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by StillBored 2y ago
But you will note in the cost column that the ones making money are on windows/mac. Its possible to sell commercial software on linux, just not desktop software as such. Between the small and very fragmented marketshare between the dis
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by StillBored 2y ago
Same here couple decades ago, but along with that being poor also limits your alternative forms of entertainment as well as access to the latest high performance HW. Which leads to both the boredom required to think that sitting in front of
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by StillBored 2y ago
and usenet binaries with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive and even earlier with RAR's recovery block, and probably even earlier with BBSes, but my memory is failing me what I was using before it in the 1990s
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by StillBored 2y ago
"the only memory-reordering optimization permitted by the ISA is store buffering." I think this is a mischaracterization of TSO. TSO only dictates the store ordering to other entities in the system, the individual cores are fully
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by StillBored 2y ago
As I pointed out to the other respondent, I don't think people are understanding what i'm saying. I'm not suggesting that its not possible to manually enroll, or self sign (which should come with a giant warning that it basic
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by StillBored 2y ago
I don't think you are understanding my point. The distro installer should, if it detects setup mode, automatically be asking the user if they wish to replace the all the existing keys and enroll distro supplied certs, keys and dbx entr
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by StillBored 2y ago
This big mistake though was back when all this was being enabled on PC's, the linux vendors out of fear that the rest of the industry would lock them out, standardized on shim and the MS certificates in the firmware. Thus requiring MS
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by StillBored 2y ago
The firmware updates from a protected capsule so it can't be updated without a signature verification effectively closing the loop. Its possible to add a 3rd party root of trust (TPM/etc) to this, its just vendor defined whether a
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by StillBored 2y ago
Austin, isn't representative of anything except a confluence of factors combined with stupidity. First, its a ~30 min flight to Houston, and a ~40 min flight to Dallas, two of the largest and busiest hub airports in the USA. So, a mass
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by StillBored 2y ago
"It is impossible to write bug-free/exploit-free code." Right, and this should be the single deciding factor for most system programming and core infrastructure development. One doesn't throw away 20+-year-old battle-tes
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by StillBored 2y ago
Not entirely, it is possible for simple boot solutions, but to enable LUKS and various other rootfs, it usually requires some userspace probing, authentication, etc. I'm not so sure it would be easy to convince the kernel maintainers t
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by StillBored 2y ago
No, please don't. Most firmware systems don't enable interrupts, support paging, SMP, or many other things, for a long list of reasons, while at the same time, in order to enable a full Linux environment, ExitBootServices must be
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by StillBored 2y ago
Ok, I understand how a TPM gets attached to a muxable GPIO block. But, did no one stop and question whether a TPM should have been on a dedicated block that couldn't be reprogrammed rather than assuming there wouldn't be bugs or w
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by StillBored 2y ago
Appletalk is the way to go, the drivers are built in and apple did a good job of maintaining compatibility over a long timeframe. I have similar issues moving stuff between a IIGS and modern machines. Its possible to move stuff with floppy
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by StillBored 2y ago
Adding to this, its an ugly mix. The state tax system heavily penalizes anyone who can't pretend to be a farmer, so you will have people with 'hobby' farms that are valued 3x+ outside of the urban areas who are playing 1&#x2F
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by StillBored 2y ago
That stuff was just appearing when I last worked on an RDP client for a mobile platform. At the time, it depended on the application/client region and the bandwidth/capability requests from the client. AKA, it would kick in for an
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by StillBored 2y ago
Right, the IO perf has been bad. But IMHO, no one should be running a NAS without ECC at this point. It's on the "my RAID doesn't scrub the disks" level; it's just begging for silent disk corruption that propagates
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by StillBored 2y ago
"no one uses xmotif and similar GUI libs, they just grab a buffer and paint stuff themselves, making the X protocol an inefficient format to carry bitmaps around." While true for things like firefox, and GUI libs that think they k
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by StillBored 2y ago
No, way, that can't be right....? Much of the reason RDP and WebGL work so well is that they send the raw command stream/assets to the rendering side rather than continuously sending a stream of compressed frame buffer data. RDP,
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by StillBored 2y ago
SSD speed as measured by bandwidth. The latency numbers have barely moved in a decade. And swap in operations are 100% a latency test, best reflected by qd=1 random 4k read (well 16k on a mac, but the point remains since the IOP numbers wil
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by StillBored 2y ago
Well, then, maybe they should consider solutions for solving those problems rather than yelling "big government"/etc at every opportunity and further eroding the protections the previous generations put in place to keep thing
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by StillBored 2y ago
In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn't going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably
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by StillBored 2y ago
Its largely a variation of delta encoding ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding ) which is using xor to determine the variation between values. Both are exploiting the fact that in certain kinds of series/s
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by StillBored 3y ago
I think your missing parents point, both are just preshared keys, one has some additional fuzz around it so that the user in theory isn't themselves typing the same second key in all the time, but much of that security is in keeping th
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by StillBored 3y ago
SMS is not E2E encrypted, so for all intents is just a plain text message that can/has been snooped. Might as well just send a plaintext emails as well.
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by StillBored 3y ago
The Thames & Kosmos Chem C3000, is a pretty solid chemistry kid for a late elementary early middle school age child. I think I picked it up with an actual glassware kit from amazon ten years ago. At least in TX they have repealed the du
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by StillBored 3y ago
I had one of the radioshack models in the 1980's as well. It was really helpful for learning basic circuits, but while it had a number of more advanced circuits, including three of four AM radio receivers, and a transmitter or two, I n
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by StillBored 3y ago
If you don't actually need the ~2 kw peak power output, there are a bunch of off brand 100-200W power stations with 50-150Wh batteries that aren't much more new than a new battery load for that old UPS (ex: random hit, flashfish 4
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by StillBored 3y ago
This is the first time I've heard running windows in an internet restricted sense as a "dark island" but I like it. I've been doing something similar for quite a while, by default blocking windows machines from having in
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by StillBored 3y ago
I get not a lot of people here have been growing their own peppers. I say that because if one goes to their local garden center right now and buys a jalapeño seedling, puts it in a fairly large pot and gives it a regular dose of N and a dai

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