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by aexaey 11y ago
On ARM side, RK3288* looks promising: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html * Yes, that is the very same RK3288 that has an embarrassing calendar bug discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombina
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by aexaey 11y ago
Alas, CPU. Namely ME[1] and FSP/SMM blob [2]. If you are wondering what's wrong with either of them, I would recommend Joanna Rutkowska's research as a starting point [3,4]. [1] https://libreboot.org/faq/
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by aexaey 11y ago
Whole page is an enlightening read, with quite a few disappointing discoveries, such as: There are several privacy, security and freedom issues with [Purism Librem laptops], due to the Intel chipset
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by aexaey 11y ago
> They've stayed relevant in the GPU market, though. And in APU (or "non-mobile SoC", if you will) market too: Xbox1 _and_ PS4 - that's a huge success by any measure.
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by aexaey 11y ago
Offered example is missing this in the "you can inline" snippet: <head> <noscript> <link rel="stylesheet" href="small.css"> </noscript> </head&
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by aexaey 11y ago
PEP20 sound amazing, but then when this only way end up being way too verbose/ugly, you are kind of stuck with it. Compare: #python import re m = re.search('(a.+)(d.+)', 'abcdef') if m: pri
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by aexaey 11y ago
python3 is supported: https://github.com/nineties/py-videocore/commit/7b192779e844...
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by aexaey 11y ago
Two more remarks: 1. Original article on FreeBSD mailing list is from 2010; 2. Original article claims 20% speed improvement for --mmap. This option is gone since: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.grep.bugs/504
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by aexaey 11y ago
Article urges to consider Clang. Full stop. Regarding GCC, it says in the conclusion: > [...] stick with GCC unless you have a compelling reason to do so otherwise[1]. [1] original article's grammar.
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by aexaey 11y ago
In somewhat similar test, it took almost 11.5 million writes over 3 weeks to burn though 2401 EEPROM chip. [1] SD card case is both simpler: no need for custom hardware, and at the same time harder: there is flash translation layer [2] betw
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by aexaey 11y ago
Ubuntu Snappy Core does not work on Raspberry Pi Zero, or for that matter on any ARMv6, such as most RPi models: 0,A,A+,B and B+. All of above are based on BCM2835/BCM2708 SoC. UbuntuSC requires ARMv7 ISA CPU, which among Raspberry P
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by aexaey 11y ago
Totally agree with i3wm choice. Regarding terminal emulator glitches - may I suggest "simple terminal" [1]? It might seem a bit brutal by requiring to recompile the whole thing every time you change config and to apply a patch to
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by aexaey 11y ago
> Good luck exchanging your fried RAID controller for a "comparable" model If you are running Linux/*BSD/SmartOS, the best RAID controller is a JBOD controller, i.e. one that that exposes all connected disks as-is to
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by aexaey 11y ago
(Lack of) native X11 support. I want to compile Awesome [1] and use that as my window manager. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_WM
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by aexaey 11y ago
They'd probably rather have a *tip* I couldn't agree more. Indeed, if one would typically tip in a restaurant, why not here?
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Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar store(arstechnica.com)
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by aexaey 11y ago
That's a remarkably trivial result. Also, Docker is apparently more efficient than LXC, despite the fact that Docker is nothing more that a bunch of UI on top of LXC - either directly or with even more intermediation (libvirt/syst
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by aexaey 11y ago
Impossible. "M$" spelling is an artefact of at least 10-15 years ago. And author should have been at least 12 back then to pick this up. Regardless, author does have a valid point here, despite somewhat puerile literary style.
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by aexaey 11y ago
That would be next version of this.
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by aexaey 11y ago
This completely ignores the "evil maid" scenario.
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by aexaey 11y ago
Sounds like that is an excellent opportunity for this person to invest some time into honing one's technical skills. > why not just stick with Windows? Hm... because Windows is essentially a platform for Microsoft and assorted 3rd p
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by aexaey 11y ago
I've seen a (reasonably big) company that has deployed a Citrix VDI cluster exactly for this purpose - for MacOSX/Linux users to deal with both of problems you have listed, plus a third one: * Legacy Intranet websites that only wo
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by aexaey 11y ago
> why not switch to OS X or Linux To non-Canonical Linux or FreeBSD/OpenBSD please. OSX and Ubuntu spy and expose you too, although Windows is by far the biggest offender here.
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by aexaey 11y ago
Hold on... Economist wants both subscription fee and to serve 3rd party malware (a.k.a. ads) to me?
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by aexaey 11y ago
What's wrong in running Ubuntu/Fedora in a VM, if you really interested in trying it out?
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by aexaey 11y ago
You really shouldn't plan battery storage for winter/summer cycle. Batteries are for day/night cycle. If stretched a bit, then maybe batteries will cover "that rainy day, when I need to do laundry" and similar. But
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by aexaey 11y ago
Looks like times have changed in France, since Thomas Piketty had no problem working there and writing his "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" which went on to have millions of copies sold?
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by aexaey 11y ago
Actually, in public Internet traceroutes are reasonably reliable. It's corporate networks where you would expect weird stuff like that. > (About #12, WTF? Weird!) There is a fairly boring explanation to that. Similar to public IPv4
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by aexaey 11y ago
ILPIP look promising. I'll try it, thanks! Speed test though... hm... 22Mbit/s is not exactly unrestricted, plus not sure how long is the burst that "speedtest-cli" makes. In my experience A0's uplink is burstable (
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by aexaey 11y ago
Yes, you are absolutely right that IPv4 addresses are scarce. Which bring a related question - what's up with none of AWS/Azure/GCE supporting IPv6?

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