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by turblety 8y ago
Maybe it's because the phone's just running Linux. I believe [1] they have upstreamed a lot of their work into the kernel and Gnome so really as long as those projects keep going it should be fine. 1. https://puri.sm&#x
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by turblety 8y ago
Great work on this, it looks like a great project. Right up my street with open source. For me personally the price vs specs [1] just don't make this viable, considering you can get a Rockchip board for half [2] the price and with bett
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by turblety 8y ago
The work puri.sm are doing and the way they are doing it is just fantastic. I really hope they manage to get the phone out sometime this year. If they can make a project as big as this work, then it could really show the industry that you d
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by turblety 8y ago
I really wish Mozilla would work on making their Gecko engine (or whatever backend they use now) more usable to external developers. WebKit always seems very easy for developers to integrate into their apps. Whether you think it's a go
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by turblety 8y ago
Obviously this law and ones like it have no place in a modern, free society, but in regards to the risk with using business apps, it's just the same as before. You can not trust app's from companies incorporated in the five eyes [
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by turblety 8y ago
Obviously this law and ones like it have no place in a modern, free society, but in regards to the risk with using business apps, it's just the same as before. You can not trust app's from companies incorporated in the five eyes [
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by turblety 8y ago
Do hosting companies no longer give you the speed of a processing core? I couldn't find anywhere that explains how fast 1 of the ARM cores go? Is it 1ghz or 100mhz? Seems like that would be quite important. Seems like 1vCPU is a bit of
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by turblety 8y ago
I get the points of why people don't like REST, and especially the latency argument is quite true, however somewhat mitigated by http2. But I like that REST is quite easy for developers to reason about. I actually built a websockets li
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by turblety 8y ago
> dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com Nice little line of code there for fetching your IP address.
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by turblety 8y ago
Yeah definitely frustrating. It's always seemed more talk than reality for years. Here is one photo I found of a claimed wifi spy: https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/10...
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by turblety 8y ago
The github repo containing the code: https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-PoC#introduction
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Intel Management Engine JTAG flaw proof-of-concept published(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by turblety 8y ago|1 comments
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Apple forgot to lock Intel Management Engine in laptops, so get patching(theregister.co.uk)
12 points by turblety 8y ago|1 comments
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by turblety 8y ago
> Push notifications — All platforms now support Push Notifications via Standard or proprietary API except iOS. iOS has all the pieces in place but Apple has taken a stance that due to battery life issues they won’t support it. On Mac, A
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by turblety 8y ago
I think the specific part you're referring to is Intel AMT (Active Management Technology) which allows the user to remote control into their computer. AMT is a module that runs within the Intel ME operating system. Intel ME does a lot
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by turblety 8y ago
@dragonwriter Would UNIX make more sense?
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by turblety 8y ago
Also a lot of hackers/engineers have ethics that don't necessarily match that of government security agencies. I would happily work to protect my country from terrorism or foreign attacks, but not if it means sacrificing the freed
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by turblety 8y ago
I understand and agree with you to a certain extent, but we're not just talking about a couple of assembly commands that could be misused. The Intel ME is a FULL Operating System running MINIX Linux (edit: MINIX is not Linux, as correc
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by turblety 8y ago
Exactly. Remember Intel ME is a great utility and has some awesome abilities. The issue that people have is not the fact there is a CPU running another CPU that looks after the main one. It's that it's closed source and has remote
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by turblety 8y ago
Maybe we need this. Let's face it, within a day of this backdoor being released it will be leaked/hacked/exploited in some way, which will cause a national outcry that could go global. Maybe we need a test case to show the re
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by turblety 8y ago
It still does a lot of callbacks to Google. the solution here is definitely switch to Firefox, but if you're really stuck on Chrome you could try Ungoogled chrome [1]. [1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chrom
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by turblety 8y ago
Unfortunately it's not as easy to answer. Intel and AMD manufacture their own chips which means they can put their backdoors into all their products. However with ARM they license their IP and other companies make their chips. This mea
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by turblety 8y ago
What do you think of the HiFive Unleashed [1]. I don't have one but they have claimed [2] the entire boot process is free and open source? 1. https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/ 2. https:/
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by turblety 8y ago
I would say the server market could easily adapt to Arm, Power or RISC. However I would concede it's very difficult to replace the desktop/laptop workstation. However Chromebooks are making great strives on this. Yes, they are sti
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by turblety 8y ago
Finally? That ME thing should be nowhere near private and confidential data. There's constantly bugs being found in it [1][2]. Honestly if you are a large company, organisation, government, etc and you are using Intel or AMD products,
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by turblety 8y ago
I'm not sure nobody cares, there are a lot of people who do care and (like me) refuse to buy Intel products. I think the problem is there is no other competitor. Both Intel and AMD (or possibly a three letter agency) have colluded to e
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by turblety 8y ago
Notepad was probably the only remaining part of the operating system that didn't spy on it's users to send personal information back to Microsoft and it's advertisers. I'm sure that will now change with the latest update
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by turblety 8y ago
There's a site [1][2] that shows just how bad fingerprinting can get. You enter your name in private mode, close your browser then visit the site again and it has remembered you. It would be great to know exactly what percentage of vis
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by turblety 8y ago
But remember, with fiat, the government just prints money [1] whenever it likes and gives it directly to its banker friends. With bitcoin that’s impossible (well unless 51% of the minors agree) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by turblety 8y ago
> people are having to spend far too much of their income on it [rent], which is setting us up for all sorts of societal problems in the future. I wonder what the long term effects of this will be. When no one has any savings and no hous

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