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by kbwt 9y ago
In Germany, even the act of writing[1] software whose purpose is to access data without authorization[2] or intercept data transmissions intended for someone else[3] is a felony. [1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB&#x2F
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by kbwt 9y ago
Except when the non-blocking file I/O API[1] is actually a blocking one. Yes, I realize in this case it's the API that needs fixing, but it isn't looking like that will happen anytime soon. [1] : https://lwn.net&#
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by kbwt 9y ago
> A company with monopoly power would be able to raise the price of its service to the price the market can bear. The 30% share Google takes from sales of Android applications is completely arbitrary and they could probably even increase
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by kbwt 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ and https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/
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by kbwt 9y ago
I posted about it below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14427098 There's also a thread on the vfio-users mailing list and on a few other mailing lists as well as some discussion on /r/vfio.
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by kbwt 9y ago
It seems like it will help if your motherboard doesn't already have convenient IOMMU groupings. There's nothing to indicate that this will help with the NPT issue, so expect poor performance (CPU or GPU, your choice).
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by kbwt 9y ago
It definitely works on ASRock AM4 boards. Just make sure to get unbuffered ECC RAM.
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by kbwt 9y ago
You might want to hold out until AMD gets the "Nested Page Tables" issue fixed. It's supposed to speed up virtual memory handling in the guest by avoiding the need for shadow page tables and/or emulation by the host. Cur
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by kbwt 9y ago
It's because the only accepted way to distribute software for Android is through the Google Play store, outside of China. Many companies even distribute their internal tools over the Play store. You can't expect normal users to go
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Google Settles Russian Antitrust Case on Android Phones(bloomberg.com)
1 points by kbwt 9y ago|0 comments
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by kbwt 10y ago
> 8-wide designs, but can only fetch+decode and retire 4 instructions per cycle That's where the Trace Cache helps in tight loops.
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by kbwt 10y ago
> Compile times aren't that slow I beg to differ. C++ encourages placing more code than strictly necessary into header files. Even the standard headers such as <algorithm> add considerably to the compile time, and they keep ge
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by kbwt 10y ago
> common mistake in C++ Not really. You have to explicitly specify you want capture-by-reference with C++ lambdas. The code would also look very out-of-place to a C++ programmer, because you would never capture a loop counter by referenc
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Epoll is fundamentally broken (1/2)(idea.popcount.org)
3 points by kbwt 10y ago|0 comments
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GN is a meta-build system that generates NinjaBuild files(chromium.googlesource.com)
1 points by kbwt 10y ago|0 comments
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by kbwt 10y ago
If developers can keep a larger share, there will be more competition and higher quality apps.
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by kbwt 10y ago
> How would these 'trivial' steps look like if a telephone gets stolen Just as 'trivial' as it is Facebook to swap your key at the request of a government. You should have to start from a blank slate (zero trust) in
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by kbwt 10y ago
You're right. But there will realistically still be some protocol-level buffering in user-mode for every socket. Although that might be a good use-case for a hash table of buffers, as most of the sockets will not have outstanding parti
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by kbwt 10y ago
Hmm, there will still be a buffer in the kernel, that the NIC DMAs into. You will also need to buffer incoming data from a stream protocol like TCP to combine consecutive reads into complete application layer packets. A better approach can
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by kbwt 10y ago
@mods: how did the thread just plunge from #1 to #12?
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South Korea Passes Bill to Directly Punish Hack Makers(pvplive.net)
146 points by kbwt 10y ago|131 comments
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by kbwt 10y ago
Certificate Transparency will reveal the domains you connect to over TLS to a Google server anyway. Assuming you don't already use Google's DNS, that is.
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by kbwt 10y ago
For context, the traditional wait-free queues are only wait-free for one side, writing or reading. The other side has to spin in an atomic fetch loop, waiting for the wait-free multi-step operation to complete. The double wait-free queue fr
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by kbwt 10y ago
As it should be. I wonder why the EU isn't putting more scrutiny on the app store.
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by kbwt 10y ago
Microsoft had a deal with Motiga to make Gigantic a Window 10 exclusive. It backfired big time with the community when a lot of Alpha/Beta testers refused to switch away from Windows 7. They ended up signing a new deal with Perfect Wor
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by kbwt 10y ago
And yet all font rendering on Linux is done with incorrect alpha blending. There are patches for the major toolkits but as anything to do with font rendering, people are very resistant to change.
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by kbwt 10y ago
> PROLOG - such a great idea I don't really get the appeal of basing a whole language on a backtracking algorithm. It always seemed to me that constraint solvers are better suited to a library implementation.
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by kbwt 11y ago
One does not preclude the other. For instance, the current Signal implementation is almost certainly prone to remote code execution. How does the Signal project handle reports of potential vulnerabilities? I haven't seen any security c
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by kbwt 11y ago
Then demand reproducible builds from software with security claims?
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Livestream: Final Match of Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo(youtube.com)
5 points by kbwt 11y ago|0 comments

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