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811.
by als0 7y ago
The title seemed misleading. Intel TXT, the hardware, can be used by any open source project. It's just not been a priority for open source BIOS projects. I was hoping that the source code for the ACMs or the FSP had been made availabl
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by als0 7y ago
Yes, I agree with you. Many of the barrier instructions will end up as internal NOPs. Performance wouldn't be terrible. Power may suffer.
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by als0 7y ago
Yes there are chips that support multiple ISAs...although typically one ISA is more native. At least, I believe NVIDIA Denver qualifies as that[1]. Also I believe some Itanium chips had a (slow) x86 hardware decoder that changed the instruc
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by als0 7y ago
Not sure if the HP Veer is supported (it had original webOS), but it was certainly the smallest smartphone I've ever used. Though the keyboard was hilariously cramped it represented a curious and strangely enticing challenge! https:&#
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by als0 7y ago
The vector extensions would need to be finished before that can happen. As a side note, a couple of jobs on their careers page seem to want ARM assembly experience...so it's likely to be an ARM core?
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by als0 7y ago
Simplicity. Even without internet a smart TV has a certain amount of baggage (tonnes of menus and applications that require connectivity).
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by als0 7y ago
They should investigate ARM's Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification[1,2]. It is designed to provide a standardised ARM platform e.g. ACPI, simplified feature sets, standard SMP, power control etc. It's meant to be a
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by als0 7y ago
EMC was in talks with HPE before deciding to merge with Dell. The next logical player would be Cisco. A merger with Oracle doesn’t sound likely but isn’t outside the realm of possibility. HPE is a more complex acquisition now since they’ve
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by als0 7y ago
Not sure why Linux gets ‘Partial’ in Container Security whereas FreeBSD gets a ‘Yes’. Both provide mechanisms that can equally be misconfigured.
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by als0 7y ago
> That’s really all it takes. Not quite. Those functions need established connections, so you need ConnectAttach and ConnectDetach as well. But none of that is useful unless you can identify clients so you also need ConnectClientInfo. Th
821.
by als0 7y ago
OKL4 is a microkernel that’s shipped in a billion mobile devices.
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by als0 7y ago
Well Snap isn’t a microkernel. It’s a Linux user space with microkernel inspiration. So you can’t use it as a basis for comparison.
823.
by als0 7y ago
“Very rare” doesn’t cut it for modern safety standards.
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by als0 7y ago
That’s what I meant by “hell of a global adversary” :)
825.
by als0 7y ago
You’re not misunderstanding Tor. Indeed, if you control more than 50% of the nodes then you can feasibly deanonymize clients. Tor circuits tend to go through many countries and rarely do they go through the same country twice. Not sure if t
826.
by als0 7y ago
This is great. I hate relying on the translation services of Microsoft and Google, but I’ve been using them since they’re typically more convenient to use than separate applications.
827.
by als0 7y ago
Previous discussion from a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488292
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by als0 7y ago
Pop-up box says "We value your privacy" but there's only an "I accept" button. To withdraw your consent you have to go to their privacy policy, which at the bottom says: "The Website is hosted in the United Sta
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by als0 7y ago
Spectre v2 affects AMD CPUs.
830.
by als0 7y ago
I had the same impression. That general feeling that the screensaver is like an app/overlay that is invoked only once the desktop is active. The speed of invocation also seemed related to how fast your machine is at launching general d
831.
by als0 7y ago
I'm interested to understand why. Is it because of the design of Xorg?
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by als0 7y ago
Couldn't agree more. These updates just aren't compelling. It's been a long time since a newer version had speed improvements. I stayed on Mavericks and El Capitan until support ran out. And I'll be waiting again until a
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by als0 7y ago
I think things will improve as more Linux devs get HiDPI monitors (ones with good IPS panels are still quite expensive). Ubuntu has some beta-level support for fractional scaling but it looked awful when I tried it. But I live in hope that
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by als0 7y ago
While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears
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by als0 7y ago
> I don’t think most people care about HighDPI (or whatever you want to call it), particularly Linux devs. But I can’t go back to lower DPI screens. I find this surprising. I'd say anyone who does any serious amount of multitasking
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by als0 7y ago
In my experience, Trusted path and Trusted UI tend to fail due to significant UX challenges. It tends to be quirky and require user training.
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by als0 7y ago
AMD aren’t part of the RISC-V foundation.
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by als0 7y ago
I'm finding it difficult to understand what you're saying. You can already funnel all your traffic using a Tor SOCK proxy. So you don't need any changes to the TCP/IP stack to do what you seem to want. However, forwardin
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by als0 7y ago
It's sad that when you build an app from source and install it on your iPhone that it automatically expires after 3 days.
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by als0 7y ago
You might be interested in the programmable prefetcher work from Sam Ainsworth at Cambridge University https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sa614/papers/programmableprefetche...

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