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?
Yes. My apps are not static: one is a Django app (Python) using Postgres. I had to compile both Postgres and Python but that’s because I wanted to use them in Docker but there were no images available (maybe there are now, things change fast in this world).
Other was a Rust app, also using Postgres. For this I had to wait until a cryptography library (ring) added support to RISC-V since they use some assembly to improve the performance. After that, it was fine.
I’ve been experimenting with more stuff, in general almost all important languages work, but beware that even if it works, they might not be as performant as in ARM or x86. Java for example, worked but the JVM didn’t have a JIT so it was very slow (this is fixed now, but some distros still ship it without JIT AFAIK).
Yes. My apps are not static: one is a Django app (Python) using Postgres. I had to compile both Postgres and Python but that’s because I wanted to use them in Docker but there were no images available (maybe there are now, things change fast in this world).
Other was a Rust app, also using Postgres. For this I had to wait until a cryptography library (ring) added support to RISC-V since they use some assembly to improve the performance. After that, it was fine.
I’ve been experimenting with more stuff, in general almost all important languages work, but beware that even if it works, they might not be as performant as in ARM or x86. Java for example, worked but the JVM didn’t have a JIT so it was very slow (this is fixed now, but some distros still ship it without JIT AFAIK).