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by bpye 5y ago
x86 sort of has two stacks today as a security mitigation https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-intern...
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by bpye 5y ago
From a previous Twitter thread [0] it seems that Apple could easily provide new modules, and perhaps they’ll keep the same form factor in the future, but I don’t think a third party could. Whilst the flash itself is seemingly standard ther
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by bpye 5y ago
Ben Krasnow used this for his DSKY replica [0] - its a very interesting product. [0] - https://youtu.be/Z2o_Sp2-aBo
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by bpye 5y ago
I'm sure you're already familiar, but for others, there is also AMD's SEV-SNP [0] and Intel's TDX [1] that solve similar problems. Azure has SEV-SNP VMs in preview [2] - full disclosure, I work at Microsoft and was invol
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by bpye 5y ago
I have written these sorts of things, but I do try and put them up on GitHub if I think they’ll be useful to other people. I wrote a tool unimaginatively named wsl-ssh-pageant [0] which I wanted because I use a YubiKey for my SSH key. It ha
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by bpye 5y ago
Supposedly this is more than the existing Tegra driver - see https://twitter.com/never_released/status/151245503991431988... , https://twitter.com/never_released/status/151230755648358400
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by bpye 5y ago
I miss the prevalence of IRC. I understand why platforms like Discord are popular today, but I’ve always felt that it missed the mark…
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by bpye 5y ago
I’ve been keeping up with these. I’ve seen mentions of UEFI support but is this platform able to fully qualify as ServerReady? Having fast chips is nice, but I really want to have an ARM platform that I can just throw any Linux, BSD, Window
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by bpye 5y ago
For the sake of the industry I hope they don’t. I’m happy to see more than just Intel and AMD platforms.
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by bpye 5y ago
I've tried open source photo editing before, and honestly, the editing experience is pretty good. I've always struggled to match Lightroom for library management however, even if Lightroom doesn't deal with my network drive p
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by bpye 5y ago
I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly wor
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by bpye 5y ago
> Wouldn't it be nice if the OS managed an IOMMU so the peripheral device could not access memory it is not allowed to access? I would be entirely unsurprised if a lot of device drivers didn't use the correct method to get a DM
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by bpye 5y ago
And yet as mentioned earlier in this comment thread, the IRS has already managed to automate this on their side, as they can do an “electronic audit”.
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by bpye 5y ago
His main channel, Explosions and Fire, is also well worth checking out. Less focus on the chemistry and more of a focus on things that go bang.
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by bpye 5y ago
Full disclosure, I work on Hyper-V. Are you thinking of these docs - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis... - or something else?
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by bpye 5y ago
Yes, I have contributed to projects I use in my own time. I do this to make improvements I care about, not because it is something the project has prioritised.
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by bpye 5y ago
Would Cloudflare be a better auth provider? https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1506148082194386949
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by bpye 5y ago
I think that only works when there is other capacity available. If Intel was suddenly the only fab available to western companies but they refused to fab AMD chips I suspect that would result in intervention.
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by bpye 5y ago
Yeah, I did the maths on that (and similar from GCP and Azure) and deep archive could be less expensive, but the cost of not only restore but also egress made me quite apprehensive. The current monthly cost is totally affordable and in the
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by bpye 5y ago
I’ve had pretty good luck with B2 for storage. In my case it is as an online backup for my home hosted services (storage + DB).
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by bpye 5y ago
I doubt there will be much learned after actually shipping M1. Developing silicon takes a long time. I wouldn’t be surprised if the design was more or less fixed by the time the M1 released.
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by bpye 5y ago
That’s not really a fair comparison. Apples chip spends most of that on their GPU, and the neural engine takes a chunk too. Threadripper is only a CPU.
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by bpye 5y ago
The U.K. is primarily a services based economy, I think it is conceivable that the economy can grow whilst energy consumption decreases if you’re seeing a transition from manufacturing and heavy industry to commercial and services.
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by bpye 5y ago
The later ARM64 Raspberry Pi hardware is more standard, and you definitely can get most of the hardware working with a mainline Linux kernel. It looks like sound may be an outlier - but bcm2835_audio is in staging, and I2S is in the tree pr
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by bpye 5y ago
RISC-V actually calls out the posibility of a software filled TLB in it's spec. It's somewhere on my list of things I want to go try and do - to create a small RV32IC core capable of running user, supervisor and machine mode and h
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by bpye 5y ago
I quite like being able to firewall to their IP ranges and then use client certificate auth as well. Yes it’s almost certainly overkill but it means I can be certain that all my traffic is coming via Cloudflare which gives some additional c
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by bpye 5y ago
LG is also introducing a 42” OLED this year - which I am very tempted by [0]. [0] - https://tftcentral.co.uk/news/lg-c2-oled-tv-line-up-for-2022...
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by bpye 5y ago
If you want just an email provider I cannot recommend Fastmail enough. Entirely painless, just works and the web UI is fast.
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by bpye 5y ago
When you list the sources for a Nix package you also have to specify the hash expected. If it pulls the sources and the hash doesn't match then the package will fail to build.
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by bpye 5y ago
I would be surprised if there are any binaries that are outright impossible to run under Nix. I spent a weekend getting Xilinx ISE to run in Nix [0], that is a binary behemoth. It uses bubblewrap (already used in Nixpkgs) to setup a bunch o

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