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by temac 7y ago
Hum, you can as well reach perfect security by keeping your computer powered off.
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by temac 7y ago
> Looks like AMD is the way to go for desktop Linux boxes going forward. Problem is: desktop Linux has an irrelevant market share, and the trivial workaround (use intel IGP or go buy and AMD graphics card) do not work when you don't
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by temac 7y ago
Well, the finite nature of the world makes its population stabilization likely.
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by temac 7y ago
> On one hand, requiring every CPU to implement strong memory-order guarantees is one of the things holding back frequencies and concurrency levels. Are you sure about that? Moderns x86 CPU are fast, can have a lot of cores, and actually
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by temac 7y ago
Ironically, it triggers on blog.mozilla.org :/
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by temac 7y ago
I question that kind of opinion talk, which boils down to (often implicitly) debating the definition of words in a boring way and/or trying to attribute meaningless merits and demerits to whole arbitrary idealized "class" of
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by temac 7y ago
It depends. We now have this little thing called the Internet, and you can quickly learn a ton of things on it. Even if you just learn a few points and without all the details, that's still better than nothing and at least a starting
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by temac 7y ago
Calling Core duo a Pentium III core, esp. when talking about microarchs, is a slight misrepresentation. Of course it was way closer and more of a derivative of the PPro descendants. But P6 did not vary a lot between PPro and P III, while be
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by temac 7y ago
Maybe we should start to seriously question the value of so long embargos. This is coordinated disclosure; if the vendor refuses reasonable coordination (and it seems Intel does, with such delays, and also because it stills silos the se
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by temac 7y ago
Fascinating to see the amount of uncoordinated (with RHEL) effort going into that, despite Red Hat now basically owning CentOS and employing the main devs.
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by temac 7y ago
Windows starts to have something but it is only available in last versions of Windows 10, probably not enabled by default, and the model might not be exactly what is needed anyway. I don't even remember what it is supposed to protect a
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by temac 7y ago
The checker just has to have roots tracing to timestamping CAs. I really don't understand why Mozilla designed their system like they did. Code signing is well known and probably even done for the Windows installer of Firefox, why did
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by temac 7y ago
It is always crazy to read those layoff stories with people let go overnight for no reason and escorted out of building by security. Must be hard to work knowing that can happen.
764.
by temac 7y ago
There are similar provisions in GPLv2.
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by temac 7y ago
Dynamic linking on Unixes works fine and achieves what it tries to do: build a single program with pretty much no difference with what it would have been with static linking, with no non-portable extra annotation needed at source level. The
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by temac 7y ago
That is specifically allowed by the GNU GPL. See "System Libraries" and adjacent paragraphs.
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by temac 7y ago
The Linux kernel will be isolated by an hypervisor.
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by temac 7y ago
Also interestingly, the NT kernel is not backward compatible at syscall level. MS even had to invent quite convoluted stuff to run kind of other versions of Windows (but not really...) in their containers, and part of the tech (picoprocesse
769.
by temac 7y ago
Can you try to completely omit some rendering if the buffer gets too large? I think this is a very common optim in the X terminal space. I'm asking because 10x sounds great, but in my memories the Windows terminal was so slow to ouput
770.
by temac 7y ago
Not sure about that, except if their phrasing is astonishingly poor, which is of course possible. I mean, in my book "Linux 4.19 kernel shipping in Windows" means a Linux kernel shipping in Windows, and that would need Hyper-V (Li
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by temac 7y ago
They probably just want to take advantage of old laws and/or not precise enough that allows them to search everything (according to their interpretation, including virtual things) on anybody -- without even any probable cause. Most gov
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by temac 7y ago
> low-mid tens microseconds From a modern CPU point of view, that's an eternity.
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by temac 7y ago
The PS/2 was not successful not because of technicalities but because IBM did not want it to be cloned. Third parties decided what the PC should be (mostly continue to be, there was less differences between cloners and the original P
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by temac 7y ago
It's more like a brand vs an idea. The word "Agile" was used (like that, capitalized) mostly as a way to designate adherence to a procedural cult (e.g. the Scrum cult) and usage of specific words looking like newspeak (Sprint
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by temac 7y ago
That sounds like a line by someone who has never seen the disaster that some incompetent people can do. Design is not necessarily something done by a kind of mythical "architect" (whatever that means...); instead, a good programme
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by temac 8y ago
Wayland, in practice , couple too much the "compositor" with the driver stack, and the desktop/wm with the "compositor", and THEN the desktop/compositor/wm with applications (e.g. Firefox menus working or
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by temac 8y ago
ssh -X works well (enough) when you need a GUI.
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by temac 8y ago
I use ssh -X all the time.
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by temac 8y ago
I use ssh -X all the time.
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by temac 8y ago
That's mostly true but not absolutely so. Windows kernel space needs signed-code in 64-bits (except in a configuration only suitable for testing during dev), and MS very much makes use of internal undocumented and changing API to imp

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