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by snaky 8y ago
Every or almost every? E.g. Bromite (www.bromite.org) integrates privacy enhancement patches from Iridium, Inox patchset, Brave and ungoogled-chromium projects for some reason.
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by snaky 8y ago
As Vladimir Arnold, who used to know a thing or two about fluid dynamics in particular, once said > At this point a special technique has been developed in mathematics. This technique, when applied to the real world, is sometimes useful,
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Sony to stop production of PS Vita in Japan next year, no plans for a successor(za.ign.com)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Alibaba named its semiconductor company after the honey badger(scmp.com)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
> Or maybe the replacement for the 3D touch technology could be the addition of Apple Pencil support (something that has been expected in the last two years) and the introduction of an Apple Pencil Mini and special iPhone cases with penc
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by snaky 8y ago
> users around the world will no longer think of Chrome as a browser, but simply as the interface to the (Google-)Web The funny thing is the only country free from that (Google-)Web is China.
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by snaky 8y ago
> the cost of producing music is less than it was in 1999 Or maybe not. The structure of the cost might be different though. Take K-Pop for example > Among the hundreds of entertainment companies producing KPOP groups, each year aroun
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by snaky 8y ago
$900 million was the acquisition price of Viber when their development was located in Belarus.
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by snaky 8y ago
Germany will be good while Eastern Europe have brains willing to relocate, and US have H-1B quotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648443
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by snaky 8y ago
They will fix it European way. > BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is taking steps to counter a surge in Chinese bids for stakes in German technology companies, including the creation of a billion-euro fund that could rescue such
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by snaky 8y ago
They will fix it European way. > Support from the European Union could come handy in helping Italian and Spanish entrepreneurs overcome the gap with more developed parts of Europe, both in terms of funding and networking opportunities. I
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by snaky 8y ago
And it shrinks. > With only seven million iPhones sold in China during the second quarter of 2018, Apple's market share in the country dropped by 12.5 percent year on year to 6.7 percent, according to a report by the International D
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by snaky 8y ago
There are many kinds of investors, while SV more interested in unicorns not pennies. > Chinese venture capital firms and technology giants are increasingly taking note of Canada’s technology scene, with artificial intelligence as well as
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by snaky 8y ago
> For example, most modern processors lack the ability to cleanly express the memory model found in Multics, with fine-grained sharing and transparent virtualized access to memory-mapped I/O devices.
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Dear Computer Industry, Please Embrace ESATAp(blog.zorinaq.com)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|1 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
No FPGA anymore?
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by snaky 8y ago
> prevents US companies and their subsidiaries from bribing officials in other countries That's how US lost Africa, and China acquired it.
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by snaky 8y ago
There is a difference between 'published' and 'available', especially in China.
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by snaky 8y ago
For false additional security. More than that, it makes the password effectively useless, considering how easy is to peep when user is entering it, especially when it happened at random so the probability the user happened to be at some pub
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by snaky 8y ago
Using offline bruteforce at one hundred trillion guesses per second, https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm says you would need a 15 thousand centuries to crack the password '7jk_nhAYTasd76'.
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by snaky 8y ago
15.1 is officially supported by LineageOS but it's not as good as 14.1, that's why 14.1 is still getting security updates thanks to denser@xda https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=77567550&pos...
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by snaky 8y ago
Maybe UNIX and PC wouldn't be enough actually, without at least four points (half-accidents at least) of that history - RMS, BSD, Sun and Linus. That's quite a fragile chain of events.
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by snaky 8y ago
If you are talking about this https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31765.html does it still work on recent Pixel devices?
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by snaky 8y ago
The previous accident of that kind was UNIX. That's acute, considering an open-source is mainstream today - a couple of accidents is enough to change the world.
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by snaky 8y ago
And the OnePlus kernel and modem firmware are broken so much the maintainer of 3 and 3T LineageOS branches couldn't take it anymore. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76423626&pos... https:/&#x2
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by snaky 8y ago
You can unlock the bootloader on almost any smartphone nowadays, but every one of them requires original firmware installed to lock it back.
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by snaky 8y ago
Google uses Gentoo as a base for ChromeOS IIRC.
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by snaky 8y ago
France is rather open-minded recently. "Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933736
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by snaky 8y ago
The lower a level, the easier to add a backdoor, the harder to audit. To add the backdoor to the handwritten assembly code is much easier than to do this with (reasonably clean style) C, and both are easier than add it to Standard ML or Has
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by snaky 8y ago
In the traditional world of raw Verilog, gate-level tuning, verification systems with millions of lines of code and all that, that's true. By the way, those hundreds of people will need a bunch of million dollar tools, hardware and sof

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