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by sennight 5y ago
> You are both mostly right, as I understand it. > If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "perma
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by sennight 5y ago
> This is ignoring that if you own 51% of the network... Are you talking about some kind of node sybil attack? Because the only way I can make sense of what you've said is if a system had client implementations maintaining zero stat
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by sennight 5y ago
> the ideals of free software is for software to be free (according to the four fundamental freedoms)... No, it is to ensure that people are free - as software doesn't know the difference. Would you deny the existence of business st
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by sennight 5y ago
Sure. Hardware producers have zero interest in supporting hardware they don't sell anymore, and if they sell a newer version that competes with the old then such maintenance is doubly costly - as it cuts into potential sales. But they
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by sennight 5y ago
No they aren't, that is the point made when: the deprecation is announced, preprocessor flags are added to cordon off the code and throw compilation warnings, finally - the code is deleted. The burden is then shifted onto the hardware
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by sennight 5y ago
That would be their fault - they intentionally provide an incomplete specification for their proprietary formats. It is a compatibility nightmare - there is no telling what kind of corruption or information loss an older version of the soft
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by sennight 5y ago
> Sometimes it takes very long for things to die definitively. And other times it occurs very quickly and for no good reason. Linux gleefully deletes functionality like hardware accelerated framebuffer scrolling, because the devs can&#x2
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by sennight 5y ago
> Did you file a bug with your system's firmware provider or with upstream? Nope, I patched my code to mainline the bits directly to where they were going. > ...it's how OpenBMC provides the console via IPMI, Redfish, SSH...
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by sennight 5y ago
It was eating characters, which is the second worst thing it could do. Digging into the source, I found a really wonky software buffer... which kind of blew my mind - since hardware buffers and flow control exist. I don't remember if t
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by sennight 5y ago
The statement was "run software from OpenBMC"... so that could mean almost anything - anything except the conclusion to seem to have drawn. My guess would be that it means they'll grab some of the python code and carve up the
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by sennight 5y ago
I doubt IBM gave Google any thought in this matter. I'm pretty confident that it has a lot more to do with the way IBM does their market segmentation, and how that is related to hardware + software bundling and firmware. The ARM BMC fi
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by sennight 5y ago
Well the same guy (yes, he is a madman) did another one in Chisel, which is one step removed from Verilog: https://github.com/antonblanchard/chiselwatt I don't spend enough time with FPGAs to even pretend to have
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by sennight 5y ago
An OpenPOWER one, likely this with modification: https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
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by sennight 5y ago
It does, it is used for soft realtime related stuff (power, fan, errorlog, etc). Throwing BMC related activities in there is certainly doable, but it would complicated things to the point where another chip would be tempting.
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by sennight 5y ago
They're replacing openbmc, thankfully - the build system is absolutely ridiculous. The motivation is to escape binary blob ARM world. You know that POWER and RISC-V are competing solutions, right?
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by sennight 5y ago
How? Well, you can start with the fact that it isn't over. If the objective had been to "revolutionize how we transact in less than 10 years" then you'd have a point. Now consider the reason why we're talking about
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by sennight 5y ago
Having been in it from the beginning, I can tell you that it isn't crypto that is failing to "revolutionize how we transact" - it is the existing system both moving at a slow pace and actively fighting the loss of control. Th
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by sennight 5y ago
It is definitely possible to run a lightning node using a pruned backend. The official implementation doesn't "support" it, but that is only because some additional thinking is required on the end user's part. It is real
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by sennight 5y ago
What is a sign of success, multicasting every transaction in the world and storing it on a public ledger? I don't remember that being in the white paper.
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by sennight 5y ago
> Yeah Elon is a controversial & polarizing figure... He seems to get a lot of irrational hate, in the same way competing teams in spectator sports do. Its reasonable to recognize his achievements for what they are, it is ridiculous
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by sennight 5y ago
You might be interested in what Anton Blanchard has been up to with the power ISA soft cores, it seems like his work has spanned the bulk of the FPGA toolkits, and I think his latest is taped out for the SKY130 run. His work is also being a
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by sennight 5y ago
While their cert list isn't a bustling hive of activity, a ten year tech lag isn't the rule. Raptor Computing got a power9 motherboard certified only two years after the chip's launch. That seems pretty fast to me, but then..
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by sennight 5y ago
The idea that it was "an inside job" is laughable. Mark Karpeles was a doofus who got in over his head, churning out php scripts, while bounding up and down on his exercise ball chair. I remember that Roger Ver hostage video like
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by sennight 6y ago
Every so often a moron shows up trying to sell the idea of colored coins... it is almost as if they've never heard of "fungibility".
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by sennight 6y ago
Care to provide an example of the USG leveraging a vulnerability to delete files on hundreds of domestic servers without the permission or knowledge of the owners? Because the closest thing I can think of involves the military targeting a f
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by sennight 6y ago
Well, this is a totally awful development. In the 80s the idea of white worms being used to patch vulnerabilities was rejected for good reason, so I have to think this has little to do with security and much more to do with normalizing beha
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by sennight 6y ago
Look up the legal definition of "theft". In your analogy the candy would be the user's privacy and attention, which the adblocker denies the store use of. It is only theft if the store owns the user's privacy and attenti
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by sennight 6y ago
I almost look forward to the feds seizing large sums of bitcoin in the course of their investigations, because that seems to be the only time that there are consequences: when the evidence is mathematically provable and on a decentralized p
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by sennight 6y ago
The FBI disagrees, as they effectively operated one massive CP hidden service for something like a week after collaring the administrator. So how many children did they repeatedly victimize in that time? Zero, if you go off the number of ag
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by sennight 6y ago
Which means very little in light of my criticism: "think of the children" is a pretense and there is no shortage of people who still fall for it. Complaining about the subterfuge not aligning with your ideals is just goofy.

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