[11:40] schestowitz[11:40] schestowitzLinux 6.2-rc2 kernel is out as the last commit in kernel.org at the start of the 2023 year. RUST is here, the initial code-base is included in the kernel. At least Arch seems to be disabling it for now, at the beta level at least, we shall see.
[11:40] schestowitzRust is not just a language, as people commonly think, it is much more. It is a building environment, system, and a mode change of the philosophy of building packages from source. Rust incorporates its own git system in pulling code in from 2nd and 3rd parties. So if you have never gotten into the real FOSS practice of auditing code before you build, try and audit this stuff. If building in C you thought [11:40] schestowitz was a practice similar to building sand castles, by comparison, this is like building sand castles with quick-sand ON QUICK SAND.
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[11:57] schestowitz[11:57] schestowitzTo a new user, Guix's functional architecture can seem quite alien, and possibly offputting. With a combination of extensive #guix-querying, determined manual-reading, and plenty of source-perusing, they may eventually figure out how everything fits together by themselves, but this can be frustrating and often takes a fairly long time.
[11:57] schestowitzHowever, once you peel back the layers, the "Nix way" is actually rather elegant, if perhaps not as simple as the mutable, imperative style implemented by the likes of dpkg and pacman. This series of blog posts will cover basic Guix concepts, taking a "ground-up" approach by dealing with lower-level concepts first, and hopefully make those months of information-gathering unnecessary.
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[11:57] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.bunniestudios.com | Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) bunnie's blog [11:57] schestowitz[11:57] schestowitzThe ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritzs Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you arent into photos of chips, he elevates it to an art. Even more amazingly, all of his work is public domain; hats off to him [11:57] schestowitz for contributing these photos to the commons with such a generous license, because it is not easy to prepare the material and take images of this quality. If any of my readers happens to know him and are willing to make an introduction, Id appreciate that. I only discovered his work by chance while doing some background research.
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[12:26] schestowitz[12:26] schestowitzMaintaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes about 0.3 percent of global CO2 emissions. That may not sound like a lot, but its more than the emissions of Switzerland, Croatia, and Norway combined. As many cryptocurrencies crash and the FTX bankruptcy moves into the litigation stage, regulators are likely to scrutinize the cryptocurrency world more than ever before. This presents a [12:26] schestowitz perfect opportunity to curb their environmental damage.
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[12:41] schestowitz[12:42] schestowitzThe Chinese group didnt have that large a quantum computer to work with. They were able to factor 48-bit numbers using a 10-qbit quantum computer. And while there are always potential problems when scaling something like this up by a factor of 50, there are no obvious barriers.
[12:41] schestowitzHonestly, most of the paper is over my headboth the lattice-reduction math and the quantum physics. And theres the nagging question of why the Chinese government didnt classify this research. Butwowmaybeand yikes! Or not.
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