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pero | 8 years ago | on: California to Introduce 'Right to Repair' Bill

As someone who doesn't live in California, will this bill (indirectly) make available to me the service manual for my Acer Travelmate?

I've search high and low and absolutely can't get my hands on one.

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

no idea about PoE on either board but if i/o is a concern you might want to take a look at the $25 rock64 with gbe and usb3 - i/o on my neo1 maxes out somewhere just below 20mb/s but my rock64 has no problem doing 80mb/s with some ancient spinny disks and some armbian devs have done ~200mb/s with ssds iirc

os support on the rock64 is not quite there yet however but given the features@pricepoint i expect it to catch up

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

no it's not inconsequential

for one, why are _researchers_ using largely obsolete technology; for another, many high performance computing tasks perform significantly faster on 64bit (e.g., lmdb)

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

you do understand that 'better supported' in the case of the raspberrypi means that you are running a 32bit os? that's all they officially support - and have no plans to change

do you really think something or better and cheaper is impossible? the rpi is _the most overpriced sbc on the market_ particularly if you're not using it for raspbian (32bit only) and the module ecosystem

nanopi neo2 and rock64 are better and cheaper alternatives

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

you can buy at least 2 nanopi neo2's for every rpi3b - they have gbe and a non-gimped soc, and you can fit in at least 2 for every rpi, maybe even 4

there are also more powerful alternatives of the same footprint and at same or slightly cheaper price point (rock64)

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

i don't even know where to start understanding this remark

i am questioning why they are using immensely popular and commensurately overpriced but yet woefully underspecced components instead of something better and/or cheaper

is it just because 'raspberry pi' makes for a hot title in a press release?

pero | 8 years ago | on: BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

waste of (taxpayer) money using the (overpriced) rpi's gimped (no aes, usb3, gbe) soc

the rpi value prop is the community support but that would mean that this cluster is running a 32bit os - so what really is the point of using these instead of something smaller and cheaper or same size and more powerful for the same money

pero | 8 years ago | on: Changes to the YouTube Partner Program

> What's the motivation here then?

I'd guess it's some sort of legal/accounting move, something beneath the surface. Doesn't really make much sense otherwise.

pero | 9 years ago | on: 80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized

Intellectually and academically dishonest hitpiece by peddlers of a competing cryptocoin.

That this subset of transactions is not safe is not news, nor is it even original research - it was covered in research more than 2 years ago by The Monero Project itself - and is something the project has addressed since and is working to further improve even beyond the recommendations of this paper.

Lengthy discussion on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/65dj7u/an_empirical...

pero | 9 years ago | on: Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi

As a little cherry on top, the CPU they sourced is also crippled with no onchip crypto. Even the half-price Pine64 has a CPU with crypto instruction sets.
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