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I agree, I’m impressed by a sole idea of connecting these two things together

That’s the question I’m asking. Where is Siemens and Bosch these days… all I see is China is playing to get through EU compliance to ensure more phoning home from Industry 4.0 appliances. Meh.

And no, I’m not American, nor I think Americans can be trusted more these days in the race of global surveillance programs.

But having open, patent free standards is noble. I love the idea.

I think you misunderstood. I’m happy to buy RISC-V computer but from a vendor that I can trust I don’t need to place in DMZ or I see funny traffic on the routers

I like RISC-V as a concept but still only Chinese are focused on manufacturing those today.

So.. it's a bit funny to read there is an European Initiative... to promote Chinese computer appliances.

In times when fridges with Chinese electronics that are phoning home become more hack-able today than ever..

small part of Downtown.. looks cool but instantly one wants more, especially if you know what this city can offer today and how rapidly it's changing its landscape!

but why? :)

oh geez.. I was not thinking about it, but if this piece of hardware runs PowerPC Mac.. then Amiga OS 4.x or MorphOS and Amiga baby... PowerMac is for sissies when you compare this opportunity!

IP6 babe!

Oh my Gosh.. this is a little bit too abstract to me as first encounter, but the concept never the less is cool to digest deeper into!

Agreed, I found SO and Quora and similar sites with general or specific question/answer based communities weak long before AI.

AI replaced Google Search in many ways more directly on arrival than those.

SO to me was weak as it had outdated answers to outdated questions (yet related to search queries) that nobody maintained well.. and the community more focused on patronising to push their point of view than being essentially objective in many ways.

that was a total killer to me and I started preferring to come back to books, manuals and researching topics myself than short cuts like SO.. and that research is heavily optimised during AI/LLM era, yes, but that's just one of many nails to SO's coffin.

I’m fine with it as long as Anthropic is fine we can distill their models to create own without burning all that energy (vide DeepSeek case)

I agree, this is also where I'm investing my time Metal mostly and then try to adapt it to DX12 on Windows and I totally skipped Vulkan for that simple reason you have described. but in generic terms only Vulkan comes with portability as analogy to original OGL vision.. I respect that even though the whole framework is to be ditched and rethought into something even more modern and sustainable...

so Metal yes, if somebody wants to be Apple focused. but in the academic world I don't believe that's the case either...

I agree with Adam Sawicki that it's not that relevant any more but also I do believe it's valuable lesson to tech students where the modernity comes from.

I just don't see personally sense to focus on it longer than just 1mo of intro, tutorial, get through simple example, show limitations, carry on to Vulkan/WGPU with background story that there is also DX12 and Metal that follow similar principles.

Man, <Eternal September> this is so true. I totally forgot that term until you brought it back to my memory. I miss times when only universities and enlightened people had access to online discussions, not the average folk who just quack.

considering people today are messaging (typing in) more in whatsapp than in facebook as the latter is infested by AI content and dead internet theory more than ever.. well. I'd add to whatsapp valuation in their evil empire. I'd not be surprised it should be more valued by Zuck today than FB + Insta together as prospect for the future.. only to die as every online communicator eventually dies... call it ICQ, Skype or whatever...

true. but since 2012 or so with almost no karma thanks to little activity. so I'd say I respect HN for it's self-curated discipline to consume something that often Reddit and other places long lost. Don't screw it up people! :)

that's something very key about how you found out that it had to be paid first to afford what is the most expensive currency in the world -> time. People not always realise that until it's too late that we're not fighting to get more dollah... but more time when you have enough dollah so you can show all that consumerism and wanna-be-life-celebrity attitude a proper middle finger!

I absolutely agree too.. also on the extra effort factor to get it.

when I think about ADHD as modern civilisational disease, I can't find better reference than Johny Mnemonic and that lady who needed jabs from a black doc because she could not handle emotions not keep her hand without shaking and they explained it very well.. "nobody understands it.. but it came with the moment we stopped being able to consume all the information that was bombarding us" sort of as quasi quotation (I don't really remember it word by word, but I do believe that was the explanation)

Today we don't need sci-fi/cyberpunk movies/books to actually have that as properly diagnosed biological/psychological problem, not many know how to deal with unless you get prescriptions for soft-amphetamine variance given as a medicine so one can kill extra thoughts running crazy inside or... go mental and/or depressed. and trust me.. I have 2 at home. so it's not that I'm judgemental.. it's just my daily routine to deal with a challenge that outside drug.. slowing down and getting offline.. actually helps equally vs. everybody believes we can be celebrities online for 72h then nobody cares... actually never cared so here comes the attention drama to 10k other thoughts, brains tells you is important.

I can assure you... all the online mess ain't helping all of you who suffer it, unless you're brilliantly intelligent people (many are) who are highly functional, considering the energy burnout that requires you to stay above the water line.

Yes, world we live in not helping to avoid its pitfalls, even if you were born with it. not saying it's 100% 'gotten' thanks to times we live in, but surely exposed beyond personal management to many... thanks to times we live in.

Gopher or not.. there are BBSes, there are many ways just to stop doom scrolling, avoid surveillance economy as much as possible and live offline with a book (not a kindle device) on your knees. and yes.. most of the ADHD generation with depressions, self-identification problems that we see today is exactly because tech made them this way.. or social media most of all.

I came back to simpler life some years ago. Being close to 50yo punk rocker who every time when asked to reply on Whatsapp answers "I don't have Whatsapp, if you want to call me you should afford to call me without making Zuck richer at your own cost". and people.. are.. bamboozled in most cases and just carry on doom scrolling themselves.

I don't. I finally have time again for movies, books, games and deeper communication with fewer and just occasionally pop up in more... I hope, moderated places like even here (although Hacker News that mixes tech, politics and food links is not exactly Hacker to me anymore and that's where actually some harder moderation would be beneficial here instead of just letting cry outs down voting just because we may have different opinions).

World is screwed as this guy described in his phlog. Hard to believe river can be turned back with a stick as we say in my country... but skipping as much BS as possible and "don't feed the troll" should be rephrased as don't support social media barons and political adversaries who manipulate us via non-moderated pseudo journalism.. not just punishing simple people who just want simple lives.

I personally miss times when netiquette (the one that emerged from early UNIX and USENET communities) was still the thing in the net. At full extend.

Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?

Apologies if this is vulgar but what kind of idiot grants access to his own bank account to AI agent. I don’t see logic here outside maybe B2B so accounting systems use AI while accessing accounts, like part of ERP system integration which is interesting case to confirm who and how allows that technically so IT could also educate itself and its accounting department and partners about the precedence… outside that it’s just plain stupid!

Not sure how it plays, I havent tried it yet. But the concept sounds very interesting and well… real!

Hilarious! A bit of Monty Python-alike logic too ;)

Good job and much clearer release notes than the ones I was reading about recent Linux release by the way.. much more informative and better organised to understand the impact in practical terms. #BSD_hellyeah

Of course you can but I think author’s point is to actually test/evaluate maximum performance of true software rendering on modern machines, and this is fine and refreshing exercise, even with filtering.

This actually what I have also returned to in my latest demoscene demo: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106969

It’s 100% software rendering on CPU just multithreaded. But no metal/direct3d just framebuffer and rest is yours routines… and I actually added bilinear filtering…

Still fun project to do and remind yourself about fundamental algorithms behind elementary 3D graphics

Brilliant, I love it. Is there any video showing how it works in action?

electricity plugs haven't changed for hundred of years, that's a standard. if you change things inside a package every couple of years then it's a product line not a standard.. like Jeep Wrangler that looked different years ago and now.. as an analogy.

I'm not critical about languages evolving.. just the tech changes so quickly that perhaps standardising it doesn't make any sense any more.

I wonder if languages like RUST or GO will ever become ISO standards.. I do believe all these new platforms won't even get close to that need.

Yep, I used to merge my circles often in the past, usually at restaurants and bars. I did not think about it otherwise though than optimizing my available time to target as many friends from different groups as possible.

But this also created a group of its own that I was coining together for regular Thursday craft beer night or occasionally having wine and beef together.

I stopped though, many years ago as when I started my own family, family and work consumed me too much to have regular night life and meetup exercising and my home was always my sanctum, I rarely invite people to my home. this is where i rest and only some inner circle has entrance there.

that inner circle was developed during last 20+ years and I don't find much space to expand this circle unless somebody new spends with me 20+ years having random access to my limited time.

And that's ok. having up to 5 close friends who you see and talk to regularly if you're 45+ is already enough. Random folk... can stay online. like here to share ideas and then bring them back home.

I actually stopped looking for new friends based on the interests.. I have enough in that gang to cover already. sharing interest related insights is where I use internet mostly.

one of the reasons why place like HN started becoming attractive again as after ditching FB, Discord and many other places with just noise instead of valuable insight and content only HN, lobsters and telnet/ssh BBSes become legitimate sources of idea sharing and tech progress.

other topics are covered fine for decades and when I'm randomly at bar sometimes (usually work delegations outside my own town) then I'm open for one evening conversation about any nonsense just to stay connected with the city folk, but no huge expectactions about phone sharing or another meeting.

I never share my social accounts connection with strangers. I stopped doing that.. it's just spam after all and like collecting f* pokemon cards instead of having meaningful relationship. One can't maintain relationship with 1000+ people so I dropped all that and keep online activities either socially anonymous or narrowed to under 100 people whom I at least remember I had a drink with, once.