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by vaxman 4y ago
"It then reads the initial block of the firmware (the Initial Boot Block, or IBB) into RAM (or, well, cache, as previously described) and parses it. There's a block that contains a public key - it hashes that key and verifies that
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by vaxman 4y ago
correcting myself: the warriors in the horse were the Achaeans, the Trojans were the ones who opened the gates to wheel the horse (they symbol of Troy) into their city. my solution to this conflict would be formation of a compulsory members
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by vaxman 4y ago
They buy this LibreBoot (blob-free CoreBoot, for the uninspired) …and then they go ahead and install Ubuntu on it?! No, no, actually they run IBM RHEL or its “free” variants! It’s all about unknown blobs (binary large objects) embedded in t
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by vaxman 4y ago
What OP is talkin’ about is “The Way” that Apple requires such devs to interface with its (not their) Business customers via its AppStore. Mac-only devs do have to cater to those customers whether they have them direct or resell thru MacApp
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by vaxman 4y ago
Will not help if you use Parallels. (Read the Privacy Policy of Parallels to see why.) Realtime connection info, logfiles and control arefeature of Murus, a frontend to the BSD pf that is included in macOS. This kind of tool really belongs
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by vaxman 4y ago
I hope those fired employees get to keep both kidneys. ByteDance just announced they are going all coreboot/linuxboot on their hyper scaler. That can’t be to keep the CCP out haha Time to sink all or their Navy ships at the same time —
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by vaxman 4y ago
This will be solved via combination of homeowner credit tightening and unemployment. Oh, and they are flooding the cities with unwashed immigrants and fentanyl which will make many nice areas undesirable, so the population will leave.
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by vaxman 4y ago
We can still infer dementia from the presence of excessive amyloid plaque even if removing the excessive amyloid plaque doesn’t resolve the dementia.
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by vaxman 4y ago
My “street smarts” tell me this is correct. Social isolation combined with filling their guts with someone’s industrial science experiment on a bun ..day in and day out for decades, McDonalds in the morning seems like it is often the last d
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by vaxman 4y ago
I hear you, but things will be different this time around. It would take me 20 minutes to explain, but gist is there is a HUGE diff between senior engineer and senior tech, there was no H1B phenom until 2001, almost no senior level engineer
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by vaxman 4y ago
The Linux guys will get there first and, in either case, it will help Apple sell more Macs --just don't do it without AppleCare+ and backups of yoh backups (non-Apple software is largely ignorant of Apple's sometimes obscure and m
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by vaxman 4y ago
Over one million creditors say “Nope.”
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by vaxman 4y ago
“Are you smoking crack?.” (This was the infamous “Enron Moment” when the question was asked of Ken Lay by a random employee at an all hands meeting where Lay was espousing optimism even as Enron’s collapse was imminent. https://w
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by vaxman 4y ago
They used to say “assets have legs in silicon valley” but not in Horizon World!
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by vaxman 4y ago
Yeah, fly ‘em all to a “small central EU country” which shall henceforth be known as LuxemValley. As a bonus, ‘errbody working in LuxemValley shall be known as the SiliconBourg and be issued a mug, backpack and Chemin de Fer paddle. :D Seri
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by vaxman 4y ago
Not Arizona, that place can’t even count its votes in a reasonable time frame and its water rights are questionable since its senator did a dirty deal to help Schumer and Manchin double cross the Republicans in exchange for enhancements to
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by vaxman 4y ago
Eben says to embrace the Pico and buy the rPi400 because it does not compete with orders from industrial customers (that spent bazillions on testing/certification of their rPi4/rPi3-derived products and therefore receive some prio
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by vaxman 4y ago
Getty Images already handled this issue with graphics. Most of their catalog was scraped early on by AI art generators. 'Errbody knows this because the Getty Images watermark appears in a lot of AI generated art. Getty Images, in turn,
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by vaxman 4y ago
"I just read it for the articles."
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by vaxman 4y ago
This. --would even go so far to say Atari ST was intentional knock off of Amiga 1000 styled after Commodore 64/128. Tramiel spent his life building Commodore BUSINESS Machines (after his family was killed by Nazis) only to have it take
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by vaxman 4y ago
RISC-V is NASA bad? “Launch aborted, whenever we access the pressurization control we’re getting an ‘ISA not implemented in this version of the core’ error from the controller that arrived overnight. They must have received the wrong versio
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by vaxman 4y ago
This is a Bad idea. Do you expect Apple has any consideration that things like this are happening inside the usermode processes when its System suspends and compresses or decompresses their memory of or throttles them by flinging them back
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by vaxman 4y ago
Oh do Tell.. #roflmao Seriously, this is not The Way. It was The Way, but hasn’t been for a long time (notice it was never included on iOS/iPadOS?)
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by vaxman 4y ago
How is this “hacker news”? I mean, maybe if it had some kind of slant (angle) to it like ”Bangalore will look like Santa Clara soon as a result of idiot workers refusing to return to the office, resulting high-wage unemployment sparks forec
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by vaxman 4y ago
Totally have this and most other period Popular Electronics and BYTE’s in mah collection..all paid for with my lawn mowing money. Like stacks of thoughts that got played and worn Used over and over till they were tired and torn
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by vaxman 4y ago
LiteFS, a tool for edge-case data loss, unintended service hangs and data corruption /s this kind of scheme was explored and naturally selected away in the pre-Internet networking era (whose applied knowledge was mostly lost and unavai
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by vaxman 4y ago
Number 2 article on HackerNews. I hate the Future sometimes.
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by vaxman 5y ago
Component failure due to thermal issues (in this case, not knowing the protocols or facilities for controlling the custom cooling features) don’t typically manifest overnight. My point is “novices beware” —but writing that would challenge s
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by vaxman 5y ago
If I had just dropped $2K-$12K on a media-centric computer with the intent of running encrypted backups, spreadsheets, databases and other inappropriate tasks for non-ECC memory (looking at you Leo), I’d downvote too!
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by vaxman 5y ago
I did some contract work for them in 80s and asked why they were letting Microsoft and Apple blow up the universe..the response (from senior, or should I say Sr. ) management was that they were waiting to see which one won and would then “

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