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by DCKing 7y ago
Wayland has a lot of problems, but they're adoption problems. 1) Wayland isn't a replacement for all of X.org. It's a replacement for much of X11, the protocol. "Wayland is just a protocol" - there's no wayland
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by DCKing 7y ago
This is a strange opinion to express in general, but really strange on this news. Linux hasn't had hardware video acceleration in a browser for over a decade when Windows and macOS did have it, precisely because it was too hard to
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by DCKing 7y ago
Whatsapp adopted the Signal Protocol back in 2015. They unilaterally started enforcing E2E for billions of people despite not having any obvious business case for it. And they implemented it well: it's not optional, and completely se
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by DCKing 7y ago
The CPU of the Raspberry Pi 4 is the only 64-bit ARM chip I've ever seen that doesn't include native AES instructions. As a result, it's much lower performance for network or disk encryption use cases. Up until the RPi 4 I th
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by DCKing 7y ago
Is railing against uncharitable interpretations of other people your thing today? I'm sorry for summarizing that paragraph so shortly, I don't actually think you think open source is bad.
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by DCKing 7y ago
What's going on here? The article doesn't call this issue a "security bug" anywhere in the article. This and ZDNet's article don't claim this is a vulnerability or bug, but are reporting on the relative novelt
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by DCKing 7y ago
Surely it's clear we're talking about home and small business servers?
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by DCKing 7y ago
TDP is such a meaningless stat to criticize. People still caring about TDP is a huge pet peeve of mine. The TDP is a nearly entirely fictional number your modern CPU will never operate at. Especially in a home server, the CPU will be maxed
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by DCKing 7y ago
The system setup of old devices was quite different from what we're used to now. CRT TV's, no OS in the way. Just inputs and near instant display of what was going on. The more modern your game system gets, the harder it is to per
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by DCKing 7y ago
Huh, but Signal does allow you to this [0]? It doesn't allow you to do this on iOS, but I'm guessing your stance on data portability makes your life very hard on iOS anyway. [0]: https://support.signal.org/hc/
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by DCKing 7y ago
> Rant: Why the fuck would I ever use a DE "app-store-thing"?! I use my OS's tools for installing/upgrading/uninstalling programs. Stop trying to help, you are making it worse. They're sure as hell not makin
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by DCKing 7y ago
People always point to GNUStep. But Cocoa is just a fraction of the frameworks you need on macOS, and GNUStep only implements a fraction of Cocoa. There's a reason Darling is just beginning to run graphical apps - nearly all the work i
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by DCKing 7y ago
> I really wish the community would take over and fork MacOS at its lowest opensource/forkable denominator to start a free-as-in-Linux, MacOS binary-compatible alternative. As your Quora link points out - it's not feasible to d
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by DCKing 7y ago
Great. This will mean wonders for the short-term adoption of Wireguard, as it's now in a "stable" Linux distro. After Ubuntu 20.04 there's a big gap in new "stable/enterprise" releases. Debian 11 - Mid 202
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by DCKing 7y ago
You seem to be having a weird definition of 'detect'. The only reason the concepts dark matter and dark energy are on the table in the first place is that we seem to be detecting a lot of both. You might not like that scientists c
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by DCKing 7y ago
As someone who never much got into systems programming, Rust feels like a breath of fresh air. It makes systems programming way more accessible for me personally, coming from non-systems languages. Learning to write C well is just not somet
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by DCKing 7y ago
Worth noting in Dutch news that the safety board chairman confirms US pressure, but denies that they altered the report or that the report downplays the tech faults in the first place [0]. [0]: https://nos.nl/artikel/23
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by DCKing 7y ago
There are also legal business agreements like "buy 100,000 CPUs from me and you'll pay 10% less", which are really commonplace, don't violate antitrust at all, and AMD will also be negotiating these with major OEMs all t
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by DCKing 7y ago
There's really no conspiracy. Hardware builders just have other requirements. If AMD"s laptop chips were really better so far (this is actually very debatable), they were by a slim margin for some use cases. Not enough to offset e
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by DCKing 7y ago
I disagree any of them were underpowered. The PS1 and PS3 arguably produced the nicest graphics of their generations - the PS1 because its competition was compromised in their own way, and the PS3 due to sheer brute force. The PS2 for sure
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by DCKing 7y ago
The Playstation 1, 2 and 3 are each in their own way Sony's take on an alternate history of computer graphics. It was Sony's intent with all three consoles to put the "special effects" (that in 2019 are performed using s
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by DCKing 7y ago
This doesn't take anything away from Sony's decision making, but removing OtherOS never really helped them "get good security". The PlayStation 3 was cracked wide open [1] without OtherOS and because people were piss
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by DCKing 7y ago
> STOP USING google SEARCH! USE DUCKDUCKGO! I want to stop using Google, but please realize that DuckDuckGo is only competitive with Google if English is your only language (maybe even only if you're American?). There are loads and
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by DCKing 7y ago
> I think plenty of people have found Mozilla to have made some poor decisions over the years. How come this is brought up in the argument at all? Mozilla is very imperfect, but they're the only major browser vendor that doesn'
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by DCKing 7y ago
This is exactly my rationale. The fact that you have to explain that the company that bought you is not shady is writing on the wall, even if you have a good explanation. For the record, I think the explanation is pretty decent. But PIA i
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by DCKing 7y ago
No, it is FUD. Their threat model is explicit: > Complex parts like the cellular modem or the WiFi can access the very same RAM that is used at runtime to store your most private data, but at the same time they are controlled by binary-o
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by DCKing 7y ago
We can't fully trust the correctness of modern complicated CPU designs, leading to problems like <insert all speculative bypasses that have affected Intel CPUs the past 2 years>. But despite their complexity, CPUs and the CPU par
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by DCKing 7y ago
This blogpost propagates what I'd like to describe as an urban legend about baseband processors and main memory. The story originates from old times where even fancy phones allowed the baseband to write everywhere in main memory. The m
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by DCKing 7y ago
Well that's why it's modular. Let's examine the biggest systemd cool aid drinkers, Red Hat. Fedora 31 comes with NetworkManager and no systemd-networkd by default. It doesn't come with systemd-boot. You have to manually
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by DCKing 7y ago
I've been eyeing this, but I'm a bit concerned that this is a code dump, and not a real project. The project consists of a grand total of 7 commits, which were posted 6 months ago. Since then there's been no activity, and pul

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