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by apecat 5y ago
No, I find them to be a lot more ambitious than that. Worth browsing around the site, and you'll see it's not spammy at all. If you run a serious web project, ownership of domain names is critical asset management, especially if y
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by apecat 6y ago
Actually, here's an online ABX blind test set with several modern codecs at high bitrates, as well as the bad old mp3 garbage that ruined the reputation of lossy compression. I really challenge you to reliably detect the lossy sample i
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by apecat 6y ago
The guy who created the Vorbis codec explains why this really isn't the case and why high sampling rates with ultrasonics actually are bad for playback quality. https://web.archive.org/web/20120306150922/ht
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by apecat 6y ago
How well does this work compared to AirDrop? AirDrop was hopeless when first released, then I didn't even try it for a few years. Two years ago it worked well a couple of times when I needed it, but last week it didn't work. Hardl
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by apecat 6y ago
I looked up the obvious stuff: process isolation and sandboxing, fully expecting not to find any good info on that or security support/lifecycle. Instead, this actually seems pretty interesting. https://qutebrowser.org/
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by apecat 6y ago
And the best thing is that with Office 365, you have to pay for obscenely priced license tiers to get access to logs of mailbox activity. Wanna know if that attacker downloaded all of an inbox? You should've thought of that and paid $3
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by apecat 6y ago
You have a point, but my main concern is just the inevitable internet-connected app ecosystem for expensive and cool devices that are going to have a security patch lifecycle of 18-36 months with an expected lifespan of 15 years for second
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by apecat 6y ago
Can't wait for Roland, Yamaha et al. to build awful Android-based touchscreen UIs for all upscale music gear with built-in control dashboards
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by apecat 6y ago
Do you know what kind of price range would that be?
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by apecat 6y ago
@invaderFizz: oh, this is useful to me, thanks!
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by apecat 6y ago
So does Debian https://security-team.debian.org I claim no deep expertise on this, and I assume Canonical has more money to throw at this. Or are there contributions to Debian security in the form of paid personnel? This is actu
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by apecat 6y ago
> What are the track records of the claim? I claim no deep expertise on this, but for a distribution of 56k packages, this looks quite good https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s... T
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by apecat 6y ago
match made not in heaven but on Oracle Cloud
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by apecat 6y ago
Are there any license traps in Oracle Linux? Writing like this makes me very wary of putting Oracle Linux anywhere near my employer's systems https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns... h
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by apecat 6y ago
I would agree that BSD systems are nicer to look at, and FreeBSD supporting major releases for five years, with forcing people to install point releases once a year is really quite nice. But I don't see BSD becoming practical as a plat
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by apecat 6y ago
But LEAP is only supported for 36 months? https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime That's pretty weak sauce even compared to the five years Debian and Ubuntu offer. And Debian actually supports all their packages, unlike Ubunt
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by apecat 6y ago
@syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347232 But the point is indeed that there are resources and infrastructure, so one might be hopef
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by apecat 6y ago
Oh cool. As for CloudLinux, "not free" probably scale for some hosting environments, including non-managed cloud instances. But something like Springdale, given resources, might be able to provide. They're still tracking RHEL
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by apecat 6y ago
Well, GoDaddy, or heh, AWS are The Man. My best hope is that the major hosting vendors, or maybe some industry consortium might offer resources for this.
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by apecat 6y ago
Wonder if the web hosting industry will rebel and build another RHEL clone project that just gets the 10-year supported patches. Red Hat still has to release the patches, right? A really big chunk of the world's traditionally shared ho
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by apecat 6y ago
And last time Greenpeace did a checkup of this, it seemed like it was only Fairphone and Apple that even had attempted to work on their processes to limit the environmental impact of their products. It's really hilarious, especially co
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by apecat 6y ago
I've noticed the same thing. I admittedly do have an obsession with ranting about Android, but I find that there are fewer reasons to rant than five years ago. So I rant less. As the Android platform has improved over the years, I find
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by apecat 6y ago
Deezer has reportedly been trying to switch. Not sure how it's going https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/deezer-launches-initia...
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by apecat 6y ago
In terms of giving some kind of supply chain assurance it's not a bad idea by itself. I'd prefer a non-bricking variant with a red boot screen warning about non-original spare parts, or something to that effect.
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by apecat 6y ago
Recent Apple laptops have a separate SoC dedicated to secure boot as well as making sure macOS has no direct control over that camera indicator light, and more https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/29/w
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by apecat 6y ago
The levels of absolute dogshit thinking that goes into what's described in the OP is astounding. Imagine that you're processing confidential customer data and you use something like https://hubstaff.com to take screens
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by apecat 7y ago
As a starting point for real numbers, Guru3D has run Basemark GPU 1.2 on 20 GPUs, on Windows https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/basemarkgpu-benchmark-...
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Multiplatform GPU benchmark adds macOS/iOS Metal 2 support(basemark.com)
3 points by apecat 7y ago|1 comments
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by apecat 7y ago
Wonder if this exploit worked with the Mac App Store version of WhatsApp and the extra sandboxing layer(?) that whole ecosystem provides. Out of sheer hope and ignorant superstition about the wonders of sandboxing, I tend to install the App
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by apecat 7y ago
Not only that, but JavaScript can get you owned, and any code loaded over a non-https connection could be rewritten in transfer. Remember: all Tor exit IPs are publicly known. Tor users are easy to target. If you use .onion services for any

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