johnklos

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by johnklos 3y ago
Thank you, and good to know :)
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're not arguing in good faith. You're suggesting that me controlling my own network, and people controlling their own networks, is bad ("even when you are the owner of a network, you shouldn't have control of traffic
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by johnklos 3y ago
Hold on - the RGMII is the link to the PHY, but from what I've read the ethernet isn't on the PCIe link for USB, so the point is unchanged.
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by johnklos 3y ago
People own their networks when they're not out in public. Again, solving for a problem with public networks by forcing shortcomings on to all networks is shortsighted and ill conceived. "But it's not a good reason to make MIT
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by johnklos 3y ago
That's an incorrect oversimplification. It takes control away from the owner of networks, even when we're the owner of those networks. Should DoH start to become more common, blocking it will become a Sisyphean task. It takes cont
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by johnklos 3y ago
True, but it gives people a jumping off point if they want to learn more. Many / most people don't want more than just the summary ("assume everything you put in the cloud might be leaked, so consider the consequences"),
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by johnklos 3y ago
This article is a good place to send people who don't understand why their ignorance plus the assertion that "everyone else does it" makes the cloud somehow OK. The cloud has its uses, but people need to be aware of the compl
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by johnklos 3y ago
It takes our control over our networks away from us and gives it to random applications, to Trojans, to viruses, to adware purveyors, to advertisers. It makes the assertion that because SOME of us don't know how to change our DNS serve
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by johnklos 3y ago
I agree that this is generally a good thing, and that DoH is an absolutely shitty thing, but I think the poster here was taking exception to this statement: "no one except for the user and the website will be able to determine which we
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by johnklos 3y ago
I try to not confuse my distain for Cloudflare's desire to be a monopoly, to recentralize the Internet around them, and to host countless spammers, scammers and phishers with the occasional pieces of good tech and good information that
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by johnklos 3y ago
I'm a bit confused by some inconsistent things in this article. First, the "2 to 3 times faster" thing is a sales line we've seen multiple places and shouldn't be repeated without qualification. Jeff Geerling, for e
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by johnklos 3y ago
Not official as in it doesn't come from the Raspberry Pi people, but official as in it's what everyone who wants UEFI uses. https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 Sending Pi 5s to people who're going to review the
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by johnklos 3y ago
Oh - I'm just talking about speed. Of course there's no problem using SSDs aside from that. I'm running several older Pis off of SATA SSDs connected via USB 2, for better speed and reliability than SD cards. For spinning rust
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by johnklos 3y ago
PCIe does fix the main complaint most people have with Raspberry Pis: the lack of reliable storage. While USB is perfectly fine for spinning rust, it's not quite ideal for SSDs, and we all have an SD card failure story or two. It'
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're the one who tried to make my post about the literal incorrectness of calling amd64 "x64" in a thread that also references Alpha, which is the correct usage of "x64", seem silly by saying that I'm referri
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by johnklos 3y ago
That's exactly their game. They want to be in a position where they can host whomever they like, no matter how spammy / scammy / attacky, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it without lots of collateral damage.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Try pkgsrc. You can run it wherever you like, as an unprivileged user.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Your pedantry is incorrect. Computers are people who compute and machines that compute. The point is that in a discussion that includes Alpha, "x64" obviously isn't clear. Doubling down with "but everyone does it" i
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is in a thread that's about various CPUs INCLUDING Alpha. Good job ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
Funny that you use the term "x64", which is a technically incorrect way to refer to 64 bit x86 / amd64. If anything, "x64" refers to Alpha: 21064, 21164, 21264, 21364.
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by johnklos 3y ago
There are a lot of mistakes that make it in to common code when people only test with one architecture. Also, the environmental cost of manufacturing new hardware is often greater than even a decade of running less efficient, older hardware
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by johnklos 3y ago
There's a vast gap between what we can run and what we're told we should run. Why not run on old hardware, with software that works for you? Because of electricity? As others have pointed out, the environmental cost of manufacture
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by johnklos 3y ago
You were sold a silly idea: that the reason software isn't portable has to do with work and resources. That's simply not true in a vast majority of instances. Companies intentionally lock software to certain platforms for sales re
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by johnklos 3y ago
Neat! I remember feeling very, very fancy when I got my Timex/Sinclair 16K RAM pack. It used 4116 chips. I was puzzled why they'd have so many chips in the expansion instead of just using static RAM, but back then everything was p
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by johnklos 3y ago
Due to laziness / ignorance / some combination of both, many domains that use Amazon can be trivially spoofed by anyone else who can send via Amazon. Last I checked, that was true of outlook.com, too. I think there was a recent ar
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by johnklos 3y ago
I was once bringing foam nunchucks to my partner. They were foam, as in pool noodle foam, and they were used for training. I was blocked and told I'd have to check the bag. I did and missed the flight, so my partner picked up the bag (
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by johnklos 3y ago
I think it's interesting to hear how some people are upset with her non-physics videos and how that compares with how her videos are received by experts in those fields. Her videos are generally well received, whereas people complainin
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by johnklos 3y ago
Funny - I feel like I didn't really build a computer if some blood hadn't been involved. Such detail! Nice work :)
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by johnklos 3y ago
I love miniaturized computers like these! It's hardly practical to own and keep out all of our beloved '70s and '80s computer, but if they were all available in sizes like this, well, I'd have to have the whole set :)
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by johnklos 3y ago
Funny, because for ages I was running macOS on a 2011 MacBook Pro which had a version of Safari that was so old it didn't support webp. At the same time, my Amiga 3000 running AmigaDOS 3.2.2 could support webp by virtue of an operating

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