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by hlandau 5y ago
Even this is still better than modern web design.
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by hlandau 5y ago
As someone quite familiar with SCSI and who watched the rise of NVMe essentially throwing out SCSI in favour of doing something new, I feel like this was a foreseeable need in retrospect. SCSI is split into an Architectural Model, a Primary
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by hlandau 5y ago
"it needs to be done in the hardware itself (ie. keys burned into the silicon)" - this isn't true; this is confusing Trusted Boot and Secure Boot, which are not the same thing (nor is it the only way of implementing Secure Bo
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by hlandau 5y ago
I'm familiar with the concept. Does this mean that attestation to a different root of trust than Oxide will also be feasible, and that this is just a default?
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by hlandau 5y ago
"Attests the software version is the version that is valid and shipped by the Oxide Computer Company" So in other words these servers will implement restrictive code signing practices and will be vendor-controlled, not owner-contr
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Freenode IRC ops perform mass seizure of channels for mentioning Liberachat(devever.net)
19 points by hlandau 5y ago|0 comments
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by hlandau 5y ago
Freenode broke their own policies to do this: https://freenode.net/policies >Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appr
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Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power(devever.net)
245 points by hlandau 5y ago|111 comments
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by hlandau 5y ago
Fun fact: H.323, the VoIP protocol, is pretty much just ISDN (specifically, its signalling protocol, Q.931) over IP. ISDN PRI runs over T1/E1, so I would imagine any T1/E1 PCIe card would do, if you can find the right software for
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by hlandau 5y ago
I'd guess it used BRI. PRI would probably have been considered too expensive to justify running to a payphone. My guess is the BRI socket on that payphone is only operable when you're not making a call, so the 2x64k BRI line can b
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by hlandau 5y ago
I wonder, were there any countries where ISDN BRI became a "default" service, i.e. where it was normal for it to be installed in every household to the same extent POTS was?
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by hlandau 5y ago
Beyond closed ROMs, it's even worse when entire lines of chips are locked behind NDAs. It's always irked me you could never get programmable smartcards, except via a VM like Java or BASIC. The reason for this AIUI was that smartca
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by hlandau 6y ago
There's an entire community of Talos users on IRC, so you might be interested to ask there. https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/IRC
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by hlandau 6y ago
This relates to a preference for owner-controlled computing (as opposed to vendor-controlled hardware). See: https://libreboot.org/ https://coreboot.org/ https://boingboing.net/2012/01&
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by hlandau 6y ago
The primary appeal of Raptor's products is that the firmware is completely open source. Compare this with x86, where all modern Intel and AMD systems rely on vendor-signed firmware blobs as an intrinsic part of the boot process. POWER9
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German debit cards have a capacitively sensed barcode embedded inside the card(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by hlandau 6y ago|0 comments
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by hlandau 6y ago
I have to say that requiring phone numbers is an obnoxious practice. I don't have (or want) a phone number so I would be unable to participate in such a community.
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by hlandau 6y ago
Indeed - I used this site the other day. My reaction at the time was "This is the nicest web application I've used in decades." Web design that good is so rare now, it really stands out.
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by hlandau 6y ago
Any Freenode channel can be accessed from Matrix via the official bridge. See Matrix docs for details.
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Show HN: Live Feed of the HN Top 30 as an IRC Channel(devever.net)
46 points by hlandau 6y ago|3 comments
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by hlandau 6y ago
"Email is hardly better than SMS" is an absurd claim. As has been written SMS is not secure, easily hijacked, and potentially transmitted in the clear. By contrast email can be made arbitrarily secure nowadays via e.g. DANE/S
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by hlandau 6y ago
Strange title. The obstacle to "replacing JavaCard" is not the availability or non-availability of some software stack but the fact that JavaCard hardware only runs Java, and the manufacturers that make such devices continue foist
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by hlandau 6y ago
Author here. It is correct that mainline U-Boot can handle the i.MX8M DDR PHY, but it is still dependent on these blobs being provided. See here: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/arch/arm
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by hlandau 6y ago
Author here. It wouldn't particularly surprise me. If I had to guess why other NXP products didn't go with Synopsys, it might be related to the fact that the i.MX8M is intended to be suitable for mobile applications therefore supp
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by hlandau 6y ago
Author here. This is correct. There are other DDR PHY IP providers such as Cadence, which did not elect to require firmware blobs in their design. You could say that the Synopsys DDR4 PHY design is a little overengineered. I've confirm
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In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs(devever.net)
62 points by hlandau 6y ago|30 comments
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by hlandau 6y ago
While I'm familiar with train simulators, from the related videos I just discovered a weird kind of one that's completely news to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNTQhT5cx8 Rather than rendering in 3D, it&#x2
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by hlandau 6y ago
If the number of share certificates being requested exceeds the number of share certificates existing, how would they do this?
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by hlandau 6y ago
Question: According to this, all the actual share certificates are held in a vault at DTC. Do people have a right to "cash out" and demand physical share certificates? If so, it seems like if a large number of people suddenly star
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by hlandau 6y ago
Everything2.com. Yes, it's still around, yet I've always found that the really interesting, amusing posts are from circa 2000, so that would appear to be its golden age. I've never found anything quite like Everything2's

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