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  • Horse, Bolted, Gate: US is reviewing risks of China’s use of RISC-V chip technology

    The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China’s work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-is-reviewing-risks-chinas-use-risc-v-chip-technology-2024-04-23

  • The economic prototype of our society is a psychopath

    … it could be shown that homo economicus is not simply some kind of psychopath but specifically a subclinical or Factor 1 psychopath, often referred to in business research as a “corporate psychopath.” These are individuals who are extremely callous, selfish, and manipulative https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-024-05638-7#Sec7

  • THE Z80 IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE FREE Z80!

    [Rejunity] is bringing us an open-source z80 core on real hardware, thanks of course to the TinyTapeout ASIC project. The classic core will occupy two tiles on the upcoming TinyTapeout 7. While perhaps it’s not quite the same as a real 40-pin DIP in your hands, like all of the open-source custom silicon world, it’s as yet…

  • NOTEBOOK: For more people than we realize, fascism is a “strong opinion, lightly held”

    We overly despair. We think fascism is rising because millions of people have deeply thought through it. In fact, lots of people are ambling into it because they are victims of disinformation, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this, and have convictions all over the place. https://the.ink/p/for-more-people-than-we-realize-fascism

  • Processing HDR images with Rails

    Stack: Add .hdr to the acceptedFiles collection when instantiating Dropzone: Crank the max file size way up… In rails set up active_storage.rb under initializers and put the following in it: Note that I change the image processor from vips to mini_magick. While libvips does list HDR as a supported file type, I found mini_magick more…

  • I Tried a Disney Secret Project!

  • TESLA’S AUTOPILOT AND FSD LINKED TO HUNDREDS OF CRASHES, MANY FATAL

    Get thee off the road, murderbots! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that those making use of the EV maker’s misleadingly called “Full Self-Driving” software were lulled into a false sense of security and “were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task.” In short, the report found, the Elon Musk-led company’s tech “did not…

  • The Vision Pro is a big flop

    The Vision Pro and the Ai Pin are just the latest in a long line of tech failures, and they won’t be the last. We need to recognize that we have the collective power to challenge the industry, and no tech company or access journalist should be able to convince us otherwise. The only way…

  • No, it is not anti-semitic or pro-Hamas…

    … to point out that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Ben-Gvir will be listed amongst history’s monsters.

  • Building a MINI Vegas Sphere