Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 23

As a person that grew up in the church and a military family, I understand how the constant repetition of ideology can transform into a version of truth. It took a pretty big effort on my part to unlearn a lot of the lies about the world I was taught as a kid.

But at some point in time you have to recognize what beliefs might be helping you, but hurting people not like you.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, et all are all examples of personal belief systems that sustain human regressiveness.

Oh man, I love it when EFF gets philosophical: "DRM gets made over the course of years, by skilled engineers, at a cost of millions of dollars. It gets broken in days, by teenagers, with hobbyist equipment. That's not because the DRM-makers are stupid, it's because they're doing something stupid.”

(Also this is a terrifyingly good article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next)

Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.

You can't tell me that's just coincidence.

I'm bored.. Please tell me how this looks.

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@djsundog This is a good read even if you *don't* program in Forth. It uses Forth as the example language in the same way that Design Patterns uses Smalltalk for its examples, but the principles are nicely language agnostic.

@djsundog Just don't read the comments. Hackaday is every bit as bad as Hacker News in this regard. Nothing but haters.

@jjg @djsundog Similar circumstances, when you think about it. Commercially available computers are all closed-source at some level, or they make use of strait-jacket technologies like UEFI ("tEcHnIcAlLy" open-source, but only in its most benevolent state; actual deployments have lots of proprietary BS added in which are not disclosed publically), etc.

So, in a world of mainframe-like OSes running on personal big-iron that we no longer own, homebrewing becomes a duty.

It's official. I'm rebooting the Kestrel-3 Project.

http://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2017/11/22/kestrel-thaw

Compatibility between ISAs isn't guaranteed due to the different register sizes; however, if you're clever with your coding, you can write multi-ISA code.

Cross-width compatibility isn't a priority, though, as history shows to make a cross-width-compatible ISA, you need a lot of complex mechanisms in the hardware (defeating its RISC-y nature). It's expected the compiler will paper over the differences.

Note that x86-64 is also not compatible with x86-32. :) Not even x86 is immune.

ALSO, this is my favorite PSA in the world:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rft6IZjOaOA