Ars Technica: 5G was going to unite the world—instead it’s tearing us apart
Ars Technica: 5G was going to unite the world—instead it’s tearing us apart. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/5g-was-going-to-unite-the-world-instead-its-tearing-us-apart/?comments=1
Re: [OT, but curious] bye bye, 5G...
On 07/04/2020 03:29 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 19:50:10 -0700 > Mirimir wrote: > > >> I just saw a link to Zeberg and Pääbo (2020) The major genetic risk bla bla > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis > > oops, government 'science' looks kinda fucked up... ^-^ That's a cheap shot ;) And yes, there is a "replication crisis", but it's mostly about psychology.
Encryption-Busting EARN IT Act Advances in Senate
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Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register
For Google, it's a good bargain... they collect new designs of processors for free and for them the fabrication cost (a few thousands $) is like a drop of water in the ocean. This said I doubt this will be a massive production. First there are selective criteria. They will not build anything. It has to be relatively quality design so probably they'll only produce a few dozens per year. Seriously a talented chip designer cannot find $2,000 to manufacture their own prototype?
Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register
> Granted, I'm not sure I'd trust Google with something like this (I > actually disable Google Chrome on my Android phones and use Firefox > instead), I hope you're aware that basically android = google/alphabet... so disabling chrome on Android won't protect you much from 'evil' google...
A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages
A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages https://medium.com/commitlog/a-brief-totally-accurate-history-of-programming-languages-d2e2b09553f8 One Hundred Percent Inspired by Facts Casper Beyer May 23, 2019 1800 Joseph Marie Jacquard teaches a loom to read punch cards, creating the first heavily multi-threaded processing unit. His invention was fiercely opposed by silk-weavers who were worried about robots taking their jobs. 1842 Ada Lovelace gets bored of being noble and scribbles in a notebook what will later be known as the first published computer program, only slightly inconvenienced by the fact that there were no computers around at the time. 1936 Alan Turing invents everything, the Queen is keen on him but Turing fancies the lads over her, as a result of this so she has him castrated. The Queen later got over it, unfortunately he had already been dead for centuries (internet-time) at that time. 1936 Alonzo Church also invents everything with Turing, but being across the pond he was not fancied nor castrated by the Queen. 1957 John Backus creates FORTRAN which is the first language that real programmers use. 1959 Grace Hopper gets tired of sparring with Chuck Norris and invents the first enterprise ready business oriented programming language. Because enterprise ready software needs to have long and boring names she decides to call it the “common business-oriented language” or COBOL for short. 1964 John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz decide programming is too hard and they need to go back to basics so they drop line numbers, they call their programming language BASIC. 1970 Niklaus Wirth makes Pascal become a thing along with a bunch of other languages, this guy really liked making languages. He also invents Wirth’s law which makes Moore’s law obsolete because software developers will write so bloated software that even mainframes cannot keep up. This will later be proven to be true with the invention of Electron.js and the abstractions built on top of it. 1972 Dennis Ritchie got bored during work hours at Bell Labs so he decided to make C which had curly braces so it ended up being a huge success. Afterwards he added segmentation faults and other developer friendly features to aid productivity. Still having a couple of hours remaining he and his buddies at Bell Labs decided to make an example program demonstrating C, they make a operating system called Unix. 1980 Alan Kay invents object oriented programming and calls it Smalltalk, in Smalltalk everything is an object, even an object is an object. No one really has time for his small talk. 1987 Larry Wall has a religious experience, becomes a preacher and makes Perl the doctrine. Everyone was onboard with up until the new testament. 1983 Jean Ichbiah notices that Ada Lovelace programs never actually ran and decided to create a language with her name. The language rings true to the name and remains obscure. 1986 Brac Box and Tol Move decide to make an unreadable version of C based on Smalltalk which they call Objective-C. To this day no one is able to understand the syntax. 1983 Bjarne Stroustrup takes a quick trip in his DeLorean back to the futurem while there he notices that C is not taking enough time to compile. Meaning developers don’t have enough time to mess around while claiming the code is compiling. In response to this he adds every feature he can think of to the language and names it C++. Programmers everywhere adopt it so they have genuine excuses to watch cat videos and read xkcd while working. 1991 Guido van Rossum writes a cooking book about eggs and spam. 1993 Roberto Ierusalimschy and friends decide they need a scripting language local to Brazil, during localization an error was made that made indices start counting from 1 instead of 0, they named it Lua. 1994 Rasmus Lerdorf makes a template engine for his personal homepage CGI scripts, he releases his dotfiles on the web. The world decides to use these dotfiles for everything and in a frenzy Rasmus throws some extra database bindings in there for the heck of it and calls it PHP. 1995 Yukihiro Matsumoto is not very happy, he notices other programmers are not happy. He creates Ruby to make programmers happy. After creating Ruby “Matz” is happy, the Ruby community is happy, everyone is happy. Sidenote: Thank you Matt, I was a Rubyist for a couple of years and I was indeed very happy. 1995 Brendan Eich takes the weekend off to design a language that will be used to power every single web browser in the world and eventually also Skynet. He originally went to Netscape and said it was called LiveScript but Java became popular during
SciTechDaily: New Research Advances U.S. Army’s Quest for Ultra-Secure Quantum Networking
SciTechDaily: New Research Advances U.S. Army’s Quest for Ultra-Secure Quantum Networking. https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-advances-u-s-armys-quest-for-ultra-secure-quantum-networking/
If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/ is it 10 square millimeters, or 10 millimeters squared?
Cointelegraph: Renowned Cryptographer Says His Patent Was an Obstacle for Hal Finney
Cointelegraph: Renowned Cryptographer Says His Patent Was an Obstacle for Hal Finney. https://cointelegraph.com/news/renowned-cryptographer-says-his-patent-was-an-obstacle-for-hal-finney
Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register
On 7/4/20 16:30, таракан wrote: > >> Granted, I'm not sure I'd trust Google with something like this (I >> actually disable Google Chrome on my Android phones and use Firefox >> instead), > > I hope you're aware that basically android = google/alphabet... so disabling > chrome on Android won't protect you much from 'evil' google... I'm aware of that... until I can afford a Librem 5, Android phones are really the only viable option, as iOS (Apple) is far worse in terms of user freedom. It does keep Google away from my browsing history, though, even if otherwise it's mainly a symbolic gesture. I get a kick out of how Google tries to warn you that your phone won't work right if you disable Chrome, too... -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register
On 7/4/20 15:41, [Gong Show OOPS!] 2.0 wrote: > hilarious - the [people] from google are offering to 'fab' your [...] > chip for 'free'. It's touching to see how the google [people] stick > to their foundational principle : "everything we do is evil" It's amazing how nonsensical this sounds when all the slurs/slams are taken out and replaced with neutral terms. Granted, I'm not sure I'd trust Google with something like this (I actually disable Google Chrome on my Android phones and use Firefox instead), but at least I can say this without needless anti-Semitic slurs and incorrect implications of connections with a political party from WWII-era Germany. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
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Re: DHT algorithm cheat sheet?
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, July 4, 2020 4:16 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Anyone got personal experience with DHT re-hashing/ re-Distributing the table > as nodes join/leave, and in particular any problem you had to solve or work > around? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table this is pretty decent for wiki - covers the keyspace partitioning differences between protocols, the overlay for control communication, and there is mention of the security trade-off's associated with a distributed system like this. one aspect i would add is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) state replication, ala Tendermint, to the list of related technologies. E.g. https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint and of course, you could expand on the various malicious attacks possible against DHT's by a reasonably resourced attacker - this is the Achilles's heel of DHTs! DoS is trivial, targeted attacks hard to detect, reputation easily gamed, etc. etc. best regards,
DHT algorithm cheat sheet?
Anyone got personal experience with DHT re-hashing/ re-Distributing the table as nodes join/leave, and in particular any problem you had to solve or work around? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
