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by als0 4y ago
> Regardless of where the CPU begins getting its instructions, the beginning point should always be somewhere in a ROM chip. The computer needs startup instructions to perform basic hardware checking and preparation, and these are contai
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by als0 4y ago
Really enjoying the power efficiency of Safari on a Mac, it keeps me away from the other browsers.
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It’s quite old, developed from scratch by a single guy 20 years ago. It never reached mainstream popularity.
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What is the NuttX community like compared to Zephyr? Seems like they have similar goals and I noticed that the latter has ten times the number of open pull requests.
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Is Ada SPARK a realistic option today or do I need to be an academic? Is the total cost of learning Ada and SPARK greater than learning Rust or Frama-C?
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As much as I love the project, the work is far from done. Any macOS update can change the firmware of the GPU or the display controller, which would break the Asahi driver. And there are going to be a lot of macOS updates for at least the
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DisplayLink in my experience has horrible performance. Not a good experience and I think that's why Apple avoided it.
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> Is there something akin to what Rust is for programming languages? Check out the Genode OS framework
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Where's Gruber's wisdom when we need it?
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What's fun about SE, XR and XDR?
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Smarty coverage is terrible, can't depend on it even in a city.
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Ethical hacker and CISO are totally different jobs and require different sets of interest. Why would you chart a path like that unless you're primarily motivated by big money?
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> We suggest a few new instructions Not really a novel idea, particularly since ARM already announced memcpy instructions earlier this year.
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Are you aware of Keybase? People use it exactly for that. Example: https://keybase.io/robpike
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> It would be interesting if one of the SHA-4 requirements was Zero Knowledge Proof friendlyness What would this requirement look like and why would it be important for a hash function?
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For comparison, earlier in the year: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/desktop-environmen... | htop(1) | conky(1) | freecolor(1) FreeBSD | 112 MB | - - | 157 MB Openbox |
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The year of the Linux Desktop already happened, just not in the way people wanted - Android and Chromebooks.
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Write once, run anywhere… but this time the dream will come true!
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> One of the weaknesses of the City Hub currently is that it requires a tethered Bluetooth device, such as a phone, tablet or computer, in order to function. By flashing the custom Pybricks firmware to the hub, we can overcome this limit
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> And I heard Microsoft is requiring some new addition to Chips that Windows will need which seems to be a kind of backdoor (I forgot what it is called). It's called Pluton, and (scarily) there is not much public technical informati
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by als0 4y ago
> even if it's a small thing How small is small? Some small fields are quite big when you factor in all global experts.
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PlayStation 2 could play PlayStation 1 games. I think that cinched the deal for a lot of consumers.
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Codegen in Hare v2(drewdevault.com)
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They’re not even leaning. They’re doing literally nothing. They could easily provide proton wrappers for their games with no effort. But they don’t, it’s all up to the user. Then you spend more time configuring the game than playing it.
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No links to their Github on the main pages. Here it is to save you effort http://github.com/berty/berty Personally, I find the "Stargazers over time" graph on the README to be a massive turn off. Why are so m
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Amoeba is a famous example of a distributed OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
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Not if you add the extensions.
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Support Firefox. The last independent browser resisting Google. I don't need to list all the things that Google are doing to undermine the web and adblocking. Safari is also fine in my book, but it's obviously proprietary and you
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The Flatpak doesn't work for me. "No Container Engine" message. I thought Flatpaks were supposed to just work.
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> And Google's Chromium is simply a convoluted mess, chockful with vulnerabilities and memory corruption errors. I'm sorry, but Ladybird is written in C++. Therefore, it's inevitable that it will have vulnerabilities and m

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