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by suihkulokki 9y ago
Power9 servers appear already do this. They have minimal firmware to load the on-rom linux, which then uses userland application (petitboot) to figure out which installer media or already installed linux system you want to kexec() into: ht
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by suihkulokki 9y ago
I think the article is about price of producing electricity rather than the price on market... We've gone from the "Renewables are theoretically good but too expensive" to "Renewables are too cheap" stage surprising
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by suihkulokki 9y ago
The hikey and hikey960 devboards let you build your own code to run in the trustzone - eg the boot chain isn't signed and secure. The trustzone and uefi implemention these boards use is also fully open source.
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by suihkulokki 9y ago
Shim is signed with microsoft key, does it still require custom mode for booting?
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by suihkulokki 9y ago
This article seems to miss the fact ISIS took over Mosul international airport in 2014. Surely they got luggage screening machines in hand by then already.
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
I'd build an bioshpere 3 in Antarctica or deep sea rather than Everest. Build sustainable ecosystems on hostile places on Earth will help bootstrapping Mars. Colonising Mars is still an important goal for headlines (and funding), and
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
In 90's Finland took a steep dive in an index describing how technically advanced a country is. Turns out, amount of telephone booths per capita was in important part of the index. As the country was already transforming to mobile phon
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
Until recently, gas was just flared at oilrigs. It was waste not worth shipping. I remember flying past Persian gulf and looking down at sea been light by gas flares. Now the gas is put in use, it is still burned into co2. But now it create
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
U-boot already does support it: http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot I think what is wanted is chainloading u-boot from the blobless firmware.
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
I wouldn't mind a large percentage of end user applications coming directly from upstream developers them self. However, I hope it doesn't take away end users ability hack/tinker/modify/rebuild the application insta
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
Had I known the text would end up shared here, I'd surely spent more than 15min writing it! I'm hardly the most active contributor in Debian, but I guess that's part of how one can manage so long.
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by suihkulokki 10y ago
I just switched to a simpler theme, I didn't realize the one I had chosen was so dependant on javascript.