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751.
by als0 6y ago
I don't interpret "Limit Ad Tracking" as "off". As another comment mentioned, the only effective mechanism is to reset the identifier periodically. That's not a disable mechanism, though.
752.
by als0 6y ago
There are ARM systems that don't need blobs. Whether they are useful to you is a different question. An example is the iMX line from NXP.
753.
by als0 6y ago
POWER has Ultravisor.
754.
by als0 6y ago
As long as there is choice (e.g. between fTPM and dTPM) then it's up to the eye of the beholder to pick appropriately. An fTPM is better than nothing, but discrete TPMs have certifications.
755.
by als0 6y ago
I really hate how Microsoft replaced the Sketch app with their Whiteboard app. It was perfect on the Go. The Whiteboard app now requires you to login in to cloud services just to draw a squiggles. I'd rather not have my notes forced in
756.
by als0 6y ago
The first Surface Go can run Ubuntu pretty well. The Pentium Gold processor is a bit of a let down, though.
757.
by als0 6y ago
There is no such thing as perfect security - it is always a risk assessment exercise. Secure enclaves in general are not snake oil. Secure elements and TPMs, for example, are evaluated by independent testing bodies to high levels of securit
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Ask HN: Which products are you least proud of?
2 points by als0 6y ago|2 comments
759.
by als0 6y ago
Vim users too.
760.
by als0 7y ago
Great project. I had to do some command line video editing a while ago and it was a fiddly and frustrating process. Keep going!
761.
by als0 7y ago
I want to try it but $20 for a shell seems like a tough sell!
762.
by als0 7y ago
What's the reason for the shutdown? Not enough donations? Too many/few users?
763.
by als0 7y ago
I think grandparent comment was referring to the CPU part not whole SoC. Arm has never sold entire SoC beyond a limited number of test chips. Juno is a test/evaluation chip only.
764.
by als0 7y ago
> Not sure how to purge that psychology. I think that's something most of us struggle with. That doesn't mean you're not a great person :-) I appreciate the humble reply.
765.
by als0 7y ago
> Pretty much nobody uses the ARM reference designs except as an early prototyping target. This isn't true. The majority of ARM based SoCs today use the Cortex or Neoverse reference designs from ARM. Today there are only a few handf
766.
by als0 7y ago
They were definitely SoCs.
767.
by als0 7y ago
Not just coreboot, pretty much any BIOS uses cache-as-RAM.
768.
by als0 7y ago
Same with iOS. The battery drain was significant enough to make my phone hot even when the screen was off.
769.
by als0 7y ago
Sure, but putting the chip to sleep is one instruction, and programming the timer interval is only about a dozen instructions. So you don't really need an OS in this context.
770.
by als0 7y ago
Not sure there is any mechanism to prevent the big core from interfering with the little core (apart from using virtualization or running OpenBSD in TrustZone).
771.
by als0 7y ago
The Apple brand is one of the strongest brands in the world. Blackberry was always a bigger brand than RIM itself. Doesn't make sense to ditch an abandon a big brand. Another interesting case is when HP decided to spin off their PC bus
772.
by als0 7y ago
First time I've seen Apple use Github extensively.
773.
by als0 7y ago
Title should be lowercase to match
774.
by als0 7y ago
They exist in the free version of Windows 10 (without a serial key). They're embedded in all sorts of places, including Solitaire.
775.
by als0 7y ago
I wonder what Jobs would think if he saw Apple products as they are today.
776.
by als0 7y ago
> More to the point, what we do know pretty conclusively is that app stores on their own are not a magic bullet. We can look at Windows, Chrome, and Android and see that app stores don't automatically improve security. I've yet
777.
by als0 7y ago
It costs you nothing to sideload an app (other than time), but it costs money to make a company. Not a fitting analogy.
778.
by als0 7y ago
If the video quality is low enough then Netflix and co don't bother. It also varies on who is the content supplier, some are less fussed about protecting content that doesn't bring in much money.
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by als0 7y ago
> Optane claims performance 1,000 faster than NAND SSDs with 1,000 times the performance, while being four to five times the price of flash memory. Optane is proof that storage class memory is not just experimental. This was a very bold
780.
by als0 7y ago
Pretty sure this is referring to Green Hill's INTEGRITY real-time OS.

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