Jeffrey

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Can confirm. I have seen leftists proudly display the communo-anarchist Gadsden flag which implies aggression and violence. These are almost always the same leftists who own guns and advocate for violent revolution & punching fascists.

The report says "two thirds [of violent extremists were] from the far right, about a quarter from the far left, and the remainder were driven by religious or 'ethnonationalist' causes". Violent leftists are absolutely real, and no one should pretend they do not exist. Change requires uncertainty, fear, and discomfort, but violence is optional. The ends never justify the means, the ends are the means.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

It's worth noting that 1GHz x86-64 is not the same as 1GHz RISC-V or 1GHz ARM. Different CPU architectures have different instruction sets, so it might require more cycles to achieve the same result.

e.g. 1GHz x86-64 and a 2GHz ARM - The x86-64 chip has a desired instruction built in, so it is able to perform the desired calculation in 5 cycles. The ARM chip does not include the desired instruction, so it takes 50 cycles to achieve the same result. Even though the ARM chip is twice as fast, it will take ~5x longer to run the same task.

I've never used RISC-V, but I did some testing with a couple ARM CPUs and a couple x86-64 CPUs last year and the results were roughly: ARM took ~5x longer, and x86-64 used ~5x more electricity. For the chips I was using, and for the work I was doing, there wasn't any efficiency gain by switching fully to ARM.

I am super excited for RISC-V, though! I can't wait to have a RISC-V coreboot machine.

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Many businesses, non-profits, and local government offices where I live use Facebook as their primary, or exclusive, online presence. I don't want to make a Facebook account, but I would like to be able to see some of the content that is posted there; are there any alternative front-ends that won't abuse me with trackers? So far I've only been able to find dead-links that are years old.

e.g. For Reddit there is teddit and libreddit, For youtube there is invidious, twitter has nitter, etc.