dannym

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[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm not a boost user, but why does boost have ads exactly? Why don't you just ask users to buy a license a la grayjay? Make it 0.99 or less. This has a few advantages:

  • You'll make more per user than you ever will with ads
  • Users won't be tracked endlessly
  • It's good PR for the app

Also quick question, where is the source code for Boost? I can't seem to find it

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is not exactly Google Maps in terms of usability, but it’s a functional map

I would personally say that it's better than Google Maps. It's more accurate at least

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 3 points 10 months ago

click the button that says more then add a shortcut to your favorite map service

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago

In general I agree with you. I find that most FOSS software is more polished than proprietary software, and it is generally more powerful.

However, I think that one problem that people somehow overlook in my opinion is that the financial side of the issue is also extremely important. I want more people to work on quality FOSS software, and I want it to become socially acceptable to work on FOSS as your main job. For that one thing is needed in my opinion: we as users of FOSS software need to give developers the financial incentives to work on what they love the whole time. In fact I want it to reach the point where immoral, non FOSS companies struggle to find developers because they're all working on FOSS.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I prefer the extremely intuitive:

[C-R]=system("grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9")

or

i:!grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9[esc]Y:@"[cr]

It just rolls off the fingers, doesn't it?

Edit: damn it lemmy didn't like my meme because it assumes that characters between angle brackets are html tags :( you ruined it lemmy

EDIT 2: rewrote it, just assume that square brackets are buttons not characters

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 points 10 months ago

I have not made any assumptions, this has been shared multiple times in different articles which I did not write. As for the Chromecast, I misremembered, it was an Amazon Firestick.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

in this case the instruction set is extremely small (and includes open source verilog, so you could even fab it yourself)

quote from the website:

The CPU of the TKey is a modified version of PicoRV32, 32-bit RISC-V running at 18 MHz. Modifications includes a fast 32x32 multiplier implemented using the multiplier blocks in the iCE40 DSPs as well as a HW trap function.

The supported instruction set supported by the CPU is a subset of RV32I. Specifically it includes compressed instructions, but excludes instructions for:

  • Counters
  • System
  • Synch
  • CSR access
  • Change level
  • Trap redirect
  • Interrupt
  • MMU

The instruction set implemented by the CPU also includes multiplication instructions from the RV32IC_Zmmul (-march=rv32iczmmul) extension. Division is not supported.

Any illegal, unsupported instruction will halt the CPU. The halted CPU is detected by the hardware, which will blink the RGB LED with red to indicate the error state. There is no way for the CPU to exit the trap state besides a power cycle of the device.

Note that the CPU has no support for interrupts. No instructions, ports or logic.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

there are use cases, such as security, where you want as few instructions as possible, so a full ARM processor isn't the best idea. You may want to read the threat model page: https://tillitis.se/products/threat-model/

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 3 points 10 months ago

I'll use that in the future haha

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago

As the person being accused of this, I'd like to know, too.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago

Didn’t know about mitra, thanks for sharing!

Regarding Linus’s quote, I completely agree with him and that’s mostly why I asked for feedback; I don’t have the time to work on this myself at the moment, and even if I did I want to hear conflicting opinions on the implementation before I did anything

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 points 10 months ago

That’s fair, I mostly came up with the idea because I saw a comment mentioning awards like in Reddit and I’m a huge proponent of paying for FOSS applications and for content online, so that’s why I opened this up for discussion

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