johnklos

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by johnklos 1y ago
> Would you expect Microsoft to ship Windows 12 There's the issue. You think that Windows is normal and an example of stuff that's relevant to open source software. If people write AVX-512 and don't want to target anything
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by johnklos 1y ago
The article says, "ARM-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile devices". Does this 60% number include laptops? If not, I'd wager that number is greater than 95%.
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Single Sign on for Furries(cendyne.dev)
5 points by johnklos 1y ago|1 comments
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by johnklos 1y ago
"SSO is too dang expensive for a furry convention, so I wrote my own."
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by johnklos 1y ago
I'm planning to help several friends with this very thing. Too often solar companies want to "calculate" how much capacity you should buy. I've learned the hard way that you can't just buy what you want. For instanc
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by johnklos 1y ago
> It makes no sense for developers to keep maintaining software for 20 year old CPUs when they can't test it. This is horribly inaccurate. You can compile software for 20 year old CPUs and run that software on a modern CPU. You can
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by johnklos 1y ago
Are you SURE that nobody has figured out how to have code that uses SIMD if you have it, and not use it if you don't? Your suggestion falls flat on its face when you look at software where performance REALLY matters: ffmpeg. Guess what
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by johnklos 1y ago
> If they're running hardware that old [...] then we can infer that their infrastructure is unmaintained You lost me there. One thing has nothing to do with the other. People have reasons for running the hardware they run. Do you kn
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by johnklos 1y ago
If they're relying on binaries from Google, then it's already compromised.
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by johnklos 1y ago
How is it that if hardware is old, that means it's unmaintained, or that if it's old, it can't have SSDs? Neither of those things are typically inferred from age. I still maintain old servers, and even my Amiga server has an
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by johnklos 1y ago
That's not really fair to Bulldozer CPUs. The AMD Bulldozers put a lot of new, untested ideas in to practice. Some of them paid off, while many did not, at least not in the short term. There were, however, many good ideas, and many of
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by johnklos 1y ago
Their reaction reminds me of when the Raspberry Pi Foundation tried gaslighting us. RPi Foundation hires a cop and brags about how cop used RPis to spy on people. People got upset. RPi Foundation acts clueless and says vegetarians and vegan
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by johnklos 1y ago
No reasonable person expects privacy when using Google and/or Google provided products / software. When you use Debian, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. People who handwave that away or say it's not as bad as som
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by johnklos 1y ago
I don't understand what makes this Linux specific. Does it upload binaries or something? I'm failing to see the bigger picture here.
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by johnklos 1y ago
This isn't about CT scanning, but about the chip itself. Since the bond wires are just hanging out in air, does this mean that a chip like this could be ruined by dropping it which might cause the bond wires to move enough to short som
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by johnklos 1y ago
It's a little bit nitpicky, but I really wish technical people wouldn't generalize incorrectly: "...maximizing the life of the MMRTG for more science and exploration down the road" Will the MMRTG's plutonium decay m
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by johnklos 1y ago
I was there last week and was amazed at how little traffic there is everywhere. Sure, many people are off for the summer, but even at the more touristy places and even at the airport you weren't waiting for cars. Public transit was sim
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by johnklos 1y ago
I wasn't aware that there are only two options: completely self-hosted or Gmail. I bet if someone made something in between, it might become at least a little popular.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Gmail is a cesspool, and Google couldn't give the slightest bit of a shit. So does it really surprise you that people who share free services might not want to give those free services to people who use the cesspool service that doesn&
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by johnklos 1y ago
A stock Amiga 3000 with a 25 MHz m68030 can browse modern sites using modern SSL [0] without much fuss. Granted, some m68k optimizations have been done, but if an '030 can do it, an '040 can, and a PowerPC 601 absolutely can. [0]
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by johnklos 1y ago
It makes sense, if one considers them the evolution of the Apple II and the IBM PC. The IBM had the motherboard on the left, along with the expansion cards, and the drives and power supply on the right. The AT continued this. Clones wanted
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by johnklos 1y ago
This seems wrong for several reasons: * Collecting all sorts of telemetry has never been done for altruistic reasons by large tech companies. * The value of an HP over an Apple is that the HP are supposed to be upgradable, so will HP start
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by johnklos 1y ago
Amiga is still going, while Clear Linux, Itanic, 32 bit x86, and macOS on x86 are dying. Intel really needs to focus on fixing their CPUs. CPUs that degrade, that are unstable, that take literally 200 plus watts, that have security issues a
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by johnklos 1y ago
Having no network card makes this especially challenging! I just posted a short video of my Amiga 4000, also running NetBSD 10.1, running nanotodon: https://zia.io/notice/AvdU1G2MhtkTCCNehk Lovely machines, really :)
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by johnklos 1y ago
You actually believe that this is how it works?
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by johnklos 1y ago
It seems we have a lot of Cloudflare fanbois and apologists here. This is not unexpected. But is anything I'm writing untrue, or just unpopular? Does anyone who's downvoting me care to point out any inaccuracies about what I'
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by johnklos 1y ago
I don't know much about OpenDNS, but yes, I wouldn't trust Cisco to do anything that didn't somehow push money in their direction. I was just offering relevant information about Cloudflare.
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by johnklos 1y ago
If you're already running Pi-hole, wny not just run your own recursive, caching resolver?
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by johnklos 1y ago
Read their TOS.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Personally, I'd consider any Docker image that does its own DNS resolution outside of the OS a Trojan.

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