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by trelane 3y ago
> if you choose to enroll your own signing key. Can you also re-sign the firmware and hardware checks as well? Last I knew you could not. Of course, you can't dual boot anymore. https://community.frame.work/t/so
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by trelane 3y ago
> who gets to decide the criteria for trust Good point. Both are important: who does the trusting and how they define trust. The latter is the second set of concerns: remote attestation. I recall reading someone on Twitter mentioning hav
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by trelane 3y ago
> SecureBoot makes sure that the firmware your computer boots to begin the boot process is signed by a trusted authority. The passive voice in "trusted authority" is pretty much the source of discontent in "SecureBoot.&quo
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GDB 14.1 Released(lwn.net)
4 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
> Microsoft was going to use the TPM to prevent you from installing Linux? Did that happen? Yes, but on ARM. https://openrt.gitbook.io/open-surfacert/common/boot-sequenc... https://openrt.gitbook.io&
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Rejected Rejection [2006](particle.physics.ucdavis.edu)
2 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
> It’s even FSF approved. Not quite. The FSF says it's GPL compatible, but they do not recommend it: > This is a lax permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL. > We do not recommend this licens
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by trelane 3y ago
Even more than that. From the article: "They located the source of the noise as a dislodged window pane aft of the over wing exit." The engines are under the wing; the affected seals were over it. If you're melting the window
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by trelane 3y ago
What you're describing is "system integration." It's a whole thing . What's more, it's a thing that already exists in the Linux world There are companies that buy and build hardware that supports Linux, and
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by trelane 3y ago
> just works without any tinkering Yes. It's amazing how much better Linux runs when the hardware vendor actually supports Linux. It also helps that the Steam Deck has a narrower Mission than a desktop computer.
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The Surprisingly Bloody History of the Barber Pole(snopes.com)
1 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
> Those random linux annoyances you need the terminal for? Generally, if you want hardware that you don't have to fight, the only option is to buy computers with Linux preinstalled, with support. Modern computers are sufficiently co
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by trelane 3y ago
> seems like a strategic goal to capture our data. Sure is good they're not an ad company then. /s
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by trelane 3y ago
Which is why it's good that's it's GPL. Compare to, e.g. Chrome.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Give Microsoft money and receive Teams for free? Yes. As opposed to giving Microsoft the same money and then also giving Slack some money too.
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by trelane 3y ago
You may find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devicetree It discusses this, alongside an interesting history of it, and the current state.
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by trelane 3y ago
It's not a perfect parallel. For instance, the tooling used to create HTML isn't almost universally provided by one vendor (Microsoft), and then run by the same vendor (still Microsoft.) It's also not like the CEO of that com
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by trelane 3y ago
Lots of things are available in a specification. HTML, for instance. Just being an open specification is insufficient when there's a superdominant implementation. At that point, that implementation is the specification. In HTML, it w
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A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops(blogs.gnome.org)
10 points by trelane 3y ago|2 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
Now someone needs to organize an edition with a large, stainless steel pan. I'm sure they can source the rock locally. Alternatively, they could bring a shovel and work harder. Extra bonus points if they eventually also bring a stainle
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The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful(thonyc.wordpress.com)
1 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
Or two stars in Ursa major. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18929764/
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by trelane 3y ago
I am pretty sure they were responding to the "lack of trust" point raised by the parent, not the crime itself. Their point was that they aren't worried / don't lose trust in the bank if it gets robbed. Rather, the m
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by trelane 3y ago
I'm sure they just want to give Nvidia a fighting chance in the AI space, since Nvidia is so far behind.
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by trelane 3y ago
As you pointed out, there's generally not taxes for art. There are taxes, and the money the government takes from you could be used for art. There's no guarantee.
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by trelane 3y ago
There are, they just require a bachelor's first.
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by trelane 3y ago
Wait, there are people that don't just get it from their distro?!
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by trelane 3y ago
> People who bring up that taxes are collected “by force” are invariably libertarian types that feel any cent that goes to the government is a great injustice, and it’s generally difficult to have any conversation but that when this is t
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by trelane 3y ago
A Brave New World springs to mind.
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What Happened at the Hearing for New Hampshire's Free Software Law?(yro.slashdot.org)
2 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments

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