than 99% of the web. TXT = CSS^^2b

Are the rumours that "crypto" in Argentina is just everybody being on the Binance app true? (Let's hope not!)

Can this tech be used to make a concise version of Money Stuff by Matt Levine? He does not need de-sensationalizing but he badly needs summarising, which seems adjacent. That Matt …

It is sure an upper estimate but the order of magnitude is maybe not off: That revenue is probably mostly fees from the exchanges. Alameda as a partnership started with peanuts and…

That web is no more, sadly. It's just a question of time before the containerized crowd discover that the exact version of Chrome they test their website with can be compiled to th…

they did not own to being antisocial dicks in the first place, with all the bad decisions that also apply when the thing works as intended...

LLMs make it much easier to make harder to detect spam...

Fascinating review. It begs the question: is CSS beyond repair? So many footguns, so little time. I recall browsing one of the websites collecting such CSS "frameworks" in a previo…

It's sort of toxic socially though as devs write dark patterns during working hours and dark pattern blockers in hobby time, for other nerds to use. So dev caste gets usable web an…