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Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript, Swift/Kotlin. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches

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They’ve been declining for years. It’s time the community ditched them for RISC-V machines.

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hackaday.com/…/the-future-of-risc-v-and-the-visio…

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RISC-V is an open instruction set, which should be what the Pi foundation (if their open source mission is to be taken at face value) would be switching to if they weren’t just a way for Broadcom to push their chips on the maker community under the guise of open source.

riscv.org/…/what-is-risc-v-and-why-is-it-importan….

RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), has been making waves in the world of computer architecture. “RISC-V” stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) and the “V” represents the fifth version of the RISC architecture. **Unlike proprietary architectures such as ARM and x86, RISC-V is an open standard, allowing anyone to implement it without the need for licensing fees. This openness has led to a surge in interest and adoption across various industries, making RISC-V a key player in the evolving landscape of computing.**At its core, an instruction set architecture defines the interface between software and hardware, dictating how a processor executes instructions. RISC-V follows the principles of RISC, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency in instruction execution. This simplicity facilitates easier chip design, reduces complexity, and allows for more straightforward optimization of hardware and software interactions. This stands in contrast to Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) architectures, which have more elaborate and versatile instructions, often resulting in more complex hardware designs. The open nature of RISC-V is one of its most significant strengths. The ISA is maintained by the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit organization that oversees its development and evolution. The RISC-V Foundation owns, maintains, and publishes the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), an open standard for processor design. The RISC-V Foundation was founded in 2015 and comprises more than 200 members from various sectors of the industry and academia.

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Amen. I’d love to see Home Assistant start using it. I’m not holding out hope, though, because the guy behind Home Assistant is actively hostile.

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Much like the fediverse, we’re very early on that technology. We’re waiting for the network effect to take hold in both areas. Once it does, things will improve significantly, IMO.

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ShouldaBeenLars

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Music to my ears. Tax money should go to open source projects.

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Yes!

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Any first world nation.

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Do you mean Will Ferrell and Joe Bonamasa?

Your beginner keyboard and regret buying that?

What was your beginner keyboard and which keyboard are you using now? It seems, that a lot of people tend to prefer smaller keyboards with layers. I myself am a bit intimidated by them, and would much prefer a somewhat more traditional number of keys, like the Lili58 or the Sofel has (as for now, I think I will get a Lili58)....

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Started with a Keyboardio Model 100 and that’s what I stuck with. I spent a long time weighing the different options and this one was the best. It’s pretty great but certainly not portable.

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I noticed that you define 99% of people as the left. Left of whom? Hitler?

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I discovered a few bands from their Tiny Desk concert. The best of all was Khruangbin.

As another comment alluded to, it’s all but certain that TINY DESK has now jumped the shark.

It did take a while.

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TINY DESK! 🤦🏻‍♂️

It’s easy to imagine how they will jump the shark in the future. Look at enshittification.

How about them being so selective with who they pick that they don’t choose any good music in the future but instead choose Taylor Swift and other acts that are so mainstream that it’s like watching the Grammy’s? That’s easy to imagine. It’ll happen and we won’t be able to find new, obscure, amazing acts like Khruangbin through their show because that’s exactly how this type of thing happens.

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I get it. They had Adele near the beginning.

Still, IMO things that successful have a tendency to veer toward enthittification on a long enough timeline.

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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!

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Jackal! That game was a bonding moment for my brother and I.

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I love the rest of Metallica but

LARS

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In that case, the whole tech industry should, in solidarity, refuse to look for work and let the tech companies that just launched major layoffs feel the foolishness of their actions. Those tech workers need to wait long enough to allow Google, MSFT, Meta, Apple, etc. suffer the consequences of automation. If they managed this, when they finally do come crawling back, tech workers can get fat raises using this solidarity and collective action.

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Sort of. But people in society CAN act in solidarity. It’s obviously unlikely (something tech CEO’s calculated in these layoffs).

Obviously, capitalist exceptionalism is going to cause them not to do this. No one wants to loan their neighbor some money to weather a strike that WILL eventually lift ALL BOATS because of the whole “fuck you, got mine” vibe of EVERYONE in cutthroat capitalist societies. If I had the money, I’d certainly take part in this kind of collective action…and I’d also argue that many tech workers can because they were paid INCREDIBLY well in comparison to most trades…but you and I know they won’t.

I’m a member of a stagehand union that will NEED to strike during the summer (our busiest season) in order to gain some ground back from what price gouging, austerity, and inflation has taken from us. I can easily guess how likely the membership will be to endorse a strike when we will have been out of work for more than a year when negotiations start. That doesn’t make what I said less true; just about as unlikely as a third power coming to power in the United States two party electoral system.

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tip: you can actually get organized in a union and strike just to get more money, no need for AI or getting fired. CEOs hate this trick!

✊🏼

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I agree with you but let’s not pretend that that’s not entirely BY DESIGN.

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I hate this argument even more passionately. Since austerity has been eating away at all social programs…particularly ones that involve technology (which should be the correct avenue for funding FOSS software projects), we must, as citizens, financially incentivize software developers to avoid the monetization traps that exist.

Case in point: I’ve recently been working on a way of federating inventory. I’ll let you guess how viable that project is without some way of COMPLETELY UNDERMINING THE SOCIAL GOOD OF SUCH A PROJECT SIMPLY BECAUSE I HAVE TO PAY RENT AND EAT FOOD WHILE WORKING ON IT. I’ll let you guess how many different ways that I will likely need to compromise the sanctity of my vision (which should basically be an addition to the open pub/sub protocol) just to make working on it something that could support me. If my project were funded by governments and non-commercial entities, I’d be fine. But the reality is: these kinds of technologies are often compromised because of this same bullshit line of reasoning.

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I don’t personally support badgering users. I’m talking about the compromises built into most of our projects that are only NECESSARY because our social programs have been scrapped.

In a sufficiently advanced socialist society, FOSS projects would be funded the same as roads. We don’t live in that system. I wish we did. We live in a system where Meta, Google, and Amazon have gigantic government contracts and they use that money to pay their devs to compromise open protocols. The reality is that indie devs with true integrity (like the ones who built the platform were having this discussion on right now) need more funding than they’re getting. I appreciate them not hounding people for money but that doesn’t eliminate the need for it…

to create a strawman argument about being “hounded” is disingenuous at best.

Just started my ergo adventure, but I have questions...

I just got a ZSA Moonlander and I’ve been… on an adventure with it. Turns out my typing technique was total garbage so I’ve had to essentially start re-learning how to touch type. That, plus the ortho layout, plus the other ways my layout is now changed (special chars) has made the learning curve feel steep....

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I’m about a month in on a Keyboardio Model 100 and I absolutely love the shape of the key caps.

I am in the process of building 2 Sofles (I’ll be looking to sell one) and the fact that my key caps from Keyboardio don’t fit the Sofle’s spacing has me considering modifying the sofle V2 to follow the exact spacing as the Model 100 so I can use the same amazingly sexy key caps on it.

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Of course we don’t need them. We don’t need so many things that the ruling class pushes on us like war and austerity.

What we have now is feudalism with a few extra layers of abstraction. Can you picture feudalism without the need for a class of serfs? I’ll give you a hint…on a long enough timeline this humanoid robot serf replacement program produces only two potential outcomes:

  1. countless murdered poor people.
  2. post-scarcity utopia like we see in Star Trek: TNG.

Which one do you think is more likely?

Further thinking on this topic: youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?si=SQOhfYjLoy2rt0lw

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