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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
It has some degree of popularity mostly because it's free, although free ISAs are not anything new (OpenSPARC for example). All the attention from RISC-V comes down to the fact that the creators like to trash talk proprietary ISAs like
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
If we are going to make the argument that updating all servers and clients on a federated network to follow the latest and securest crypto is a big issue, we also have to pull the argument that the crypto of a non-federated network can be m
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
I can't help but feeling that Moxie's opinions about federation is nothing more to protect is business interests, which is to sell the Signal protocol to chat companies like Google and Facebook/WhatsApp. Matrix/Riot is a
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
I think he is expecting people to have some critical thinking to not starting to send emails to a VP just for the sake of sending emails to a VP. Let's say you are implementing the UI for the car's dashboard and you think it would
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
It's true that the AOSP version of the email app, for example, hasn't been in actual development. But as long as you can replace it with a good solution, like K9-Mail, does it really matter?
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
The binary blobs are not part of Android at all. And Sailfish OS doesn't solve the problem of binary blobs as well.
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
The "true independent mobile OS" so "private and secure" that even basic things like the calendar and the lock screen are proprietary and closed source. This brings no advantages over AOSP. And in before people pull the
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
"Visionary"? Hardly. His self driving technology was basically a big giant hack. He is a good hacker but calling him "visionary" is a bit of a stretch.
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
ARM doesn't design SoCs, ARM designs CPUs. My point is that an Intel/AMD product is a complete solution while an ARM product is just the very basic implementation of a CPU. ARM doesn't mandate on anything related to the SoC e
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
An ARM CPU is hardly comparable to an Intel/AMD CPU. And I don't mean in terms of performance. The CPUs from Intel/AMD are much more than a simple CPU, they are a complete system on a chip with a lot of more features that go
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
TrustZone is an addon that can be used to implement actual security features into a certain device. It is not attached to ARM's CPUs, not it is mandatory, it is just something that SoC developers can pick up and implement however they
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
It is fair from the moment you offer an unlimited plan and even more fair when you make a service of it and charge for it. Customers are customers, not product managers. It is only natural to make use of a service you pay for.
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
An ARM CPU is not exactly a self contained system like an x86 CPU, it is very dependent on the rest of the SoC. Qualcomm and Apple have their own tricks which work very well in their platform alone but they wouldn't be able to simply p
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by pedroaraujo 9y ago
It's not like ARM randomly slaps features just for the fun of it. These features are carefully modeled and studied before released into the market.