megous

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by megous 2y ago
Then you're misinformed. :) Eg. RPi 5 didn't have mainline Linux support for a very long time after launch and it's still very barebones and was not even submitted by RPi foundation or whatever, but by Suse employee.
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by megous 2y ago
I'm not arguing that what USA is doing is normal, either.
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by megous 2y ago
That sounds like something that's also not that risky. Short lived, temporary access point with randomized BSSID/mac address should not be useful for long term tracking if done well.
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by megous 2y ago
This is a very simplistic take.
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by megous 2y ago
What naive person does anything voluntary for the richest man on Earth?
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by megous 2y ago
Almost no mobile apps need to know the mac addresses of anything, let alone SSID/BSSID. Why would OS give this info up to some app?
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by megous 2y ago
Too late, Musk already has direct access to Treasury systems: https://www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wants-to-get-operation... And can incite people against anything he chooses on X, like: https://x.com/elonm
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by megous 2y ago
With articles like these, I'm glad for my dumbphone. At least that sends data only to my mobile operator, hopefully.
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by megous 2y ago
This normal in your society? https://electronicintifada.net/content/switzerland-deports-e... Interesting thought policing you have in there.
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by megous 2y ago
I'd rather use something that works with block device directly, rather than something that depends on the filesystem code and may lead to filesystem corruption and potential for kernel instability. Also it seems like a weird design dec
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by megous 2y ago
That can just as well be marketing or a way to pad the price. 64 GiB microSD still costs ~$14 locally, but the same thing can be had for $4 from China without any warranty. They stick endless limited warranty on it and increase the price so
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by megous 2y ago
Write pseudorandom data to the whole card with a fixed seed. Read back data and compare against the same pseudorandom data with a same fixed seed. Or just make a random data file the size of SD card and write/read back compare, if you
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by megous 2y ago
1) I have ~7 cards (all from China and Sandisk, solely because Sandisk has a website where you can verify the card is genuine) that are in daily 24/7 use for 6-8 years with no issues (mounted in rw mode) 2) ... 4) that's true for
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by megous 2y ago
Yep, I just run my own Linux build on any SBC with at least a single gigabit port, currently that's Quartz64-A. I've never been happier with my home router and flexibility of configuration/what I can do with it, than just run
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by megous 2y ago
It pretty clearly is a null pointer on my machine. What's null pointer on some HP mainframe from 70's is kinda irrelevant to how I boot my systems.
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by megous 2y ago
And LFS is of course explicitly in this space. You basically build your own OS. But Slackware has much smaller initial commitment, so I'd think it would be better to start.
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by megous 2y ago
No. Slackware was my first distro after MS-DOS and Windows 95/2000 and the benefit was that it was a really simple thing, conceptually, and quite malleable. So if someone's suggesting a distro that's good for "reclaiming
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by megous 2y ago
Except that for user freedom I think the best distro for Linux beginers would be somehting simple with good docs like Slackware or LFS, not the super-complex windows wannabe distros like Fedora or Ubuntu. It's much more welcomming, wit
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by megous 2y ago
Dereferencing a null pointer is how I boot half of my systems. :D On Rockchip platforms address 0 is start of DRAM, and a location where [U-Boot] SPL is loaded after DRAM is initialized. :)
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by megous 2y ago
Even with GPLv2 it's pretty clear what the purpose of the license is.
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by megous 2y ago
Eh, how does that work with GPLv2. I get to have source code for the bundled Linux, but I can't compile my own modifications of it and run them? I really dislike companies that shit on the spirit of licenses they profit from.
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by megous 2y ago
Both searches are weird, tbqh.
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by megous 2y ago
But all I want is to not have login prompt processes (getty) wait for seemingly unrelated things, and start as soon as possible. In a friendly system, I'd just edit the getty service config and change After/Before/whatnot and
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by megous 2y ago
My echo chamber is Norton Commander or M602 on MS-DOS, thats how I grew up to understand what a files are and how to work with them. That's how laymen used computers back then and what was thought in schools. Key property of these was
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by megous 2y ago
Some people may be at the other side of bell curve of "understnanding systemd on X axis" and "liking it on Y axis" of the graph. :)
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by megous 2y ago
Ok, try to go off the well trodden path of a default systemd setup. Eg. make your system "login interactive" before networking and other unneeded services (database, web server, whatever) are even attempted to be set up/start
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by megous 2y ago
Wow, this is great. I don't care about "more trustworthy", but this has so much more information than regular smart data. Incredible. Even stuff like range of voltages on voltage rails that the drive has seen, etc. I'm
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by megous 2y ago
If random security researcher does this kind of disclosure, fine. But if serious company that seems to offer services to seemingly plenty of serious customers acts this way, I'd not want to be their customer, if they seem to have such
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by megous 2y ago
That's some windows-land programming right there. The idea that a file is something clickable, some icon with a title somewhere on the screen. And typing 5 letters is clearly not infinitely harder than right-click and rummaging through
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by megous 2y ago
Can it bootstrap a civilization and conquer the world from just sensory input, bunch of raw natural resources and ability to combine and manipulate them after several 10s of thousands of years with little prior knowledge?

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