gmp-wasm VS hardened_malloc

I wondered about Drew's "antagonism" last year when he claimed that Google was DDoS'ing Sourcehut, which is why sr.ht blacklisted the Go module mirror; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310674 .

I concluded he was right after I read about ongoing problems with the GMP project, at https://gmplib.org/ : "The GMP servers has been under serious load due to a barrage of clone requests from Microsoft/Github. ... In effect, Microsoft's computer cloud performed a DDoS attack on the GMP servers. ... Our servers are fully available again, but that's the result of us adding all participating Microsoft network ranges to our firewall. We understand that we are far from the first project to take such measures against Github."

Also, you can't build projects like Sourcehut by being only an antagonist, and I can think of some pretty antagonistic CEOs of billion dollar companies.

There are "bignum" implementations for every language. Though I never tested the performance impact on closed-form Fibonacci when a defined double precision >64bit is used.

https://gmplib.org/

Your code has an accidentally quadratic runtime (instead of linear). Since the array is appended to, the code regularly increases the memory region and has to move all the previous data over.

You could pre-allocate the memory as n is known ahead.

Different data types can take up varying amounts of memory. Take an integer as an example, this data type usually takes up 4 bytes of memory (DWORD in x86 architecture), while a floating-point data type can take up 8 bytes (or more, depending on what compiler you are using, on that offers a lot of flexibility is GMP)

I also disagree, and they were DDOS, so technically Microsoft broke a law.

>Granlund was not entirely satisfied with Blacker's explanation, nor the implied feebleness of the project's server(s)

So, every project needs to have a multi-million USD server Farm ? GMP is probably pulled by various Linux distros and the BSDs, along with other Misc projects. So no need for a huge server farm.

For people who do not know what it is:

https://gmplib.org/

The front page of https://gmplib.org/ has two other undated updates that the current server is too slow because of meltdown and they're going to replace with it with an epyc server in mid April.

Ive been trying to use the gmp library but I keep getting errors. Ive noticed that the last release was from 2020 and was wondering if there was any newer versions anywhere else. I'm currently running Fedora 38 and using VSC as my editor. This is the error I get:

You also left out GNU Smalltalk, whose PDF manual is 138 pages, and GMP, whose PDF manual is 152 pages.

If you are using the GCC, it was (probably) built with the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library. You just have to compile your program with the library specified like: g++ mycxxprog.cc -lgmpxx -lgmp where gmp is the GNU MP library and gmpxx contains the C++-specific functions.

Relevant copypasta:

Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Google and Apple! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:

Data service:

The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.

Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (VCC) like at privacy.com. It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are. There is also Abine Blur, and some others.

Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto. You can also buy prepaid VCCs with crypto.

An interesting new choice is PGPP https://invisv.com/pgpp/ who rotate your IMSI and do some other cool stuff. It works by e-sims.

All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.

OS:

GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can make a secondary profile in which you install Google Play Services to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them. Unprivileged here means it's like any other app: if you don't give it access to your location, it won't know where you are. If you end the profile session when you leave, Play Services stops running and stops talking to Google.

CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.

LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.

There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e

Hardware:

CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixels. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run GrapheneOS with Google Services installed in one profile or other.

You could also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.

Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Neither work very well by regular standards, but they're cool :-)

It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/

It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.

You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

If it still powers up but just won't boot you could try installing https://grapheneos.org/.

On 4thgen Pixels and up you can install GrapheneOS which is a security and privacy focused Android build. It does not come with any Google services pre-installed but you can put them on. https://grapheneos.org/

yes... will also de-google it cuz we can install GrapheneOS and also close the bootloader