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by xenadu02 6y ago
WMF seems to have been colonized by the professional "nonprofit" crowd. They continue to burn ever more money and beg for more and more (rather than building an endowment). In my opinion they're headed for collapse and I&#x27
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by xenadu02 6y ago
There is no bright line between passively hosting content (in which case your site will become a magnet for spam and trolls) and "curating" content. Repealing Section 230 means making a pro-trump discussion forum would open you up
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by xenadu02 6y ago
> This law was intended to allow sites to delete abusive or illegal content without being sued. That's not true at all. The law was created because lots of sites big and small were being dragged into lawsuits over comments or posts
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by xenadu02 6y ago
A lot of immigration law seems built around the idea that workers are interchangeable cogs. I see a lot of arguments in the comments here that seem based on the same assumption. At top tier software shops (that pay US and immigrant employee
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by xenadu02 6y ago
The easy path on M1 would have been to lock everything down. Use the same iBoot phones use, the same kernel configuration, and call it a day. It takes a lot of engineering work to make more permissive security modes work. To re-architect bo
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by xenadu02 6y ago
If you've never done this sort of thing before: there's a huge market for these "external consultants". Their unstated job (and reputations) are as whitewashing firms. You hire them to ensure there is "no evidence&q
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Hilarious... the M1 isn't innovative because AMD might ship a half-competitive chip in six months of nothing slips (and ignoring base vs turbo power consumption). Truly the goal posts are always moving.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
I seem to recall a wide variety of people objected to the patent clause during discussions on the GPLv3. Quite a few companies won't touch GPLv3 software which is unfortunate because it was gaining a lot of momentum at the time.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
That's not correct. If you could accelerate to a significant fraction of c then you can traverse the Milky Way well within a human lifetime from your point of view. Hundreds of thousands of years will pass on earth and your destination
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by xenadu02 6y ago
On recent Apple Silicon CPUs uncontended most atomic operations are essentially free - almost identical in speed to the non-atomic version of the same operation. Reference counting must be atomic safe whether using ARC or MRR. On x86 system
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Apple Silicon supports local signing of whatever boot blob you like from in the recovery environment (in Permissive Security mode). This ensures the system boots the bits you yourself approved without applying any other requirements. The ot
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by xenadu02 6y ago
> I suspect that newspaper cartoonists who knew that 1/3 of their strip might get lopped off, or the panels reshuffled, from paper to paper may have a more inherent understanding of the work itself as being modular. This was somethi
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Apple's linker will automatically adhoc sign binaries on AS systems so it shouldn't require any work for most people. Anything run from the Xcode UI (or Terminal if you use "spctl developer-mode enable-terminal" to show
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Stickiness of architecture is a change from how Rosetta worked in the PowerPC to Intel transition: in macOS Big Sur child processes will prefer the arch of the parent process if one is available to maximize compatibility. So for example lau
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by xenadu02 6y ago
My apologies, I did reply to the wrong comment!
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by xenadu02 6y ago
> Going on internet comments So instead of going on evidence and public statements by Apple executives - statements that have repeatedly said the Mac is the Mac - you choose to believe random internet comments? There is a delicate balanc
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by xenadu02 6y ago
From recovery OS you can personalize any blob. The local SEP will sign it for you and iBoot will happily load and jump to it. That blob may be a Darwin kernel or it may be something else.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
LOL, I should have known someone would try to "well akshually" me. The BSA/SBS is relatively new as far as I'm aware. The server version was released in 2014, the same year as the iPhone 6 which was already using Apple S
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Automatic translation of a hypervisor, guest kernel, and guest userspace is a far different level of difficulty than translating a userspace application. Saying "didn't want to support" implies that one can "just" r
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Just like the original Rosetta it does indeed cache translations as well as support JIT and other forms of dynamic translation.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Bulletproof is difficult to achieve thanks to hardware failures. Additionally there is a wide range of older hardware out there that may not have been engineered with the necessary support (eg enough space to hold two copies of the firmware
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Apple apps bypassing NEFilterDataProvider on macOS is a bug.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
This was a bug exacerbated by a server-side misconfiguration. GateKeeper notarization checks already "fail open" by allowing the launch if something goes wrong. Unfortunately a bug in certificate revocation checks caused excessive
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by xenadu02 6y ago
This is a bug. The intent is that if the malware check takes too long the system fails "open" and allows the launch. That obviously didn't work correctly in this case.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Where are you people getting this from? This is not accurate. You can in fact downgrade security from recovery OS. ARM doesn't have a generic platform like PC but I'm sure someone will figure out how the device tree works if they
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Your comment is not accurate.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
I'm not shilling. Most of the other printer manufacturers have followed the HP model to create much worse products. It's a cesspool. Brother is one of the few left standing that hasn't taken that road and I think they should
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by xenadu02 6y ago
From one engineer to another: I'm sorry you keep having to deal with people who haven't spent a single minute working on this problem second-guessing your work. I get the same thing regularly and it can be very frustrating. As you
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Hunter Biden wasn't running for president. He's an adult responsible for his own choices. If he were trying to profit off his father he'd hardly be the first child to attempt to do so - that probably applies to a third of con
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by xenadu02 6y ago
How would you obfuscate anything? The blockchain tracks every transaction. Not only can that money be traced forever the feds can claw it back from anyone who received it if they wanted to do that. Or follow it to the exit points if the own

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