Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert via cfarm-users
On 2025-01-01 18:54, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: I am suggesting allowing /testing/ "miner" software, not /using/ it. That's not a rule that we can enforce. There are countermeasures to any practical enforcement mechanism, including the mechanisms you suggested. It's better to steer clear of this

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? Not for mining, no. It would still consume resources that are better used for cfarm's intended purposes. The intention is to limi

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert via cfarm-users
On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? Not for mining, no. It would still consume resources that are better used for cfarm's intended purposes. I would suggest ... making very clear that "mining" for pr

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/1/25 17:25, Gregor Riepl via cfarm-users wrote: We want nothing at all to do with any of it (well, I don't, at least), even if not all of it is directly against the rules, does not violate acceptable use directly: it is just distasteful. The cfarm is supposed to be used for developing (whic

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 12:25:02AM +0100, Gregor Riepl via cfarm-users wrote: > >We want nothing at all to do with any of it (well, I don't, at least), > >even if not all of it is directly against the rules, does not violate > >acceptable use directly: it is just distasteful. > > > >The cfarm is su

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Gregor Riepl via cfarm-users
We want nothing at all to do with any of it (well, I don't, at least), even if not all of it is directly against the rules, does not violate acceptable use directly: it is just distasteful. The cfarm is supposed to be used for developing (which includes testing etc.) any software that is close en

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 04:34:13PM -0500, Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users wrote: > On 1/1/25 4:25 PM, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users wrote: > >"Crypto" has absolutely nothing to do with cryptography. A lot more > >with capitalism or with casinos, it depends on your exact viewpoint :-) > > > >We wa

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users
On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 12:51:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users > wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance... when you say "crypto-related," do you mean > > just "cryptocurrency" or "mining" operations? Or does that include > > cryptogr

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Bruno Haible via cfarm-users
Luke Dashjr wrote: > Bitcoin is in fact very _good_ for the environment. Nope. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_bitcoin Bruno ___ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listi

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 12:51:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users wrote: > Forgive my ignorance... when you say "crypto-related," do you mean > just "cryptocurrency" or "mining" operations? Or does that include > cryptographic libraries like Botan, Crypto++ and OpenSSL. "Crypto" has absolut

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage

2025-01-01 Thread Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users
On 1/1/25 4:25 PM, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users wrote: "Crypto" has absolutely nothing to do with cryptography. A lot more with capitalism or with casinos, it depends on your exact viewpoint :-) We want nothing at all to do with any of it (well, I don't, at least), even if not all of it i