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   emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:08:47 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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   • Akari Mekahime

   @MekahimeAkari I'm trying to find if anyone has made open hardware FPGAs yet (because that seems like a good place to start with this sort of thing) and that is shockingly hard because everyone's like "I made an open hardware FPGA board! it has this xilinx FPGA on it"

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:08:49 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     • Akari Mekahime

     @MekahimeAkari I could be convinced to join this project if you actually do a thing (my skills range from the making-PCBs-with-existing-parts level of hardware all the way up the stack)

     the silicon level is the hardest imo, since (that is the highest level I know essentially nothing about so it seems scary and intractable but also) we don't really currently have a good, accessible-to-individuals way to make any sort of nontrivial ICs afaik? but I would also like to see this change

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     Akari Mekahime (mekahimeakari@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:08:50 JST Akari Mekahime

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     @emily I meant the people, with groups that aren't specifically structured but interact freely

     Decentralised computer is also cool. There are some concepts with functional units that are allocated dynamically to different workloads to maximise parallelism which is a cool idea

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:08:53 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     @MekahimeAkari do you mean "decentralized" as in the people making it are, or as in the computer itself is?

     I'm intrigued either way but also I do not know what a decentralized computer would look like

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     Akari Mekahime (mekahimeakari@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:08:54 JST Akari Mekahime

     my utopian dream would be a decentralised computer from the silicon to the OS, all open source and created by interconnected communities focussed on the art of computer touching™️

     if anyone needs an SoC-level performance engineer for this let me know (i'm not a expert but it is my job)

     imagine how many cool OS, programming language, and computer architecture ideas could be played with and exchanged across the entire stack??? it could be fun