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by spijdar 6y ago
Wine Is Not an Emulator ;-) But seriously -- wine should have equal performance to running a program "natively" on windows because it essentially is running the program natively, just with different system DLLs that call back to
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by spijdar 6y ago
That's fair -- development has been off-and-on, and there's not much of a desire for xbox emulation. Still, I think it's a good example of how just because the xbox is basically a regular Pentium III system with a modified Ge
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by spijdar 6y ago
This is a pretty common and old idea, dating back to the original xbox, which was basically "just" a normal pentium processor with an nvidia gpu. For various reasons, though, this sort of emulation has a lot of pitfalls. Either yo
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's worth being clear and noting that, somewhat unlike Hello, which is largely an attempt at looking like MacOS, with some attention given to the UI and things like keyboard shortcuts to make it sort of feel like MacOS, NEXTSPACE co
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by spijdar 6y ago
For what it's worth, the much maligned touch bar has good integration with the screenshot functionality, and you can adjust options through that interface while in "screenshot mode". Video recording is also easy there. I&#x27
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by spijdar 6y ago
> relatively little investment compared to migrating to an OS on another kernel One of the more beautiful aspects of Windows is you actually rarely interact with the kernel at all. That portion of the OS could (and in practice often is)
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by spijdar 6y ago
Oh, absolutely, hence why I joked that Gimp has poisoned my mind. I'm not sure which would necessarily be more intuitive for a total beginner, but I know I'm just used to Gimp. On top of that, I downloaded Krita again, and the UI
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by spijdar 6y ago
As a random Linux schmuck user who occasionally does very light image editing and processing, the few times I've tried to use Krita I have absolutely no idea how to do anything (without looking up a guide), while I can usually do whate
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm intrigued by the SPARC support. Not sure if it's for sun4c/m/u, but I've got both 32 and 64 bit SPARC laptops that Haiku would be perfect for.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Awesome, thanks for the info and video :) Really hoping this project succeeds. Maybe sometime I'll get a chance to work/play around with it a bit myself.
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by spijdar 6y ago
I might be missing something, but this seems awfully light on any real technical details, beyond "we intend to use this tech to create the HDL to make the chip with", and some rather high level strategic goals for the chip. Is the
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think it's fair to point out libreboot is a fork off coreboot, and while libreboot is basically a dead project at this point, coreboot development continues. Chromebooks tend to use coreboot natively, and on some chromebooks, you can
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'd expect less activity around the MIPS port because it is, by and large, already fully functional and a first class citizen of Android, while RISC-V is still being fully bootstrapped. Further, software like Chrome/Chromium and V
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by spijdar 6y ago
If Gentoo makes your particular computer goal easier to achieve, I don't think it's "hostile". Most people will never need Gentoo or want to use it, but for those with either a need or a desire for a meta-distribution, G
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm also not really that familiar with either Rust or modern multiplayer games, I'm just speculating. It seems like if you could buffer-overflow the server, there are more sinister things you could do besides game-the-game... (tha
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by spijdar 6y ago
Which bugs? I wasn't under the impression that exploiting memory safety issues was the dominant type of bug to gain an advantage in multiplayer games, but usually logic errors or some kind of broken script, corner cases in nested contr
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by spijdar 6y ago
It can. Historically Konqueror used KHTML, however, the default has been changed to QTWebEngine, which is based on Blink i.e. Chromium. It also supports (supported?) rendering using WebKit, or, you can manually change back to KHTML. However
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yes, many. Every WebKitGTK based browser [1] will use JSC, so that includes the "GNOME Web" web browser, Midori, and a host of smaller niche browsers. [1] https://webkitgtk.org/
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by spijdar 6y ago
Even that may not be enough - the article mentions this, and points out that even the paid version of Disqus includes these trackers. Just like paid cable television still includes ads, I fear even paying for content won't alone bring
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by spijdar 6y ago
My (overly charitable?) interpretation is, "Is Checked C so painful to write that we'd be better off just using a better managed language" Of course, if it's feasible to refactor existing C code like in the paper, this s
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, it's the only reason I've thought about upgrading my polaris card up newer. In my case, I tried connecting both via thunderbolt on some skylake/coffeelake laptops and on power9. Neither Intel's TB3 controller nor p
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by spijdar 6y ago
Ah, that's fair. Still, assuming a lack of other sandboxing, running a keylogger is pretty trivial. It's not by default , as you put it, but an un-sandboxed application has enough access to your filesystem to perform tomfoolery a
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by spijdar 6y ago
Well, it's not all peaches and roses. See, the confusing miasma surrounding USB and its various overloaded capabilities. Or PCIe -- if you want to use ROCm on AMD GPUs, your PCIe complex needs to support "PCIe atomics", whi
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by spijdar 6y ago
Professional pentester here - Wayland alone doesn't really do much for you, security wise. It is still very possible for an application simply running under a wayland compositor to do lots of nasty things. The Wayland protocol provides
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by spijdar 6y ago
Okay, so I'm referring mainly to the typical "GNU/Linux" desktop/server OS vs embedded or "container Linux" which is where the majority of alternative libc use will happen. In either case though there is
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's not enforced, but I'd dare say by and large almost everything will just use glibc. I'd assume if you're playing with fire enough to be calling syscalls yourself, you can mitigate the bugs yourself. I don't thin
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm a sample size of one, but I often pick a permissive BSD/MIT license for the personal software I develop, and at times will pick BSD-licensed over GPL-licensed software. I prefer the brevity and clarity of the shorter licenses,
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by spijdar 6y ago
> explain to me why DisplayPort 2.0 provides up to 77Gbps of bandwidth? At the risk of being called a ludite or a peasant, may I suggest most people don't actually care that much about reaching the height of visual fidelity, at le
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by spijdar 6y ago
GP said after "5/10" years. AM4 was only launched in 2016, and is already "showing cracks" in support, where old motherboards will, in practice, not support new CPUs without juggling firmware. Obviously I can't
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think you and GP are conflating "repairability" with "upgradability". The only two components in a laptop that are essentially guaranteed to fail in a short-ish timeframe are flash storage and the batteries. As long as

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