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by spijdar 4y ago
I think this depends a lot on your threat model. (specifically referring to phones/mobile devices) If you're at all concerned about being targeted, this is a very valid concern. On the other hand, I think using fingerprints/b
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by spijdar 4y ago
> what kind of investigation they can do, if the messages are end-to-end encrypted? When a user flags a conversation/user, it sends a number of historical messages with the report. End-to-end encryption doesn't prevent the end
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by spijdar 4y ago
Dang answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27110093
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by spijdar 4y ago
SPARCbooks were made by Tadpole, not Sun. In that same vein, I should dump the RDI boot logo on my sparcstation5-compatible PowerLite laptop. It was a pretty nifty stylized eclipse, sadly lost around the time the company merged with Tadpole
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by spijdar 4y ago
As an aside, I don't think even the early Atom processors were as terrible as their reputation branded them. I had an early Atom-based netbook, and it was totally acceptable... if running Linux (or XP). Kind of like the "Vista deb
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by spijdar 4y ago
To be clear, GP's stated intention was to simplify a complex structure into a "simple structure", about which the stated concern was a loss of performance, to which GP's rebuttal was it actually improved performance. T
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by spijdar 4y ago
In case you're curious, the differences basically stem from BSD and Solaris/POSIX having different command syntaxes, and GNU/Linux's ps command trying to implement both. `ps -ef` is the Solaris syntax, while `ps aux` is
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by spijdar 4y ago
> Every string is internally encoded in utf-8, all the string operations are Unicode-safe This seems very slightly disingenuous, if my memory is correct. I don't remember all the details, but I ran into an issue with a Tcl applica
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by spijdar 4y ago
Are there any recent examples of chip art like this? I'm not seeing anything from the 2000s or 2010s, and it's a little sad to think it died out.
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by spijdar 5y ago
This isn't a direct answer, but I think it'll help understand their relationship/how similar they're likely to be. All of the above are descendants of an OS that Berkeley released called "BSD". BSD only ran on
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by spijdar 5y ago
Something alluded to, but not really elaborated on, is what the motivation is for emulating progressively newer CPUs, versus virtualizing them. With old hardware, the sort I imagine 86Box is mainly used to emulate (it's how I use it,
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by spijdar 5y ago
> without ever being told one is smaller than the other and without being able to visualize both? As opposed to never having seen or been told about a tennis ball or a keyhole, and expected to know which is smaller? The idea of aphantasi
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by spijdar 5y ago
Ah, interesting, I didn't know they'd built an alternative shell around wlroots, I'd only tried it back when it was a bunch of shell scripts around dwm. If the GPU and window server are still okay, you might get away with for
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by spijdar 5y ago
In this case, what's happening (based on what GP says, not personal experience) is the window server (phosh as a wayland compositor or Xorg in sxmo's case) is crashing, possibly (probably?) due to a crash in the Mali driver or som
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, for a period of time in "middle english", it was spelled "whos". Ultimately derived from the genitive singular form of Old English hwa, "hwaes". In OE the -es suffix marked the genitive case in strong mas
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's worth pointing out some songs intentionally don't have "authoritative lyrics", and some musicians leave the lyrics open to interpretation, or mix in phonetic gibberish intended to sound like words but with no clear
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by spijdar 5y ago
Oh, definitely. I'm just wondering how many Mac people would want to run said software on new hardware, as opposed to using their old hardware. Of course, using old hardware has plenty of disadvantages (the increasing scarcity over tim
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, 3 actually, you missed the 68000 architecture. I'm not sure it really matters, in the end. How often would people want to run PowerPC-era Mac software on modern hardware natively if they could? The HN audience will include a disp
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by spijdar 5y ago
Linux has a stable "userland ABI" only so far as the kernel interface stays (with very few exceptions) stable. This means, as you've said, you can run old applications, as long as you have entire copies of the rest of the use
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by spijdar 5y ago
I believe GP was referring to the fact Steam itself is 32-bit only, with the singular exception of MacOS (last I checked, if this has recently changed, I apologize). So even if your game is 64-bit, you still need 32-bit libraries and OS sup
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by spijdar 5y ago
Firefox on iOS uses WebKit for showing web content, it doesn't use Gecko or any other components you'd think of as "Firefox". It does have some Mozilla added plugins and syncs with Firefox logins, but the meat of the ap
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by spijdar 5y ago
> I wouldn't be so sure, as mature and reliable codebases use the hackish unhygienic preprocessor macros every day :-) Isn't it funny how the most mature software (and often by extension, "reliable" e.g. have been in
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, the chapter prior to that one describes humans living for hundreds of years, so I don't think someone living past 120 will really introduce any more theological problems.
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure (I haven't played with modems much), but I do know that doing a clean wipe of the eMMC or an SD card is way easier than a clean wipe of your modem. It's also a fair bit harder to check for anomalous acti
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by spijdar 5y ago
You and everyone else can own your modem. I'd rather someone not be able to install an undetectable rootkit on my phone with nothing more than an AT command...
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by spijdar 5y ago
No, it's offloading the code onto the processor on the NIC (which usually have several general purpose CPU cores). According to Wikipedia [0] it's not widely supported in hardware, but a few companies like Intel are "working
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm curious how you'd come to that last conclusion from that article, as the historical Greek languages/dialects have the noun and verb forms therein (except for the ablative case, which fell into disuse by the classical peri
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by spijdar 5y ago
At least in the case of gaming, I think (some) people actually enjoy this aspect. It's a waste in a lot of systems, but in an "art", I think it can elevate the experience, at least for certain games and genres. An interesting
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by spijdar 5y ago
I don't think hardware is the limiting factor -- OS/400 runs on a pretty standard RISC platform, same POWER chips that run AIX and Linux. Has some special tagged memory extensions, but nothing too radical, and not a hard requireme
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by spijdar 5y ago
They are absolutely corrupt -- intentionally corrupt, but the intention was to break the software in retaliation. Drilling holes in your boat to sink it means yes, it is sinking "as intended", but it's still an act of sabotag

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