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Human HARMS: Threat modelling social harms against technical systems(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
2 points by gnufx 1y ago|0 comments
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Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs(news.liverpool.ac.uk)
70 points by gnufx 2y ago|17 comments
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by gnufx 2y ago
Then, after successful debugging your job isn't finished. The outline of "Three Questions About Each Bug You Find" < http://www.multicians.org/thvv/threeq.html > is: 1. Is this mistake somewhere els
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by gnufx 2y ago
Not relevant to the article, but for the history of UK academic networking mentioned in various comments, Wikipedia's account looks about right, though I'm not sure it's up-to-date concerning the regions: https://e
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by gnufx 2y ago
Yes, SRCNET/SERCNET/JANET were great as a physics researcher, despite what people have said about X.25. A potentially interesting point is that TCP/IP on JANET originally ran over X.25 until X.25 was finally phased out.
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by gnufx 2y ago
The "fat pipe" didn't look so fat at that stage! (I don't remember when you could first easily interact with the Internet.)
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by gnufx 2y ago
Red book was particularly interesting (modulo lack of security) long before "the Grid"; it worked between various computer centres.
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by gnufx 2y ago
The trouble was that it was quite unclear to a researcher, even in one of the research council networking hubs, how to get access to the gateway, and it may have cost. I gave up trying before going to work in Oak Ridge for the summer (wher
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The rock houses of England's last cave people(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by gnufx 2y ago|2 comments
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The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us(news.liverpool.ac.uk)
1 points by gnufx 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 2y ago
Jim Austin has one: https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/machines/sun_e10000.html
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by gnufx 2y ago
> a guy screaming into a rack of spinning rust and watching read latencies spike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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by gnufx 2y ago
> Sparc is not for performance, particularly for benchmarks It certainly was from 2011 to 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_computer > obviously you need to write your own software Kerberos ran fine for me on
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by gnufx 2y ago
The last Sun systems I operated -- x2200s not up to Sun standards -- ran GNU/Linux on Opteron in an HPC cluster.
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Join Our 3-Course Series on Cybersecurity Economics(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
3 points by gnufx 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 2y ago
> an emulation of a VGA PC setup IPMI does rather more than than giving you console access, though it's serial, not VGA. Typical server BMCs which embed IPMI do more again. Not to defend the quality of various BMC firmware and supp
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by gnufx 2y ago
Well, it should always be on a physically isolated network, and avoid BMCs which share their NIC with the system.
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by gnufx 2y ago
See the references I just posted, crossing with that, for CHERI-RISC-V if others are interested.
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by gnufx 2y ago
I wonder why emulators aren't interesting for a hobbyist. However, there are FPGA implementations [1], and micro-controller-type systems on FPGA available commercially [2]. [3] has a list of publications for the rigorous engineering a
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by gnufx 2y ago
One such paper is https://jianyuhuang.com/papers/sc16.pdf ; I don't know if there's anything more recent/relevant.
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by gnufx 2y ago
https://github.com/flame/blis#citations is the current set of references for various aspects of the approach. The article, or something similar, was posted recently with discussion.
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by gnufx 2y ago
There have been a number of OS-type systems in Ada/SPARK, though at least mainly in the embedded space. E.g. the Muen verified separation kernel: https://muen.sk/
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by gnufx 2y ago
For what it's worth, /e/ OS is now using its own location service, but I don't know what, if anything, restricts access to it.
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by gnufx 2y ago
CHERI is very different from that in multiple ways, and then SPARC/Solaris is doubly moribund.
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by gnufx 2y ago
Peter Sewell has talked about "underpinning the foundations" e.g. [1], but that's not a performance like [2], [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSUKbKe4c4 [2] https://media.ccc.de/v&#x
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by gnufx 2y ago
It's always worth reading the originals in a field, who typically had a clear, far-sighted view.
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by gnufx 2y ago
It runs in emulation, at least, doesn't it?
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by gnufx 2y ago
I don't remember a basement in the Oliver Lodge building, but I don't think there was much highly active after the tandem went, other than small short-lived sources made in the Universities research reactor.
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by gnufx 2y ago
The Chadwick building is on a different site, if that's not clear, like. Shame on losing interest in Physics!
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by gnufx 2y ago
I can't say the history was well-known even generally in the Liverpool department when I was a student, knowing Mike Houlden, and Arthur James, and John Holt less well. I was at least somewhat aware of it, though. I gather the unit o

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