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by DCKing 9y ago
I use a messaging service called Wire that does E2E, cross device messaging history by default (up to 6 devices), using very friendly, familiar UX - you only need to sign in on your device. It might have been an intentional tradeoff when Te
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by DCKing 9y ago
It's interesting AMD and Nvidia have no specific consumer GPU tech announced for 2018. It makes sense too. AMD's cards are all sold out all the time - it seems they cannot produce enough to meet the market demand. There are rumors
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by DCKing 9y ago
Even if they make a GPU that is competitive with the 1080 Ti it will be much too late. If NVIDIA stays on top of their game, there's no way AMD can compete with them with a far smaller R&d budget and mindshare. Furthermore, any AMD
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by DCKing 9y ago
Vulnerable to Spectre, yes, like nearly all speculative execution processors. The PS4, XBone and Switch are very likely vulnerable to Spectre all the same but that will probably mostly affect their web browsers. None of these is vulnerable
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by DCKing 9y ago
Oof. The Cortex-A75 has a hardware security bug before any silicon with it has been released . On the other hand, this luckily means that software mitigations can be included before release. Luckily for most unpatched Android phones, they
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by DCKing 9y ago
Of course it's easy to straw-man this particular sentence. However many people - including me, once - bought a MacBook because it was the easiest way to get proper Unix tools like SSH at your fingertips. Using PuTTY or Mingw tools on
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by DCKing 9y ago
It's really interesting ReactOS can run both Chrome and Firefox. The latest versions of these browsers do not run on any old Windows: Chrome has required at least Windows 7 since version 50 (April 2016) and Firefox has required this si
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by DCKing 9y ago
While I agree that RISC and CISC is not much of a distinction in 2017 it's worth noting that that Cortex A15 is very far from the state of the art for ARM chips. The Cortex A75 would be about twice as fast, and Apple makes an ARM archi
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by DCKing 9y ago
To be quite fair, the only reason the community adopted these is because it's the only format that works across all browsers. If Safari and IE had supported free video codecs they would have very likely supported that. By the way, MP4
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by DCKing 9y ago
Come on man. This is such low effort appealing to Theo's public image. If this is something you feel you must describe as a personal attack, it must be hard to get around in life. I find this response quite level headed and I like that
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by DCKing 9y ago
OpenBSD is a perfectly servicable operating system on an old Atom board I have (nice router!), and on i386 only Core Duo iMacs/Macbooks long abandoned by Apple. These will be perfectly good machines to use for a long time, and it'
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by DCKing 9y ago
All filesystems inherently trust the data that is in RAM. There's nothing any piece of software can reasonably do about memory it can't trust. It's therefore a good idea to run ECC RAM, regardless of which filesystem you ru
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by DCKing 9y ago
Not behind a Mac at the moment, but I wonder if this means you can also enable a set of other standard disabled Unix accounts on a Mac? That will worsen the impact even more, I'd say. Being able to enable disabled accounts my (locally
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. Or at least it goes too far to say that it's a mental lock in. Yeah Apple is making some very bad mistakes in their software quality, but there are two things that are very essential to the Mac expe
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by DCKing 9y ago
Well, true. You can be a power user without all of those things though. It's a shame tradeoffs are necessary, but I think it's worth highlighting that it's a tradeoff that also brings substantial advantages. For all users, in
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by DCKing 9y ago
Reading these recurring discussions, there is a bunch of Firefox users that used FF's extensions to change everything about the browser. You could change Firefox to be a different user experience entirely. But this has become way more
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by DCKing 9y ago
I am mostly on board with this, actually. The experience with machinectl and systemd-nspawn is also completely broken because there are no sane default SELinux rules for it. However in my experience so far, the defaults do not get in your w
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by DCKing 9y ago
Yes. When you install the VirtIO guest additions in Windows it works really great and uses memory ballooning to significantly reduce taxing of system memory.
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by DCKing 9y ago
I've switched to Fedora with version 26 (from Ubuntu and some dabbling with Manjaro) and really enjoy it. SELinux gave me a few headscratchers in the beginning but once you know how to deal with it it's great to have a distro that
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by DCKing 9y ago
It's interesting to see that this is a vulnerability caused by PS4 specific kernel modifications. I guess it's good news for FreeBSD users that PS4 jailbreaks do not imply vulnerabilities in FreeBSD. Conversely, I'd imagine t
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by DCKing 9y ago
One thing Hammer2 has going for it, is license. It's the first next gen filesystem release that is not marred in some way by licensing (marred from the perspective of adoption). Because it uses the BSD license, it can be adapted to wor
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by DCKing 9y ago
Well I don't think there's anything about ECC, or at least unbuffered ECC, that should make memory slower than non-ECC memory. "Fast" memory it seems to me is also just a marketing thing. If ECC was considered mainstream
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by DCKing 9y ago
You seem to conflate 'democratic', 'legal' and 'desired'. Something can be democratic and illegal - when laws are enacted to prevent certain applications of democracy, as it appears to be the case here. Somethi
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by DCKing 9y ago
The world is not a libertarian tax fantasy of that degree, no. But it should be possible for groups that have a significant cultural claim to vote on these matters. And it should be possible that if a significant amount of this cultural gro
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but just a semantic argument here. The referendum is absolutely democratic. But it is also illegal under the Spanish constitution. The problem is that the Spanish constitution and the judge's interpretation
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by DCKing 9y ago
It's worth stressing that Deloitte is not a cyber security firm primarily. It's actually much worse (for them): they're a Big 4 audit company [1]. The fact that they are such a company both explains the situation and makes it
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by DCKing 9y ago
I don't buy it. People could DRM up the internet - including text and images - much more easily - for years with Flash and Silverlight. People could use the everything-is-a-DRMed-single-frame-video-now hack since 2014. Neither have bee
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by DCKing 9y ago
Sure, everything can be hacked into a video on the web. But luckily that makes your web page unusable, unaccessible, and also un-SEO-able. It would also require you to have expensive DRM authoring tools to have you actually create DRM signa
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by DCKing 9y ago
I agree with most of what you say, except your first sentence. The FUD here is that the implication is that now text and images will be DRM'ed. EME only allows DRM'ing video and audio. Facts matter, and making stuff up to 'su
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by DCKing 9y ago
You're right. I've done some digging, and some similar language has been implemented at least in the Netherlands (for the Dutch, this is article 29a of our Auteurswet). Although it's somewhat vague, it does bum me out. It see

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