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by milcron 10y ago
Related - this was on HN just the other day. Birds have a "hyperuniform" distribution of rods and cones which is superior to our own. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160712-hyperuniformity-foun...
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by milcron 10y ago
She should get her own computer if she doesn't have one already. How about a Raspberry Pi or two?
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by milcron 10y ago
No point delaying the release if all planned features are complete, I suppose.
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by milcron 10y ago
This may be true, but --- When I encounter comments like these, a common theme is something like ~"OpenBSD didn't even set out to be a secure system. They forked NetBSD intending to audit the codebase and write clean, simple code
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by milcron 10y ago
If it's not a marketing gimmick, how do you explain this page? https://puri.sm/philosophy/ 1. Purism will only use free/libre and open source software in the kernel, OS, and all software.
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by milcron 10y ago
Related, a presentation by Raptor Engineering "The World Beyond x86" (video and pdf slides) https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/op_twbx86.php They delve into x86's freedom and security issues, then d
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by milcron 10y ago
You're partially correct. The components which power the management engine are always present. However they lock you out of using those features unless you pay for a vPro chip. Buying a chip without vPro means the Management Engine sti
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by milcron 10y ago
I would be more comfortable with their approach if they were more humble about achieving their goals. There does not exist a perfect solution at the moment, but they're not great at addressing that. Based on their marketing-speak, you&
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by milcron 10y ago
> I prefer the Novena and the EOMA68 over the Purism project because they seem to do more than just promising the impossible. Exactly! I want statements I can trust, not a marketing spiel. Take this webpage from the Replicant project [0]
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by milcron 10y ago
Not impossible. Intel chips from 2008 or earlier still work. I like the Thinkpad X200, the most recent Intel-based laptop that can be flashed to use Libreboot instead of stock firmware. For workstations, Raptor Engineering is working on an
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by milcron 10y ago
Reminds me of the old browser acid tests.
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by milcron 10y ago
Based on archive.org I assume this was first written in 2014.
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Freedom and privacy/security issues on mobile phones (2014)(replicant.us)
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by milcron 10y ago
How could you possibly end up in a situation where pain is equal to pleasure? I think pain would only be considered positive when it leads to greater pleasure. Epicurus has a great hedonistic philosophy [ https://en.wikipedia.o
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by milcron 10y ago
I think that's using too narrow a definition of pleasurable. Isn't the (pleasurable) time spent with your parents worth the trade-off of caring for them? Hedonism isn't necessarily restricted to physical pleasure. There are e
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by milcron 10y ago
OpenBSD devs recommend using binary packages, even for the ports tree. Even if you compile from source, it generates a binary package then installs it.
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by milcron 10y ago
My favorite definition: Philosophy is the practice of looking into questions without clear-cut answers.
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by milcron 10y ago
Well, we may as well extract what value we can from the opened code.
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by milcron 10y ago
What hardware was in that machine? Multiple minutes bootup sounds very odd.
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by milcron 10y ago
OpenBSD 5.9 runs on Broadwell: http://www.openbsd.org/59.html
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by milcron 10y ago
On OpenBSD, just do `pkg_add -Uu`.
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by milcron 10y ago
Autopilot doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the average human driver. On average, humans are rather unsafe car drivers.
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by milcron 10y ago
Great links, thanks! Defense in depth is a good strategy, and it's definitely good to see QubesOS doing their thing. I'm glad to see activity in the secure computing space regardless of which OS is the most secure. Since the focus
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by milcron 10y ago
Lol! Looks like this is saying: Green: Not in the Indian Ocean. Blue: Not in the Pacific near Ecuador. Yellow: Not in the Southern hemisphere. Red: Somewhere in Europe, Greenland, North Africa, or Svalbard. In your case, the red circle is t
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by milcron 10y ago
I prefer OpenBSD to Qubes. Over the past couple years, my approach has changed from blacklisting what’s broken, to whitelisting what’s safe. NoScript in the browser, and I’m working on installing OpenBSD on my Libreboot laptop (tricky becau
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by milcron 10y ago
Seconding OpenBSD!
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by milcron 10y ago
Some of the circles are inverse circles. I thought it was inaccurate at first too, until I realized the India result was telling me "you're NOT in Peru".
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by milcron 10y ago
Maybe Apple's software quality declined due to engineering prowess being siphoned away towards skunkworks projects like APFS
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by milcron 10y ago
The only major difference is that it's compiled with msvc, instead of mingw.
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The World Beyond X86: Restoring Trust and Owner Control to General Purpose Comp [pdf](static.rpteng.com)
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