starhonker

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[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Fun fact about IBM actually, they aided the Nazis during the Holocaust by developing tabulation machines for census of camp inmates, along with several secret contracts which brought in a lot of money for them.

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On the other hand China has to balance the private economy to push forward as well in the tech industry, and LoongArch is perfect for that in a commercial context, especially now that US lawmakers are seeking to literally "block" China from using RISC-V (good luck with that), it at least provides an excuse, and plus it's far away enough from both MIPS and RISC-V to be categorized as its own thing. But no despair, there are great RISC-V projects out there, take a look at Milk-V, they released their Mars board and it's been a huge success. By no means is it being sidelined, but I also recognize as sobuddywhoneedsyou said below that RISC-V is relatively early in the adoption phase, especially with the ARM hype right now, so maybe going slow is for the best.

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Very, they show up as a source of discussion for a lot of "tech news" sites, they often get linked on Twitter, Reddit, etc.

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hacker News (news dot ycombinator dot com)

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Moments like this I wish I had gone with Huawei instead of HONOR. I made the choice initially because HONOR is a state owned company, and the thought of potential SWRC or something like that being practiced seemed cool. But on the other hand I really want to promote HarmonyOS.

 

Every time I see an article linked to HN, the conversations that follow are absolutely horrendous. It makes racism on places like Reddit look tame. There's also a lot of bootlicking for US imperialism, attempting to justify neocolonial ventures or trying to argue about how somehow Taiwan and Japan are "beacons" of the free world...by complaining that China is heading lightspeed towards "renewables and mass electrification." In fact, that's all I can take away from HN conversations, "China le bad" takes, such as "China is irredentist for wanting to reclaim Taiwan," as if someone couldn't make bad faith arguments about civil wars in other countries (setting aside settler-colonialism, I'm sure that the US wouldn't have wanted a "free the confederacy" movement, but who knows maybe that's what tech bros want?). There's always this whole theme in their discussions portraying China as some "uncivilized" nation contrasted to the "civilized" western nations, and it's always this uniquely disgusting and ignorant quality which reflects the thinly veiled white supremacy in supposedly liberal ideology.

 

A lot of different outlets, as well as watchers on FlightRadar24 had reported the occupation's administration sending aircraft to different Azeri ground stations:

AP - Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians

Haaretz - Israel's Fingerprints Are All Over the Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh

[Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region's Armenians

And who is Azerbaijan allies with militarily? Turkey. Who receives gas from whom? Why did the EU sign a gas deal with Azerbaijan, shortly before the invasion? It's all so obvious, who's side Erdogan and Aliyev are in "solidarity" with, especially after the farcical rallies. The Palestinian Occuption Forces are complicit in several genocides, even outside of its "borders." It's terrifying to think of what they'll fuel next, such as the Syrian "opposition" or ETIM.

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently Gaza is now Kuwait, according to this map?

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not to mention, China has plenty of architecture innovation of its own in the last few years. Have you seen the stats for the new Loongson 3A6000 (MIPS ISA, no less!) apparently running about four years behind Intel's current lineup? Really impressive.

[–] starhonker@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Blocking an open standard? Good luck LOL. All this demonstrates is the inevitable and ongoing collapse of the US.