temac

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by temac 3y ago
Depending on the definition of "dev", they can be the ones who define the requirements and API.
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by temac 3y ago
> In my perfect world floats don’t have inf, nan and base-2 exponent I'm quite unsure what do you want as floats then?
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by temac 3y ago
Why does it need to parse elf ?
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by temac 3y ago
DRAM init as little to do with UEFI or BIOS and Intel probably ships x86 components for more exotic or even allow custom bootloaders. At least at a time they did. I don't know the current situation but when I played with all of that, I
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by temac 3y ago
The design of UEFI also involves tons of non-essential complexity.
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by temac 3y ago
The DT is actually there to avoid recompiling the kernel for each specific device. But probably tons of vendor do not understand the purpose.
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by temac 3y ago
I'm not a huge fan of DT, but I've also reversed an UEFI bios once and I absolutely detest that hot pile of garbage. Obvious insane MS influence, with e.g. too many GUID everywhere for no reason. Overall astronaut architecture wit
68.
by temac 3y ago
People brag about a lot of things and windows compat is better than e.g. macOS but recent windows actually can't even run a good number of other MS software of the 95 era.
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by temac 3y ago
I fail to see what is particularly brillant about this kernel. Drivers are convoluted. IRQL is convoluted. The supposed distniction between "kernel" and executive has little definition and is convoluted (esp given it duplicates so
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by temac 3y ago
Virtually never in practice (they are corrected) if you use ECC. A server that doesn't is weird. TBH any computer that doesn't is weird but the industry seems to consider it normal to have random computational unreliability becaus
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by temac 3y ago
Linux provably got better because i've got a 200GB multi user machine where oom kills (on a stock debian 12) are largely uneventful.
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by temac 3y ago
The concept of Microsoft-y admins supposedly unable to work with other tools is insane. There is not much in common between let's say Windows and MS365. Even within MS365 the integration between various tools is often not seemless and
73.
by temac 3y ago
It's bitlocker but only activates if you log into a MS account in which case it: * silently activates * silently sends the key to MS. And this is the only way to have it on home.
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by temac 3y ago
That kind of unbounded massive privacy violation would result in million € fines (if not dozen or hundreds of millions) under GDPR law. And it was already not possible at scale in major European countries before GDPR. What permit it to happ
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by temac 3y ago
> > Google has been fined 4.125 billion euros because it forces computer manufacturers to install these programs by agreement. > People buy Android phones with the expectation of using the play store to install applications lol May
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by temac 3y ago
I'm not even sure what mobile means in this context. What happens when you plug your phone on a screen? What happens when you use a tablet?
77.
by temac 3y ago
> Still today, when I smell cat urine I instantly think of Motorola 68000 assembly. I did not expect to read that today. Or ever.
78.
by temac 3y ago
Another way to view things is that if code seems too low level, it is not abstracted correctly.
79.
by temac 3y ago
You are confusing the old Edge that had an engine forked from IE and that MS exclusively maintained, with the new Edge that is a fork of Chromium. Maybe that the old Edge was not of stellar quality was simply because the age of the codebase
80.
by temac 3y ago
If we are talking about Microsoft as a whole, then there is no “about face” unless they change their mind implied by their planned obsolescence decision about Windows 11 not even running on Zen 1 or Skylake for no real reason.
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by temac 3y ago
I'm not sure what would people expect for GDPR to apply in "full" in the workplace. (TBH I'm not even sure what would most people expect from GDPR, apart from being annoyed with cookie questions while browsing the web, b
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by temac 3y ago
Bullshit, CPU bugs have been found before wide usage of telemetry and will continue to be found in various context, number of them not doing it even if they could. Telemetry is probably just one more excuse to ship crap in the first place.
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by temac 3y ago
I'm not sure about how atomics having the performance of loads mean they will scale (and to be honest i doubt they could have the perf of loads on modern architecture, otherwise why would e.g. Intel not implement them to be faster - bu
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by temac 3y ago
Arithmetic compression uses whatever on the output. Of course you can retokenize weird input but you can usually do so for any algo if you can modify it. But UTF21 can not have a substantial advantage if you compress. It will usually be wor
85.
by temac 3y ago
The implication of a loss of a physical gadget, no matter the hype that exists around it, has low intrinsincal security severity. If the object could be otherwise used to have severe impacts, that would be another story.
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by temac 3y ago
Maybe there are osbcures cases where you would not use GPL licensed software for obscure reasons, but in general that seems very weird. Distributing it is another story.
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by temac 3y ago
While I agree in principle, reliance of big companies to critical projects while not helping them, and in tons of cases not even trying to help them, is not unheard of. And to be clear even in this case the maintainers are not entitled to a
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by temac 3y ago
The notion that this was a "security breach" is weird. Did it contain private keys to production apple servers?
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by temac 3y ago
I think that argument makes as much sense as saying that an engine is less useful than a car. And pretending that engine.weight should return the weight of the car.
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by temac 3y ago
Wsl2 is how you say. WSL1 is a Linux syscall reimplementation in the NT kernel space.

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