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Verilog for codemonkeys

I doubt most casual users would know the distinction between "native filsystem access" and what the browser does already. They'll just (wrongly, in this case) assume the browser is safe as long as they don't download and install anything, and brazenly click Yes to every prompt that shows up.

This is a security nightmare. It looks like major browser vendors have pushed back against it and for good reason. Even a website I absolutely trust should not be able to access my bare filesystem because I don't know if that website will get compromised, XSS'd, DNS poisoned, etc.

I understand wanting to save files with a webapp, but why not just use LocalStorage and deserialize/serialize from that? If you need persistence plug in a cloud solution like Amazon S3. That's what the web is for.

Already the case for Apple LLVM which has optimizations for Apple Silicon not upstreamed and never will be upstreamed.

It shares the code generator with gcc. It doesn't transpile C to Rust or vice versa. The goal is to produce machine code directly.

Spammers would pay too, maybe even outbid the genuine users. They already invest a lot into getting past filters.

You can use VNC/RDP to remote into a graphical session. Graphical vs. terminal are both arbitrary binary streams over SSH, the computer doesn't care. There's no advantage to the terminal based one other than maybe less network utilization. I'd resort to that if I were traveling and only had my mobile phone's data as internet.

It really speaks to how badly innovation has slowed in chip design that a 10+ year old budget laptop is still comptitive hardware

It's easy to blame all the flaws of human character on its most highly available and proximate expression which is speech. There is violence, anger, hatred, envy, all kinds of evils in the world, the world isn't perfect, man isn't perfect, and trying to control others' thoughts isn't going to change that. That would actually be regressing several hundreds years back to the Dark Ages. If your assumption is that banning free speech would improve things, I would say that is the idealistic fantasy. There's no proof that it would work or wouldn't have the same unintended consequences as before. The more these platforms push back against their users, the more they turn the public against them, the more opportunities they create to be disrupted. In a recent poll 3 out of 4 Americans said they were willing to die for free speech.

Richard Stallman was right. The computer (smartphone) for millions of people has become a prison. The smartphone has been a tragedy for the human species.

"Oh it doesn't matter they went after people I disagree with"

Okay wise guy, what happens if the other side takes power? Think that's never happened historically? Then they'll come after you and I. How about we just not give this kind of power to anyone and let people make their own choices.

Unfortunately phones with SD cards are hard to come by these days. I think that was intentional to help prop up streaming because both each of the duopoly has heavy investments in streaming media.

Seems kind of misleading to post a github link that contains no code and it's actually nonfree software

The government could also just announce they're imprisoning anyone who owns Bitcoin. Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Grayscale all shut down overnight. Everyone rushes for the exits and drives the price down below $1. If it is ever to return it would be as an illegal product.

Now I don't think this is going to happen just because enough people in government own BTC at this point, but it's not impossible. And it has nothing to do with the resilience of the computing network. You could mine Bitcoin over TOR or I2P to keep the network alive but it won't matter.

> How much cryptocurrency has been stolen through software exploits, be it within a cryptocurrency itself or via some adjecent software, thus far?

In 2010 Bitcoin had a critical bug (integer overflow) which resulted in hundreds of millions of BTC being created. At the time the network was small enough that users accepted the patch for it which forked the chain.

In 2018 another inflation bug was found by a Bitcoin Cash developer who was kind enough to fix it instead of take advantage of it himself.

Bitcoin is just software. Lots of people involved in Bitcoin don't know anything about software and treat it like a religion. Bitcoin can barely do a few transactions per second even when it's main use case is leverage trading on exchanges. I'm sorry but that'll never be how you take over the world's payments.

Instead of innovating on the software, the Bitcoin cult just declares it "done". I like Bitcoin but the community has actively sabotaged the project. It looks like the one world currency will be Libra (or similar) instead. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

In a world with 500k Bitcoin the electric bill would be denominated in Bitcoin as well. No "new [fiat] money" would need to come into the market. Mining would be like any other business in the world that has expenses and pays operating expenses.

Eliminate TikTok from the US markets completely and watch how fast Facebook and others would rush to improve it. The reason they haven't is those efforts wouldn't be guaranteed to yield market share. That could change with a ban. Also training data comes from usage, so saying they have the best AI is the same as saying they're the market leader. That could change (artificially).

Is the brand really that valuable? Because the app is not magical. With a few million dollars you could replicate it top to bottom. Couldn't the US government just ban it and help the new US-based competitor succeed? This is what China would do if the roles were reversed.

Seems like a top signal.

This is a lagging indicator. If you did this in 2010, the top companies would all be PHP.

@"I have L5 disposable income".com

You forgot the state income tax.

It's also not accessible whatsoever to screen readers.

Live at head goes both ways it seems

The serious solution is to use Python, JVM or whatever interpreter is available on the device and use that to load/create the correct executable.

> from a software freedom standpoint, and the same goes for how difficult it's become to build native software from scratch, thanks to the shift from autotools to a whole new set of competitors like bazel, cmake, ninja, gin, etc.

Every single one of those programs you listed is FOSS licensed.

Autotools was originally developed as a compatibility layer to compile code on proprietary UNIXes.

That would be impossible to enforce or prove. Bitcoin may not be anonymous but it is pseudonymous. The government could make a case that you own this or that public key hash, but that can be litigated till kingdom come since they have no physical evidence. This is assuming our standards of jurisprudence as we know it would still exist in the future where the government attempts to seize coins. I suppose the government could always torture you. Imagine a world where the government tortures citizens to extract Bitcoin because they are forced into a corner by the abandonment of inflationary currency and they have to resort to actually "earning" money. That seems a bit extreme though (just to collect taxes) even for warlord countries let alone the USA. Which is why it wouldn't happen--there wouldn't be a government at all in that scenario, it would just disappear, and humanity would finally be free as it once was.

This is the future of containers:

https://guix.gnu.org/

https://nixos.org/

You can build a Docker-compatible image from a Guix or Nix package. You never have to use Docker or Docker Hub.

The limitation of Docker is that the nice semi-reproducible sandbox you get exists on top of an operating system that was not designed for it, resulting in giant blobs to get it to work. It's inefficient and a band-aid stopgap until we get to the future where the operating system is a pure function (which can be versioned in a tree, diffed, reverted, etc. just like git). If you used NixOS, you wouldn't need Docker. Sure, it's available and you can use it, but you wouldn't need to.

That's just the way corporate America operates. They hire lots of people because it's a better utilization of money than just giving money back to investors. If you give money back to investors, you're not growing anymore and have failed. If you reinvest (and for a pure tech company with no physical assets, that has to be hiring), maybe one of them can grow the company.

Privacy apps have their place in the FOSS Linux world. Usually GNU/Linux users don't pay money for software though. There aren't really good polished options on LineageOS and the other FOSS Android forks. Maybe OP could sell software to that community (nothing about being FOSS means you can't charge money). Might as well just skip the mainstream operating systems because people there by default don't care about privacy.

So is Tensorflow but do you really think volunteers could maintain it?