Jarkko Sakkinen
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Accepting the reality, breathing once in a while (instead of holding your breath all the time) and thinking that you are doing a long journey instead of a fast track would be in my opinion the signs of sanity when it comes to "community friction" ;-)
If getting frustrated that it might be even a good idea to write your own OS from scratch or something similar, and take a break from Linux. There's bunch of fostering work in that area especially when it comes to special purpose OS's. It's good for Linux too since all the innovation for any operating system will reflect innovation to other operating systems.
I personally have phases in Linux and that way keep hanging in the community. Right now I don't do much active development but still review and test patches and stuff like that. My implementation efforts are completely elsewhere (should finish hardware backed asymmetric keys tho some day, last update for that patch set in April ;-) ).
This way any Linux madness does not get into me too personally: I have other nolife too ;-)
If getting frustrated that it might be even a good idea to write your own OS from scratch or something similar, and take a break from Linux. There's bunch of fostering work in that area especially when it comes to special purpose OS's. It's good for Linux too since all the innovation for any operating system will reflect innovation to other operating systems.
I personally have phases in Linux and that way keep hanging in the community. Right now I don't do much active development but still review and test patches and stuff like that. My implementation efforts are completely elsewhere (should finish hardware backed asymmetric keys tho some day, last update for that patch set in April ;-) ).
This way any Linux madness does not get into me too personally: I have other nolife too ;-)
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Firefox has been using Rust since 2017 and about fifth of its code that was previously in C/C++ has been written in Rust (see Oxidation sub-project).
I'd expect slower cycle for Linux than Firefox. I think this would be likely truth for operating system with decades of legacy (e.g. BSD derivatives).
This makes me think that making any conclusions after two years is simply not a pragmatic mindset.
#rust #linux #kernel
I'd expect slower cycle for Linux than Firefox. I think this would be likely truth for operating system with decades of legacy (e.g. BSD derivatives).
This makes me think that making any conclusions after two years is simply not a pragmatic mindset.
#rust #linux #kernel
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@Aissen Very cool and interesting project! Another I had no even slight idea of.
Having worked with RISC-V for over past year or so (and continuing to do so albeit as byte code in PolkaVM), at this point of time I don't have a lot of faith in it when it comes to "with MMU" use cases.
This has made me hope that OpenMIPS would get some air under its wings (commercially) in such use cases both because RISC-V does not really deliver in that area, and secondly because competition would enforce it to deliver. Maybe there is also just some plain love for its legacy (SGI, Playstation 2, Nintendo 64 for etc) ;-)
Having worked with RISC-V for over past year or so (and continuing to do so albeit as byte code in PolkaVM), at this point of time I don't have a lot of faith in it when it comes to "with MMU" use cases.
This has made me hope that OpenMIPS would get some air under its wings (commercially) in such use cases both because RISC-V does not really deliver in that area, and secondly because competition would enforce it to deliver. Maybe there is also just some plain love for its legacy (SGI, Playstation 2, Nintendo 64 for etc) ;-)
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First thought I had this morning was that I started wondering if you could make "ChatGPT - The Board Game".
Each player would have 4x4 grid that would be educated during game, taking inspiration from mechanical matchbox tic-tac-toe player from 60s. And decision making would based on the conclusions of the AI and player.
Simplifying machine learning feedback ideas could foster some cool ideas for board games ;-)
Each player would have 4x4 grid that would be educated during game, taking inspiration from mechanical matchbox tic-tac-toe player from 60s. And decision making would based on the conclusions of the AI and player.
Simplifying machine learning feedback ideas could foster some cool ideas for board games ;-)
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Here are the links for each part:
- https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-14-leaking-addresses/
- https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-24-race-conditions/
- https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-34-integer-overflows/
- https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-44-shared-memory/
I’m putting these here as the in-article links apparently have not been updated
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Edited 10 months ago
Fresh ideas for remote attestation (vs Intel and AMD CA):
https://pom.ata.network/
#confidential #computing #machinehood
https://pom.ata.network/
#confidential #computing #machinehood
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AI slide for the talk (work in progress):
AI does not save us
AI fools researchers think they found problems
AI assisted reports take longer to debunk
AI is an added burden for maintainers
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@Aissen @oxidecomputer Cool. I'll need to ping my friend Phil who works at Oxide Computer and ask about that. Did not know about it.
I think Rust is really good cure for stuff that has been previously written with C on bare metal (with no OS whatsoever).
I think Rust is really good cure for stuff that has been previously written with C on bare metal (with no OS whatsoever).
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@Aissen Thanks I did not know about Tock OS :-) I'm quite familiar with this hardware real-time framework RTIC: https://rtic.rs/2/book/en/
I'll check this out for sure. Will the presentation be available online at some point?
I'll check this out for sure. Will the presentation be available online at some point?
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Edited 10 months ago
I have good news!
The best available documentation on Rust-Linux still exists (when compared to anything else available, including Linux own documentation):
https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-14-leaking-addresses/
I emailed to NCC Group and they've had just changed the URL. It is four part series, and the first part contains the URLs for rest of this series.
Documentation can be written from either "how"-angle or "why"-angle. For me the "how"-angle is irrelevant because I always read the source code from end to end :-) So I don't get whole a lot from existing kernel documentation.
#rust #linux #kernel
The best available documentation on Rust-Linux still exists (when compared to anything else available, including Linux own documentation):
https://www.nccgroup.com/us/research-blog/rustproofing-linux-part-14-leaking-addresses/
I emailed to NCC Group and they've had just changed the URL. It is four part series, and the first part contains the URLs for rest of this series.
Documentation can be written from either "how"-angle or "why"-angle. For me the "how"-angle is irrelevant because I always read the source code from end to end :-) So I don't get whole a lot from existing kernel documentation.
#rust #linux #kernel
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Edited 10 months ago
Why NPC's suck in games if the AI is great?
When Fallout 4 came out I stopped playing story oriented games because I started to feel like that I'm in a universe consisting of FSM's, which based on quiz trigger animation sequences ;-) No joke. Have not played story oriented games after 2015.
I guess you could improve a lot of taking some ideas of caching, tessellation algorithms and occlusion culling and apply them to AI. Like make "Quake solution" for AI. The best version would be used for the nearest entities, as it doesn't matter if the dudes far away are drunk/high ;-)
When Fallout 4 came out I stopped playing story oriented games because I started to feel like that I'm in a universe consisting of FSM's, which based on quiz trigger animation sequences ;-) No joke. Have not played story oriented games after 2015.
I guess you could improve a lot of taking some ideas of caching, tessellation algorithms and occlusion culling and apply them to AI. Like make "Quake solution" for AI. The best version would be used for the nearest entities, as it doesn't matter if the dudes far away are drunk/high ;-)
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@Danijel_Majic They used to call doom scrolling "screen fun" back in the day
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Everybody knows Phil Collins, i.e. the guy made gated reverb popular :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2siy25EWto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2siy25EWto
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@Aissen I still claim that it does it because you have the vision and talent that the tool further enhances ;-) Not that different if I order renovation for my kitchen most likely the contractor is either passionate either of Makita or Bosch instead of using e.g. Ikea tools. Still they can identify limitations and benefits of e.g. impact drill of either brand.
Makita and Bosch are literally like that in the construction business (I've noticed) :-)
Makita and Bosch are literally like that in the construction business (I've noticed) :-)
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