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by dmm 12y ago
Do you have an opinion on this project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop ? It's a laptop designed to be free software and it's using coreboot.
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by dmm 12y ago
The Librem 15 project is trying to talk intel into letting them disable the management engine. It's the last non-free part of the system. https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
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by dmm 12y ago
Those patches are old. My understanding is that the parts that are reasonable have been implemented and the parts that aren't (plaintext modes) have been ignored. If you need to transfer large files around a lot use what the supercompu
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by dmm 12y ago
You have to be careful what you measure. Imagine you have a 6th grader who is reading at a 2nd grade level. At the end of 6th grade you test her and find out now she's reading at a 5th grade level. Wow! A big improvement! Her teacher m
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by dmm 12y ago
> but I see two groups who this helps. It helps the universities too.
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by dmm 12y ago
SDR Sharp recently removed access to their source. I'm not sure of the source license of previous releases.
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by dmm 12y ago
I think we should have paid maternity leave and I think the federal govt should pay for it. If you force employers to pay for it you discourage the hiring of young women.
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by dmm 12y ago
In OpenBSD the ftp(1) program /is/ the cli http client for the base system. wget is available in ports but not install by default. FreeBSD is probably similar
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by dmm 12y ago
This link points to a stupid blank page. I disable noscript and I get a stupid horse video. You suck!
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by dmm 12y ago
As a native english speaker the use of the "singular they/their" sounds correct and natural. This is also great bikeshed material.
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by dmm 12y ago
What if the macronutrient content of your diet affects your metabolic rate? I mean I see the value of the "bucket with a hole in it" model of human weightloss but the body is a complex biological machine full of feedback mechanism
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by dmm 12y ago
The common core is a just a standard of what should be taught and when. It is not a curriculum. It is not a book or set of books. It solves a real problem: schools in the US cover subjects at wildly differing times so when children change s
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by dmm 12y ago
> As if the buffet weren’t enough of an indication, the stall warning erupted again, alternating between STALL STALL STALL and a chirping sound. Off topic but how does the airplane know it's stalling if the airspeed indicators are n
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by dmm 12y ago
Debian upgrades are highly tested. A breakage going from a old-stable to stable release is usually considered a release blocking bug. Arch is great but it breaks all the time. They make major changes that are only documented on the blog. It
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by dmm 12y ago
Everyone seems to talk about the safety of nuclear power but to me the costs are as big a problem. If it was affordable to build new plants these long term problems would be less important. I mean, has a nuclear power plant ever been built
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by dmm 12y ago
Everybody else supports nvidia chips by running a big blog of proprietary code in the kernel. That kind of defeats the purpose of openbsd, right?
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by dmm 12y ago
In general I wouldn't trust random forums for information about OpenBSD. People tend to repeat stuff long after its true. Send a message to misc@ or tech@openbsd.org and you'll hear directly from the devs. Just make sure your part
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by dmm 12y ago
All of the openbsd devs use thinkpads and they have good compatibility in my experience. The newest ones might have UEFI and they might not work well.
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by dmm 12y ago
Consider using noscript by default. It fixes this and many other problems.
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by dmm 12y ago
> They had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on keeping the emperor, which was rejected by the U.S. Are you saying the Japanese offered to surrender, with the only condition being maintaining the emperor, prior to th
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by dmm 12y ago
After about 10 different attempts: shitstink333.beer is taken! ajaxinvokecodewizard3141592.beer is taken! Seems like this TLD is well picked over already. EDIT: I'm saying the test is broken. Maybe because general availabi
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by dmm 12y ago
My understanding is that strlcpy() exists to update existing programs that use NULL-terminated char arrays as strings. New programs should probably use some other more sophisticated implementation of strings, such as Git's strbuf: htt
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by dmm 12y ago
That's good to know, thanks.
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by dmm 12y ago
That's true, but this was a special circumstance where disabling swap was creating very bad system behavior.
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by dmm 12y ago
One trick people in a similar situation on linux use is to make a small ram disk and then assign that as the swap. A little absurd but prevents the bad behavior.
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by dmm 12y ago
> Debian still has no install for UEFI. It works fine for me? What's missing? I installed Debian on a UEFI system with gpt disk sometime around May 2013 and it's been running fine since. https://www.debian.org/r
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by dmm 12y ago
If lots of these cars were on the road would these sensors interfere with each other?
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by dmm 12y ago
It's hard to say yet how much of an effect MtGox price manipulation had too. Have you seen this report? http://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report...
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by dmm 12y ago
Another good reason to write crypto in assembly is to ensure that the implementation is not susceptible to timing attacks. If your code has different code paths that take different amounts of clock time attackers can use that. This can be d
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by dmm 12y ago
Remember this the next time someone says "C is basically portable assembler." It's not precisely because you can do many things in assembly that you can't directly do in c such as directly manipulate the stack and absolu

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