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Thank you, this gcc14 option looks really interesting. With the lack of hardware of this class supporting RVV 1.0, this will be useful.

While investigating the RISC-V ecosystem, we noticed that there isn't an easy way for developers to build and test their software on native hardware without buying it.

So we integrated custom RISC-V servers in our bare metal servers infrastructure and made them available to the public to enable the building, porting and testing of more native RISC-V software.

A 4 Cores TH1520 with 16 GiB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC is 15,99€/month.

For reference, archivebox uses 250GB for 5000 links in my setup.

Direct link to the article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...

blogspam, here is the link to the compiled video from the author's youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjyWUrHsFc

45 minutes, very interesting and high production value.

I've migrated to Bittorent Sync: http://getsync.com it's a "no cloud" solution. They don't see your data.

I'm happy with it but I do have a NAS at home that serves as a "always on" sync point for my other devices.

This exists: https://hackaday.io/project/86-mooltipass

From the article's footnotes:

While on the subject of smartphone driven hardware, experience has shown me that software has a much shorter mean-time-to-obsolescence than hardware. Any gizmo that needs an app to make it work will have the service life of a bluebottle, as Apple’s planned obsolescence orphans the app with an iOS upgrade.

This has been my experience too and I wish manufacturers would remove the requirement on having an app to use/configure the device.

Because of that, I try to make sure that such devices I design provides a basic web interface that makes it possible to setup and use the device.

This is impossible or at least difficult if the device is powered by a 8-bit MCU but with the dropping prices of beefier MCU and linux-compatible SoC this shouldn't be an issue in the future.

Of course, there is also the issue of remote services that those devices often depends on, even if it's not exactly necessary sometimes.

I'm using MQTT on my current project that involves interactive applications running on solar powered devices.

I'm using RabbitMQ for the broker, it supports MQTT too, this means I can use MQTT on the clients and the services on the backend only needs to understand AMQP.

I made a simple RPC system on top of it, unfortunately it's a homegrown solution as I couldn't use RabbitMQ RPC features with MQTT.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

They are working on it, previously difficult intersections like the Nation roundabout are now easy to use by bike. Multiple "pain points" like those have been identified and have work done to it or are planned.

On the other hand, I still crap my pants when going through Bastille...

You are essentially right, though, have an efficient network requires good nodes and good paths, right now the paths are pretty good but some nodes are painful and to get around them, you need to leave the network.

For reference, here is a map of the existing and planned bike paths: http://i.imgur.com/PigJifZ.jpg

My answer to some of those issues have been to use a folding bike and combining transport modes.

A 15km ride might be 13km of RER and 2km of biking, on some trips it's pretty damn fast even compared with a car that has to contend with traffic.

It doesn't solve the rain issue on the other hand. Especially as folding bikes generally have smaller wheels that tend to skid on wet pavement.

After the previous attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2011, when their office was firebombed, their website got hacked.

Not sure why the previous poster thinks this might be ISIS on the other hand.

Same here.

It caused one graphical hang on my Mac and then it opened too many file descriptors, reaching the system limitations and I had to uninstall it and reboot.

"Babylonian twins"? Made by a Iraqi starting in the 90s.

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.p...

The application is absolutely rock solid for me

There has been some bugs since Mavericks came out that still hasn't been fixed, mostly related to multiple monitors. That was an indication that it was going to be dropped.

It's fairly reliable but it's showing it's age right now.

Calibre is indeed my go to example when I need to demonstrate horrible FOSS GUI.

It was looking pretty good until that last picture.

That mains wiring is plain unsafe and almost criminal...

Yes, but it stores the actual notes as txt files in a directory so you can use other software alongside it in a multi platform environment.

I used Notational Velocity but I switched a couple of years ago to one of its forks: nvALT:

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Which adds a lot of very useful features, I can heavily recommend it.

I've used CouchDB's attachment feature for that purpose:

http://onabai.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/working-with-attachme...

Mine is in the mail. I can't wait to put it together and play with it.

Here you go: http://www.crofflr.com/auth/login

Incompetent astroturfing. As you said, it's very unsubtle.

The article has indeed some fairly cringe worthy parts:

"Developers were keen to talk about new graphics possibilities with Web programming such as richer color and "extra draw distance" so players can see farther away from their character's local environment."

Web programming: more colors than Java.

From what I've seen, he seemed to have a knack to attract top talent and push them to their limit.

He was able to charm those people he needed and knew just how to push their buttons so they'd deliver better work.

Contrary to what people thinks, assholes are not assholes 100% of the time; those people get their way by knowing when to be nice and charming. This is not antonymic with being an narcissistic asshole.

I'm fairly sure a lot of his collaborators had a honeymoon period with him, before he revealed himself to be the management equivalent of the abusive husband.

Related to this, selling services around well known Open Source Software is hard sometimes:

"Why are you are charging us so much for Wordpress/Magento/Etc ? I thought it was free?"

The fact that the initial barrier of entry of skills required to install and run a basic Wordpress install is so low make people think that all the other work required to get a website running, which has pretty much nothing to do with Wordpress or any particular technology as the article imply, is just as simple.

I'm totally hoping that they'll finish their port to the Raspberry Pi. It would be a great match.

That's inexact. The WRT54GL was brought in as the (at the time) retail version of the WRT54G had much less RAM and flash because they switched from Linux to VXWORKS.

It's not that they didn't have the "security vulnerability" but they just weren't able to run Linux in a useful manner due to low hardware resources.

I also don't remember if the WRT54G became popular in the first place because of a security issue, I think it just enabled you to upload any firmware to it and that the original firmware eventually became open-source after they received GPL violation complaints. But my memory might be fuzzy, it was a while ago.

I just had that happen at my company.

New Dev hired by the CEO without input from anyone else. She was not bad, but terribly sloooooooooooooooow. She indeed took 10x longer to do common tasks compared to other devs.

It's not that she wasn't smart or reticent to learn new things, just that her way of working through problems was incredibly long winded for some reason.

It's not something that you can easily re-train someone to fix, it's a fundamental problem and that combined with other issues made us let her go.