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by hlandau 7y ago
That was basically what I was trying to say, yes. I wasn't saying a court would conduct its own investigation; obviously they assume the applicants are telling the truth and wouldn't commit perjury. But it absolutely is within the
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by hlandau 7y ago
Who do you represent? The "warrants" offered by the IPA are meaningless and undeserving of the name, given that they're issued by the Secretary of State and not a court. The "judicial commissioner" process is equall
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by hlandau 7y ago
This is pretty much correct, yes.
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by hlandau 7y ago
>SMR is tested and proven technology that enables us to keep up with the growing volume of data for personal and business use. Absolute baloney. SMR is useful if it allows you to attain capacities otherwise unattainable, which isn't
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by hlandau 7y ago
There exist "host-managed SMR" drives. In the SCSI/SAS specifications, these use the "Zoned Block Devices" command set, rather than the SCSI Block Commands (SBC) command set. As far as I can tell it's seemingly
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by hlandau 7y ago
This experience still exists, but you have to find smaller channels where people come to know one another as regulars. The smaller networks and channels still exist and they have a good community vibe. Of course, it's hard to find out
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by hlandau 7y ago
Seems unlikely. Pretty much everything is vulnerable to voltage glitching unless specifically designed to mitigate against it.
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by hlandau 7y ago
The ATECC608A itself has an NDA'd datasheet, though.
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Mis-fitted USB ports, an epidemic(devever.net)
20 points by hlandau 7y ago|21 comments
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by hlandau 7y ago
What's really weird about DDG is that the results from the no-JavaScript version seem far inferior to the results from the JS-enabled version of DDG.
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by hlandau 7y ago
I like PlantUML but have been disappointed by the quality of its vector output options (SVG, etc.). I found that things rounded corners tended to be rendered at limited resolution, which becomes apparent if zooming in enough.
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The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5(jaylittle.com)
251 points by hlandau 7y ago|179 comments
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by hlandau 7y ago
The most common "solution" for this is to add middleware on the server-side which accepts a form parameter "_method" which supercedes the real HTTP method. I believe Rails uses this.
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by hlandau 7y ago
I don't think you understand how this works. My calling it "Open Firmware" has nothing to do with its trademarked status. It is a proper noun . Open Firmware != open firmware.
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by hlandau 7y ago
Coreboot integrates plenty of blobs via its blobs repository, so "Coreboot builds" does not imply "blob-free".
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by hlandau 7y ago
And? (TM) is used to denote unregistered trademarks, as opposed to (R) for registered trademarks. Which is in any case irrelevant. Open Firmware != open firmware.
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by hlandau 7y ago
> I can implement IEEE1275-1994 as fully closed sourced code and call it open firmware. Hardly. You can call it Open Firmware(TM), not open firmware.
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by hlandau 7y ago
This "disablement" is rather meaningless/misleading. The proprietary ME firmware is instrumental in the boot process and part of the chain of trust. Any 'disablement' of it (really, just a message sent to the ME fir
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by hlandau 7y ago
Intel is equally blobby (FSP, ME).
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by hlandau 7y ago
As far as I'm aware, the entire POWER9 design is available for licencing for $$$. The only obstacle to fabbing it yourself would be that it's designed to be fabbed on GF's 14HP process, which incorporates some IBM-proprietary
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by hlandau 7y ago
The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like we
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Microsoft's forgotten MIDI soundtrack add-in for PowerPoint(cmpct.info)
2 points by hlandau 7y ago|0 comments
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by hlandau 7y ago
I don't own a smartphone/any Apple/Google products, or Dell/HP machines for that matter (not surprising to me that they're bad). My frame of reference is typical PCs, which aren't in the habit of applying vendo
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by hlandau 7y ago
Although PCs have traditionally had closed-source firmware, this firmware has not typically been used to implement malicious functionality (aside from cases such as the Thinkpad example above), making it historically less of a concern (thou
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by hlandau 7y ago
I agree that if rpi decides not to do camera DRM anymore, this motivation not to get rid of the boot blobs in the main product disappears. Currently they are defending this practice, however. It logically follows that as long as they instit
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by hlandau 7y ago
This doesn't add up either, since they seem to be effectively walling themselves into not opening up some of the software needed to boot rpis, which remains proprietary. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20261549
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by hlandau 7y ago
Thanks to you and @kingosticks above for digging up these official accounts. Cursory examination of rpi firmware suggests that this DRM logic is implemented in start.elf, one of the proprietary blobs required to boot an rpi. This is, in its
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by hlandau 7y ago
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a nonprofit.
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by hlandau 7y ago
The camera PCB was made by rpi for specific use with the rpi. The DRM chip is not part of the camera vendor's assembly. It is a separate chip placed on the PCB, therefore placed there by the PCB designer, i.e., by rpi.
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by hlandau 7y ago
Other SBC makers don't have an issue offering full schematics, yet, due to their smaller size, have relatively more to lose from being cloned. Moreover, I hope nobody believes that a lack of full schematics is going to stop people from

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