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[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

don't lump in everyone with musk, there are many people that actually believe in free speech

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is not exactly Google Maps in terms of usability, but it’s a functional map

I would personally say that it's better than Google Maps. It's more accurate at least

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 3 points 10 months ago

click the button that says more then add a shortcut to your favorite map service

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Their search results constantly impress me and honestly it's 10 bucks for unlimited searches, it's worth it even if it's not a business expense, plus since you're paying for the service they're less likely to track you. I wish their code was FOSS, but I'll take it, still better than google, bing, and all the others I've tried.

Also they actively promote the small web and you can even personalize your search results by removing websites you don't like from the searches (for example I have a lot of big tech websites blocked)

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Actually other search engines do much better with Lemmy. Kagi's search works wonders if you select the filter for Fediverse Forums. And you can assign that filter to a bang, such as !lemmy, so that when you search "!lemmy query here" it'll search only on the fediverse A few examples:

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And this ladies and gentlemen is another reason why we should try to escape big tech's grasp.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 10 months ago

In general I agree with you. I find that most FOSS software is more polished than proprietary software, and it is generally more powerful.

However, I think that one problem that people somehow overlook in my opinion is that the financial side of the issue is also extremely important. I want more people to work on quality FOSS software, and I want it to become socially acceptable to work on FOSS as your main job. For that one thing is needed in my opinion: we as users of FOSS software need to give developers the financial incentives to work on what they love the whole time. In fact I want it to reach the point where immoral, non FOSS companies struggle to find developers because they're all working on FOSS.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I prefer the extremely intuitive:

[C-R]=system("grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9")

or

i:!grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9[esc]Y:@"[cr]

It just rolls off the fingers, doesn't it?

Edit: damn it lemmy didn't like my meme because it assumes that characters between angle brackets are html tags :( you ruined it lemmy

EDIT 2: rewrote it, just assume that square brackets are buttons not characters

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 points 10 months ago

I have not made any assumptions, this has been shared multiple times in different articles which I did not write. As for the Chromecast, I misremembered, it was an Amazon Firestick.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

in this case the instruction set is extremely small (and includes open source verilog, so you could even fab it yourself)

quote from the website:

The CPU of the TKey is a modified version of PicoRV32, 32-bit RISC-V running at 18 MHz. Modifications includes a fast 32x32 multiplier implemented using the multiplier blocks in the iCE40 DSPs as well as a HW trap function.

The supported instruction set supported by the CPU is a subset of RV32I. Specifically it includes compressed instructions, but excludes instructions for:

  • Counters
  • System
  • Synch
  • CSR access
  • Change level
  • Trap redirect
  • Interrupt
  • MMU

The instruction set implemented by the CPU also includes multiplication instructions from the RV32IC_Zmmul (-march=rv32iczmmul) extension. Division is not supported.

Any illegal, unsupported instruction will halt the CPU. The halted CPU is detected by the hardware, which will blink the RGB LED with red to indicate the error state. There is no way for the CPU to exit the trap state besides a power cycle of the device.

Note that the CPU has no support for interrupts. No instructions, ports or logic.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

there are use cases, such as security, where you want as few instructions as possible, so a full ARM processor isn't the best idea. You may want to read the threat model page: https://tillitis.se/products/threat-model/

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The more you know! I don't follow their blog so I didn't realize this. This is a pleasant surprise and yet another reason to love Mullvad.

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