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by madez 9y ago
> They'd rather break ties than acknowledge history. I don't read it that way. Why does the statue stand in San Fransisco? Did the thing it stands for happen there? What is the connection? If there is none, then it seems rather
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by madez 9y ago
I wonder if the linux foundation lobbied in Munich for Limux. I'm well aware that the issue wasn't the windows kernel vs the linux kernel, but does that matter for the public perception? For Max Mustermann, Linux lost in Munich. E
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by madez 9y ago
The "free and open" part is lying for the sake of PR.
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by madez 9y ago
Intel backdoor included.
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by madez 9y ago
Floating point numbers are suboptimal to represent timers. They use more bits than needed, aren't accurate on the bits they use, and require more effort for operations. Unsigned integers are better to represent timers. If the accuracy
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by madez 9y ago
Fixed precision floating point arithmetic is useful when you work over a large range of numbers and care about relative accuracy. That makes them also useful when the range is not known. However, the range is not irrelevant. Violating the a
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by madez 9y ago
But it tastes good.
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by madez 9y ago
It is already impossible to remove the ME. If one does, then the system either doesn't boot at all or reboots after 30 minutes. All you can do is to apparently cripple it on some models.
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by madez 9y ago
There are other ways to prevent bricking. For that you don't need an updatable and extensible OS with Ring0-invisible access to network and hardware. And even if bricking were possible, so it is with many other computers, so what? I ha
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by madez 9y ago
You ask interesting questions. > Do you think that the U.S. government has enough money to influence Intel and Microsoft? I think the government uses (legal) force and threats to get what they want. The laws are in place to leave no opti
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by madez 9y ago
> There's no evidence for any of that. Have you heard about PRISM? Have you heard about Lavabit? Have you heard about the FISA court and its practice? > But that's rather better explained by incompetance instead of evil. Hav
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by madez 9y ago
I share GP's opinion. Snowden changed a lot. The internet really has a global passive attacker that can control US-based companies like puppets, and is doing so. William Binney said the companies are paid money for providing data and a
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by madez 9y ago
A keyboard doesn't need to implement a scanning matrix. It could hook up all keys individually to a an own IO-Port.
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by madez 9y ago
Even if a compiler used "random" inputs for profiling, they could come from a deterministic pseudo random number generator that returns the same result on each compilation.
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by madez 9y ago
I can't fathom why compilers include so much metadata in builds and don't have a flag to disable it. Why isn't there an option to completely leave out the build path, timestamps and anything else that isn't necessary for
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by madez 9y ago
The source being open puts huge pressure on the developer not to put in backdoors. Overmore, your claim > Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free software as a selling point. is wrong. Just to give one counterexample, the Eur
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by madez 9y ago
That is one of the examples why Richard Stallman was right and free software is the way to go.
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by madez 9y ago
I phrased it incorrectly. The work is not done necessarily by the mesa project, but within its framework. The degree of activity of each project varies. Mali 400 (Allwinner A20) https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima Adreno
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by madez 9y ago
Wow. So DRM is a technical hack of copyright law. Is there any other way than adjusting the law to enforce release?
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by madez 9y ago
While it is true that a lot of software is available immediately, there is also software which is not. For example PC games are nearly always restricted to x86. Performance of common non-x86 hardware might not be enough to run the latest, d
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by madez 9y ago
I feel like having a global switch for all security checks is already not a good idea.
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by madez 9y ago
For me it cured the addiction. On my view I could see if there are relevant news and if not get done very fast as to compared to visiting each site on my own. Then the occasional backlog made me realize that most isn't even relevant. T
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by madez 9y ago
> AWS really likes to own the entire stack. I wish you and I could own the full stack on our hardware, too. Imagine free drivers, firmware and microcode, full schematics and specification of all the parts. That would approach my atheist&
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by madez 9y ago
Thanks for the link. The C201 is listed as work-in-progress.
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by madez 9y ago
I have seen the same process unfold on multiple occasions. I wondered if Facebook would break the cycle and sustain, but my bet is it will fail, too.
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by madez 9y ago
I already had flashed libreboot onto the device. That wasn't hard. The problem was and is mainline Linux support.
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by madez 9y ago
I don't get how their work on the Purism phone makes their laptop any better. Care to explain the relation? That one can maybe fix a hardware backdoor in Intel chips does not make buying them any better. Intel does not get my money but
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by madez 9y ago
While a leak would make the situation much better, the problem with Intel would still be there. They would change the keys for the next generation of chips, harden their backdoor and keep on rolling. Intel itself is a problem here.
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by madez 9y ago
Can you use an ARM Chromebook without it constantly leaking data to Google? I tried to use the C201 without Chrome OS, but with libreboot, and Debian with mainline Linux. I didn't succeed.
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by madez 9y ago
The BeagleBoard X15 seems very interesting. The onboard GPU is definitely a problem though. Why didn't they go for a useable GPU? And no, if it does not have open Mesa drivers, it is not usable. I really wonder why the GPU situation is

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