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by milcron 9y ago
There is OpenPOWER, or ARM. Unfortunately all new Intel chips have the Management Engine, and all new AMD chips have the equivalent Platform Security Processor.
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by milcron 9y ago
There is no good solution for Intel chips. You could sidestep the whole issue by buying a C201 chromebook (quad-core ARM) and putting Linux on it.
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by milcron 9y ago
Yes, but we've only figured out how to do that for old hardware. Check out https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/gm45_remove_me.html
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by milcron 9y ago
How about The Register? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/intel_amt_me_vulner... There's also an Intel advisory https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
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by milcron 9y ago
The key difference is that this doesn't affect every ARM processor.
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by milcron 9y ago
What is the publication date of this?
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by milcron 9y ago
If you run Firefox on Android, you can use the NoScript extension there as well. Sadly, Firefox for iOS is just a wrapper around WebKit, so Firefox extensions do not work there.
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by milcron 9y ago
Fun fact: The first time the Beatles did LSD, they were unknowingly dosed by their dentist.
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by milcron 9y ago
A great paper which delves into different approaches for parallel computing is "Three layer cake for shared-memory programming" [0]. They characterize parallel programming into three broad strategies: 1. SIMD (parallel lines) 2. F
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by milcron 10y ago
Yes, that's been known about AdBlock. These days I recommend uBlock Origin.
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by milcron 10y ago
Better than "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".
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by milcron 10y ago
In the hippie era, the same transformation happened to "bleeding hearts"
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by milcron 10y ago
OpenBSD does seem empty by comparison, but it's on purpose. ZFS is large and complicated. http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD DTrace would be nice to have, but I believe there are CDDL license
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by milcron 10y ago
I agree. A 3.5" version of that is exactly what I need.
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by milcron 10y ago
Read about him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai He worked as a lawyer for Verizon before becoming FCC chairman.
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by milcron 10y ago
For now I think the best completely-open device is Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena The software and motherboard schematics are totally open. It includes an mPCIe wif
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by milcron 10y ago
How do you mean?
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by milcron 10y ago
CopperheadOS sells preflashed phones.
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by milcron 10y ago
True, IoT devices are less secure than their internetless predecessors. But they're more secure than Windows 95 computers.
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by milcron 10y ago
Individually, computers today are more secure than they've ever been. But there are zillions more computers, doing more things, with more interconnections than ever before. So the problems are compounded and I think the situation is wo
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by milcron 10y ago
It's free-of-charge but not open-source.
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by milcron 10y ago
You're describing the PocketChip exactly: https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip The harsh limitations of pico-8 are carefully chosen to be fun to work with, encourage small but expressive designs give pic
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by milcron 10y ago
Like a single-celled organism splitting off children.
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by milcron 10y ago
What does "cf." mean?
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by milcron 10y ago
You can supplement TLS without rolling your own crypto. Sending a GPG message, for example.
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by milcron 10y ago
I believe Xbox One does this. There is a hypervisor, and different VMs for the home screen and the currently active game.
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by milcron 10y ago
BTing?
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by milcron 10y ago
Linear types (ownership) are used in another ML-inspired functional programming language, ATS.
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by milcron 10y ago
Isn't that just a sales tax shuffled around? One person's revenue is another person's purchase.
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by milcron 10y ago
>even today with near-full employment by historic standards There's quite a difference between the "employment" figures and the labor force participation rate[0]. The employment figure does not take into account people who

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