Post AFsYh7kd9JsNLIDOS0 by lelouchebag@shitposter.club
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(DIR) Post #AFraaSv03bWNiN3euu by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T10:53:57.802842Z
6 likes, 2 repeats
SeaMonkey takes *forever* to compile. It's as bad as Firefox.dddddddddddd.jpg
(DIR) Post #AFrb0iArxTwyYjzo2K by K@gameliberty.club
2022-01-27T10:58:41Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@p I didn't have to see this
(DIR) Post #AFrbj9EghmyfENyFyi by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T11:06:44.253549Z
8 likes, 6 repeats
@K After replacing food, bugs will replace hats. The future is now.CCOBCW8UgAAZLvI.jpg:large.jpg
(DIR) Post #AFrdhOSvJKfpnHv8tc by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
2022-01-27T11:28:48.841751Z
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@p @K Is that a giant? 😬
(DIR) Post #AFre9wuQqMNgjAP6Vk by chuculate@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz
2022-01-27T11:33:58.616838Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@p @K pure summer
(DIR) Post #AFreGsoGU2wk2YpFb6 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T11:35:14.665052Z
9 likes, 3 repeats
@Humpleupagus @K No, the computers of the future will have tiny CRTs and keyboards, also we will go back to floppy disks because they were pretty cool.
(DIR) Post #AFrfEp41XVXBnWmJ4S by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T11:46:04.622727Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@Mogami @K You have to train a bug to do it for you.
(DIR) Post #AFrgfYxBe3G1bbtXHc by newt@stereophonic.space
2022-01-27T12:02:03.069600Z
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@p one thing about firefox (and maybe seamonkey) a bundled libraries. Last I checked, firefox had SQLite and Python in its source code. Getting rid of those might just help.
(DIR) Post #AFrhCjIYClzBFFhd1k by newt@stereophonic.space
2022-01-27T12:08:04.211805Z
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@p one crappy thing about firefox (and maybe seamonkey) is bundled libraries. Last I checked, firefox had SQLite and Python in its source code. Getting rid of those might just help.
(DIR) Post #AFrhJmubAT4uTnrgVE by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
2022-01-27T12:09:22.144340Z
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@p @Mogami @K But I ate all my bugs. 😩
(DIR) Post #AFriD1v34ZVsx1PuDI by K@gameliberty.club
2022-01-27T12:19:21Z
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@p penis fingers
(DIR) Post #AFrpiLSBC4aOBxnDbE by JSDorn@poa.st
2022-01-27T13:43:27.304960Z
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@K @p @Humpleupagus @K promise?
(DIR) Post #AFrpiujQ1yAjbZ7ypU by basadeskaiser@cawfee.club
2022-01-27T13:43:33.282384Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @K this is what the future was supposed to be.
(DIR) Post #AFrrpXp7ng1KUb5Oe8 by sysrq@poa.st
2022-01-27T14:07:10.106206Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @K In the future we'll all use plan9
(DIR) Post #AFs1tgeptds2agt5bE by sjw@bae.st
2022-01-27T15:59:57.919000Z
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@p I mean it's basically Firefox, no?
(DIR) Post #AFs3Z3ePPge1jIykE4 by racuna@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T16:18:39.276461Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@p @Kimagen.png
(DIR) Post #AFs3cSmWQxVUXZOhfM by leyonhjelm@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T16:19:16.203466Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @Ksignal-2022-01-13-17-46-26-666.gif
(DIR) Post #AFsWBwbmKPAJtl4yQK by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:39:25.378668Z
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@newt Oh, I'm making some speculative changes; I wanna keep them as small as possible to minimize the maintenance effort, which is what made my Firefox tweaks untenable.You can tell it to use the system versions of those libraries, but it's got a lot of C++ and Rust and IDLs and stuff, and apparently they've reworked the build system and I ended up just rewriting a .jsm file so I probably could have patched that after it was installed anyway. Apparently, though, maintaining a *build* script is a significant effort for Firefox.
(DIR) Post #AFsWIFFdvWmhSKjJho by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:40:33.700764Z
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@Humpleupagus @K @Mogami And now you've got nothing to wear! Hope you've learned your lesson.
(DIR) Post #AFsWevyxjcSMM2kMXw by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:44:39.733027Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@KAWESOME.jpg
(DIR) Post #AFsWquNlVdBCrq3eDo by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:46:49.575331Z
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@JSDorn @Humpleupagus @K According to whoever created the April 1981 cover of Byte Magazine, yes.
(DIR) Post #AFsX2SnjsfOInjiV72 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:48:54.874271Z
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@sysrq @Humpleupagus @K Maybe GreenArrays, also.
(DIR) Post #AFsXokmAM37CRs0WKe by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T21:57:38.510267Z
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@sjw So everything is as expected.I mean, everything from Mozilla is basically Firefox. They just build all of it out of the same source tree because they are bad at turning stuff into libraries. (Even the stuff that they did manage to pull into a library is not like library code. Try building Firefox using last week's version of NSPR.)
(DIR) Post #AFsY8pDTYS7i0oLtbs by sjw@bae.st
2022-01-27T22:01:14.079297Z
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@p Firefox also isn't anything like it used to be :etna_sad:
(DIR) Post #AFsYCeAqYHqEvHwduq by mintplague@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:01:57.598298Z
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@p Firefox takes less than an hour to compile without PGO on my AMD FX shitbox. Can't imagine Seamonkey with its engine based on Firefox 60 taking more time to build.
(DIR) Post #AFsYLo92qjtcSBTDxw by teknomunk@poa.st
2022-01-27T22:03:36.641719Z
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@p @sysrq @Humpleupagus @K First I've heard of GreenArrays. At a glance, it looks like 715MHz, 144 core computer. Not sure I agree* with their architecture strategy, but they are shipping chips, so they deserve credit for that. I think I'll bookmark this for more in depth reading later.* I'm partial to the idea of a pipelined barrel processor over more cores.
(DIR) Post #AFsYh7kd9JsNLIDOS0 by lelouchebag@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T22:07:26.484573Z
12 likes, 11 repeats
@sjw @p >get obsessed with idpol and spend all your funding on that instead of what made people choose firefox to begin with>kill numerous browser experiments your actual programmers cooked up that could have turned profitable (firefox send for example)>instead fund your diversity hires to constantly shit up the UI 4 times a year>don't bother fixing bugs>fire your entire core dev team over politics>give whatever funding you have left to your fat ceos that do nothing>see pic relatedYeah, I'm thinking it's fuckin dead after google subverted it
(DIR) Post #AFsYkwlBxI98PfIgjI by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:08:09.533681Z
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@p @sysrq @Humpleupagus @K for $200, you can have 10 of their chips http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.htmlgood luck programming them, thoughfor less than $500, you could get the board
(DIR) Post #AFsYm19F7ubKJN3pNg by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:08:21.143403Z
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@leyonhjelm @Humpleupagus @K :lordnikon: I thought you were black.i_am_error.gif
(DIR) Post #AFsYosQ22QCW6hHEci by sjw@bae.st
2022-01-27T22:08:51.609985Z
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@lelouchebag @p :feels_lain_man:
(DIR) Post #AFsYtRw3viyZPzRJL6 by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:09:41.728690Z
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@teknomunk @p @sysrq @Humpleupagus @K it's not really 144 cores; it's 144 computers
(DIR) Post #AFsZ6O9bIkL7SDwRmq by lelouchebag@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T22:12:01.776520Z
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@sjw @p Also>don't bother fixing the god awful mobile app you outsourced to india>IN THE AGE OF SMARTPHONES WHERE USERS WANT THEIR BOOKMARKS/PAGES SYNCED TO THEIR PHONES>enable telemetry by default>re-enable telemetry on random updates>make millions selling user data to googleGod mozilla is sad. This is what happens when you put retards into your board for the sake of "equity"
(DIR) Post #AFsZNczHP6GUNmKnc8 by captain_arepa@cachapa.moe
2022-01-27T22:15:08.087743Z
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@lelouchebagLol, they really did outsource the mobile app to Pajeetland? No wonder it sucks nigger cock :kekw2: @sjw @p
(DIR) Post #AFsZNnyGZCzSRowe3s by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-27T22:15:10.601488Z
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@p Have u ever compiled Chrome? God almighty
(DIR) Post #AFsZO9sh6bbaOuVVQm by teknomunk@poa.st
2022-01-27T22:15:14.457409Z
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@throwaway1 @Humpleupagus @p @K @sysrq I will readily admit that I only took a brief glance at their page, so I am certainly missing information. I plan to look into it closer when I can devote the time to it.That said, unless there are 144 independent memory buses and each processing core is connected to independent I/O (and I won't know this until I can dig into the details of the architecture), I will conservatively call them "cores".
(DIR) Post #AFsZRJULqGap4AcphQ by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:15:48.937974Z
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@teknomunk @Humpleupagus @p @K @sysrq they aren't even clocked together
(DIR) Post #AFsZUhG5vDy1elZPdI by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:16:25.626781Z
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@lelouchebag @p @sjw they lost everything when they lost Eich
(DIR) Post #AFsZYbgiZj3VXPt5jE by leyonhjelm@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:17:08.025490Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @K85c4a1195d6ebe6d0e49994895be19e75597b4663aa9409e72070b52bd478a9d.png
(DIR) Post #AFsZbPA7bOMxYhyW4u by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:17:38.366862Z
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@lelouchebag @sjw @p don't forget inventing a new programming language and paradigm for rewriting the browser and then starting to rewrite the browser but never finishing
(DIR) Post #AFsZekNPBUzUDqmY1Q by lelouchebag@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T22:18:14.342086Z
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@throwaway1 @p @sjw I use brave now, I know it has a bunch of privacy problems being based on chrome BUT with Eich (literally hitler) in charge, retards won't come nesr it and drive it to the ground like they did firefox
(DIR) Post #AFsZissnV4DDlLREUi by mintplague@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:18:56.242927Z
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@lelouchebag Sadly, there isn't much choice anymore. You either contribute to Jewgle's hegemony by using anything Chromium-based, or tolerate whatever Schmozilla trannies do. Web is kill.
(DIR) Post #AFsZkXoQoIv8zdBhUO by lelouchebag@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T22:19:17.218004Z
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@throwaway1 @p @sjw Oh yeah, the rust thing. Totally forgot that happened but it's no wonder it's even worse to develop since rust is utter garbage
(DIR) Post #AFsb8guoiWYc86FiSW by smoldesu@mastodon.social
2022-01-27T22:24:45Z
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@lelouchebag @sjw@bae.st @p@freespeechextremist.com the only smart decision they made was getting rid of Brendan Eich
(DIR) Post #AFsbGtqqVOosZBJER6 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:36:20.621053Z
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@sjw Yeah, the shitty parts are still there. You know Lanodan created/maintains a webkit-based browser?
(DIR) Post #AFsbPgVPUgVDmWTJBo by Telvannichad@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-27T22:37:55.478564Z
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@smoldesu @lelouchebag I HATE MANFEST V3 I HATE IT I HATE IT EVERY THING IS A FUCKING CHROMIUM FORK
(DIR) Post #AFsbXp8rGhWcsonveK by sjw@bae.st
2022-01-27T22:39:23.491522Z
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@p Yeah I know. It's pretty good. I like add-ons tho.
(DIR) Post #AFsbgNzJayP1GzQIzo by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2022-01-27T22:40:52.160309Z
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@sjw @p Mozilla Suite isn't anything like it used to be either.
(DIR) Post #AFsdC7hBnzIBxpdteS by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T22:57:53.426979Z
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@mintplague It requires Rust, and I think Servo is newer than FF60. I don't know. Old Firefox also took forever, but it's difficult to compare because my machine was slower back then. It's a massive project, it's getting bigger.At any rate, an hour *is* forever, especially if you've got to do it more than once. Apparently it took 48:49. Firefox 1.5.0.3's tarball was 34MB (bz2) and 91.0.2 is 364MB (xz), Seamonkey 2.49.3 is 221MB (xz), 2.53.9.1 is 273MB (xz).watno.png
(DIR) Post #AFsdaeXtJybenRzRpI by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:02:19.415312Z
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@teknomunk @sysrq @Humpleupagus @K > I'm partial to the idea of a pipelined barrel processor over more cores.It's Chuck Moore's company. Apparently, in terms of power usage and performance, they outperform FPGAs. Moore did real-time h264 encoding with just four of the cores, it seems like really cool stuff but I haven't gotten to play with one, yet.
(DIR) Post #AFsdhSTuZeATPJNEDA by mintplague@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:03:33.213118Z
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@p Guess I'm just used to having shit hardware and compiling complex software on it. Ungoogled Chromium took twice the time, for example. GCC and kernel are quite large as well.
(DIR) Post #AFsdqvZtlMk4FrgnXU by icedquinn@blob.cat
2022-01-27T23:05:14.764025Z
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@p @teknomunk @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq GreenArrays are pipelines. You can only talk to the ones adjacent to you or on the edges. He basically made the TIS-100 lolInteresting chips though
(DIR) Post #AFse5roS2ob0v9cUme by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:07:57.889648Z
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@300aac Is it worse? I don't doubt it. I've compiled WebKit about a million times but I don't touch Chrome if I can avoid it.
(DIR) Post #AFseLgd1OZLWrmoifI by sjw@bae.st
2022-01-27T23:10:48.812682Z
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@lanodan @p :feels_lain_man:
(DIR) Post #AFseT7VrpyXeH61116 by teknomunk@poa.st
2022-01-27T23:12:09.764079Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq > realtime h264 encosing with 4/144 cores.Now that's cool.> MooreEven more reason for me to look into it closely.
(DIR) Post #AFseYqbpb9FNaOXI6C by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:13:12.140057Z
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@teknomunk @throwaway1 @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq > unless there are 144 independent memory buses:chuckmoore2: Memory bus?> and each processing core is connected to independent I/O:chuckmoore: Okay, this part is correct, sorta. They have I/O pins that are connected to the adjacent cores.It is not a conventional system. It is as close as we can currently get to fabricating compute dust.
(DIR) Post #AFsebQyNN0LkweJYS8 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:13:40.189482Z
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@throwaway1 @teknomunk @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq They aren't even clocked, really.
(DIR) Post #AFsefT6VO9OkiG2Zpg by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:14:23.935023Z
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@leyonhjelm @Humpleupagus @K11--don_t_forget.mp3
(DIR) Post #AFsf60Ima7eJChR6qu by leyonhjelm@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:19:11.674040Z
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@p Can't go wrong with Del@Humpleupagus @K
(DIR) Post #AFsf9gEl7lu88FJ7Ee by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-27T23:19:51.152204Z
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@p Not sure if its worse, I used to compile mozilla-central daily for work. Ccache was a huge help.Last time I compiled Chrome as 2 years ago, took eons
(DIR) Post #AFsftpyPG1NFeJfT5k by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:28:12.046573Z
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@mintplague Most of the Linux kernel time is `make oldconfig` for me. Somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes to compile and install, I don't remember.I don't have a lot of confidence in the "Un-Googling" process (they keep finding bits where Google re-Googles it, like when when it started downloading binary extensions from Google) so I don't use that browser and haven't tried to build it.
(DIR) Post #AFsgHOYMr7e7YdinqK by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:32:27.497623Z
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@leyonhjelm @Humpleupagus @K A real gamer. :joker:16_proto_culture_f_khaos_unique_.mp3
(DIR) Post #AFsgWdGIS5h3WFXDNI by leyonhjelm@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-27T23:35:12.720704Z
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@p Gotta know the classics@Humpleupagus @K
(DIR) Post #AFshKAmOcf6Xf7AiGm by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T23:44:09.586395Z
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@p Idk what you call forever but Icecat takes about 1h30 to compile.
(DIR) Post #AFsvXSoGGE4H7veKOm by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-01-27T23:55:42.983500Z
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@lelouchebag @p @sjw >This is what happens when you put retards into your board for the sake of "equity"To be fair Google did the same if not the first ones to do so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Chamber, the difference is that they have virtually have unlimited resources to make woke people stfu and have pushed their browser as a third party software when installing the top 100 popular software that were used in the mid 2000s, plus they made themselves the new Internet Explorer by being the deFacto browser on smartphones.
(DIR) Post #AFt2J1aBOQHAJC7tSq by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T03:39:15.778201Z
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@300aac Daily? I used to dread having to find some code in the repo, I can hardly imagine rebuilding it every day.Apparently, 'make -f client.mk install' no longer works, and the readme says to get documentation on building from https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation , which 404s.
(DIR) Post #AFt2Unv01QgFP9TpGC by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T03:41:23.508670Z
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@mangeurdenuage That's forever.
(DIR) Post #AFt2pjXpTjOZvAceLw by teknomunk@poa.st
2022-01-28T00:13:21.772895Z
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@p @throwaway1 @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/DB001-171107-F18A.pdf, pg 8:> The F18A is built from asynchronous logic,Now I understand. Self-clocking logic. Love the stuff, but haven't been able to wrap my head around designing with it and all the tools I have seen for logic design don't provide support for it, just synchronous logic or combinational logic.
(DIR) Post #AFt32h1i9TQVsNmLui by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-28T03:47:30.044765Z
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@p I worked there for 5 years. With ccache one rarely had to fully rebuild everythingIts been a *while* and I am sure the build system has changed markedly
(DIR) Post #AFt34bHOUS5KdC1Xk0 by teknomunk@poa.st
2022-01-28T00:19:19.365569Z
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@p @Humpleupagus @throwaway1 @K @sysrq The architecture resembles small cell count FPGA where each cell is a tiny CPUs with access only to local memory and the adjacent nodes and implemented with mostly asynchronous logic. Cool.
(DIR) Post #AFt3DqKNuVwZuOpWSG by xue@shitposter.club
2022-01-28T00:07:26.582404Z
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@p @throwaway1 @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq @teknomunk only clock generator i approve
(DIR) Post #AFt3bJlIdp0brDc3ua by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T03:53:46.450325Z
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@300aac Oh, man. So, is it as insular as it seems? Like, I get the impression from looking at how they work that it's kind of its own world without much of a view of the outside.
(DIR) Post #AFt3pocAjCsTbFFxzs by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-28T03:56:22.268107Z
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@p What a shitshow, even their github is wrong/old linksTry this https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.htmlI think mach is the "new" build toolMozilla used to be a good place, they had diversity of thought, but those days are long gone. Woke SV losers now.
(DIR) Post #AFt3tYamF1c146O824 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T03:57:04.232933Z
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@teknomunk @Humpleupagus @throwaway1 @K @sysrq Yeah, in one of his talks he said that sometimes you program one of them as a gate or a "wire". They must be really fun devices, but, you know...time.
(DIR) Post #AFt4EHw9MPEVUVGqFU by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T04:00:49.035341Z
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@300aac If they could have canned Boris Zbarski/Zbarsky/whatever and left Eich, they might have had a chance.
(DIR) Post #AFt4SmDvYH1rTgUidE by dubh@husk.site
2022-01-28T04:03:25.643738Z
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@throwaway1 oh, interesting. I'll send you one of mine when they get in, @p.
(DIR) Post #AFt4vB26u8vqWzVeCW by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T04:08:34.095478Z
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@dubh @throwaway1 :alexjoneshappy:
(DIR) Post #AFt5PWFyYmgF2hSmSe by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-28T04:14:02.636241Z
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@p I remember when snowden dropped. No one in authority around privacy could believe Facebook apple and google were collaborating with NSA. Fucking morons.Boris Zbarsky has forgotten more about Gecko than most people ever learn. When Eich was booted, I was already the fuck out of there. A waste of an entity at this point
(DIR) Post #AFt8BWwvUHOn01ZewS by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T04:45:08.325973Z
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@300aac > I remember when snowden dropped. No one in authority around privacy could believe Facebook apple and google were collaborating with NSA. I didn't know anyone that was surprised. Everyone I talked to was either yelling "FINALLY! PROOF!" or they were fatalistic about it, the terrible SF Data Cartel "Privacy is Dead" school of thought.> Boris Zbarsky has forgotten more about Gecko than most people ever learn.Yeah, my main interactions with this guy were things like discussing stuff with devs in Bugzilla and he just shows up, says "No." and closes the bug."Can you sunset this instead of immediately removing it?" "No. [WONTFIX]""Is there a recommended way to do this?" "No. [WONTFIX]""Is the extension API gonna be stable enough that I can at least tell my boss we should keep maintaining Firefox support? He keeps laughing at me and trying to transfer me to the Chrome team that formed last week." "No. [WONTFIX]"This was, like, 2009, the most common JSON parser was still "eval", cryptography support was an unattainable dream, and Mozilla was doing its damnedest to make me look like an idiot every time I recommended Firefox.
(DIR) Post #AFtA1xpStW9hNTeNqS by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-28T05:05:48.855282Z
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@p Sigh. I was working there back then. The irony of the extension system was that it was created so they could tell people with feature requests to pound sand.I was there when the market share was increasing. I left as they were fatalistically trying to create a fucking phone. What a clusterfuck.The top crypto/privacy people at the time were, maybe are, so naive. Laughable.
(DIR) Post #AFtCwWSrVWwqvGAuMy by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T05:38:27.085692Z
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@300aac > The irony of the extension system was that it was created so they could tell people with feature requests to pound sand.Yeah, and it was almost nice. Sure, I had to write JS and it needed like a hundred megs of XML in a specially named zip file, but once the boilerplate was out of the way, talking to XUL was reasonable. I spent a big chunk of my life rewriting the nasty content-injection system so that we'd just be doing XUL widgets and then...they killed XUL.> I left as they were fatalistically trying to create a fucking phone. What a clusterfuck.I own one. I was excited. Then when they said "We're going to target the low-end/developing market" I almost had an aneurysm. You can't break into a market being the shittiest phone. I got that stupid ZTE phone anyway, figuring that it's open, it'll be trivial to root, hack on the OS, reimage. It was just a shittier Android. It was peak Mozilla in the worst way. I tried to get the B2G repo and it was still built from the same damn tree. Everything, literally everything that they did was the worst possible choice. Shit marketing, shit execution, shit partnerships for delivering their shit OS on shit hardware. I picked over the corpse again later to try to get an ultra lightweight Firefox but the build system was so fucked that I don't think it's possible to get it to build for a desktop OS, it's all shit like "#if ANDROID_ON_ARM64 /*other shit*/ #if LINUX /*pango and cairo shit*/", like they didn't even think to make the display remotely modular. If gtk ever stops running on Linux, they're fucked forever.
(DIR) Post #AFtDOmUBXB0wiiGhfc by 300aac@kiwifarms.cc
2022-01-28T05:43:32.936818Z
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@p They blew the entire business trying to compete with android and iOSMadness
(DIR) Post #AFtE1P3OaVeVLB9cvI by snacks@netzsphaere.xyz
2022-01-28T05:50:30.406289Z
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@throwaway1 @p @Humpleupagus @K @sysrq you can buy a single one for wayless at https://schmartboard.com/schmartboard-ez-qfn-88-pins-0-4mm-pitch-2-x-2-grid-bundled-with-a-greenarrays-ga144-ic-202-0048-02/
(DIR) Post #AFtFRyDWZdPVsh7kYK by p@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T06:06:32.694387Z
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@300aac If they had, that would have been a better move. They blew it up trying to give you all the flexibility of iOS with all the prestige of an off-brand Android reskin. It didn't have a purpose or anything to differentiate it.
(DIR) Post #AFtHkXAdYY51PMkkiG by throwaway1@freespeechextremist.com
2022-01-28T06:32:18.614195Z
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@p @300aac the battery on mine went puffy and I couldn't find a replacement; I found something that was the same model number, but it ended up being a different form factor, so now I have to hold it in place if I want to turn my phone on.Plus my carrier seems to have dropped support for the network it's using.
(DIR) Post #AFtYzHj6xPNR4eUuv2 by Mek101@mstdn.io
2022-01-28T09:45:26Z
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@lelouchebag @sjw @p What happened with the core team?
(DIR) Post #AGKPsaD6y498X7G9VA by mintplague@freespeechextremist.com
2022-02-10T08:40:36.622832Z
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@AMaleKateMossFan>2There is a build of uBlock Origin for Pale Moon, which, like any other uBlock version, can block specific page elements on demand.https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases>3Antizapret's .pac file should work fine, I think.https://antizapret.prostovpn.org/
(DIR) Post #AGKaHR6Qxxod4EcrLc by mintplague@freespeechextremist.com
2022-02-10T10:37:09.135189Z
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@AMaleKateMossFan There is no "Open image in new tab" in right click menu? That's something new. I remember it being there since at least Firefox 3.x.