Reader suggestions always make me happy.
- Is stockpiling AMD Bulldozer-based hardware from 2012 a good idea for those that care about privacy and security, since those CPUs don’t have PSP/Intel ME?
- ECC Memory & AMD’s Ryzen – A Deep Dive. (thanks kerma on #dragonflybsd for this and the previous link)
- Scrum makes you dumb. I don’t know if he’s setting up the right enemy, but it’s a good analysis of organizational silos. (via)
- Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member. Seriously homebrew, from that story. (via)
- New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network. (via)
- Related: same but for heavy metal band names.
- Sexy Emacs. Sexy Vim. (via)
- The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth. (via)
- U.S. frequency allocations, with detail. (PDFs, via)
- Zomg lots more anagram stuff. Lots.
- The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of.
- Zip Files All The Way Down. Oh, so that’s what a quine is? (via)
These are some interesting links. I was not aware that Ryzen CPUs supported ECC RAM. They are certainly competitive performance-wise with Xeon E3s and even some E5s. However the memory bandwidth on the E5s is going to trounce that of Ryzen, especially in dual CPU configurations which you cannot get with Ryzen.
As far as stockpiling AMD hardware… well, given the Intel Management Engine fiasco, I wouldn’t be surprised if people were actually doing this. Shame on you Intel. Anyone trusting critical infrastructure to those CPUs is going to be in for a very rude awakening when these exploits start falling into the wrong hands.
Too bad the Lazy Reading list doesn’t included updates perf benchmarks of dfly vs Linux.
Why are there so many URGENT bugs that’s haven’t been fixed in YEARs?
https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/?per_page=100&sort=priority%3Adesc%2Cid%3Adesc
Shawn
Some of those bugs are very likely no longer issues. The buglist report just hasn’t been updated to reflect this.
Why are there so many people named SHAWN that complain about UNRELATED ISSUES on BLOG POST COMMENTS instead of doing ANYTHING about them?
Seriously, is this trolling? Am I being trolled? Is there someone who thinks a bunch of links to stuff including fake D&D spell names and radio frequency allocations is the right place to go when you want cross-platform database timings?
Is there people that think I am asking a real question here or using a rhetorical device? It’s the Internet, so there will be people who think that. Yes, it’s rhetorical and no, I do not need an answer to these questions.