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by spijdar 6y ago
I can't speak for the group, but my guess is in practice they would dislike the Wayland ecosystem. A cursory google seems to show this too. A lot of their tooling and favored software works by being as minimal as possible while doing i
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by spijdar 6y ago
Another fun thing about box86 is it isn't specifically limited to ARM. Its JIT translator is ARM-specific, but it includes a pure emulator which will work on any CPU. There's additional work to be done for each port, but I got it
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by spijdar 6y ago
I found that article very interesting, and think describing the pushback as PR threats from conspiracy theorists oversimplifies just a bit. Aa mentioned in the article, it's very possible the vaccine triggers a rare, genetically associ
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by spijdar 6y ago
Most hardware vendors that implement this sort of functionality add prominent warnings to the lowest level boot screens notifying the user the device is "unlocked" or in "dev mode" or some such. The idea is that the abso
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by spijdar 6y ago
I agree -- I meant it in contrast with smartphones, where it's seen as totally normal to have no escape hatch to run your own software. Most "normal" people see that a coffeemaker putting "DRM" on your coffee is rid
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by spijdar 6y ago
I actually feel some sympathy for both positions here. On the one hand, it's such a "no brainer" to take such a light sentence for what is legally such a "serious crime". On the other hand, though, it feels ridiculo
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by spijdar 6y ago
Indeed, I've got a Blackbird board in a micro-ATX tower as my main bedroom computer. Got it a couple years back to replace the bulky secondhand rackmounts I'd been using as build hosts/hypervisors/fileservers etc. I appr
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm not sure if the reference was intentional, but there are (or, were?) coffeemakers that only work with manufacturer authorized coffee beans. Keurig infamously added a protection mechanism that required "special" coffee-p
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by spijdar 6y ago
Oh that's super interesting, I've never thought of that! I'd never really thought about what it'd take to bump the L1I/D caches over 32KB.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hence why GP said "after a fuse is blown". The implication is some sort of irreversible, hardware-based mechanism that would disable the security measures while making it abundantly clear that it had done so, so someone would know
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by spijdar 6y ago
A lot of software breaks when you're not running 4kb pages. I run a POWER9 desktop, and the default page size is 64kb. A lot of ... interesting problems manifest. Some filesystems like Btrfs and XFS (iirc) have elements that are page s
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by spijdar 6y ago
MAME notoriously aims for accuracy over all else. In this case, I think it's just MAME using slow but precise "cycle accurate" emulation techniques as opposed to QEMU, which uses TCG to translate guest to host, and takes a fe
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by spijdar 6y ago
Last I heard, this replacement program will only have support for Alpha, not VAX, and will expire after 1 year, meaning you have to get a whole new VM every year. Maybe they changed their minds on that, though.
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by spijdar 6y ago
From the page you linked, There has been considerable disagreement among historians and political scientists about the nature of fascism. [...] For these and other reasons, there is no universally accepted definition of fascism. I re
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'd define fascism as a method of government which enforces some specific morality/actions/market through force. By this definition it's entirely possible for two different brands of fascism to have two opposing goals, a
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by spijdar 6y ago
Lorem ipsum is words/phrases copied from one of Cicero's writings, "De finibus bonorum et malorum". It's not a straight copy, kind of like if you copied every other word in places, but it's definitely Latin. It
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by spijdar 6y ago
It provides for a open/royalty free system that is potentially performant. RISC-V alone provides little in terms of helping create better CPU implementations. An ARM core could probably be reworked into a RISC-V core and vice-versa -
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by spijdar 6y ago
You don't even need to bring Linux into the picture, necessarily. But whatever piece of proprietary software you run with DRM and obfuscation and licensing, you don't control. It's up to you to do a cost analysis and decide i
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by spijdar 6y ago
Not sure how many people are still stuck with flash, though I wouldn't be surprised. Either way, while it'll suck, maybe a lot, if there are businesses still selling/offering flash-based products, they need to change, immed
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by spijdar 6y ago
In case anyone reading doesn't realize, Vim can do keyword completions. It isn't automatic, but out of the box, you can press ctrl+n to move through a list of possible completions. Not as elegant as some IDEs I'm sure, but if
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. A lot of the code in the NT kernel running on XBox was written specifically for the console. The filesystem drivers, the TCP/IP stack, the HAL, and possibly other components were rewritten
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I'd say yes, albeit only if it's "available" and not something you could accidentally enable, or could be enabled through sabotage. Having an unencrypted device could make it easier to reverse-engineer, improving consume
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by spijdar 6y ago
You have to be pretty blatant and intentional to disable encryption, if you just coast through then FileVault will be enabled, at least as I understand. Another perspective is it's great Apple doesn't force encryption 100% of the
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by spijdar 6y ago
On basically anything that uses it. I'll give an example from the google feed on my phone, now. Some article on zdnet about RedHat discontinuing CentOS in favor of stream. If I open the AMP link [0] in Firefox and measure the bandwidth
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by spijdar 6y ago
For a contrasting anecdote, when I'm traveling abroad and sometimes get stuck with 20-50 kb/s transfer speeds, AMP is the difference between waiting an incessant amount of time and getting pretty instantaneous loading. On fast int
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by spijdar 6y ago
To add to this, zsh was present on NeXTSTEP (OS X's technological predecessor) in the early 90s, before bash was added. bash wasn't actually present in mac OS X 10.0 AFAIK, it was added later. So zsh has just outlasted it.
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by spijdar 6y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert or even that familiar with Tetris, but from what I know, this is kind of disingenuous. Yes, the USSR and its communist policies meant Pajitnov didn't own his work, and it probably contributed to his
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by spijdar 6y ago
Well yes, because it's fruit ninja that uses your camera and posenet to translate your movements into fruit-ninja-action. Hard to do that without camera access :^)
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by spijdar 6y ago
Rocky Linux is, I would say, emphatically not a Linux distro for the desktop. This is unrelated to your rhetorical question, but I think your exasperation at "yet another OS" is a bit undeserved here. This fills a specific need fo
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by spijdar 6y ago
Cylance is insanely sensitive. In my experience running internal penetration tests, it's been one of the few pieces of security software that's genuinely slowed me down and been a nuisance. That said, once you figure out its weak

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