h
@dartigen On one side the capitalists who make everybody slave away for them even if it's not needed. On the other the workerist pseudo-socialists glorifying the worker as the true hero of modern society.
Meanwhile, in heavens above...
Genesis 2:15 "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it"
ᴜʀᴀɴᴛʜᴇʀ 🌐🏴
@h Yes, there's a lot you can do with plain ol' Bitcoin Script. Check out these contract primitives: https://docs.ivy-lang.org/bitcoin/language/ExampleContracts.html
h
@uranther I think the original Bitcoin Script by Satoshi stroke the right balance and it wasn't Turing Complete, so the solidity (ha!) of the VM implementation didn't matter as much. Besides, it wouldn't have made sense to support a separate network just to hold a few bytes worth of code, that would have been an overkill.
It's just baffling that Ethereum became successful making so many bad design decisions afterwards.
h
@bobstechsite I'm more confused by expressions such as "I could care less" and terms such as "football".
@Om*
they see me rollin...
Eugen
Last week the projected number of active users on Mastodon reached 87k
h
@uranther That sounds like a worthy endeavour, although I'm more convinced these days that the blockchain is not the right place to store Turing complete code. They could store a key that decrypts the code that sits elsewhere as bytes on some DHT.
Anyway, it's unlikely that they can make something worse than the EVM, anything they do in that direction will be progress.
ᴜʀᴀɴᴛʜᴇʀ 🌐🏴
@h yes! It's a small and sane target platform (~6000 lines in #Rust). #Ethereum developers are working on replacing their sorry-ass VM with the well-specified #WebAssembly VM - the project is called #eWASM.
h
@uranther And you can use any language you want that can be compiled to WA. Not tied to Javascript anymore.
Although many people will probably still deliver Electron runtimes with WA stuff bolted-in.
h
@uranther It's well-possible that WA will take root off-the-web first.
ᴜʀᴀɴᴛʜᴇʀ 🌐🏴
@h Related project, #WASM close to the metal using #Rust: https://github.com/metal-os/metal
h
The Free Software Foundation moves to address the Intel Management Engine threat.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/intel-management-engine-2013-take-action
"The Intel Management Engine (ME) is a grave threat to the freedom, privacy, and security of computer users. [...]
If there is an event at your university or in your community addressing the Intel chip bugs, we urge you to distribute printed copies of our report by Denis GNUtoo Carikli"
PDF Document Download:
https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/blogs/Intel_ME_Carikli_article_PRINT_2.pdf
#fsf #freesoftware @intel #ime #spectre
h
Trekkies attend Klingon language lecture in Taipei
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeas/201801140009.aspx
via @ryusei
[I don't care much for the pop culture aspects, or about linguistics of the Klingon language, but this is very interesting to me from an anthropological point of view, because of the continued existence of Klingon a constructed language around the world]
#taiwan #news #constructedlanguage #constructedlang #constructedlanguages #community #tribe #startrek
h
"We are no longer swamped in a dialectic between disenchanting and the disenchantment that shaded in shadows the culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
We are at the gates of surrender. The surrender of humankind regarding the task of learning and self-teaching in order to live with more dignity."
(1/3)
h
@enkiv2 The Second Foundation is out there.
h
@enkiv2 This person is either one of you guys, or they're reading our minds.
https://twitter.com/Ngnghm/status/951376506651136000
h
The Management Engine: an attack on computer users' freedom
via @fsf
With security issues like the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities discovered in Intel chips in early 2018, it became more important than ever to talk about the necessity of software freedom in these deeply embedded technologies. Thanks to Denis GNUtoo Carikli, we have a new basis for that conversation in this article.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom
h
There's people who make good things for today, and that's a good thing because we need things to work today.
There's people who make things for tomorrow. And that's a good thing because tomorrow we will need new things.
There's people who make things for no particular time. Possibly never, but we can't know when. That may not be useful today, but people who make things for tomorrow may find them useful. So that's important even if not urgent.
I'm trying my best to be somewhere in the middle.
h
@jjg @vertigo@mastodon.socia
Tangentially related, via @0xMatt@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/0xMatt/status/950235858430382080
https://social.coop/media/e1O3JALR8ohhhczcTDc
h
Try to:
1. Write a program that has some struct
2. Enable it to send this struct to another program.
(Serialising and sending over sockets is cheating. There is no need to waste cycles in serialisation between two programs running in the same memory space, on the same architecture)
3. Write a program that can receive that struct and print it.
4. Make sure it compiles and runs on all major platforms.
If you can achieve that effortlessly, then hard barriers don't exist.
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