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by soneil 6y ago
Or Tencent for TikTok
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That’s about the only way I see out of this, yeah. No fuses blown is obviously a specific state (works as expected everywhere). All-fuses blown needs to be a specific state too (say the trustroot is dead and it’s now “just a cpu”). You co
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by soneil 6y ago
My go-to vendor’s business model is to do that for me. So I say, I want a DL360. I pick processors, ram, disk controllers from their stock. I can even tell them how many caddies I want (looking at you, Dell). And they ship me a build-to-ord
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Theoretically. If the OEM shipped region-specific firmware with a region-specific signing key, the CPUs would be region-specific as a side effect.
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Not yet. We will in 5 years time when their resale value meets our budgets. I work in a rather budget-constrained lab environment. “Beg, borrow, steal” is the order of the day. Just today I was pricing out pre-loved Gen8 HPs. In 5 years tim
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If they’re setting OTP on the die, all AMD could offer would be a warranty replacement at best. There’s no etching new fuses into a packaged die.
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I think that’s the chicken & egg. If the motherboard was responsible for this, you’re trusting the firmware to validate itself. So this moves the validation a level lower. It’s an interesting problem. The solution is valid, but it’s unf
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by soneil 6y ago
The article describes the mechanism as programmable fuses; so there is a near-certain chance these are one-time-programmable and can’t be reset. Ever. (This is fairly normal in cpus. Picture 8 regular fuses. If you read across them, you’ll
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by soneil 6y ago
It strikes me this is likely to be very self-reinforcing, too. If the people they target end up in jail, you can almost guarantee that it'll be used as a metric that their junk science is working. It's probably a very effective w
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Scots is usually fairly intelligible, at least to the Scottish. Essentially, Scots branches off from middle english in a slightly different direction. But vernacular Scottish - the language you'd expect to hear day to day on the stree
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It doesn't help that adtech have been pretty consistent about being as abusive as they can until they get pushed back. This is the industry that invented the popup/pop-under, until browsers were forced to adopt technological solut
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The actual UX of this is very telling. Apple haven't actually clobbered this, they've added a modal "This app would like to track you across apps, Y/N". Apple haven't actually said no to this, they've gi
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by soneil 6y ago
This is a terribly common problem with threatened languages. The vast, vast majority of Scots speakers also have native English. And for the vast, vast majority of topics, the English wiki article is going to be much more informative. Of
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The reddit thread made a great example of "an aw" being used as a substitution for "also", so I'll round that example out to illustrate. In a nutshell, his dictionary has provided him "also"->"an a
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by soneil 6y ago
That does appear to be the idea, yes. It reads like a demotion in role but a promotion in seniority. The navy used to have the concept of a "desk admiral", which was an admiral with no ships. It was effectively a promotion into
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by soneil 6y ago
Nextcloud are positioning themselves as the appropriate competition in this space, so you're right to query the source. > The hope of democratic countries is to have ample checks and balances so that information is used appropriatel
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by soneil 6y ago
While I'm entirely unversed to discus what the law actually achieves, I do think it's interesting to note that it's almost entirely to fulfil new obligations placed on them by T-MEC/USMCA (the can-mex-US agreement replac
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by soneil 6y ago
I think it's not so much that it was a huge gamble. It was more that it was a sensitive time politically, to make that gamble. I mean, if they found nothing? Sure, that's still a question Hubble should be trying to answer. But
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by soneil 6y ago
I don't recall seeing AOL chatrooms quoted in mainstream news on a regular basis. They may have had a sizeable percentage of the online audience, but it's the "online audience" that's greatly inflated in scale.
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by soneil 6y ago
I believe the Austin plant is owned/operated by Flex / Flextronics. Although I see some news blurb that Apple are building a campus out there too, so perhaps that's going to change in the future? As I understand it, it&#x27
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It all gets terribly murky very quickly. For example, we often claim one of our strengths is that we have a highly educated workforce - but this is circular; people take this path because they know there's good work at the other end o
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by soneil 6y ago
It sort of is. And isn't. It's a helluva mess we've got ourselves into. Ireland has built its modern economy on being attractive to multinationals. And it's worked. 10 MNCs alone pay 40% of all tax revenue in the cou
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by soneil 6y ago
I believe you can work around the encryption ban. eg, for the UK; “ 11(2) The Licensee shall only address Messages to other Amateurs or to the stations of those Amateurs and shall not encrypt these Messages for the purpose of rendering the
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They do go on to say that "context is key" and that most people will just use it to mean OK. I think it reads a little more sensible without the snap-judgements.
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R:0 is an average, not a promise. It's that simple. Some people will infect 50 people at a wedding. Some people will spend a couple of weeks in bed having the time of their lives. Some people will just stop breathing. R is based o
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I'm glad to see they have a whole section for 2Advanced. My programming tutor at college told us not to worry about the internet, treating it as a fad. I learnt html (and css) using View Source. And in my world of "my god, the
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It sounds like that's roughly the same rate as Scotland, so I'd assume exactly the same thing over a wide area - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6226537/Eng... Which makes sens
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The end of the ice age would have had two appreciable effects on water levels. One, is that the ice went somewhere. The other, is that the huge amount of weight being relieved from the land actually caused land masses to move[0]. In the e
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As I understand it, if you're travelling from Canada, and have evidence of Canadian residency, you're as good as Canadian for this purpose. If you're a visitor in Canada, it gets murky quickly. It's also worth knowing m
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This is almost exactly what I was going to write. Don't be afraid to send episode alerts if people clicked a button labelled "episode alerts" and signed up for a mailing list caled "episode alerts". But if you see

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