Hands-on experience is key in learning analog design - but waiting months for a tapeout slows everything down.
Peter Kinget built MOSbius, an “analog FPGA” that lets students experiment with real circuits in real time.
Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abu3u6UX6wE
For Juneteenth, I published some newly (re)discovered evidence about the very first celebration of the holiday in 1866. Read more …
w. david marx, equating polyester and genAI: „Our generation's polyester salespeople are not deep thinkers and they don't care about the externalities of what they're doing. They’re here to sell us polyester. We don’t have to buy it, but more importantly, we don't have to feel bad about not buying it.“
read the whole thing: https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/
This is the moment Rej's open source Z80 woke up and said hello!
After Zilog’s April 2024 announcement, ReJ quickly taped out a drop-in replacement to preserve retrocomputing and legacy systems.
Taped out on TT07, it's a landmark in democratizing chip design.
@lmorchard it really feels like: The workers will be punished until they stop trying to organize and use their power.
With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .
[EDIT: I did a better analysis on a dataset of 10x as many servers, see https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114400324446169152 ]
These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).
fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)
The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.
Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.
Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:
504 Cloudflare, Inc.
356 Hetzner Online GmbH
130 DigitalOcean, LLC
114 OVH SAS
56 netcup GmbH
55 Amazon.com, Inc.
55 Akamai Connected Cloud
36 Contabo GmbH
33 SAKURA Internet Inc.
32 The Constant Company, LLC
31 Xserver Inc.
28 SCALEWAY S.A.S.
24 Google LLC
23 Oracle Corporation
16 GMO Internet Group, Inc.
14 IONOS SE
14 FranTech Solutions
11 Hostinger International Limited
10 Nubes, LLC
Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.
There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.
The top BGP prefixes:
55 104.21.48.0/20
50 104.21.16.0/20
48 104.21.64.0/20
41 104.21.32.0/20
41 104.21.0.0/20
38 104.21.80.0/20
32 172.67.128.0/20
31 172.67.144.0/20
28 172.67.208.0/20
28 162.43.0.0/17
27 104.26.0.0/20
26 172.67.192.0/20
26 172.67.176.0/20
23 172.67.160.0/20
19 116.203.0.0/16
17 172.67.64.0/20
17 159.69.0.0/16
16 65.109.0.0/16
14 88.99.0.0/16
14 49.13.0.0/16
13 78.46.0.0/15
13 167.235.0.0/16
13 138.201.0.0/16
11 95.217.0.0/16
11 95.216.0.0/16
11 49.12.0.0/16
11 135.181.0.0/16
10 37.27.0.0/16
10 157.90.0.0/16
75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.
Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:
871 United States
439 Germany
156 France
148 Japan
75 Finland
57 Canada
49 Netherlands
38 United Kingdom
26 Switzerland
26 South Korea
21 Spain
19 Sweden
18 Austria
17 Australia
15 Russia
12 Czech Republic
10 Singapore
10 Italy
And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
https://ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e8c6-4bee-9b07-721f2c8febab
@middleclasstool I hated that guy.
This whistleblower account is really bad. This needs a congressional hearing but I wouldn’t count on it before mid-terms.
https://mastodon.social/@mattjay/114356086813609251
I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....
MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.
I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ23FR0000015_7001_70RSAT20D00000001_7001
MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, https://github.com/CVEProject
Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:
“On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”
@Toxic_Flange 2077 as a base would make an amazing MMO but if somebody actually made it you just know it'd be a dystopic cash grab bugfest.
Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Pre-punk musician Joe Strummer, then known as Woody, lived in Newport for six months in 1974, working as a gravedigger and frequenting the Murenger Pub.
Photo: Richard Frame
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegend #joestrummer #theclash #punkrockhistory #history
Since a lot of people seem to be interested in reducing their dependence on the hyperscale cloud operators, we offer for your consideration our book that describes our experience of operating an edge cloud using open source components: https://systemsapproach.org/books-html/#opsbook
@brouhaha I have a 16C and had no idea you could update it. I imagine it’s with a chip clip?
@pcalcado I found a new gym a year ago and have been in the two-a-week gang. I want to fit some more open mats in but things are going pretty well.
@mra simulating on a computer and prototyping on an fpga is pretty essential. I haven't heard of any successful designs being taped out without those steps. are you using verilog or another HDL?
@mra there’s a community of people prototyping small cpu designs (among other things) and taping them out on a open source silicon process. The project is called tiny tapeout. Yes, it is on discord. Sadly, the open web doesn’t seem to be popular for hackers anymore.
My exhibit of early Xilinx FPGA development environments is all set up for #VCFSoCal
NetNewsWire is 22 years old today! NetNewsWire 1.0 shipped this day in 2003.
We’ll be celebrating by continuing work on version 6.2. 🐣🐥🚀
@wallingf @NetNewsWire I love netnewswire, I wish more people (read: me) blogged again
