wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Let’s be honest: security in IT is just like security in the physical world. No, it is completely different: In the internet - the culprit can be anywhere in the world - the computer/network, where the attack comes from is usually
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I guess that is why Ouya, GP32, GP2 are such a big market success. The Pandora > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console) was at least in Germany, where the main developer Michael Mrozek lives, somewhat
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Now, a little older, the prospect of fines that will take a lifetime to repay and/or prison is way more deterring. As a kid, you just never think about it. I believe one does think about that, but concludes that the risk to get
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's also your choice to not write your own gaming console that is DRM-free. What's stopping you? Slightly OT: Michael Mrozek (EvilDragon1717) indeed attempts to create a handheld gaming console that is as free as commerciall
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Have you considered looking into white hat hacking? In my observation, this is a branch of industry that is very hard to get into. > You could essentially be paid by companies to hack their own product entirely legally for the purpo
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm inclined to agree that people who commit "crimes of skill" are better able to repay their debt to society by using their ability for good rather than rot in a cage. I agree with the mind of this statement. The proble
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I wasn't doing any real harm. If you really were not doing any real harm (where I believe you), why didn't you become an activist to abolish/change the laws on which you were cease and desisted?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> yeah, but no one could run memtest in a young laptop. Would you explain this a little bit more?
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Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far(wired.com)
515 points by wolfgke 8y ago|173 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Sure, I bet Afghanis sit around at night reminiscing of the good old days under the taliban... Who were strongly financially supported (and thus in some sense "enthroned") by the CIA: > https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> "If someone's freethinking, they'll think exactly like me" I claim that my point nevertheless stands. I was explicitly talking about "hacker spirit". If you read up on the hacker ethics > https:/&
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> but at the end of the day that liberty is protected by the US military. I think the citizens in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. are quite happy that their liberty is protected. :-(
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you've taught kindergarten or middle school, you've probably helped raise a soldier. I believe that on HN you perhaps talk to the wrong audience for this argument. If the teacher really had the "hacker spirit" in
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Support doesn't scale. If you cannot (or don't want to) scale support, create the policies from beginning in a way that hardly needs any support. Just like you plan your database from beginning how it is supposed to scale.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Fair enough, there's a bunch of fully open source computers that let you really build things from the ground up Concerning your linked example: if I look at the specs at > https://www.olimex.com/Products/OL
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Update: Indeed it is possible to use LOADALL to switch from protected mode to real mode: > http://www.os2museum.com/wp/loadall-strikes-again/ Article found via https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.co
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Additionally, in case of two technologies (JQuery and Tensorflow) the variables regarding data from SO were pointed out as potential results of variables from Hacker News. The idea of Hacker News influencing popularity of technology o
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> On a 286 you do not have access to real mode when in protected mode. You need a 386 for that. I think that you are mistaken: I am rather sure that the undocumented LOADALL instruction could make something like that possible: > http
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Name me a usage scenario, that AVX-512 is applicable to speed up in 80% of the market. I cant even think of one. The problem with this kind of statement is that many people by their PC/laptop just for surfing and office applicatio
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> But it's difficult to practically use AVX-512 when the turbo boost throttling prohibits breaking even with an equivalent AVX/AVX2 workload. This was also a problem with the first AVX implementations, so this is very typical:
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> AVX-512 itself isn't really an innovation. It's just making vector units bigger again. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264520
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> how is AVX-512 innovative when it's essentially SSE with 4x bigger registers? am i missing something? It is much more: Just to give examples: - The introduction of the opmask registers to mask many AVX-512 instructions - AVX-512 C
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I am also curious why would 4FMPAS be useful for Deep Learning when all the major performance improvements lately come from half 16-bit/quarter 8-bit-precision floating/fixed point math (you don't need precise boundaries
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I thought intel, after a decade of market domination, was sitting on piles of options and brains. But AMD made them drown (on the PR side) way faster than I expected. The only thing they had was Premium 10cores models. No innovative de
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Rather: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Visitor.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
But in the 90s laptops were insanely expensive. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Just as an example, over at apple.com, the new iMac comes with 32GB of DDR4 2666MHz ECC RAM. To add 32GB (64GB total) they are charging 960€, or 2,880€ to add 96GB (128GB total). Specifically Apple is well-known for their expensive pri
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The trend around me is to see the shops that used to sell PC parts closing down Couldn't this be simply explained by the hypothesis that people simply buy their PC parts mostly in the internet instead of a brick and mortar shop?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
At least on Windows, the OpenGL implementation is part of the graphics driver. Why? Because by default Windows only has between rudimentary (at least up to Vista, I think; I am not sure about Windows 7 and 8.1) and no (Windows 10) OpenGL su
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Custom built PCs are a niche. The vast majority of people just want to buy a box that works. That is why I wrote "(or often rather: let a good friend build one)." :-) Seriously: In my opinion (but others might disagree) an ad

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