Notices by Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no), page 5
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Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 07:55:31 EST 
Hattie Cat
IMO Intel have always built shitty CPU architectures and exaggerated their capabilities. The i860 billed as a "Cray on a chip" - superpipelined but you had to hand-tune the assembler for max performance to avoid pipeline stall and it had to dump/restore so much state on a context switch it was basically unusable for multi-tasking and ended up as a graphics processor. Itanic failed to live up to expectations - very long instruction word needed advanced compiler technology (you thought they'd have learned). ix86 programming manual claimed it had "general purpose registers" - err, bollocks, not like the clean, orthogonal 68000 series or VAX so you have to hit the stack/cache shuffling operands into the right registers. ix86 is a bag on the side of a bag on the side of a bag of shit, sustained only by heroic feats of engineering. A decent alternative at a reasonable price (RISC-V?) can't come soon enough. </rant> -
Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:26:52 EST 
Rysiekúr Memesson
Welp: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
> A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.
> Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down.
> A spokesperson for Intel was not available for comment
Weren't they now.
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Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 19:33:47 EST
Hattie Cat
New Year Resolutions:
(1) Be more productive with use of time.
(2) Reduce support for tax-avoiding multinationals, increase localism. (Order books at local bookstore instead of Amazon etc.)
(3) Reduce, or cut, use of exploitative or intrusive tech platforms.
(4) Get on top of my reading backlog. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 05:53:06 EST 
Bob Mottram
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Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 14:48:09 EST
Hattie Cat
StartPage vs. DuckDuckGo. http://securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-2016-update/ -
Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 14:26:43 EST
Hattie Cat
@bob Any federated alternatives to Skype which are easy to use then? (Wire is easy to set up and multiplatform, so especially good for nontechnical friends who are concerned about Skype.) -
Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 14:05:25 EST
Hattie Cat
@bob What so you reckon about Wire? Not quite equivalent but using as a Skype alternative and it also supports messanging. -
Taiz (taiz@masto.quad.moe)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 16:05:17 EST 
Taiz
>be eugen
>write open-source software that you advertise as free to use
>people use it freely
>"wtf when i said freely i didn't mean in that way"
>literally try to revoke open source software and the license that he chose himself
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