You might want to read up on Bitcoin some more, much is happening. Check out this and this which are taking Chaumian Mints to the next level. You can read more here. And then there is the Layer 2 solution, the Lightning Network which is helping with the privacy. More tech is on the way to help with privacy more.

One of the things that attracts me to Bitcoin is it's similarity to the Internet and the Web. It's a protocol in a stack. Doing what SSH, SFTP, HTTPS, et al have been doing for information for decades, but for money. I see it as the best savings technology ever currently (it's worked for me in more than a few ways - made me a saver - I'm mid-50's and never saved anything until the last two years and now I'm also debt free for the first time in my life!) Someday I hope/think/believe it will be the best money. The dollar is dying as our government continues debase and I believe they'll turn on the money printer yet again within the next year and drive the value of the dollar down even further.

I've been on Slashdot since probably 1997 and I've always thought of many Slashdotters as among the smartest people in tech. Often ahead of the curve with regard to technology. Linux users most. Many are programmers or at least know how to code. Smart people in general. Yet, it's astounding to me just how anti-Bitcoin so many are. It's like you're anti-tech Luddites! LOL

I would wager two things are true amongst the Bitcoin the haters:

1.) They can't/don't/won't separate Bitcoin from "Crypto". They lump them together in ignorance.
2.) None have done the requisite work to actually really understand Bitcoin.

If you were to do a deep dive and really make an attempt to understand the technology (decentralized, portable, immutable, finite supply, true digital scarcity, fungibility, security, permissionless, censorship resistant, etc.) and the ideology, I think you would actually see the forest, not just the trees.

Did you guys all get FOMO and buy some Bitcoin when it was at $69K and now you're just salty about it? Did you buy some of the 20K+ "Crypto" garbage coins during the last bull run, lose everything, and now you hate all "Crypto"? If you think Bitcoin and "Crypto" are the same, you might want to RTFM.

The lack of understanding of Bitcoin by Slashdotters is astounding. People equating Bitcoin with âoecryptoâ show they obviously have no clue, lumping them together as though they are the same thing. And the old âoeBitcoin has no valueâ trope is so tired. It obviously has $30,000ish of real value as of the time of this post. If Bitcoin has no value, then neither does any currency. Do you know what value is? Do you know what money is? Do you know what a medium of exchange is? Itâ(TM)s like continuing to believe that Linux will never amount to anything (when itâ(TM)s essentially taken over the Internet and Web). Why just today MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 12,333 BTC for ~$347.0 million at an average price of $28,136 per Bitcoin and as of 6/27/23 MicroStrategy holds 152,333 $BTC acquired for ~$4.52 billion at an average price of $29,668 per Bitcoin. No value⦠ha!

This is not technically the explanation for the 2x ratio difference, at least on the Cisco platform under the microscope here. It is slightly more nuanced than that.

The TCAM entries are divided up into two bucket sizes: 72 bit buckets and 144 bit buckets.
An IPv4 address is 32 bits
An IPv6 address is 128 bits

An IPv4 FIB entry is 32-bits plus any additional bits it stores like interface and next-hop info
An IPv6 FIB entry is 128-bits plus any additional bits it stores like interface and next-hop info

128 bits do not fit into a 72-bit bucket so it gets stored in the larger 144-bit bucket.
There are multicast entries, MPLS entries, etc that all fit into one or the other of the two TCAM buckets.

The bucket sizes are 2x difference, not the amount of stored info from the address family sizes.

I did not care for this article because it seems pretty New Jersey centric and therefore not representative of the whole of charter schools. Minnesota does not allow its charter schools to discriminate on the admissions. In general if you live in Minnesota and are of the appropriate age for your grade level then you pretty much are accepted in the school. If there are more applicants than available spots then it goes to a lottery system. There are few minor exceptions here and there (eg sibling preference) but mostly it's open and fair.

Maybe Minnesota is unique in this regard I don't know but I live in Minnesota and am interested in charter schools as I have school age kids and I just witnessed a new approval for a charter school today (quite by chance on the same day of this /. article).

BSD has no problems with this kind of use.

To quote the founder of OpenBSD:
But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

Sorry, confused that. He built it on Linux 0.13 or something like that; Minix-vmd has ACK that works fine. On 386BSD 0.0 even GCC 1.39 was usable ;-)

But we're getting off-topic slowly... though that's probably normal.

Needless to say that, even *if* there's an exploit for say, the webserver, out there: nobody's going to write shellcode for m68k.

For the same reason, Miod Vallat of OpenBSD fame runs his website on a VAX, and the BSI is said to still use BS/2000 somewhere. Even if not unbreakable, nobody's going to be able to use it ;-) At least not your average 08/15 skriptkiddie.

Ah, thanks for the additional background. Yes, a pointer to the problems would probably be appreciated by the ARAnyM developers.

The d-i will not work right now, not with the normal mirrors at least, due to debootstrap being unable to cope with needing to pull packages from *two* distributions (unstable and unreleased), we think. We're working on it.

https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Installing in the meantime has an ext2fs image you can use / boot into, and kernels.

I've asked Atari-Frosch to power on the machine and then comment here, so we will have boot messages.

Thanks for the help!

Mhm. Can the kernel image be changed, like with config(8) -ef /bsd on MirBSD/OpenBSD, to not do that?

I think something in /etc/rc drops me to single user when INSECURE is set, but itâ(TM)s been quite an amount of months, so I do not remember precisely.

Cool, thanks!

GCC 1.42 is fine (we run that on BSDi BSD/OS 3.1 as well, and RT compiled it on Minix-vmd since the shipped GCC 1.40 was broken); mksh is amazingly portable.

Do come over to the channel though ;) We've got a few tricks.

IIRC, that wasn't it: it did find the root filesystem but was hardcoded to single user and securelevel -1 (I should note that this is the same kernel as was used for the installation).

But thanks for the offer anyway ;-)

Since I can't find an eMail in the archives, I assume I only asked in IRC :( but I did the installation attempt at a conference, so...

Ask Atari-Frosch in #atari-home on OFTC for details, it's her computer, and she can power it on and look. (I think Linux failed due to too few ST-RAM for the kernel to fit. It's rather fat nowadays...)

I'm not good with details on Amiga, but I think the procedure is:

You boot some sort of Kickstart/Workbench, then run an AmigaOS program which is the Linux bootloader and pass it the kernel and, if needed, the initrd from the AmigaOS filesystem, it will load them and make them usable, then jump into Linux. From then onwards, that one will be the OS in charge, making ext4 available etc.

Sadly, no kexec yet. Having to copy out the kernel instead of being able to load it directly from ext4 (or whatever you choose) would be cool.

AFAIHH some of the emulation projects have made available Free (as in Freedom) ROMs for TOS (EmuTOS) and Kickstart, which contain enough code to run this without needing the proprietary Amiga stuff. But, like I said, I'm nowhere near knowledgeable about this part of those architectures, plus I mostly worked on (emulated and a few real) Ataris, not Amigas, while doing this. (And even there, I did as few as possible on the "native" side.)

Right, but I recently tried to install NetBSD/atari on AtariFrosch's box, and the installer died on itself. I, having BSD experience, managed to still install it by manually untarring the sets, running MAKEDEV, etc. but the kernel seems to have hardcoded booting into securelevel -1 and single user, so the system doesn't come up afterwards without some manual effort on each boot.

No NetBSD® person I asked could help, and the mailing list was dead as well.

Granted, the software works, but it's less refined. (That being said, while Wouter built a debian-installer image, nobody has tested it yet, and installing sid is always chancy due to its moving nature. But debootstrap, edit fstab, get a kernel and boot into it works.)