kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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If anyone has some programming contract work they need done, please let me know. I have experience with Rust, Python, C, Go, Java, and JavaScript, and I primarily do frontend work. I can create designs if needed.
The price-to-earnings ratio for US stocks starts to resemble a hockey stick a bit 🙄
Fortunately, I think asthe Golden Rice was *already* approved in Philippines, Greenpeace must have been bugging them through all the legislative process, as this is what they do. So this Greenpeace statement must have been addressed at their most fanatical donors, a kind of reluctant admission they've lost but they fought to the end.
Greenpeace says:
"Greenpeace is calling on the DA to instead support sustainable and ecological food systems that are resilient and that holistically address the challenges related to livelihoods, health, and nutrition"
Which is basically equivalent to telling the population of Philippines, already suffering from VAD, to go and buy a pack of organic carrots in their nearest vegan shop while they wait for their soya late.
Hard to find a more cynical first-world patronising advice...
In 2016 a total of 158 Science Nobel Prize laureates (!) signed an open letter calling for #Greenpeace to stop anti-scientific hate campaign against #GMO and specifically Golden Rice. 250 million people suffer from vitamin A deficiency, which golden rice easily resolves.
https://www.supportprecisionagriculture.org/nobel-laureate-gmo-letter_rjr.html
In 2021, Greenpeace again unrolls a campaign against Philipiness approval of Golden Rice 🤦♂️
Overall experience is that it's a pretty normal SBC just as Sopine64 or RaspberryPi, although with low-profile spec (1 GB RAM) and single core CPU, which is fine as it's a prototype board.
System slowness I've noticed initially came out to be caused by a crappy microSD sent pre-flashed by the Nezha devs. After replacing with a decent A2 microSD it started to work perfectly.
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European Space Agency started to develop a #RISCV (+Vector extension) based processor called NOEL-V for very-low power and data intensive computation in their satellites. General GPU can't be used due to their complexity reducing efficiency, and low resistance to ionic waves in space, that made them give wrong results.
The main developer, Cobham Gaisler, also made a previous generation in 1990 called LEON, based on SPARC-8 architecture.
NOEL is an anagram of LEON, don't know if it is a reference to Noël (Christmas and a given name in French).
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.I010916
The main developer, Cobham Gaisler, also made a previous generation in 1990 called LEON, based on SPARC-8 architecture.
NOEL is an anagram of LEON, don't know if it is a reference to Noël (Christmas and a given name in French).
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.I010916
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Upcoming Espressif #ESP32-H2 #RISCV SoC with 802.15.4 radio (for #Zigbee/Thread) and #Bluetooth LE, but no WiFi. #semiconductors #wireless #smarthome #automation
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/07/28/esp32-h2-bluetooth-le-802-15-4-risc-v-soc-shows-up-in-esp-idf-source-code/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/cnxsoft/status/1420227520281006081
My #riscv Nezha is back online after I've screwed up its microSD and had to reflash it.
The Debian build prepared by Nezha devs uses AllWinner native format, which requires crappy Windows app called PhoenixCard to flash. This should change when someone ports it to u-boot.
And Nezha has the most impressive cpuinfo I've seen so far - simplicity is the power, no bugs, no workarounds as in IA63 😂
root@nezha:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
hart : 0
isa : rv64imafdcvu
mmu : sv39
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$5 "tax" to export your #Protonmail emails.
Nice.
A note on Linux QoS using tc-htb and fq_codel - it won't actually shape traffic until you add "noecn". The manual says the default is dropping packets but this has apparently changed - by default it will send ECN, which is a kind suggestion to the sender to slow down.
So this trivial tc script gets me all A's in DSLReports speedtest - previously it was C on buffer bloat (which hurts latency)
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Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
This is fantastic example of Kremlin 🇷🇺 cleverly adapting message to the audience - indeed, this "he's honestly in trouble" image apparently can be met with understanding by US and German audience.
Eastern Europe at the same enjoys carefully crafted image of "unpredictable psycho" 🤷
Oh, I haven't mentioned Roscomnadzor also enforced compliance of ~10 major VPN vendors operating in Russia earlier this year by basically threatening them to be blocked if they don't comply. But they are all pretty traditional OpenVPN-based with static IP entry points, so easy to block. So a P2P dynamic VPN like PKT with Yggdrasil suddenly becomes an attractive option.
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hi @cjd I was watching the PKT project and wondering how useful it would be for bypassing the deep packet inspection censorship that Russian gov started rolling out recently?
This suggests that cjdns and Wireguard handshake are completely opaque binary traffic:
https://crypto.pkt.cash/updates/cjdns-version-22-with-wireguard-based-encryption-pt-1/
No plaintext strings is important advantage as DPI specifically uses TLS SNI for target domain detection and blocking. How about entry points, directory servers and other potentially blockable resources?
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Müller-Lyer illusion is a good demonstration how you should *not* ultimately trust your senses and intuition. Human brain has hardwired heuristics that can be very misleading. Being aware of them and training to avoid bias however allows you to take decisions based on facts, not biased perception.
The YouTubers who exposed an anti-vax plot - BBC News
A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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