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rasz_pl
10y ago
not about pron, its about control and making sure everyone breaks some kind of law and can be broken/coerced
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Blinking leds is one thing, hiding encryption store is another. Remember a story of GCHQ going over Guardians Macbook with a dremel and destroying every single chip capale of storing bits?
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rasz_pl
10y ago
You could exploit debayering artefacts. In fact I wonder if any imaging sensor vendors run R&D trying to come up with novel neural net based debayering approaches - this could be a cheap way of bumping image quality/perceived resol
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rasz_pl
10y ago
sure, like plugins oh wait, where did my plugins configuration go? why cant I disable plugins I dont want?
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rasz_pl
10y ago
reducing complexity, sounds familiar. I think Gnome did that between 2 and 3.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Do you watch cable? Every single settopbox is designed in a way that makes tracking viewing habits trivial and every cable company does this.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
The difference between smart 1080p tv and dumb one is $15 LCD controller from ebay.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
All this amazing automation and deep learning and Google still spams me with pewdiepie and other meme lord YT drama garbage suggestions despite clicking "not interested" hundreds of times.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Wax on Wax off.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Amiga shipped with planar graphic modes, this card supplies chunky modes. Planar was great for ~10MHz CPU when moving 1-2 color images on the screen, but totally failed when technology moved on to 8-16bit color depth. You could even argue D
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rasz_pl
10y ago
because 20 year old 'developers' grew up with 3GHz laptop CPUs. Fast computers make stupid ideas, like python or ruby, sound ok for production.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Video playback is no longer a benchmark with Hardware video decoding units that let CPU practically shut down 80% of die space. People actually expect to USE the laptop like a computer, not like a movie watching on a toiled tablet. As the l
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rasz_pl
10y ago
nothing? open hardware badge is a big ball of mess with people using it whatever the way they want. Initially it was a great idea, but life finds a way :) Open Source Hardware Explained - EEVblog #195 https://www.youtube.com/
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Lenovo diagrams are not reverse engineered, those are original manufacturer documentation, with notes, diagnostic info etc.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
not smart, but old school and embedded in big companies Devkit alone is >$1K and you wont be able to do anything with it without couple of $K in software and maybe even support contract. All that for ~$10 Arm Soc performance.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
"fully open hardware" is a loaded misleading term, Just look up the mess open hardware logo is in, and different people involved trying to salvage it. Dave Jones/eevblog has some 1 hour long rant videos about it, he even rede
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Lack of history is a clue system was wiped or reinstalled from scratch. Its very difficult to make windows appear to be an old actively used install. Encase (or new software, I havent done forensic for >6 years now) will tell you everyt
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rasz_pl
10y ago
which part of Allwinner A64 SoC is open? Do you mean the open source code Allwinner packaged into their binary blobs loaded into black boxes on the chip (like image coprocessor)? Meanwhile I have full X220 schematic + boardview, EC (system
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10y ago
it would with coreboot https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/5p3mpm/how_to_fla... + https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec for EC sourcecode besides Allwinner A64 = tons
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rasz_pl
10y ago
You could (well couldnt, all listed out of stock) have this, or Lenovo X220 with IPS screen Edit: with 8GB ram and 32GB mSata SSD, still <240Euro.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
about 5 hours, just imagine how thin new macs could get!!1 look at iPhone 6 for clues - Apple replaced 0.1 mm thick piece of metal rf shield with a sticker to make it thinner, that removed metal can was reinforcing pcb and all the bga chips
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rasz_pl
10y ago
its under NDA
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rasz_pl
10y ago
This is simply not true. Valve had precisely ZERO VR research up until 2012. Thats when they finally decided to pursue hardware and hired Jeri Ellsworth to build hardware division.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
This sounds so bizzare to an European. Here you leave the car at the dealer, go to the reception and ask if they will be providing replacement car or have a preferred rental company.
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rasz_pl
10y ago
>Hmm, their contact form keeps failing with cryptic error messages, but never explaining what I did wrong. it used to barf helpful error messages (including info it should give like internal network details), I reported it and got a than
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10y ago
delete 'bug'
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rasz_pl
10y ago
Because 128GB piece of second/third grade flash is ~$20, and those go into cheaper SD cards/usb drives. $160 in cheap memory alone. There are manufacturers playing aggressive race to the bottom, they make drives with neither ram n
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rasz_pl
10y ago
No. Vivaldi like new Opera is just a skinning project. They made UI slightly better, added some missing functionality (mostry tabs and gestures), but they do not touch core engine. Case in point fresh Vivaldi on startup makes 4 connections
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10y ago
Even in Opera it is less about throttling cpu usage, and more about coalescing wakeups/timer interrupts. There should never be a situation where background tab cant even get a 1 second timer running reliably, unless its trying to compu
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rasz_pl
10y ago
This is design issue, inefficient data structures, lazy programming etc. Im affraid tabs taking 2MB(two megabytes for a page with javascript, not 20, not 200, two) like in the good old Opera 12.16 wont come back :(
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