balou23

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by balou23 1mo ago
LAHF and SAHF are an interesting rabbit hole themselves. If you ever dug into x86 assembler programming... at first they make no sense at all. They only save/restore a tiny part of the available flag registers. The mnemonics themselves
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by balou23 4mo ago
amazon.de, spiegel.de are down for me, too. heise.de works, but that might've been cached somewhere on my side.
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by balou23 5mo ago
It seems to have similar ideas, but two big differences seem to be that 1. it's based on git 2. more focus on a truly decentralized p2p architecture
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by balou23 6mo ago
Hats off to you for just saying "no" to optimizations. I'd have gone down an optimization rabbit hole, while never finishing the original project.
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by balou23 6mo ago
TBH I still don't really get how it's different from MIPS. As far as I can tell... Loongson seems to be really just MIPS, while LoongArch is MIPS with some extra instructions.
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by balou23 8mo ago
FreeBSD did some work to boot in 25ms. Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms...
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by balou23 8mo ago
At some point there were LCD monitors that had very noticeable to me chequerboard pattern - like with analogue TV, only half of the screen got lit up/refreshed, but with an alternating pattern rather than scan lines. After asking the
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by balou23 8mo ago
You'd better be, we have certain expectations from you now /s But more seriously... I don't think that Linux has ever been booted on a non-monolithic CPU (I wanted to say 'discrete cpu' first, but there's some
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by balou23 9mo ago
I'm by no means an expert, but I've recently implemented a small BLE based IoT device, and had a look at the security/privacy of a medical BLE device. Some points: * there's a real lack of quality, up-to-date documentati
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by balou23 9mo ago
In a similar vein: font with integrated story-telling LLM [1] [1] https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
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by balou23 9mo ago
I hear you. Coincidentally, if anyone knows how to figure out which Intel CPUs actually support 5-level paging / the CPUID flag known as la57, please tell me.
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by balou23 11mo ago
Ah memories... Nmap used to have a mode where you could portscan via a third-party FTP server. And it just so happened that HP Laserjet printers had an FTP server active by default that allowed PORT to any IP.
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by balou23 1y ago
Very low bandwidth situations, or when you want to apply the same steps to other files afterwards. But if you're totally comfortable with vim you'd better use ex, which basically is both an extension to ed, and the non-interactive
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by balou23 1y ago
There's plenty of options available. A coworker of mine used to print out code for reviews. You can use italic, bold and underline as alternative to colors. Grayscale might work nicely for eInk too - for laser printers just thin/r
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by balou23 1y ago
> (takes less memory than Miro, at least in Firefox :D) Ouch.
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by balou23 1y ago
Ah, memories. I broke the space key on my dads computer while trying to get a new speed skating record.
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by balou23 1y ago
Thanks for that explanation. I've been doing some low-level programming lately, and I'm getting interested on running stuff bare-metal. Every previous description of multitasking I've seen has been very hand-wavy.
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by balou23 2y ago
Someone else was mentioning Oklab color space, and I was wondering what the difference was to darktable UCS. TL;DR: Oklab is pretty simple, but is already pretty nice as a perceptually uniform color space. Darktable UCS takes Oklab and trie
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by balou23 2y ago
I'm not sure why they couldn't put that on the front page. Or at least on the front page of the documentation. As it stands now, the front page is pretty useless if you never heard of ghostty. It's a ghost in a terminal? And
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by balou23 2y ago
So from what I gather, this is the third time you want to be open and transparent with your sources?
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by balou23 2y ago
Why even request them in the first place?
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by balou23 2y ago
Hi Dave, nice project! I'd love to hear more about the low power design. You mentioned going for a MSP430 on here, and the high level architecture blogpost has some infos about the power domains too. But I'd love to see another bl
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by balou23 2y ago
This sounds like a job for a lithium thionyl chloride battery. The guys with the purple LiSoCl2 batteries make ones with up to 40 years of usable life
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by balou23 2y ago
Yes, absolutely impossible to read
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by balou23 2y ago
Further down the line... that chip has a plastic package. Plastic is hygroscopic, i.e. it will take up water. Even the minute amounts of water from the humidity in the air. This deforms the plastic, and adds additional strain to the IC. The
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by balou23 3y ago
Bruce Schneier recommends cigarette rolling papers > Burning is probably the best method of data destruction available, but think about the paper. Ungummed, rice cigarette papers seem ideally suited to this role. A colleague did some tes
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by balou23 3y ago
I think many smartcards, including SIMs, are still programmed in Java. Seems like it is the only standard of programming smartcards that was ever developed
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by balou23 3y ago
Someone said you couldn't put ../../../../etc/passwd here in hackernews due to cloudflare waf. Let's see...
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by balou23 3y ago
Already done back in 2019 with the recursive blueprint mod. 9x13 microfactory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzQge6pe2o
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by balou23 3y ago
You can download the root zone: https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone

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