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by ajb 1y ago
"I wonder if it's feasible to use Fil-C to do multitasking between mutually untrusted processes on a computer without an MMU?" Even if it worked for normal data flow, that's the sort of thing that's bound to introdu
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by ajb 1y ago
This. You can have a popup, but it must have a call-to-action. Explain to users how to fight this.
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by ajb 1y ago
Interesting mashup there of Kent Beck and Kent Overstreet :-)
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by ajb 1y ago
I have not developed using EDK2/UEFI - that's why I'm asking
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by ajb 1y ago
No - our actual encryption primitives work better, and don't suffer from this problem. (Other comments give an explanation of what PFS is actually for).
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by ajb 1y ago
Serious question: what things does it make easier? Other than booting windows. I don't know anything about it except that it seems much more complicated than u-boot.
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by ajb 1y ago
Oracle do also make GPL'd contributions to the Linux kernel. So by that reasoning , they would have standing. It would be an interesting lawsuit as the judge might well ask why as copyright holder of ZFS they can't solve the probl
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by ajb 1y ago
An acquaintance once described a summer camp they were at as a child. Mostly it was like all summer camps, a load of fun activities for kids. It was Jewish themed, since it was for Jewish kids. But there was one activity not like the others
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by ajb 1y ago
Definitely not saying that the problems are all on one side here. Agreed that going on the attack was bad (as well as dumb). I just think that while, yes, the kernel folks have tried to explain, they didn't explain well. The "why&
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by ajb 1y ago
I think Kent is in the wrong here, but it really doesn't help that the kernel people from Linus on down are seemingly unable to explain the problem, and instead resort to playground insults. Apart from being unprofessional and making f
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by ajb 1y ago
This is a false dichotomy. The following are not the only two possible solutions: * Everyone has to trust one of two giant mega-corporations to make good decisions for everyone * Everyone has to take on the evaluation of everything themselv
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by ajb 1y ago
Ebisu has the "Harry Lime" theme from "The Third Man"? Wasn't expecting to recognise any... I wonder who was a fan of that film.
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by ajb 1y ago
It's a self fulfilling prophecy - they listen to propaganda saying that the value of houses near wind farms drops, that itself causes the price to drop.
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by ajb 1y ago
There are mechanisms which make firms more social: cooperatives. In another world, public infrastructure such as android would be owned by a cooperative of it's users. Instead, users are tenants of infrastructure owned by others, alway
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by ajb 1y ago
The Android stack, right back to the pre-aquisition "Danger" stack, ripped out everything GPL'd above the kernel, and Google has been investing in their "fuschia" project to make a non-GPL'dv kernel as well. Gr
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by ajb 1y ago
Leaked SoC documentation is a very long distance from having a fully working open ecosystem. Like, dozens of man-years -maybe hundreds. It would be a mistake to assume you can pick any of the sinovoip boards and get that. They use a number
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by ajb 1y ago
Maybe they've improved, but banana pi/sinovoip used to ship images based on android kernels. Rockchip have a reputation of fully working with the open source community, though I can't personally say how well. Most other SoC
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by ajb 1y ago
I remember reading somewhere that they don't operate at the level of servers; if one dies they leave it in place until they're ready to replace the whole rack. Don't know if that's true now, though. It does sound like co
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by ajb 1y ago
These users were not in the piped network. They were driving to a station to collect water in tanks. If anything, that's cheaper to maintain.
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by ajb 1y ago
They don't have to go after all of them, they just have to make an example of one. See: qwest's Joseph Nacchio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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by ajb 1y ago
Ron Paul was a US presidential candidate in 2008, so I guess that's who they were signing as. Especially given their username...
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by ajb 1y ago
I think it was Sophie Wilson who described the DRAM market as "a game of chicken with billions of dollars". Basically the market flip flops between glut and scarcity. When there are too many fabs, there is a glut and all the manuf
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by ajb 1y ago
A friend of my uncle used to sign his cheques "Mickey mouse" My understanding is that under English law (probably inherited by the US) anything you intend to act as you signature is legally your signature . So the joke was on him
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by ajb 1y ago
So, it sounded interesting but they have bet too hard on the "developer marketing" playbook of "just give the minimum amount of explanation to get people to try the stuff". For example, there is a quick start, so I skip
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by ajb 1y ago
This page has one image from the curious interval, during which it was possible to take photos, but not to mass - reproduce them; so to do so a photo was manually transferred by an engraver to a wooden printing plate. I wonder what things w
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by ajb 1y ago
This page has an illustration from that strange interlude during which photographs weren't mass-reproducible, so the image had to be manually engraved on a wooden printing plate to be reproduced. "Our image above isn’t a photograp
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by ajb 1y ago
"If I report the body, no-one will suspect I'm the murderer" Yes they will.
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by ajb 1y ago
Telegraph
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by ajb 1y ago
I had that reaction as well, but consider: clickbait is such because it takes more work (emotional or logical) to reject it than an ad which is merely not relevant to you. Thus, your (and my) recall of ads is probably biased towards clickba
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by ajb 1y ago
This is at least partly because the people opposing it don't know how to make a mainstream political case. The case for is "catch child abusers". People opposing it are talking in abstractions like privacy and right to use en

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