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Australian Attorney General's office to introduce new anti-encryption laws soon(computerworld.com.au)
1 points by mrmondo 9y ago|1 comments
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by mrmondo 9y ago
1) Would be neat if you could use this to edit Jekyll / statically generated sites, especially if it had basic git integration. 2) Would be especially useful if it had a mobile client. (Although I know there’s several mobile markdown e
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by mrmondo 9y ago
I’ve more than a little skeptical of these results, I too am very disappointed in major CPU vendors (especially their PR and management teams), but these results seem more than a little smelly. I am what I’d consider a heavy iOS user on mul
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Thanks, and on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora: dracut -f
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by mrmondo 9y ago
To update the intel-ucode package to the system: - 1. Ensure the existence of /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload - 2. Copy intel-ucode directory to /lib/firmware, overwrite the files in /li
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Intel has released new CPU microcode for download(downloadcenter.intel.com)
214 points by mrmondo 9y ago|106 comments
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Whoops - s/ATI/AMD
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Sorry, force of habit I guess - mods feel free to correct if you notice this as I can’t edit the title after posting.
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Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Launched: HP, Dell, and Intel NUC(anandtech.com)
71 points by mrmondo 9y ago|81 comments
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by mrmondo 9y ago
If nothing else, it sends a clear message of “I wouldn’t trust our product”.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
‘M’ just stands for microcontroller, as apposed to ‘A’ for application. Many / most complex or multitasking embedded devices will use ‘A’ series to meet their processing requirements, e.g. network routing + OS + firmware / OS pro
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Almost as disgusting as Intel's response. > "It is important to note that this method is dependent on malware running locally which means it's imperative for users to practice good security hygiene by keeping their softwa
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by mrmondo 9y ago
> Resolved by software / OS It's not resolved by , it's mitigated by . Furthermore, it wasn't mitigated by AMD (or Intel or ARM), it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Well said and I think Linus was especially well restrained or perhaps 'careful' with his wording here.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Oh god, it's got a logo: https://meltdownattack.com "Which systems are affected by Meltdown? Desktop, Laptop, and Cloud computers may be affected by Meltdown. More technically, every Intel processor which implements ou
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Yeah that's a good one, hope they keep it updated / link to new info / posts as they come out.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Thanks for clarifying Mike, should be interesting to see how this actually pans out.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
"AMD chips are affected by some but not all of the vulnerabilities. AMD said that there is a "near zero risk to AMD processors at this time." British chipmaker ARM told news site Axios prior to this report that some of its pr
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by mrmondo 9y ago
If you want a thicker phone, why not put a battery case on it?
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The HP 4951C Protocol Analyser(smcleod.net)
1 points by mrmondo 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrmondo 9y ago
I’ve been using OpenCL for some neutral net image optimisation recently, I’ve actually found it very efficient (citation obviously needed), I personally welcome the competition of AMD and it does seem like Nvidia is digging its own grave (n
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by mrmondo 9y ago
As someone else stated it is the measurement of the totally battery capacity, NOT the number of cycles. While I don’t want to defend anyone here this is not planned obsolesce, it is a mitigation strategy to prolong the general use of a devi
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Android as an OS is far less power efficient than iOS, vendors combat this by supplying hardware with larger batteries while often sacrificing the quality of abilities of other components with the applicable space on the PCB / main boa
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Used to set off car alarms all the time when I had ‘quite hotted up’ Type R Integra years ago, never house alarms though I think. I’m willing to be the guy/gal next door has those broken window alarm strips installed, one part of the s
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by mrmondo 9y ago
As an ops engineer - yes, very much so. I hardly ever have problems with applications written in go, but there’s no way in hell you’ll see me installing something written in nodejs, mono or php.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Likewise, I have had the 13” since it was released and absolutely love the keyboard, it’s never failed me once.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
You don’t need intel ME for full disk encryption? Or is that a Windows only requirement I’m unaware of?
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by mrmondo 9y ago
We still have a huge number of the dev environments running on .dev, needless to say we were pretty pissed off when Google were able to buy the TLD to use as they wish. Anyway, not much we can do about it now other than start the process of
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by mrmondo 9y ago
Now that title confused me, if you’re not the USA - FYI: they’re not talking about the ‘Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’ as I thought.
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by mrmondo 9y ago
>> Citation needed. > Has there been an update released yet? I wouldn't know, I don't use OS X. I think you might have misunderstood what I meant when when asking for citation, it's based on the statement you made in

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