dillekant

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[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Which Toyotas are we talking about? The "Electrified" ones? The "Beyond Zero" ones?

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Bit of both. Actually I think ARM the ISA overall is in good (even great!) shape, but it's the GPU and other SoC functions which cause the most headaches.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal with Microsoft which has expired. I think that's what is causing them to put relevant code in mainline.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

OK here's my Anarchist "Hot take". It's not correct, but I'm building an oversimplified model to make what's happening somewhat visible. Let's divide people up into two groups: One group has "experts", who are pretty alone / introverted, but doesn't really do the work of meeting up with others. The other group has people who know how to gather a party together, through a bbq or cookout or family meals or an actual party, but aren't too bright.

In the past, both groups were kind of homogenised together, to the extent that neither group really knew the existence of the other, but they knew how to make things "work". Like the experts didn't know how the cookouts happened, but they just needed to turn up, and enjoy the party. The rest was more or less magic. The other group knew the effort to bring people together, but didn't realise that some of those people were more valuable than the others. The actual dissemination of expertise was more or less magic.

Today, we have social media. The cookouts happen in social-media spaces, but what's happened is that the experts and the non-experts have split (sort of like the milk we're talking about here). The experts can "meet" without the party people, and the party people "meet" with the other party people. In the past, the experts would naturally become the trusted members of society because people would know them over the years being right over and over. Today, however, the experts are effectively in a different world to the party people, who are all vying for a "trusted position". This is valuable, because the party people are "gullible" -- I don't mean this in a negative sense, just that they must trust the expertise around them, the social proof, or the consensus. Repeating that this used to work because actual experts used to be among them.

So you have people like Alex Jones, who is a snake oil salesman. In the past, a niece or nephew might have been able to tell their family not to listen to Alex Jones, and that would have worked. However, that's no longer effective because Jones has unadulterated, prime position straight to the party people's brain sockets through talking for hours at end about this crazy stuff. The nephew is also not at enough of the cookouts to counteract that. This pushes the family apart (we've seen this narrative now, people who are so far in the alt-right pipeline they can't back out) and allows Jones and co to completely wreck these people's lives.

So in short, I don't think this is a consensus reality thing. I think it's a filter bubble thing. We've managed to make it easy enough to filter things we don't want to hear, and to not work with people who don't agree with us. Oh and don't think the "experts" are in a better position here. They fundamentally can't organise a party. They don't know how.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

I don't understand it, not Trump (who is the mechanism), but the entire conservative establishment. Like they have to know that they, and probably the capitalist system they've set up, has about 10 maybe 20 years left if they push in this direction (forget the "selfless" act of humans continuing to live on this planet). Do they really expect to be better off living like this? Or are they so far up their own arseholes that they can't see what's going to happen here?

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Snapdragon hasn't had mainline kernel support and has always been a pain to set up, enough so that nobody does it. This is using a snapdragon processor. Those are also fairly powerful.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Err that name sounds a bit unfortunate.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

I have the kk3. Wins for not needing an app and also firmware upgrades via just a file upload to the controller as USB Mass storage.

The buttons are "classic" not micro switch. Some prefer the latter.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Man these guys should try putting more effort into making the game rather than harrassing their employees.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

My main issue with it is that everyone is using it to push their own narrative about why the game failed. People doing the "It's a woke game, so it went broke", or "it's a saturated market", or whatever. These are just reactions, not data driven analyses.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For a long time now Nissan has been kind of floundering. Their cars are kind of sub-par and it's honestly a bit sad considering their Leaf predates the Tesla by a number of years. Here's hoping this brings some excitement back to the brand and their engineers.

 

Dankpods moving to Linux confirmed. Shit just got real boys!

 

Waiting for it to be available in walk-in stores at a decent price, but it looks Solarpunk AF.

 

Amazing talk by Prof. Steve Keen. The original Unlearning Economics ;)

 

OK I haven't seen the whole thing yet but I'm at the point of the video where I think she's going to say "Solarpunk" and I'm excite!

 

I know most Solarpunks already know about Andrew Millison from his permaculture work, but his new videos are both awesome and very solarpunk vibes, simple solutions for big problems.

 

I like it, it's a good movie, and I want to make the (maybe hot take argument) that this is solarpunk!

Thoughts?

 

Interesting look into Dune and the Luddites, and how technology can take two forms. Apropos permacomputing I think.

 

Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I've seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It's not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.

So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That's civil disobedience.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

 

Whenever I feel sad I just think the words "Rozelle Interchange" and my life gets a little bit better...

 

Is it possible to create something where knowing about the thing constitutes copyright infringement?

 

Inspired by the posts here, I've recently tried to set up a garage electronics workstation, and part of that involves setting up a PC. Inspired by the posts here, I pulled out my old laptop and stuck Debian on it. The good news: Debian runs fine on Mate, and all the hardware which matters works properly. The bad news: The laptop not only screams like a banshee continually (the age and usage have worn out the fan bearings), but it also has a dual core processor with about a quarter (half the cores at half the IPC) the performance of a Pi 4, and half the RAM at 2gb. Wish me luck everyone.

 

Designers from the Netherlands but they are solving problems in a pretty solarpunk way.

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