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by ploxiln 5y ago
I'm aware, I use ubuntu, and my server provisioning scripts remove all the useless bloatware, abrt and apport and landscape etc etc, of which there seems to be a bit more each year. On my personal systems I use Arch linux and customize
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by ploxiln 5y ago
Someone would have to load this firmware onto your devices, either with local physical access or remote root access to your system. Are you suggesting it should be impossible for anyone to modify the firmware on their peripherals/NICs&
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by ploxiln 5y ago
You might be surprised to find that Windows has a similar problem to X11 - any GUI window can send messages to any other GUI window, and on consumer versions of windows you can't use multiple simultaneous user sessions to separate diff
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by ploxiln 5y ago
How did Audacity gain it's popularity over the past 15 years, without any of this stuff? Did you use computers 15 years ago? Linux desktop and open source tools? Nothing had this crap back then, and some of it was pretty good. Audacity
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by ploxiln 5y ago
It seems to me that more "bush did it" 9/11 conspiracy videos were allowed to stay up, than COVID-19 vaccine critical or alternate treatment discussing videos. And I think I understand why, it's because we worry less abo
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by ploxiln 5y ago
But also, maintain a bunch of memory and cpu state invisibly, and apply a bunch atomically or roll it back, and do this for multiple threads simultaneously. And then try debugging some seemingly unrelated issue at the memory/instructio
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by ploxiln 5y ago
Intel employees added it to glibc. I think Intel wanted to show everyone "don't be scared, silly, you're already using it!" https://lwn.net/Articles/534761/ http://halobates.de/
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by ploxiln 5y ago
I've disliked the idea of TSX since the beginning. Having studied some circuit design, computer architecture, and operating systems in college, though I work in user-space software now I do like to understand how all the layers beneath
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by ploxiln 5y ago
They actually do, it's just somewhat distributed. https://01.org/lkp/documentation/0-day-test-service https://linux.kernelci.org/job/ "kernel test robot" example email: https:
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by ploxiln 5y ago
It was mentioned, but slightly misunderstood I think: > Drew DeVault has been working on the reverse direction, from a mailing list to a project forge, as well.
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by ploxiln 5y ago
That implies that significantly less than half of their income fell into the highest bracket. This is true of the top 0.01% as well (the top 1% of the top 1%), they paid about 50% overall. So, the top 1% of the top 1% of high-income earners
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by ploxiln 5y ago
> Digital marketing performance is increasingly measurable Yes, I believe this is true. But also, I've heard that payouts per impression are going down precipitously. Desperate news sites are chock full of heavy ads because each imp
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by ploxiln 5y ago
It's basically because of drivers for the SoC (system-on-chip, the integrated chip from e.g. Qualcomm that has cpus, graphics, sound, camera, power management, etc). They're too messy/hacky/low-quality to be "upstre
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by ploxiln 6y ago
To be even more explicit: the people with the very highest incomes in the 1950s did not have any significant part of their income fall into the top tax bracket. They did whatever they had to do to not make that happen. They structured it as
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by ploxiln 6y ago
That's a rather misleading graph though. https://checkyourfact.com/2019/01/09/fact-check-90-percent-t... > The top 1 percent of income earners paid an average effective income tax rate of 16.9 percent
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by ploxiln 6y ago
> The lack of support for TLS 1.3 made it impossible to download much of anything. I think you must have lacked support for TLS-1.2? Very few websites/servers require TLS-1.3
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by ploxiln 6y ago
What does StackOverflow really have left to deliver, though? They made a fairly snappy and robust web application which has very popular functionality, that serves giant boatloads of traffic, with a relatively small team of developers and a
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Employers do withhold some income for federal and state taxes, and for social-security and some other odds and ends. But the tax system is very complicated, with multiple tax brackets (income above a threshold is taxed at a higher rate), de
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by ploxiln 6y ago
>> Strongly prefer to upstream all patches to LLVM before including them in rustc. > That is, this is already the case. We don't like maintaining a fork. We try to upstream as much as we can. > But, at the same time, even w
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Warnings are a funny thing, lots of projects like to turn all warnings into failing errors in CI, sometimes even at package build time, they think it's a best-practice ... but it means that nobody else can use warnings to communicate t
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by ploxiln 6y ago
There was advocacy and pressure to adopt pyca/cryptography in other popular python packages. Don't roll your own crypto, don't use old unmaintained crypto libraries (pycrypto ... but these days there's pycryptodome) etc.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
For desktop computers this is a lot easier, for laptops it's still not that easy. The motherboards are not just COTS "Asus z490 prime" or whatever, and you can't just include a nice standard USB mouse which requires no d
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by ploxiln 6y ago
It's really not power, it's just debugging and optimizing rates and retries. Lots of wifi has lots of dumb bugs that no one ever figures out, because stuff still mostly works, with all the built-in retries. (I used to work for an
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I don't see any mention of the firmware and drivers efforts for this. Firmware and drivers always end up more difficult to deal with than expected. The Fairphone company was surprised by difficulties upgrading and patching android with
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by ploxiln 6y ago
The kernel can pull "tricks" to mitigate speculative execution during context switches. But it can't do anything to prevent a process running on one hyperthread from using side-channel attacks against another process, or the
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by ploxiln 6y ago
macOS has App Folders, since the beginning when it was call OS X, and they're kinda like GoboLinux, but even better! Just copy this folder anywhere and it runs stand-alone and self contained. But almost nothing is just a plain App Fold
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by ploxiln 6y ago
GoboLinux install layout is a cool concept. However, it's not hard to figure out where files were installed, and what files are from. The package manager keeps track of all of that, and you can ask it. Example for debian or ubuntu:
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks. (That's what I get for assuming consistent behavior :P)
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by ploxiln 6y ago
> In Python 3.2, the Formatter gained a style keyword parameter which, while defaulting to % for backward compatibility, allowed the specification of { or $ to support the formatting approaches supported by str.format() and string.Templa
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Also, remember that the first argument to the logging functions is considered to be a format string. So using f-strings is not just less efficient, it is also not robust, unless you do: logging.debug("%s", f"Unexpected,

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