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date: 2024-10-21, from: Liliputing
The SiFive HiFive Premiere P550 is a development board built around an Eswin EIC7700 system-on-a-chip with four SiFive Performance P550 RISC-V processor cores, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory, 128GB of eMMC storage, an on-board GPU, and an NPU with up to 19.95 TOPS of AI performance. First unveiled in April, SiFive says the […]
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date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/21/north-and-also-west-to-the-future/
date: 2024-10-21, from: OS News
It’s no secret that a default Windows installation is… Hefty. In more ways than one, Windows is a bit on the obese side of the spectrum, from taking up a lot of disk space, to requiring hefty system requirements (artificial or not), to coming with a lot of stuff preinstalled not everyone wants to have to deal with. As such, there’s a huge cottage industry of applications, scripts, modified installers, custom ISOs, and more, that try to slim Windows down to a more manageable size. As it turns out, even Microsoft itself wants in on this action. The company that develops and sells Windows also provides a Windows debloat script. Over on GitHub, Microsoft maintains a repository of scripts simplify setting up Windows as a development environment, and amid the collection of scripts we find RemoveDefaultApps.ps1, a PowerShell script to “Uninstall unnecessary applications that come with Windows out of the box”. The script is about two years old, and as such it includes a few applications no longer part of Windows, but looking through the list is a sad reminder of the kind of junk Windows comes with, most notably mobile casino games for children like Bubble Witch and March of Empires, but also other nonsense like the Mixed Reality Portal or Duolingo. It also removes something called “ActiproSoftwareLLC“, which are apparently a set of third-party, non-Microsoft UI controls for WPF? Which comes preinstalled with Windows sometimes? What is even happening over there? The entire set of scripts makes use of Chocolatey wrapped in Boxstarter, which is “a wrapper for Chocolatey and includes features like managing reboots for you”, because of course, the people at Microsoft working on Windows can’t be bothered to fix application management and required reboots themselves. Silly me, expecting Microsoft’s Windows developers to address these shortcomings internally instead of using third-party tools. The repository seems to be mostly defunct, but the fact it even exists in the first place is such a damning indictment of the state of Windows. People keep telling us Windows is fine, but if even Microsoft itself needs to resort to scripts and third-party tools to make it usable, I find it hard to take claims of Windows being fine seriously in any way, shape, or form.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140955/microsoft-maintains-its-own-windows-debloat-scripts-on-github/
date: 2024-10-21, from: OS News
In early 2022 I got several Sun SPARC servers for free off of a FreeCycle ad: I was recently called out for not providing any sort of update on those devices… so here we go! ↫ Sidneys1.com Some information on booting old-style SPARC machines, as well as pretty pictures. Nice palate-cleanser if you’ve had to deal with something unpleasant this weekend. This world would be a better place if we all had our own Sun machines to play with when we get sad.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140953/booting-sun-sparc-servers/
date: 2024-10-21, from: 404 Media Group
“We deeply regret this unacceptable miss, and the confusion it has caused,” Twitch said.
https://www.404media.co/twitch-quietly-blocked-new-users-from-israel-and-palestine-since-october-7/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Scripting News: The Mets came to play.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21/125035.html?title=theMetsCameToPlay
date: 2024-10-21, from: 404 Media Group
Here is the full video of Joseph’s recent talk at the DEF CON hacking conference, showing never-before-shared details about the FBI’s secret phone company called Anom.
https://www.404media.co/watch-inside-the-fbis-secret-phone-company/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Death of the Minivan.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Think of it as a web of writing
http://scripting.com/2024/10/20.html#a174618
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Can you believe Bluesky could have built their system on http and rss. If it really works, what a response to ActivityPub. We’d be years ahead of where we are now. Social web devs should check this out.
https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3l6yapq72hz2w
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Top 100 Bagel Shops in New York 2024.
https://www.yelp.com/article/top-100-bagel-shops-in-new-york-2024
date: 2024-10-20, from: Advent of Computing
Have you ever felt like a computer just refuses to work? Like a machine has a mind of it’s own? In 1970 a hard drive at the National Farmers Union Corp. office decided to do just that. That year it started crashing for apparently no reason. It would take 2 years and 56 crashes to sort out the problem. The ultimate solution would leave more questions than answers. Was the hard drive haunted? Or was something else at play?
Selected Sources:
https://archive.org/details/computercrime0000mckn/page/98/mode/2up - Computer Crime
https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1972-08-02_6_31/mode/1up?view=theater - Computer World article
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-143-the-haunted-hard-drive
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Paul Frazee thread where he explains Blue Sky's philosophy of formats and user data. Illuminating. He says in one msg that they could have used HTTP and RSS. I wish they had. Could've saved a lot of time and confusion. They still should do it. Huge potential adoption with devs.
https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3l6xwi52zti2y
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"I wish I was around when people had blogs." You are. Start a blog.
https://rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I asked meta.ai when the .io tld was going to disappear. It said basically never. I figured. I had read an article that seemed to imply its disappearance was imminent, but didn't say when.
https://www.meta.ai/s/QVLmMiiDGawHbe9x/
date: 2024-10-20, from: Tedium site
If your favorite content management system feels like it’s sinking into a shallow well of hubris, you might want alternatives. I have a few ideas.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16860344/wordpress-cms-alternatives-content-strategy-advice
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The press has no power over Trump, he went around them going directly to the people through Twitter. Musk observed this, bought Twitter, for which his ROI will be huge. The Dems ignored this, and played the political game as if Twitter never happened. For Trump it was an accident, but not for Musk, he knew exactly what he was doing.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/16/opinion/trump-cognitive-decline-press-republicans/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
If Trump wins, blame the New York Times.
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/20/if-wins-the-new-york-times/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Welcome to Claude.
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/welcome
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Podcast: Musk could push Trump over the top. 17 minutes.
https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2024/10/20/warningMuskCouldPushTrumpOverTheTop.html
date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
Elon Musk tries to disrupt electoral politics by doing a bunch of blatantly illegal shit
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/turns-out-the-october-surprise-is
date: 2024-10-20, from: One Useful Thing
A little intuition can help
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-like-an-ai
date: 2024-10-20, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, the sound and semantics of my new job title gave me some pause and made me think about what it really means to be doing docs-as-code. To say that it’s about writing documentation using the same tools and methods as software developers is correct, but fails to acknowledge the full consequences of the fact. Most descriptions of docs-as-code are naive because they stop at the implications of being developers’ attachés.
https://passo.uno/what-docs-as-code-means/
date: 2024-10-20, updated: 2024-10-20, from: Oberon A2 repository
I'm trying to adapt the Linux API to run on Android (in Termux) of the A2 UnixARM build. The kernel runs, but there are problems when compiling the adapted modules. When compiling for the UnixARM platform, the compiler traps if the procedure (procedural variable) is marked with the {C} modifier and contains an argument of the SIGNED64 type.
MODULE TestARM;
VAR f: PROCEDURE {C} (y: SIGNED64);
PROCEDURE P;
BEGIN
f(0);
END P;
END TestARM.
Compiler.Compile -p=UnixARM TestARM.Mod ~https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/153
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump kicks off Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer's genitalia.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Vanishing of the Internet.
date: 2024-10-20, from: Gary Marcus blog
A tale of two analogies
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-openai-more-like-wework-or-theranos
date: 2024-10-20, updated: 2024-10-20, from: Tom Kellog blog
The buzz is there! The cooks are cooking! But what is entropix? I wrote a fluff piece here explaining it, but the most comprehensive and complete description of entropix is here.
http://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/10/20/entropix-part2
date: 2024-10-20, from: Glasgow Haskell Compiler
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.8.3. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available on the release page.
This release is primarily a bugfix release the 9.8 series. These include:
runRW#
(#25055)
A full accounting of changes can be found in the release notes. As some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to upgrade promptly.
We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.
As always, do give this release a try and open a ticket if you see anything amiss.
Happy compiling!
http://haskell.org/ghc/blog/20241020-ghc-9.8.3-released.html