When CUDA started taking off we had ATI hardware, to support their open source pledge, and looked into ROCm.

Just getting the drivers to build on EL-anything was an extreme effort, and it wasn't my first rodeo.

Without betraying confidences, I was told second-hand that there were only ten people on the GPU driver team across all platforms and that they were doing their best and not sleeping enough as it was, with Compute way behind gaming bugs on the priority list.

I couldn't independently verify of course but the theory fit the data.

I immediately empathized with the suffering of the devs and went out and bought nVidia cards, annoying binary drivers and all.

Since then I've felt like that some bean counter at AMD wrote nVidia a trillion dollar check.

If you're not a tiny company *overstaff* your engineering departments so you don't miss new opportunities as they arise. The opportunity costs exceed the opex costs.

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

OTR might be small enough.

The Axolotl Ratchet is much better but perhaps too big for SMS.

TextSecure probably would have offered it were that feasible.

Of course if you can arrange one-time pads you're 1:1 at 140 characters.

>"They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns."

Well, no. They are printing parts of guns, not a whole gun. The barrel is certainly not printed. Nor are springs, fasteners, striker, etc.

>"You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM"

At least for now, [essentially] nobody has an EDM machine at home. And this is no different from just making parts with metal machining tools. Are we going to ban/restrict metal lathes and such? Or force computers on them so they can somehow detect you are manually making a barrel, trigger, firing pin, charger, springs, etc?

>"so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself."

Right. You could always do that. This new stuff doesn't really change that much. And it doesn't replace needing metal work. It might make some things easier, but still requires a lot of work/time and some expertise.

>"This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us."

Please define "gun nuts" because exercising your constitutional and lawful rights to be able to defend yourself and others is not nutty. And printing accessory parts isn't really all that nutty, either. People aren't "printing guns", at least not with plastic printers.

Your ire should be pointed squarely at the people at fault for making this mess- legislators who are apparently completely clueless about both firearms and technology.

>"The new Harleys have a feature that randomly dumps oil on the ground to mimic the classic HD experience."

You forgot the horrible out-of-balance vibrations, strange noise, and mediocre performance. Then you would get closer.

There is a reason I ride a 16 valve inline 4 with variable valve timing (and stock muffler).

>"Frankly I'm thinking... whatever it takes to sell bikers on replacing their painfully noisy kill-me machines with silent kill-me machines is worth it."

They are only loud if illegally modified. Mine is no louder than most cars.

The problem with electric motorcycles is that there is not enough room for batteries. Until you can produce something with 160+hp per 600lbs *AND* 250 mile range, not interested.

Really this is far more probable than a dozen people went crazy in the same way at the same time which seems to be a plurality of comments.

If there's an American great ape they live in Washington state, not Ohio, based on report frequency.

Star Wars nerds? Yes, so many in Ohio.

His best buddy specialized in making exploding pagers.

Good luck out there.

In my younger and more foolish days I had a Pontiac and I opted out with wire cutters to the Surveillance module's power cables.

At the time I was actually more concerned with remote unlock hijacking than tracking but still I didn't trust GM.

All together now: WE TOLD YOU SO.

If I had to guess 20 years later doing that would disable the ECU.

>"Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting."

Um yeah, sure. But that doesn't require unrestricted internet/app access.

>"following pressure from parents who claim too much in-school screen time has zapped children's attention spans and left them worse off academically."

And how many of these parents gave their children phones/tablets/computers with full internet/app access?

Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.

If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.

Are there any tools to watch my lsmod, walk /lib/modules, and configure modprobe.d to deny loading anything I'm not using?

All of these exploits are in distro modules I'd never use.

Local access, unless you haven't patched apache this week, then it's remote access.