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by mjg59 7mo ago
If anything, worse - there's much wider variety in the set of CPU extensions available.
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by mjg59 7mo ago
There's a standard like ACPI for Arm devices - it's called ACPI, and it's a requirement for the non-Devicetree SystemReady spec ( https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system... ). But
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by mjg59 7mo ago
Fi launched with Sprint and T-Mobile roaming and added US Cellular, but is presently T-Mobile only. I don't think AT&T has ever been a supporter carrier.
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by mjg59 8mo ago
The article makes clear that the orientation of the lettering has changed over time, which counts against the idea that what it is now necessarily reflects the original intent.
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by mjg59 8mo ago
Third party? Black Lotus was the first case we saw actually targeting individuals, and that was a vulnerability in the Windows bootloader.
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by mjg59 8mo ago
No, there's nothing special about the spec secure boot variables as far as boot services goes - you can modify those in runtime as well. We use boot service variables to protect the MOK key in Shim, but that's outside what the spe
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by mjg59 8mo ago
Yes! It's easy to see why we got here, but that doesn't mean it's the optimal outcome!
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by mjg59 8mo ago
Ok you're still missing the point. This isn't about C being good or bad or suitable or unsuitable. It's about whether it's good that C has, through no deliberate set of choices, ended up embodying the interface that lets
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by mjg59 8mo ago
I really don't understand why people keep misunderstanding this post so badly. It's not a complaint about C as a programming language. It's a complaint that, due to so much infrastructure being implemented in C, anyone who wa
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by mjg59 8mo ago
It's a somewhat weird product. There's no real access to any of the hardware that made the Amiga impressive at the time, without an add-on graphics card you're going to have a bad time in X, and it replaces AmigaOS entirely s
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by mjg59 8mo ago
The vast majority of it is just recompiled AT&T code. The Amiga specific stuff is provided in object form and largely shipped with debug symbols so it'd be pretty easy to get something approximating the original.
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by mjg59 9mo ago
What software? The Apricot ran DOS but didn't implement a full PC-compatible BIOS, so some software would work and some wouldn't. Even back in 1984 people didn't call it a PC compatible.
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by mjg59 9mo ago
The transition enabled faster and more frequent service, which is something you probably do care about if you need to get into the office and are deciding how to get there.
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by mjg59 9mo ago
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor... , for example
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by mjg59 9mo ago
/ has to be writeable (or have separate writeable mounts under it), /usr doesn't. The reasons for unifying under /usr are clearly documented and make sense and it's incredibly tedious seeing people complain about it
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by mjg59 9mo ago
A meaningful gamble IBM made at the time was whether the BIOS was copyrightable - Williams v. Artic wasn't a thing until 1982, and it was really Apple v. Franklin in 1983 that left the industry concluding they couldn't just copy I
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by mjg59 10mo ago
If they weren't interlaced then they were updating at 60Hz, even in the 80s. You're being very confidently wrong here.
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by mjg59 10mo ago
Amigas supported interlace, but I would strongly disagree that it was common to use it.
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by mjg59 10mo ago
Everything runs at 262.5 lines at 60Hz on a 15.75KHz display - that's how the numbers work out.
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by mjg59 10mo ago
The limiting factor is the horizontal refresh frequency. TVs and older monitors were around 15.75kHz, so the maximum number of horizontal lines you could draw per second is around 15750. Divide that by 60 and you get 262.5, which is therefo
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by mjg59 10mo ago
I'd have been entirely happy with that outcome, and I sent Roy and Rianne emails asking for that before getting lawyers involved. Even then, the initial request was just for correction - we offered to settle several times after the cas
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by mjg59 10mo ago
To be pedantic: it depends on the last activity of the client , not the user. Anything the client sends counts, even if it's not as a result of user action. This makes it incredibly hard to figure out what could reset that timer - you
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by mjg59 10mo ago
I'm curious what you think the correct response to defamation is? At multiple opportunities (including the morning of the trial) Roy and Rianne were given the option of just removing the defamatory material and apologising and having t
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by mjg59 10mo ago
Well, no - as long as someone you trust is able to do that verification, that's good enough.
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by mjg59 10mo ago
You're not wrong, it's just not relevant to this case - Mad Men was originally broadcast in 16:9
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by mjg59 11mo ago
I have many x86 devices that don't provide a CSM, so no, it's untrue that it will run on any arbitrary x86 device. You can do something similar running entirely inside the UEFI boot services environment - and that'll work jus
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by mjg59 11mo ago
As of yet there isn't an order associated with the judgement - that's expected to be something negotiated between the parties. I'm unqualified to say what impact continuing to publish the material has on that process.
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by mjg59 11mo ago
I was extremely impressed with the attention that the judge paid to the entire exercise, and the manner in which she conducted the trial.
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by mjg59 11mo ago
Other than reaching agreement over the order to implement the judgement, this is likely over - my understanding is that an appeal could only occur if the judge made an error of law, and they would need to convince another judge of this befo
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by mjg59 11mo ago
One thing that didn't end up happening - the claim that he would have multiple people, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, and John Gilmore testify against me.

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