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by spijdar 6y ago
As someone who primarily uses vim, I've never been able to use its mouse mode. There's something that feels off about it -- when selecting text with the mouse, it feels very imprecise somehow. If someone wanted good mouse support,
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by spijdar 6y ago
Mozilla most definitely has exclusive ownership of their property. Ask the people who've tried to repackage Firefox without fully stripping the branding, and get prodded by Mozilla's lawyers. Here it's a case of semantics, wh
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by spijdar 6y ago
Emotionally, I actually agree with this. I'd love for at least a basic understanding of computers down to boolean logic and the very basics of semiconductors up to the OS level and beyond to be "widely known" by programmers
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by spijdar 6y ago
While CentOS users might not represent that many IBM/RH customers, I suspect CentOS's availability has contributed to RHEL being so widely supported. If fewer people, even people who will never pay, use CentOS, then (potentially)
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by spijdar 6y ago
That's fair. I didn't mean to imply things are exploding, though I guess it sounds like I did. It just sounds like even doctors expected flu to be almost non-existent, but instead it seems ... oddly normal.
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by spijdar 6y ago
I can't speak to a wide area, but where I live in the US, the flu is definitely not dead. Despite wearing a mask, keeping socially distance and basically not traveling except when essential, I caught type B of the flu, and my doctors
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by spijdar 6y ago
As a fellow young millennial doing red team security stuff professionally, XP is different from the others for a few reasons. The first is that XP has a tendency to, by default, open a lot of forward facing holes and services that to my kno
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think another aspect of heavy > light is it's (perceived) as a gauge of how much "stuff" is in a product. If I picked up some very light electronic, I may suspect that it's simply not very dense, and it was made big
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's not recent, but there are some pages with "older" open-source attention like http://www.nleymann.de/appleAUX/AppleAUXMain.htm I suspect that, like other pre-SysVR4/Solaris-y unixes, compiling a
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think "RISC" was, for a stretch of time, "superior", but it was always in very expensive and very niche workstations and servers. x86 was itself a kind of underdog in that space, losing out in sheer performance and ban
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's interesting to think about, that the two ways to prevent the misuse of your data would either be total privacy or total transparency. I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's ironically pretty straightforward to install Firefox on most chromebooks, through the Debian container/VM, with opengl + audio passthrough.
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by spijdar 6y ago
I suspect that will be the next problem. By basically disenfranchising conspiracists they will (and in some cases have) formed their own platforms. Maybe it will be a net good to separate out the hardcore conspiracy types, but given how rel
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by spijdar 6y ago
CentOS releases were supported for something like 8 years, while Fedora releases a new OS every ~6 months. It does support up to 2 older versions with updates, but that means potentially breaking major upgrades every 6-18 months, compared t
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by spijdar 6y ago
^H is the ASCII control character for "backspace". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character
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by spijdar 6y ago
Because of its use of a compressed backing store, requiring decompression before launch (IIRC).
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by spijdar 6y ago
Okay I'll concede the point :P I guess I'm just thinking it looks "good enough" for a particular usecase, running NetNTLMv2 through my usual rule/wordlists on pentests. Intel's IGPs have been good enough to do
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by spijdar 6y ago
Those are desktop GPUs though, with (I'm guessing) an order of magnitude more power to deal with. Looking at someone testing laptop GPUs specifically ( https://github.com/analsec/hashcatbenchmark ), it looks like it
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by spijdar 6y ago
You're comparing the SIMD capabilities of the M1's CPU to its competitors, when modern hashcat has long been 100% OpenCL/CUDA and primarily run on GPUs. As Apple still implements OpenCL even on the M1's GPU, it's po
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by spijdar 6y ago
I can't vouch for the authenticity of this data, but a Google search shows someone allegedly benchmarking a macbook pro: https://v2ex.com/t/729284 By comparison with, say, my GTX 1060 (6GB), it appears to be aroun
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by spijdar 6y ago
Sometimes there are other things to squeeze in a bag besides a laptop. I guess you adapt to whatever you've got, but at this point I'm spoilt by being able to easily slide my thin laptops in and out of my backpack. Makes going thr
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by spijdar 6y ago
Several current Dell Precisions like the 7740 at least have the trackpoint nubs still. Almost all of the HP EliteBooks do as well -- the exceptions in both lines are the "thin and light" workstations. To your point, it looks like
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by spijdar 6y ago
Many do, just not the white-label manufacturers like Clevo that actually make these boutique Linux laptop brand designs. They're called different names, but same concept. HP has "PointStick", Dell has "TrackStick",
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by spijdar 6y ago
I don't have an rpi4 to test, but NetBSD should run fine on them. Now you can just use generic Aarch64 UEFI images, since the pi 4 has a standards compliant UEFI/ACPI stack aka is "ServerReady"[0], and NetBSD 9 and above
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by spijdar 6y ago
On some archs (like POWER), backwards compat with legacy applications is a motivator. Here, well, I suspect the real primary motivation is "cuz we can!/it's cool!" and the novelty of doing it. On POWER8/9 where we
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hypothetically, with these new memory architectures, you could get the best of both worlds. Best case, you get a huge speed up if everything fits in the high-speed RAM, worst case, you fall back to the "old" RAM. Side note, while
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by spijdar 6y ago
Architectural analysis of the chip [0] suggests it is a massive improvement as a general purpose CPU, not just because of Apple's vertical integration and streamlining. The magnitude of extra ROB entries, having an 8x wide instruction
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by spijdar 6y ago
Still implemented up to POWER9 as well, due to problem-state backwards compatibility by two generations I presume.
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm more excited by the related, but even more difficult, running ARM MacOS on ARM QEMU. Being able to virtualize MacOS on other ARM devices will be nice.
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by spijdar 6y ago
To add to this: The POWER7 through POWER9 processors from IBM implement an equivalent to this called "SAO", or "Strong Access Ordering Mode". To quote an IBM engineer: > Currently, power has a weaker memory model

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