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by setquk 8y ago
Agree. They are still only after market dominance as any other corporate entity is. This is evident from them burning their own office UWP apps in favour of Android and iOS. Their own marketing vision sacrificed before you, and not the firs
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by setquk 8y ago
There are other choices but they all have limitations as well therefore it always ends up with better than devil you know.
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by setquk 8y ago
Their QA is nothing short of shitty at the moment therefore I suspect this is business as usual going forwards. Windows 10 is literally death by a thousand paper cuts for me.
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by setquk 8y ago
With the current political climate, that might be the intention. If you undermine international trade though marketing you don't have to fight a tariff war.
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by setquk 8y ago
I don't have the reference handy but someone claimed to be a source and they pointed to a generic item on digikey / mouser as an example. I imagine that it got extrapolated by Bloomberg into that. They really have no idea what the
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by setquk 8y ago
It’s always a people problem. You have to force people to own every ticket or they will just rot.
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by setquk 8y ago
That's because it's not in line with their strategy of telling everyone what they're having and they'll have to lump it.
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by setquk 8y ago
You're right. It isn't beyond it. But to do this you need access to the binaries and build process to do a differential analysis for injection. If you had access to that why would you not modify at firmware load time? I can't
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by setquk 8y ago
Feasible yes. Unlikely yes. It would require multi master bus arbitration which isn’t built into the SPI protocol so it would have to intercept the protocol’s MOSI/MISO lines. Thus requiring more pins. That means larger package. And a
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by setquk 8y ago
Really it’s the cynical engineers, me included, being skeptical about an unholy alliance of two tools known for their occasional slinging of hand grenades into the workflow. In fact both tools effectively compromise the underlying concepts
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by setquk 8y ago
Not really. It's expensive, a dick to program, no FP support and single thread performance is rubbish. A cheap ARM is a better deal now and they are quoted in uA/MHz for performance so you can trade off your performance on the fly
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by setquk 8y ago
This is my point. They wouldn't. If you compare to MSFT etc whenever there is a "global cyber incident" the story is the same and correlates with the governments etc which is business as usual. This is not business as usual.
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by setquk 8y ago
Tinfoil hat time. Based on my assertions elsewhere I suspect this is posturing plausible deniability for a more local actor being responsible for implants that may or may not be discovered already. The vigorous denials from Apple and Amazon
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by setquk 8y ago
That's fair.
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by setquk 8y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18139739 I don't find that method feasible. Infiltration of supermicro IS but then you have to ask the question: who really did it as they are on US soil.
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by setquk 8y ago
That is possible but unlikely. Firstly you'd have to do this at the PCB fab phase as this can't be retrospectively applied, so you'd have to have infiltrated two times as many companies and add complex manufacturing exception
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by setquk 8y ago
Yeah I did say that. I covered both vectors.
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by setquk 8y ago
Nothing adds up here. Supermicro boards have "designed in the USA" proudly stamped all over them. This means that either: (a) the design process was infiltrated, which would have been done US side thus the nationality of the actor
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by setquk 8y ago
HR will still ask for 8 years of .Net 4.9
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by setquk 8y ago
I have a lot of respect for the eastern bloc engineers. After being throughly pillaged of all industrial infrastructure after the war, surprisingly by the early 1980s some of the stuff being churned out was amazing. Right down to minicomput
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by setquk 8y ago
Likely. Considering the three letter agencies get early access to these things from other vendors: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/nsa-g...
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by setquk 8y ago
GDI+ does.
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by setquk 8y ago
Very very very low. Win32 is a lower portability risk than UWP. Genuinely that’s what I’ve heard people say. Most of the UI and event stuff can be moved to wx or equivalent in a few months and deployed on other platforms. UWP and you’re up
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by setquk 8y ago
Best manager I had was basically never there. He was out keeping everyone off our backs.
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes. My other half hasn’t got over the 30 minute rant and regular random explosions about it to this day when we hired a plumber and his van had comic sans and clipart from Microsoft office on the side. This was 15 years ago.
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by setquk 8y ago
So much this. All the pipeline and delivery stuff is glued into github’s API. Most companies aren’t using git any more but github and git is just a dependency. I’ve even seen developers who are unaware that git can exist without github. I i
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by setquk 8y ago
It’s ok for the narrow set of use cases that it is good at. Outside of that it needs something that has some intelligence and ability to read optimise it. Heavily locked stuff, lots of small things, huge number of locatable data entries, no
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by setquk 8y ago
We have over 100Gb over tens of millions of inodes in Jenkins. This does not scale well even on XFS backed with SSDs. Takes hours to run backups. pg_dump on the same data volume takes about 14 minutes to dump, compress and move to another n
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by setquk 8y ago
I’m a postgres DBA as well. It mostly requires zero maintenance.
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by setquk 8y ago
As the admin department of a company that runs Jenkins, it’s the second worst thing we have to keep alive (black duck software was the worst). Jenkins is leaky, unstable, unfriendly to the filesystem, buggy and poorly documented and tested.

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