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by pgeorgi 3y ago
"Commercial activity" can be as benign as "There are membership fees", "There's a soda machine in the corner that takes coins", "I'm doing it to brush up my CV" (increasing future income pot
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
This is a case that's close to the judiciary. It might be what's needed to nullify the "I was only following the AI" defense by requiring a manual double check.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
>> Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation > No it wasn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33935355 : "Wasm does not have the hardware acceler
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation that sites could use at will to prove that there's demand for JPEG-XL support (and that the Chrome team provides, by the way).
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> War was always around the corner and nuclear missile threat amplified it. All sides showed remarkable restraint in actually following up on the threats. While the possibility of nuclear war was part of the backdrop, at least the impres
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The IOMMU that is subservient to the cell modem, where the latter runs code of unknown provenance with the ability for ad-hoc, targeted updates over the network?
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
OS/2 2.1: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/os221#general , released December 1993.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The firmware for the TPM(+a few functions more) chip in Chromebooks is Open Source. There was a presentation on it in 2018 whose slides can be found on https://web.archive.org/web/20211120005203/https://2
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> most gaming motherboards have a TPM2.0 slot on them and that TPM is connected over either LPC or SPI nowadays Mostly these days it's an fTPM, implemented in firmware (ME or AMD's "Security Processor") especially whe
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Even the good old venerable Ada language (or rather: its most visible vendor) jumped on that bandwagon with https://alire.ada.dev/ :-(
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
RFID payment cards by various networks, app on the phone with NFC.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
page 11 of https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4426784-Plan... "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://developer.arm.com/architectures mentions AArch64, no mention of arm64. There's "A64" for the instruction set, and https://developer.arm.com/Architectures/A64%20Instruction%20...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
arm64's official name is AArch64
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The GDPR allows for a bunch more escalations. Both in fines (that isn't 4% of global revenue yet) and in consequences (e.g. being all but expelled from the EU single market)
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
In the past (decades ago), before the EU capped processing fees, I had pretty good success just asking for a discount when paying cash, even in supermarkets. And yes, "it can only become cheaper" has a much lower cognitive load th
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's nice to see the cost of credit card processing being limited to credit card users, instead of everybody having to pay it through increased baseline prices with some "premium" credit card holders getting it back through &
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Advertisers aren't interested in buying only the eyeballs that are too poor to pay themselves out of the annoyance.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
You forgot "eat all the sandwiches". If everybody works from home those folks would have to order their food via one of their delivery startups like any ordinary pleb instead of getting company-paid catered food.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> It's not his job to solve remote work for everyone. He probably (definitely) has other topics he's more interested in. Interested enough to chime in on a debate that he can't contribute anything meaningful at any rate.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Intel/AMD Model N is affected and therefore banned for use with Windows 11. As per your assertion (that I agree with, btw) Intel/AMD Model N+1 is affected (just slightly less so) and can be used with Windows 11. So, either this is
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It seems defective and in need of replacement enough that Microsoft decided to not support these products in their operating system that would otherwise be well-enough supported by those chips. Right now, that argument seems to be simultane
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Would have been a fun exercise to get Intel and AMD to replace (or properly fix) their defective product, instead of just shrugging their shoulders and telling people to buy new cruft. Especially with win11 claiming to be eco-friendly in va
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
That quick response is indicative that E2EE might have been on the roadmap already. It's a bunch of trade-offs: - Keep things as they are - Avoid TOTP data getting lost with lost passwords - Avoid TOTP data getting distributed when the
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
The concept is called "hidden champions" and they exist in Germany all over the place: companies that run impressive revenue and profits and sometimes keep surprisingly big parts of the economy (domestically or even internationall
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Insurance companies erecting arbitrary barriers between you and a claims payment? Color me unsurprised. As for unregistering the car, I've heard of (US-based) DMV jokes (like "Flash" in Zootopia) but I didn't run into (G
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Not really. Germany's bureaucracy stems from the Prussians, and they perfected it to an art form in the 19th century when SW companies and consultancies were practically unheard of. Seriously though, as long as you try to navigate the
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
A hard learned lesson we had over at coreboot. Now all the projects we run CI for are heading towards some variant of `make what-jenkins-does` as in https://review.coreboot.org/plugins/gitiles/coreboot/+/
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
It was more of a media campaign, ad brokers trying to kneecap that other ad broker. Microsoft wasn't in the ad business back in the day, so no threat to media businesses.

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