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by metildaa 7y ago
A 7nm part won't be manufacturable outside TSMC or Samsung for years more, so this tech is really dependent on good relations with Taiwan or South Korea.
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by metildaa 7y ago
Scaleway has been hosting large scale SIP attacks for the past few years: https://badpackets.net/ongoing-large-scale-sip-attack-campai...
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by metildaa 7y ago
There is a lot of hate from TERFs and religious groups towards the non-straight/non-cis community. I think the corporatization of pride parades (like this article advocates for) is both harmful and helpful, insofar as its a positive fo
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by metildaa 7y ago
Eh, Boeing has huge scale, but they havw a worse version of Amazon's recruiting problem. Terrible work environment for most employees (unless you like knuckledragger drivel), poor quality work by other teams being swept under the rug b
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by metildaa 7y ago
I thought most seatbacks ran Linux? For more critical applications, Boeing is using Ada on Linux atop AMD's new embedded CPUs, which have no closed firmware (to ensure auditability). Sadly, Boeings culture rot has led to some poor desi
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by metildaa 7y ago
I don't see any advantage of using Monzo over BECU (seems you've got fewer features). What is the value pitch here? The US market is a fair bit different than the UK, there are a plethora of banks and credit unions to choose from.
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by metildaa 7y ago
W00t! Congrats :P
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by metildaa 7y ago
Doubtful, Apple seems to want to keep iMessage as an iOS/MacOS exclusive as part of their moat to bring people into the full ecosystem. iCloud was accessible through the web browser before this app was available.
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by metildaa 7y ago
Terrible experiences happen to me way more on the newer platforms I listed. People are literally crazy on those new platforms, I've had death threats (from a user which OfferUp never banned) and various other threats on those 3 platfor
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by metildaa 7y ago
Craigslist seems to be dying as people use Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and LetGo to buy used items. The end of the personals section combined with heavy advertising by the aforementioned new entrants is causing a slow user bleed from Crai
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by metildaa 7y ago
Note that this was done after two prior failed attempts to rewrite the CSS engine for multithread in C++: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon... Its sad to lose DownThemAll and the plethor
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by metildaa 7y ago
WebKit/Blink is a mixed LGPL/BSD licensed project, with KHTML and other KDE developed parts being LGPL. Google likely can't keep most of their patches stripping support secret.
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by metildaa 7y ago
Silence is not consent, its a basic rule in the photography class I took. Microsoft seems to be going by the legal minimums, getting a dataset skewed by whoever is employed in that building (likely not terribly diverse).
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by metildaa 7y ago
Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttl
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by metildaa 7y ago
The CPU allocations on Lightsail are anemic compared to DO.
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by metildaa 7y ago
Fyi, I'm planning to migrate off of DO due to the crummy payment options. With every other recurring service I can have a PayPal subscription, DO doesn't support PayPal properly though. Also, your billing system is incredibly spam
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by metildaa 7y ago
China has a very distorted market, which has limited Alibaba and Tencent's ability to expand beyond China. The lack of an app store is a problem unique to China that led to WeChat and similar becoming omnibus apps, doing many things mo
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by metildaa 7y ago
Hrm, citation? I'm just reiterating what I heard from an AMD employee that took me out for drinks. AMD needed the $200 million to survive and thought there were market segments they could not access in China, but a JV would not be encu
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by metildaa 7y ago
Sure, but China has a less competent industrial espionage than Israel, who has failed to steal the secrets of TSMC's or Samsungs processes for Intel (leaving them trapped on 14nm with a really broken 10nm node in development). As it tu
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by metildaa 7y ago
Zen 2 is designed for a 7nm process, which limits its production to TSMC or Samsung. There is nowhere to build AMD's newer chips in China (unlike 14nm Ryzen), stopping them from using the tariff bypass they did through this JV. This la
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by metildaa 7y ago
MIPS is a product of Wave Designs in California. We're years away from a non-western influenced CPU being commercially available.
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by metildaa 7y ago
VPNs and firewalls can't help when the cellular basestation is the issue. How would you prevent a malicious LTE client fron running these exploits? Telcom security is a mess, but the frontline gear is usually the saving grace of the ne
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by metildaa 7y ago
> I want to see a modern one, if possible with free software GPU support like for the Mali The Mali drivers that were just mainlined last month aren't necessarily feature complete like Intel, Via or AMD GPU drivers. Mali is license
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by metildaa 7y ago
The cellular network being totally insecure is much worse than passive surveillance. Calls and texts can be rerouted and altered in transit, and mobile identities (eg: your SIM) can be impersonated on a whim.
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by metildaa 7y ago
AMD did something very similar as a way to bypass tariffs in China (license their 1st gen 14nm Ryzen IP to a JV), but they've brought a ton of scrutiny to this loophole from both the USA & China, plus this trick won't work for
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by metildaa 7y ago
This is a pretty weak rebuttal, the MT7621 based board you cite has two MIPS 24k CPUs, straight out of 2005: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MIPS_24K All of the MT7621"s speed is from ASICs that accelerate NAT & WPA
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by metildaa 7y ago
The telcos really want to have Huawei in the running, as their presence on RFPs causes a 30% price drop in competitors bids. Problem is, really basic maintenance tasks like updating OpenSSL aren't happening on Huawei's existing ce
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by metildaa 7y ago
Huawei hasn't updated OpenSSL in their cellular basestation firmware, despite promises to do so in 2012 & 2018: https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/... These really
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by metildaa 7y ago
Huawei has no 7nm fab available that will turn a blind eye to pirate ARM chips (since their ARM license was revoked), and it is unlikely any new 7nm fabs will be built in China soon. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator
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by metildaa 7y ago
China already has an (uncompetitive) alternative stack, covering silicon to operating system. The problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China, nor is their talent skilled in working with

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