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by okanat 4mo ago
AFAIK Motorola only lets certain geographical regions to unlock bootloader, not everywhere.
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by okanat 4mo ago
Because AOSP is open source and can be built without Google Play running at the background unlike the other alternative: giving up privacy to yet another big tech Apple. Graphene adds many privacy features on top of regular AOSP. But it onl
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by okanat 4mo ago
It just has a Faraday cage and blocks radio signals. That's it.
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by okanat 4mo ago
Android makes yearly releases. It is developed in cathedral-style. Google releases the source as a single big update. GrapheneOS is a fork. They need to port their customizations and extra software on top of the new release.
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by okanat 4mo ago
> Rust's standard library is incredibly thin (intentionally so). As a result, you need to use the crate ecosystem. This comes with some downsides. This is no different than C++. C++ standard library made so many compromises in the n
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by okanat 4mo ago
It's also quite weird that Americans are the first ones to go full judgemental mode as it is demonstrated in this comment section. When I visited there, I also found people to be overly reactive and judgemental of seemingly minor thing
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by okanat 4mo ago
The US was able to do that because a majority of the world including Europe was determined to exclude USSR from all trade and by putting them into extreme paranoia of total destruction. EU has lots of trading partners from the West and not
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by okanat 4mo ago
I'm a / used to be a C++ programmer for 10 years. I've been lucky enough to work in a company that aims to adopt Rust. I have been working on Rust projects in the embedded space that runs on real-world devices right now for 3
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by okanat 4mo ago
Well they are not told. Our culture and Steve Jobs cult were magic-ifying computers as way to sell trivialized, unethical and anti-intellectual software (compared to earlier home computers). Software nowadays aim to give barebones informati
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by okanat 4mo ago
Windows does give access to the key. The issue with Microsoft account and especially Windows Home onboarding is that it doesn't tell you that it encrypted the drive and there is a backup key (which it uploads to Microsoft account, ofte
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by okanat 4mo ago
> you are literally Hitler and want to exterminate millions? That's the part they currently don't say out loud. They are getting bolder and bolder though.
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by okanat 4mo ago
You can run proprietary drivers with ReactOS since it replicates the driver layer too. So unlike Linux systems with Nvidia Kepler cards, you can still run the most up-to-date desktop environment. Or if you have an obscure WiFi card, you can
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by okanat 4mo ago
Apple's Secure Enclave and ARM's Truszone work the same way as Intel ME and AMD PSP. All of them have a separate specialized minimal OS running on a specially protected memory that cannot be accessed by the normal OS. Apple can lo
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by okanat 4mo ago
RPis get sold more to the businesses and startups that started with them in 2010s, rather than hobbyists now. If you cannot negotiate a good deal with the big industrial silicon manufacturers but you want good up-to-date kernels, RPis are a
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by okanat 4mo ago
That's why we don't trust them alone or can demand tests from different sources. AI, however, gets sold as an ultimate cure. Just like anything computers touch, it is assumed infallible.
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by okanat 4mo ago
Then pass an uint8_t with size aka a span<uint8_t>.
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by okanat 4mo ago
You're giving too much thought into the issue or trying to construct something like a conspiracy out of it. I sometimes work with people who worked on or at least worked with DRM-like stuff (Trustzone etc.). The people who make those s
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by okanat 4mo ago
In the next post they literally tell that NT kernel "supports" it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-pro... . In the same post if you scroll down into the comments they al
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by okanat 5mo ago
I think they didn't mean Linux as in the kernel sense but in the overall "Family of OSes and ecosystem with very unstable APIs" sense.
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by okanat 5mo ago
WSL1 DOES implement fork() for WSL1 lightweight processes in the lxcore.sys driver: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...
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by okanat 5mo ago
I love how easy it is to create a completely isolated daemons with systemd. In a single .service file one can define a daemon that has a very limited view to the filesystem, can only open specific devices, uses randomized UIDs, and has limi
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by okanat 5mo ago
It's significantly uglier and it also skips the helpful headers / sections in the systemd INI files. `[Unit]` and `[Service]` and `[Timer]` represent different layers of execution. Many Nix people got used to the horrible syntax o
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by okanat 5mo ago
Did you mean: Powershell or nushell
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by okanat 5mo ago
David is the definition of old-school KDE developer. Do you know how far back his commits go? I remember his name from my first rodeos with KDE when I was a teenager. He was blogging about KDE in 2009 FFS: https://blog.davidedmun
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by okanat 5mo ago
Linux kernel's ABI/API surface is completely byte-based and is tiny compared to Win32 API. The stable ABI of Windows is strictly in the user space and it covers the entire useful operating system. Don't forget that glibc is
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by okanat 5mo ago
NT kernel can and did implement POSIX. Multiple times even. That's how WSL1 works. NTFS can also support Unix-like permissions. There are ACLs for Owner and Group. However, I'm not keen on using yet another Unix clone as well. At
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by okanat 5mo ago
Cygwin is like Wine. It fully emulates POSIX and puts a filesystem and syscall emulation layer on top and even an emulation for `/dev`. uutils are strictly limited to what Windows provides natively.
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by okanat 5mo ago
Git Bash is an MSYS2 environment that ships `bash.exe`. The rest of the Git-for-Windows executables are native Windows executables compiled with Mingw-w64 (aka GCC for Windows). Except for Bash nothing runs under POSIX simulation provided b
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by okanat 5mo ago
You're conflating MSYS2 with Mingw-w64. MSYS2 installation comes with multiple environments/ABIs and MSYS2 mode is actually a fork of Cygwin. They fork Cygwin, put some patches on and rename the DLL as msys-2.0.dll . Here is the s
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by okanat 5mo ago
Cygwin isn't native Windows. Cygwin does many unholy things to enable signals and fork syscall in binaries. uutils enables fully Windows native commands in the subset of system calls and disk structure Windows supports.

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