cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/536301
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> > The Russia’s State Social University (RSSU) has launched a “social rating”
platform that claims to build a person’s “social portrait” with possible
applications in future government policies. > > Named “We,” the platform
promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey
that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness,
criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others. > > “The social
rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or
the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who
knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?” > > Observers on
social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921
dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. [The novel
“We” describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian
state. It inspired British author George Orwell to write his own novel,
“Nineteen Eighty-Four”, which was published in 1949.]
RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.
Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?
Definitely interested - is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
I’ve been bitten before with a device that “supports” a major distribution, but only if you install our custom pre-built image (good luck auditing what we’ve tweaked) and only with our special pre-built kernel that isn’t even an LTS version, and has a bunch of patches applied to support whatever weird peripherals we decided to throw on the board, and will get exactly 0 updates after the initial release.
Raspberry Pi gets around this by being big enough to get buy in from vendors (Ubuntu distributes a special kernel + firmware bundle), but support for all the other smaller knock offs seem shaky at best
is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
Unfortunately, sounds like “no” currently. The ones that let you install Debian usually provide some kind of custom Debian image for that specific SBC. Like you, I’m not really a fan of that. But apparently there are some desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs coming out. Hopefully that will increase the chance of things getting supported in mainline distros.
Definitely interested - is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
I’ve been bitten before with a device that “supports” a major distribution, but only if you install our custom pre-built image (good luck auditing what we’ve tweaked) and only with our special pre-built kernel that isn’t even an LTS version, and has a bunch of patches applied to support whatever weird peripherals we decided to throw on the board, and will get exactly 0 updates after the initial release.
Raspberry Pi gets around this by being big enough to get buy in from vendors (Ubuntu distributes a special kernel + firmware bundle), but support for all the other smaller knock offs seem shaky at best
Unfortunately, sounds like “no” currently. The ones that let you install Debian usually provide some kind of custom Debian image for that specific SBC. Like you, I’m not really a fan of that. But apparently there are some desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs coming out. Hopefully that will increase the chance of things getting supported in mainline distros.