I'm a big fan of RISC-V but HiFive completely ruined the whole point.
I was excited for a _proper_ open ISA because it would open up super low cost hardware development. But looking at the $35 raspberry pi with a license-bound ARM ISA and a supposedly open source board for $1000 it looks like HiFive is playing by intel's or ARM's rules.
No chance for risc-v adoption with this ridiculous overpricing
It's not.
The "author" simply stole towel.blinkenlights and wrapped it in golang. I bet he updated himself to senior go engineer on linkedin after this.
None of the "cool" stuff in this is martinraison's work.
radare2 - https://github.com/radare/radare2/
More GNU than actual GNU sources, more UNIX than the linux kernel. Huge codebase but extremely easy to get involved with, orthogonal design with no compromise on speed. Best codebase I ever encountered
"Why would you eat an orange when you could drink a coffee instead?"
Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centralization the network itself can't reach a certain limit.
But this is a double-edged sword, this is only true to the whole system's perspective and it's completely different on the node (user) level graph-theoritically.
Also, the article forces certain needs on the users. There are lots of us who DON'T want to magically find anyone or be found magically with a keyword, nor interested in "trends" - this is heavily misleading for we still don't have proper metrics for it and won't have one for a while because the problem implies building fault-tolerant reputation networks (that are decentralized by the way)
Great to hear that you kill ME but I'll still stick with puri.sm or alpha.store because systen76 machines are just too freakin overpriced. They talk about freedom and FOSS yet their machines can cost 1.5 times a macbook, with free OS and rebranded chineese 200$ clevo cases. Available price is an essential part of FOSS and OSHW phylosophy, greed never had any place in this community
you can interpret this as a problem and as a solution too. Yes, ztransactions will could dye your money so no exchange will accept it because you are a terrorist and the US can ban the usage of ztransactions.
In my opinion it's better like this, since the overall goal is to not rely on exchanges and regulatory thirdparties. In a P2P economy (which is this technology is meant to lead us) fungibility problems are not a thing beacuse there is no relative central party to make a standard.
how are these for advanced users and hackers?
A REAL advanced/hacker entry setup would be:
Internet:
-Lynx
-w3m
Office, text editors, TODO list, note keeping:
-Vim
-Emacs
Dev tools:
-vagrant (headless)
-git
-language setup of choice (gcc, python javac ....)
Security:
-GPG
-pass
-openssl clu
Multimedia:
-mplayer
Graphics:
-imagemagic
Games:
-nethack
Productivity:
-i3
-xclip
-xterm
This one stinks.
Top 2 drug market disappear and a new search engine with fairy tale like timing shows up, with google analytics included, SSL by GlobalSign? Nope nope nope