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And a lot of it isn't.

> > You can just ignore the EULA. Nobody is coming to get you.

> You can, but it's not gonna gain broad attention.

True I guess nobody ever gave a shit about The Pirate Bay. That project died without gathering a single user.

> > Why is nobody using it?

> It's used for chips with a good open source backend (lattice, gatemate). But it's non-trivial to integrate with the vivado backend and doesn't bring many benefits when used as such.

Sounds like someone should reverse engineer the vivado backend so it's not needed any more.

"You should" begins what actions I suggest you do in order to mitigate the outside forces that are happening whether you like them or not. The outside world is certain. Your response is something you can influence.

The world sucks. You get to choose your response and if you choose wrong your business gets Darwinned. I've told you what actions I think will avoid your business getting Darwinned, but your response has been denial. Your response was essentially: "wow, fuck you for telling me the world sucks. Here's a non sequitur to try and make you feel bad."

My understanding was that the government doesn't want list service, but wants to negotiate something very specific and annoying, like some weird compliance or support requirements. Of course the government can pay list price if they only want list service, but they don't. List service means you ship the product to the customer and then it's the customer's problem after that.

I'm glad you have the option to live somewhere like that. I'm also glad you can't forcibly impose it on everyone else. I'll take a moderate level of corruption over a completely unregulated hellhole.

Now you know why government contracts are so expensive. They have to be, to cover the costs of dealing with the government.

It's not wrong to over-quote a shitty customer by an amount that'd make you willing to deal with their shittiness. That's totally fine on your part actually, since either they take the bid and you make money, or they don't and you don't have to deal with them.

I feel like half of these are quickly resolved in court when you explain what happened and the judge calls the state a bunch of fucking morons and dismisses the case. But the other half of the time the judge won't use common sense. Also the state is relying on you not wanting to show up in front of a judge out of your own state to contest what I presume is a relatively small amount of dollars.

I don't think I've ever met a programmer online who didn't think git and github were the same thing.

Is HN read-only? All the vote buttons disappeared

Feel free to be as smug as you went while your brand fades to irrelevance. I'm telling you what will happen, not what should happen.

That's how pyramid schemes work. Everyone "rationally" thinks they can find a downline, but most of them are wrong.

Should be grounds to blacklist a domain IMO

Details of most hardware are kept proprietary.

no it isn't actually

He isn't building a plane but a device.

What does the device do? He doesn't know.

You should post on YouTube but blank out all the falsely strikable content and replace it with a pointer to your website. YouTube is necessary for discoverability.

That just sounds like business to me. You do whatever makes money.

Nothing about a winmodem prevented you writing a Linux driver. The problem is that nobody did write one.

You can just ignore the EULA. Nobody is coming to get you.

Sounds like yosys is good. Why is nobody using it? Why are we all hoping for Vivado instead of just using Yosys?

You can extract the timing information from Vivado. Such information is not copyrightable. You should be able to extract timing data and connectivity data from anything supported by the free version. You could also collaborate with someone with a really fast oscilloscope to gather some timing yourself, though that'll be extremely tedious.

Even if you just get the connectivity data and bitstream format and no timing, that's massively useful for less-than-high-speed projects. A single open source developer just has to make a contribution, doesn't have to do the whole thing in one go. The reverse engineering parts are often the most valuable, especially if they require access to hardware.

Then search for weekend music festivals, which are usually longer than a weekend. Not Coachella because I hear that ones been enshittified, but like Coachella except good.

The longest one I know runs for 6 days, Wednesday to Monday. Not everyone stays there the whole time. It's awesome. Although the more awesome one I know was Thursday night to Monday morning.

Do try to stay for the last night. At least here in Europe, the crowd who doesn't go home on Sunday night is the most interesting crowd.

That's also what a wireless mesh network is. Nodes shout as loud as they can, and try to find other nodes to relay messages for them. Ham radio is a manually operated mesh, like semaphores.

It's not knowing misrepresentation. You AI-generated the same video, so how were you to know it wasn't yours? Just don't show them this HN thread.

Besides, nobody's actually checking

These chips scale up into the price range of $100,000 per chip, I'm not kidding. You really want someone to pick your $100k chip instead of Intel's $100k chip. A single high-end deal offsets the entire tool sales over the entire lifetime of Vivado.

It might be excusable that they want to vet their customers receiving the tool chain for the high end chips to avoid leaking trade secrets to Intel, but that isn't excusable for the low end. Someone who starts with your $10 chips is likely to develop brand loyalty and if they need $100k chips later, they'll be more likely to pick your ones.

Winmodems are a very sensible idea. You know software-defined radio? They are that, but for modems. Expandable to support any current or future protocol, at the cost of CPU time. Why do we like SDRs but hate SDMs? That's an irrational position.

The actual problem with winmodems was them breaking the established software/hardware boundary, and the Linux community not having the resources to follow suit.

Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux, or taking a Winmodem driver and making it run on Linux, or writing a from-scratch software implementation of a 56k modem that can run on any sound card plugged into a phone line (which is what a Winmodem is), or reverse engineering the bitstream format for these FPGAs and writing a compiler from scratch (or even just the device-dependent backend - the frontend and middle-end can be developed in a more normal way and can be shared with other toolchains). But nobody actually stepped up and did it, which I think is proof that the free software community is a lot weaker than it thinks it is.

You could even do it right now, if you wanted to. You're not, and I'm sure there are good reasons for that. Extrapolate it across all developers, and it's unfortunate that it seems none of them have enough reason to do it. On the flip side, if anyone reading this does suddenly decide they have enough reason to do it... (Incentive: FPGAs are fun to play with!)

It's the same problem with things like Geminispace, or hobbyist phone networks. The only thing Gemini users have in common is hating what the internet has become. The only thing TandmX users have in common is some interest in phones or phone systems.

But on the other hand, isn't it also true of the Internet?

Yes, and ham radio is the international emergency mesh. CB radio isn't.

Black Boys, since the first mnemonic letter is for the color black. And we didn't have Get Some Now, that feels redundant since everyone knows gold is better than silver.

Why would Google give themselves less money?

Corporations seem deathly scared of GDPR, for some reason, while in reality it's enforced about as much as American antitrust (not at all).

What if you claim it first against them? You wouldn't be punished for a false claim, since they're not.