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by spijdar 6y ago
As mentioned above by someone else, what they mean by "x86” is something of a hybrid. The kernel/ring 0 code is certainly 64 bit, and I suspect they may be using 64 bit long mode everywhere, but they're making special accomod
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by spijdar 6y ago
In this space it's not too unusual, really. It's not altogether unlike modern AIX or IBM i, which effectively only run on virtual machines managed by a hypervisor built into the firmware on PowerVM machines. Maybe less satisfying
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by spijdar 6y ago
ZFS never came from FreeBSD -- its origin is Solaris, and specifically from the tediously open-sourced and then thrown under a bus by Oracle OpenSolaris, forked into the Illumos project. So FreeBSD's version has never been the "ma
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by spijdar 6y ago
I haven't used ZFS myself, but the people I know who have have never mentioned problems with it. This is on pretty exotic configurations, too, like POWER hardware. Obviously distros trying to be especially kosher like Debian and Fedora
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, there's more to both comments. GP mentions being mistreated as a moderator while the other top comment mentions the moderation culture and focus of moderation being on the wrong things, e.g. trying to close "duplicates"
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think the case for running FreeBSD in some of those cases is dwindling a bit. There are a few advantages freebsd has historically had, one being ZFS. Recently, though, freebsd switched their ZFS sources from the upstream Illumos to linux&
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by spijdar 6y ago
The fact they don't enable services isn't what is controversial, it's the claim that they have "no remote bugs in a heck of a long time" on an install that doesn't enable anything. OpenBSD has shipped several v
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by spijdar 6y ago
> Basically anything that you would want a computer to do. Some people will be okay playing uncompressed WAV and Sun AU files cat'ed to the audio device. Other people are going to want to play other audio formats. This kind of reaso
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by spijdar 6y ago
It is "secure by default" but I find that phrase disingenuous when the "default" doesn't really do anything. Sure, it's secure, but that doesn't help me much if I have to immediately make changes that co
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by spijdar 6y ago
The reason why it's so controversial is because OpenBSD doesn't actually enable any services by default except for ssh, IIRC. Which means that the attack surface for OpenBSD is just their TCP/IP stack and SSH. The slogan, whi
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by spijdar 6y ago
You might be interested in a technology Microsoft has developed called "Drawbridge" [0], which is essentially an implementation of a subset of the windows nt kernel and system libraries in a userspace program. This software has al
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by spijdar 6y ago
May I suggest the term you're looking for might be "open market" more than "free market"? Everything Apple is doing is empowered by the free market. As an aside, using the ISA bus as an example of the benefits of
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by spijdar 6y ago
What's "the rest of the developed world"? France has 21k new covid cases in a day, and a population of 67 million versus a population of 328 million in the US, so the per capita rate is almost identical. Other west European c
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by spijdar 6y ago
What's the story with JavaFX nowadays? I'm not a Java dev, but from a user perspective it's a bit of a PITA since OpenJDK doesn't (?) package JavaFX with it (and neither does the latest oracle JRE/JDK?). It seems to
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, it kinda ties back to the question of under what circumstance can an ISP cut you off. You could at least get around DNS level stuff with a P2P application layer. But if you're cut off at the routing level by everyone then yeah, n
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by spijdar 6y ago
"They" in that case would typically be the government (assuming you own your property), which at least in the US would have to (at least nominally) follow more regulations and protocols for restricting your speech, while a private
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by spijdar 6y ago
> if you look at say, athletic selection for a sport like basketball or athletics, you'd find that race is inherently a criteria, because certain races seems to have an inherent advantage (or more correctly, certain races seems to h
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by spijdar 6y ago
> I think the majority of systems running Linux today are phones, which usually have 4GB or less of RAM. Even this is quickly becoming less and less true (for new phones). Even the Pinephone comes with 3 GB of RAM at a $200 price point,
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by spijdar 6y ago
The 2015 MBPs were the very last with removable storage[0]. The flash controller and NAND chips are soldered directly to the board on every newer MBP and are essentially non-replaceable, short of desoldering the raw NAND flash I suppose. [0
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by spijdar 6y ago
Just FYI, the speaker in the Sun keyboard only existed to emit status beeps when the computer is powered on and self-tests. Most non-suns have the same speaker integrated into the computer itself. At least when those sorts of beepy-PC-BIOSe
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by spijdar 6y ago
I can believe that sadly :/ UEFI implementations range from pretty good to absolute crap. My newest Dell has at least been mostly decent, but an older Dell has so many issues with the firmware, it's unbelievable. Not that it (worn
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by spijdar 6y ago
While technically speaking yes, eventually the firmware flash will fail, I'm not sure bad UEFI variables will actually prevent the system from booting, since the rest of firmware should be fine. I've gotten systems to boot with to
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by spijdar 6y ago
> You aren't booting from an external disk. You are booting from the internal SSD, with the root filesystem on the external disk. So this means that the life of all M1 Macs is locked to the life of the internal storage, as the (inev
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hmm, the filesystem thing would be a constant slowdown, and there is the locking/async primitives that are generally better on Windows, but at least those are being worked on, both for Wine and Linux in general. I kind of recall readin
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by spijdar 6y ago
Wouldn't the ultimate irony be "native" toolkits like Gtk and Qt being normalized through WASM code rendering to a canvas?
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by spijdar 6y ago
Neither mobile platforms nor MacOS are really trying to "replace" Windows, never have been. They have some overlapping markets, but the target has really been very different all around. On the other hand, Apple has been very caref
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by spijdar 6y ago
High complexity and relatively low reward. There have been many attempts at these sorts of dual architectures through history, and they've mostly been abject failures for various reasons (there have been some dual PC/Mac designs f
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by spijdar 6y ago
We're already there, anyway. Proprietary drivers are super common not just in Android, but across embedded devices everywhere. Some companies just flagrantly violate the GPL, and little ever comes of it. Others ship minimal shims in th
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'll admit to being biased up front, as I run a lot of ARM and POWER stuff, so I have a vested interest, but I have to agree that this feels short sighted. ARM at the very least has a big potential to take a much bigger slice of the ma
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by spijdar 6y ago
This exactly. I've come across linux systems doing control work in pentests before, and they can be just as miserably protected as windows systems -- possibly more so, because they're on some forsaken SoC that needs a custom kerne

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