That makes sense. It will be a long time I think before riscv can really compete with x86 or arm in the consumer facing markets.
It's used in millions of chips. The biggest users are Chinese manufacturers that no longer have to pay Arm. And they make replacement MCUs for ARM parts.
If you look on ali express you would be blown away where it's used.
I saw a usb to uart chip, cheaper than a ftdi, replaced by riscv. This usb to uart even had bluetooth! (It was dnp'd).
Ok right on. I heard it in Nashville on day 3 so it's probably on the stream!
#RadioDetox episode 2 blog (links to episode and playlist on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5)
https://www.destinyarchitecture.net/radio-detox-episode-2-sara-jade/
"I make more money on nostr complaining about Spotify than on spotify" 🤣😭
nostr:nprofile1qqs0zvajgmc8vvlaux5fgye6cfc2hp6s2q4kf2thns96c0yj9qvcmksppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp06e8e8y where can I hear you song Criminals?! I loved it 😍
I'm ready to make some tapes!
There's a few people here posting daily creative acts of poetry, sketches, drawings, photos, music and the like.
It's pretty inspiring 😍
I'm trying to learn the trumpet. I played French horn a very long time ago, but they trumpet is a bit more versatile I think.
In any case, I made this recording after only 1 week of playing. For the short amount of time I had, I'm very happy with it. And it's actually me 😀
It helps I'm reading a nice poem too.
Well, I'm trying. I played the French horn for maybe 8 years some decades ago. But the French horn is difficult. So, 1 month ago I picked up a trumpet. For where I am, I'm happy with it.
📡DYK: You can sync a full node offline & anonymously using data beamed down from nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n satellites in space via radio signals. 📡
What is a Blockstream Satellite Node:
A Blockstream Satellite Node broadcasts Bitcoin blockchain data via satellite, enhancing the Bitcoin network's accessibility, resilience and privacy. If you are crafty, this could be done for less than $100 fiat.
This is a great DIY project for cypherpunks. It is also a great project for using a cheap SDR.
It can also be a great way to introduce pre-coiners in your local ham radio club to bitcoin and why bitcoin nodes are important. There are a lot of very smart people in your local ham radio club that we can bring in to our side.
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Do you know how they _transmit_ this data via a groundstation? It is cool to receive, ngl, but it'd also be cool to push some data.
I think they are using aws groundstation possibly and it probably isn't cheap but idk.
This sounds like a Hayao Miyazaki film now! Enjoy your travels!
Vinyl without surface noise is just a CD. 🤣
I'll try to pop in but if you play anything, probably the jazz, with banger trumpet solos, 🎺 I'd be interested!
Yeah that's in the queue for sure!
I thought digital sounded better than analog! 🤪
I'd highly recommend "Civil Disobendience" by Henry Thoreau. It's been quite a while since I've read this and damn, this short book could have been written yesterday.
Dude goes to jail because he says it's morally wrong to pay taxes to a government that allows slavery and is fighting a war with Mexico. He was also against a standing army.
Someone pays his tax bill so he released after 1 night. He protests but they kick him out.
Yes it's from the 1880s, but this guy would have been stacking sats on his farm in his cabin in 2024.
Yeah it's frustrating. The stm32l ROM code is a black box, as is the atecc608 microcode. Even riscv CPUs have closed source IP in the analog domain especially.
This industry is torturing it's users with a complexity that's not needed. I'm sure more bitcoin has been lost in HWW from bad UX than stolen from some security failure.
We've lost the forrest from the trees.
But hey, sponsorship of podcasts, conferences, and YouTube videos doesn't come cheap. You gotta push that merch!
It must be something to be threatened by a raspberry pi 🤣
Oh yeah, that's a good perspective! It's also perhaps why my room is always a mess, "I'm just keeping the noise level high" 🤣
I finished "The New Analog" by Damon Krukowski. If you have or enjoy vinyl records, you will enjoy this book. But there is a bigger theme here.
He asks what do we loose when we switch to digital technologies? Even he admits that nostalgic love for old technologies is not practical, but what are we missing?
It's the noise from the signal. Digital is 100% signal but noise adds context that analog humans still process.
Perhaps of most interest to this group was his comparison to legacy social media who curated content feeds for you which is a way of removing noise from your feed.
Which I then realized why nostr is so different. _It has noise_. The noise is mixed in the signal on nostr still as you had to scroll passed all the other posts by other followers to read this.
This noise is a feature, not a bug. Perhaps it's why nostr feels more authentic -- it's more analog in this way.