phkamp

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by phkamp 2y ago
That guy in Nebraska from the XKCD comic is probably safe. I'm not convinced that my one-man company is, since I derive most of my income from FOSS software. But that seems quite fair to me.
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by phkamp 2y ago
In the end, a court of justice (in EU, not in USA!) does. It's not a bad first approximation to expect courts in EU to very sensible and fair.
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by phkamp 2y ago
I've talked to various people over the last couple of years, and it seems Colonial Pipeline was the big eye-opener for politicians in USA: Nobody could be sued, even though they were aware of the problems. In EU I've heard more a
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by phkamp 2y ago
A company cannot exempt itself from product liability with an EULA. Cloud services are also explicitly mentioned as covered.
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by phkamp 2y ago
Cookie pop-ups is a clear case of "malicious compliance" and I guess all spying companies hoped they could make it so annoying that citizens of EU would revolt or something. Didn't work, instead many more people (at least her
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by phkamp 2y ago
EU has been pretty vocal about "Circular Economy" and also the right to repair for ages, so I do not expect a bona-fide repair job brings anybody in legal trouble. But conversely: Should the original manufacturer be responsible i
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by phkamp 2y ago
I hate to admit it, but the EUrocrats who drafted this are smarter than that: All software is covered, sold, licensed, embedded, rented. Even the cloud services tied to products are covered.
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by phkamp 2y ago
There's something called "The American Rule" which sets USA apart from pretty much the rest of the world. In USA, win or loose, each party pays their own lawyer. This is why USA has lawyers often work on "contingency&quo
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All software in EU under product liability from 2026(consilium.europa.eu)
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by phkamp 2y ago
EU countries have 2 years to legislate the national implementations. FOSS exemption but only for "outside commercial activity" - whatever that will mean. I guess that guy in Nebraska is safe, but not so sure about my own one-man c
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by phkamp 2y ago
One of the points is that if you have a nuclear powered navy, there needs to be a career path for disembarking reactor-techs. This is in no small part the reason why the countries with nuclear powered navies are most eager to build new nucl
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by phkamp 2y ago
It will probably help if people take the time to read Article 8 in the European Declaration of Human Rights: Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and
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by phkamp 2y ago
I do not know french laws specifically, but... There are lot of direct laws about record-keeping (company accounts for instance) but there are also a lot of laws which indirectly impose requirements of record-keeping, because having records
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by phkamp 2y ago
A smart detail was that the DN10000 had both VME and ISA slots.
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by phkamp 3y ago
Tactical Loran, also known as "Loran-D" was a concept Dave was involved in during the Korea war. There's a pdf about it somewhere on the web. Remember: This is way before GPS, so pilots could not just look at an instrument a
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by phkamp 3y ago
He influenced my career as much as Dennis and Ken did. Our "nanokernel" paper brought NTP into the nanosecond domain and gave FreeBSD "timecounters". But our true shared passion was Loran-C Dave even invented the 16-puls
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by phkamp 3y ago
One often overlooked aspect of BASIC's and COMAL's success was the educational benefit of line numbers. Several teachers who taught BASIC/COMAL in the 1970ies and 1980ies have commented to me, that the line numbers made them
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by phkamp 3y ago
It goes all the way back to Windows 3.11, where printer drivers often directly fiddled the Centronics parallel port themselves. The Centronics port is nominally one-way, but it didn't take long for people to realize you could use it fo
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by phkamp 3y ago
Yes, I am the author of that paper and the "phkmalloc" it describes.
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by phkamp 3y ago
Yes, by all means, let's implement malloc(3) in a way it should never have been implemented after the VAX/11 architecture, and using much less readable code and worse examples than in the Old Testament ? Hint: Storing the free-li
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by phkamp 3y ago
A counter point: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
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by phkamp 3y ago
I worked there in the late 1980ies while Olivetti was still going strong and loved the place. The Arduino is from Ivrea, it rose from the ruins of Olivetti, so to speak.
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by phkamp 4y ago
The "Cray" 6400 was really the "Sun Sparcenter 4000". I dont know if Sun paid Cray to get their name on it, but I'm sure Cray did not pick it up because of the fantastic CPU performance. The entire sun4d series had
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by phkamp 4y ago
This is what happens when private for-profit companies through monopoly become public infrastructure with no oversight and no obligations but turning a profit.
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by phkamp 4y ago
You seem to be more interested on proving me wrong, than actually understanding what I am saying: Today SSD's expose a datamodel which makes them look like disks. To implement that datamodel, on a storage substrate which have radically
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by phkamp 4y ago
The TLB is an attempt to mitigate the horrible performance properties of a multi-level page-table-trees. If you do away with the page-table-tree, there is no problem for the TLB to mitigate.
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by phkamp 4y ago
Sorry, overlooked your question. First, I have not been actively involved in Fastly, apart from telling Artur to "go for it!" :-) With respect to Flash technology I have noted elsewhere in this discussion that today our SSD device
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by phkamp 4y ago
Bad block remapping is just a trivial table lookup, the first disk drives did it with 8-bit microcontrollers. In my experience a good FAL is about as hard to write as a good filesystem. While you can parameterize a lot of things, there are
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by phkamp 4y ago
Ping me next time you're in our area, I'll be more than happy to give you a tour!
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by phkamp 4y ago
On a magnetic disk, the exposed "name" is the physical address, on a SSH device, the data is stored ${somewhere} and the FAL has a (pretty interesting!) datastructure to lookup were that is, when you demand a certain "name&qu

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