@nytpu @unnick

And someone else confirmed that they duplicate a lot of the most common units like integer ALUs so both can use it in parallel; and that each thread can use any non-duplicated functional unit not used by the other (so e.g. one could be accessing memory while the other is using the FPU)

Are you sure? I thought that was CMT (the thing Bulldozer had, where AMD got sued for misleading core count advertising) rather than SMT/hyperthreading.

Bulldozer had a seperate integer ALU for each “core” (CMT thread), but a shared FPU for each CMT cluster (pair of “cores”/CMT threads).

Although POWER8 (which has 8-way SMT) and POWER9 (which has either 4-way or 8-way SMT) apparently have varied amounts of duplicated units (and I don’t quite understand the difference between two SMT4 POWER9 cores and a single SMT8 POWER9 core, since they seem to have the same amount of slices).

@gabboman hi

@ariadne @kimapr notably Guix is not using pkgconf

@kemona_halftau good morning!

@maddy good night

TIL that in its default configuration, the Matrix Dendrite homeserver will refuse to federate over v6 entirely due to some hardcoded default ACLs that aren't documented anywhere and include "0.0.0.0/0" but not "::/0".

Very serious software.

https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/blob/main/setup/config/config_federationapi.go#L71

@ariadne what did the superb owls win?

@kemona_halftau seventeen colon zero zero

@gayfamicom I get it up until the last two

@kemona_halftau that's the sound cloudflares make

@maddy @ielenia If it’s the same one as the T480s, it apparently works with open-fprintd/python-validity. I haven’t tried it though, since it’s not packaged in Alpine and I probably wouldn’t trust fingerprint unlock anyway.

@nay @alyx Scaleway doesn't appear to have ARM yet and is quite a lot more expensive (except stardust): the cheapest option with 4GB RAM is €14.45/month (compared to Hetzner's €4.55/month CAX11, which is what I have) and that doesn't even seem to include storage (it's also only 300 Mbps, Hetzner doesn't advertise their network speed but it's faster than that).

Netcup looks better, but they should add smaller/cheaper ARM options. The cheapest is more expensive than Hetzner (€7.01/month in Austria) but also quite a bit larger than CAX11 and is currently out of stock. I'd consider it if I wanted to host more stuff there and it wasn't out of stock.

@seabass The times I've been on CrossCountry trains (mostly Cambridge <-> Stansted Airport, often late at night/early in the morning, and possibly also Cambridge <-> Ely a few times (I don't remember)) weren't busy at all so I didn't notice any of that, whereas the class 700 trains I've been on (Cambridge <-> various stations in London during the day) were much busier and a longer journey.

My problem with the class 700s is the lack of tables or armrests in standard class.

Next time I go to Stansted Airport I'll want to go by Greater Anglia rather than CrossCountry though, because it seems they replaced all their trains since 2019 and I've never been on a FLIRT or class 720.

@kemona_halftau foxes can meow too

@alyx do you have any recommendations for other providers in europe with similar pricing and without such onerous policies? (preferably one that offers aarch64 VPSes)

I currently use hetzner for several things, although I don't think that policy is likely to be used against any of them (IRC client/bouncer, secondary authoritative DNS server, nethack server, Tor relay that isn't currently running)

Unfortunately the nethack server means I'm kind-of locked in to aarch64 unless I want to use qemu-user emulation because save files are just structs dumped to a file and not portable at all

@alyx why not?

@woeisme yes, I do

@kemona_halftau meow