AshamedCaptain

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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
Did anyone forget that core memory is woven ? With knitting, beads and everything ? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174105
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
Yes, this is the most non-story I have ever seen on this topic. I do not know of any manufacturer who does not claim this, verifiable or otherwise; and even if they can't claim it, all they have to do is one minor purely-software capac
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
One of the goals of comparing floating points with an epsilon is precisely so that you can apply these types of accuracy increasing (or decreasing) changes to the operations, and still get similar results. Anything else is basically a night
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
For me the opposite. I would have never though that there would be a point to trying to "detect" DOSBox since it would be trivial to do so. After all, DOSBox is not really designed to run MS-DOS, but its own DOS-like thing, and th
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
> Last year, AMD ran a GitHub poll for ROCm complaints and received more than 1,000 responses. Many were around supporting older hardware, which is today supported either by AMD or by the community, and one year on, all 1,000 complaints
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
Now from the keyboards...
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
> And prior to that, you could grab every OS running on IBM clones and not have to worry about graphics drivers at all, because graphics acceleration wasn't a thing. The era you refer to had already introduced software contingency o
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
> Now it can be better or worse, and right now it's never been better. There was a time when your language, your shell and your operating system were specific to the exact model of comput No, it is not. There was a small period of t
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
There is only one area where windows excels: recent PC-based hardware. For everything else, primarily including anything that is not PC, and anything that is from more than a decade and a half or so ago, Linux is miles ahead, and there&#x27
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
It is the _only_ OSS operating system that supports AMD cards from this decade, and it does so by having to emulate the Linux kernel API, and yet _still_ it lags years behind Linux itself. I've chosen this example for a reason -- this
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
What is sad is that even though Linux now has hardware support that is miles ahead of Windows, we've exchanged one problem with another, because nowadays most of the hardware I see is only supported on Linux and nothing else. Even on P
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
I concur, that is the normal behavior without FDE. But besides, you can still use the Terminal of _any_ other bootable OS X disk, not just the recovery itself. With FDE, neither of this will work.
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
You boot an operating system on the machine, you have access to all unencrypted files, what is so strange about this ? You can do the same thing with Terminal. And smells of GenAI...
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
For how long until paying the fine requires a smartphone? And then for how long until you go to jail for not having a smartphone ?
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
Or not if you want the threat to work a next time.
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by AshamedCaptain 6mo ago
In which way this is a viable strategy that you can repeat more than once?
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
> We end with a real-life offer for any PC OEM that's willing to challenge the monopoly: Load the BeOS on the hard disk so the user can see it when the computer is first booted, and the license is free. Help us put a crack in the wa
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
Most of this software is already GPL.
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
How do you see firmware becoming more open without copyright exactly?
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
I cannot even figure out what the "modern" part is. Like, "netlist aware tracing" ... sounds like state of the art from the 80s at best.
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
Well, it allowed local users to actually use their computers for computing instead of just safely consuming "apps" -- obviously that needed to go.
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
SuSE is about the 2nd most used distro in the enterprise, and I can understand why.
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
Liked those small Box2D playboxes from decades ago, wonder where all that went.
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by AshamedCaptain 7mo ago
What baffles to me is the people who think that "gifts" should never be criticized. I mean, suppose Adobe decides to gift "$1200" value in Adobe products/subscriptions to all subscribers of the gimp-users mailing li
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
Exactly what we predicted would happen (someone would eventually put "too much faith" on this list) has literally happened, and your defense is still "well it's not Google's fault, it's a 3rd party's!&quot
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
> The domain ... has been suspended due to its blacklisting on Google Safe Browsing Et voilà ... ! this is precisely the slippery slope I warned about a decade ago. The indirect censorship becomes direct censorship, defeating all the ar
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
> Is working from home considered running a business? It actually is in some jurisdictions, even if of course no one cares (except of course insurances looking for reasons to refuse a claim).
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
You're one of those that's going to laugh at the idea of "verifiable cloud" that Apple and others are pushing? How dare you stand in the way of AI everywhere!
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
This was not going to come from Samsung, one of the most over-zealous companies out there when it comes from preventing rolling out purely software features from today's phones to yesterday's. E.g. "Now Bar" a literal on
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by AshamedCaptain 8mo ago
No, I do not understand why I cannot call homeopathy bullshit. There's plenty of widespread positive anecdote for it, too! Why would you think calling one bullshit is "offensive" and not the other? You realize that this &quot

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