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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That cheapest COTS block also has the advantage of being battle tested by the big customer base. Since you presumably have pretty good contacts into IBM: ever asked if they'd consider pooling resources with other vendors around their i
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Right, but ACPI has a standard (even if using the standard has onerous restrictions) and so firmware projects like coreboot can (and do) implement their own. For AtomBIOS, you have a single vendor virtual machine environment (bytecode + sem
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Given that they also sent a claim regarding a map feature on the .com site that wasn't provided by that site, I'm not sure if any of the claims they throw at ISPs (DMCA or not) are even legit. The main issue is that the "free
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> battery life isn’t quite as good powertop --auto-tune is a good first start in my experience.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I haven't worked with Clevo, but apparently they provide quite some flexibility. A vendor can use their own choice of keyboard, extra buttons, ports placements, hinges, ... I guess Clevo would even be up to designing a new PCB around a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> would adoption of RISC V help fix this issue? If you're in the market for some slow CPU, maybe. For high performance stuff the creator will likely have to license some function blocks that come with strings attached. I'd love
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> You can call it Open Firmware(TM), not open firmware. let's shorten the other thread, since you just reiterate the same claim all the time without backing it up: I reject your prescriptivism just like I reject snagglegaggle's
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
AMD GPUs require AtomBIOS which contains bytecode (that is: blobs) to initialize the GPU. If you look at the Linux drivers, they come with an AtomBIOS bytecode interpreter for that purpose. There was some confrontation over that 10 years ag
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
coreboot on modern Intel requires (some amount of) ME firmware (without which the x86 core wouldn't even turn on) + some parts of the Intel FSP binaries. coreboot on modern AMD requires (some amount of) PSP firmware (without which the
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The Open Firmware Working Group's website at https://www.devicetree.org/open-firmware/home.html mentions the OpenBoot(tm) trademark, but uses Open Firmware without any signifier. (and they should know) Given that
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I implemented OF over 15 years ago, and even back then the OF trademark had lapsed. Just tried again and I can't seem to find it.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> You can't really call it open firmware I can implement IEEE1275-1994 as fully closed sourced code and call it open firmware. > if there's still a lot of closed firmware in it. Downthread you mention "With nonCPU blobs
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I will get https://www.coreboot.org/users.html updated as soon as possible. That would be https://review.coreboot.org/c/homepage/+/35957
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Many legal frameworks have an interoperability clause which would allow using that list for the sole purpose of interop. What W3W seems to be doing is taking down the sites on trademark grounds (that is, "what three words" and &qu
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
What should the classifier identify on https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/duck-rabbit ? [edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/aydqig/is_... tried it out]
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
... if the cousins' parents and grandparents are similarly closely related to each other, yes. Otherwise probably not.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Right, I should have phrased it better: it's about self-interest. That interest _can_ be use of the software for yourself, and you're right, it can be selling support for the software or in open core models, selling add-ons. I sup
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> But it's for them to use it (else, what's the point ?). The point is to have the software yourself. If it helps somebody else, all the better - but, like building a community, that's not necessarily the point.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> ITER Project was initiated in 1988. > The expected cost of ITER has risen from US$5 billion to US$20 billion So factor 4 in 30 years. That's approximately inflation, no?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
"No one" in the next ~70-90 years.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Really hoping we will see prices decrease for higher-end e-ink displays. Unlikely to happen: similar to silicon, eink's yield (that is, amount of parts produced with no errors) goes down quickly (quadratic if not cubic, I forgot)
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Just an inflatable boat and a sub in coastal waters. Massive ECM cover if they mention anything. And denial after. Sounds like you're volunteering for that job.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's exercised by humans though, with gives _some_ accountability. Try asking a computer in court what it was thinking when it ran the algorithm.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
GDPR enforcement is 15 months old and regulators aren't the fastest bunch. They're also cooperation based as the goal isn't to serve fines but to ensure compliance: If you cooperate, you might get away with no fine at all (de
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
For example by making it a feature that isn't exclusively used for books? I suspect it's implemented using the new Playback Capture API ( https://developer.android.com/preview/features/playback-capt... ) w
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Right, but I think that's already the next step: the theory of "we're not looking so we don't collect" predates efficient automated large-scale analysis. It makes sense to me to fight both schemes, but they have dif
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
In Germany there's an old idiom of it being the "country of poets and thinkers", and when going back to its origins it wasn't primarily about Goethe and Kant, Germans, being exemplary intellectuals (as it is understood t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> "Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built. And blatant copyright violation is a common tool for up-and-coming countries (e.g. the US in the past) to jumpstart their creative sector. But at some point, they all
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's a common dialectic pattern in law enforcement circles world-wide that data at rest that is never touched is data that doesn't exist. That angle is based on the idea that this data "may as well not exist" but it igno
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Using the phone number given for 2FA (and nowhere else) for any other purpose would be in disagreement with the purposes listed at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723?hl=en

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