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by DCKing 6y ago
I am really not an expert in 68k but the Coldfire does not appear to be fully compatible with the old 68ks used in old Macs and Amigas, and Googling around it doesn't appear to have had much uptake if any. It's not being made anym
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by DCKing 6y ago
The Apollo project here would be particularly suitable as they have already iterated on the design using FPGAs. The chip is already working as an FPGA and bringing tangible improvements: I'm assuming a 130nm ASIC version would be even
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah that's a shame. I suppose this could be used to perform a revival of 68k without the Apollo core, but it's a shame that the engineering effort already there would not be available. Maybe this would be an incentive for them to o
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by DCKing 6y ago
From a hobbyist and preservation perspective, it would be cool if this could be used to produce some form of the Apollo 68080 core to revive the 68k architecture a little bit, and build out the Debian m68k port [0][1]. The last "big&qu
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by DCKing 6y ago
130nm was used to make the Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Pentium M, Pentium 4 and PowerPC G5 in the 2001-2003 timeframe [0]. So at the peak of 130nm's performance spectrum, it was able to produce stuff that can still run 2020 software quite ok
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SafetyNet’s dreaded hardware attestation is rolling out(xda-developers.com)
3 points by DCKing 6y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes, that's the PIV applet.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Interesting data. Curious whether there's a logical explanation for these discrepancies in their setups.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah I missed that. My apologies, I learned something new!
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by DCKing 6y ago
I fully understand what kind of credentials FIDO2 can store - but as I read it this still requires manual configuration on individual devices.
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by DCKing 6y ago
In that case I'll need to update my understanding, but this still requires you to do manual configuration for your SSH key - the id_mykey_sk file in your example. > ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk -O resident -f ~/.ssh/id_mykey_sk
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by DCKing 6y ago
EDIT: I misunderstood the post, and what I describe below is not true! I'm incredibly excited about FIDO2, but this is quite underwhelming honestly. I'd like to SSH with a credential on my Yubikey, not by a credential or configura
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's worth noting that this is based on ARM's Neoverse N1 IP, which is also used in the AWS Graviton2. The Graviton2 benchmarks damn close to the best AMD and Intel stuff, so this chip looks very promising [1]. It's really lo
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah very cool. It seems that Apollo 68080 is a 'virtual' 68k CPU running on an FPGA. I was curious about FPGAs since they currently have plenty of headroom to emulate early nineties consoles (inluding 68k based ones like the Genesi
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes - I think "heyday" is the wrong word choice here. What I meant to say is that my impression is that the most powerful hardware with 68k CPUs came out in the early 90s, and outside of microcontrollers there hasn't been muc
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by DCKing 6y ago
I have a hardware question. Seeing that the heyday of the Motorola 68000 series was in the early nineties, aren't modern Debian's storage and memory requirements getting to be very prohibitive, even for a minimal headless install?
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah that's interesting. I hope the 2008 Mac Pro can be stretched to run all Intel macOSes like this :)
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by DCKing 6y ago
Surprisingly, you can get the current macOS Catalina running on 2008 Mac(Book)s with the tools published by dosdude1 and other contributors [1]. macOS Catalina will actually still get security updates for two years after Big Sur is released
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by DCKing 6y ago
Seems like I'll need to upgrade the wifi card in my 2012 Macbook Air. As a bonus I would get AC wifi, so it might be worthwhile in general. Good that this is a possibility still in my hardware, and that these tools are made.
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Apple Silicon Macs to Feature New Boot and Recovery Interface(macrumors.com)
4 points by DCKing 6y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 6y ago
Apple has had consistent three finger drag since what, 2012? At least from this perspective they seem to be doing alright.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Three finger drag is also a killer feature for me, and unfortunately that very feature highlights a key difference in the way macOS and the Linux desktop are developed [1]. To get three-finger drag to work, you need a gesture right? So you
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by DCKing 6y ago
I don't think that was running on Rosetta 2's dynamic recompiler, but instead used Rosetta 2's other stated feature of being able to translate existing apps at install time. In the demo they state that they downloaded the g
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by DCKing 6y ago
Rosetta's goal is to support legacy Mac apps. It's quite finely scoped, but I hope Apple will go above this and make it available as part of their virtualization framework. This way e.g. Parallels and Docker could use this to prov
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by DCKing 6y ago
Docker has had an experimental feature for some time to build containers cross architecture [1]. I'm guessing this transition is a good excuse to finish that up. Running cross architecture containers with only Docker is not possible
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by DCKing 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I'm guessing people are just looking for the inevitable pitchfork worthy big bad breaking change, but we haven't found one yet (although I'm slightly annoyed my Macbook will be out of official su
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by DCKing 6y ago
Not a macOS dev but maybe one can clarify: is the title "No more system shared libraries in macOS 11" actually true? The documentation reads to me as a restriction on how you read dynamic libraries (is using only dlopen controve
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah that's how ARM markets it, but if you read more carefully it's just a tweaked Cortex A78. A Cortex A78 is an impressive core design, but it's ultimately still a low power design. I'm saying the time is ripe for ARM
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by DCKing 6y ago
For the Microsoft story I think we're also going to need some people actually making desktop worthy ARM chips. Qualcomm upping the power limit on their smartphone chips (as they are doing now) is not going to be enough to make Windows
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by DCKing 6y ago
This year seems to be the year of big serious ARM performance. - AWS Graviton 2 is actually a viable option in the public cloud. - Apple starts transitioning their workhorses to ARM. - First place in the TOP500, apparently not due to custom

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