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Things which have ruined the internet:

• Advertising
• Facebook culture
• Gamer gate
• Content™ algorithms
• Genericisation of social media
• Paywalls

Did I miss anything?

Youtube is going to start putting advertisements on more videos, including those that cannot be monetized by the uploader.

YT was never in our best interest, but even less so now.

IRC is too thin
Matrix is too fat

Why is noone using silc(net)?

I find it hits a good balance...

Just happy to find any website these days that actually stops scrolling when you get to the bottom ...

I read Reset when it was in production: it's comprehensively details exactly how the internet got to this state: the combination of sociopathic greed, regulatory indifference and spies' desire to preserve defects in our technology so they can attack their enemies.

The first episode of Deibert's Massey Lectures dropped tonight: "Look At That Device In Your Hand," about mobile computing, and beyond lazy narratives about "addiction."

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15807770-cbc-massey-lecture-1-look-at-that

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The theme of Deibert's lectures is RESET, the idea that the internet has become a toxic runaway process, harmful to human thriving, in need of being rolled back to a known-good state and re-run. It's accompanied by an excellent book of the same title.

https://houseofanansi.com/products/reset

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Canada's Massey Lectures is among the anglosphere's great lecture series, on par with BBC's Reith Lectures. This year's lecturer is Ron Deibert, whose Citizen Lab provides forensics and protection for civil society from despots and corporate bullies.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/2020-massey-lectures-renowned-tech-expert-ronald-j-deibert-to-explore-disturbing-impact-of-social-media-1.5640204

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Open clusters, such as M36, shown, are great natural laboratories for stellar evolution. Since the stars were formed, astronomically speaking, more or less at the same time, it allows us to see how different masses of stars age over time.

So I'm writing a blog article on bus architectures for my homebrew computer, #kestrel3 . The idea behind the bus architecture is that it is to be a superset of and backward compatible with the #rc2014 bus. I basically thought through several examples: some semi-synchronous, some synchronous, and, some asynchronous. All of them can be made to work, I think. None of them I'm completely happy with.

Looking back on the thoughts that I wrote down, I'm actually starting to think that the right way forward is not basing things on Zorro or FutureBus; but, rather on NuBus. (!!)

Zorro is a glorious architecture, but using it means I'd have to have two backplanes, kind of like how PCs did when they supported both PCI and ISA. There are other issues to consider as well, but they're relatively minor.

NuBus, however, actually fits into the RC80 socket pinout with loads of room to spare. The only thing is it's a fully synchronous bus.

sighs

Nothing's ever easy.

SiFive to release all source code to initialize HiFive Unleashed RISC-V single board computer.

The first Linux-capable, multi-core, RISC-V processor – the Freedom U540.

Aside from being open source and customizable, one of the main benefits of RISC-V is that it's fully modern, purpose built, & unburdened with legacy code.

An open source hardware helps the industry become more competitive.

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