floatboth

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by floatboth 10mo ago
Qualcomm has several full time employees working on Mesa (Freedreno/Turnip). They probably must have access to some documentation now..
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by floatboth 10mo ago
Yes. It is on the mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001-av1_irisdecoder-v1-0-9f... It actually introduces new things into the UAPI because no one else did fully-stateful AV1 decode before.
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by floatboth 10mo ago
Which ones, where? On X1 laptops that shipped with Windows, you can only escape into EL2 via Secure Launch: https://github.com/TravMurav/slbounce
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by floatboth 10mo ago
Upstream would accept a patchset that exposed an independent Gunyah-specific UAPI (why not the same one as downstream — crosvm already supports that) instead of pretending to be KVM (it's not a "port", you can't port a
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by floatboth 10mo ago
X1E laptops have fully working DisplayPort+USB3+USB2+PD over USB-C unlike Asahi Macbooks :p There really aren't that many gaps in X1E laptop support left.
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by floatboth 10mo ago
EL2 is coming by default on Glymur (X2E) (yaaaay), can be enabled in config on some IoT platforms, and can be booted into via Secure Launch on previous compute platforms (Hamoa/Purwa aka X1E/X1P, SC8280XP), search for slbounce. On
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by floatboth 10mo ago
Mesa MR for a8xx is coming. It's just not done yet . But they have full time employees working on Mesa.
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by floatboth 3y ago
From a quick look, the patch doesn't seem to contain references to Metal, but just a lot of random updates—backports from upstream Wine to the CrossOver thing?—including an AMD ADL implementation that is clearly for Linux (using /
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by floatboth 3y ago
Thinkpad x13s is an okay option, but Qualcomm is IMO more cursed than Apple
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by floatboth 3y ago
Seeing "Sizzle" in that profile made me feel shocked. Uhhh Wikipedia actually still uses an ancient build of jQuery that does not take advantage of native querySelector at all?!?
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by floatboth 3y ago
> Did you know that technologies such as Intel Boot Guard that have existed for the better part of a decade defend well against such attacks that might seek to overwrite flash memory? It's rather funny to see Boot Guard as a "g
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by floatboth 3y ago
Wait so they… they have a hook in the mmap() equivalent that allows AV software to scan new pages mapped as executable? I see the reasoning but damn does that feel cursed.
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by floatboth 3y ago
Mostly laughing rather than offended :D
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by floatboth 4y ago
hi, author here!
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by floatboth 4y ago
And not giving website administrators the ability to GeoIP you.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Another really important aspect everyone is forgetting is the location privacy problem with being "naked" on a residential IP address. The best reason to relay your traffic through a provider like Mullvad is so that some random fo
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by floatboth 4y ago
?? It's entirely identical to the desktop version. Desktop is just an electron wrapper that adds fancy integration like rich presence and in-game overlays and whatever else.
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by floatboth 4y ago
> multifaceted approach is important here Valve is pretty good at this, and they don't even use kernel level anti-tampering as a facet. Trust factor, VACnet (machine learning) and overwatch (community demo review) add up to a system
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by floatboth 4y ago
All of those are "general purpose". That phrase doesn't mean "perfect official support for whatever alternative OS you like", it usually means something closer to "you are not forbidden from running your own co
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by floatboth 4y ago
You can, why would that be the case? MrChromebox currently publishes only RW_LEGACY firmware (not full ROM, only replacing the stock SeaBIOS) for AMD Picasso/Dali and Intel Tiger Lake devices, but a) that's enough to boot whatever
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by floatboth 4y ago
arm chromebooks usually run coreboot too; the utility of edk2 there would be questionable, as on none of them ACPI tables can cover all the HW, so u-boot would be good enough.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Put UEFI on the chromebook!! Argh don't write it off, chromebooks are the best x86 platform by far. MrChromebox provides pre-made coreboot+edk2 builds for a ton of chromebooks, but you can make your own too.
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by floatboth 4y ago
(err, tweet is https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1534825580801433600 )
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by floatboth 4y ago
> the M1 Ultra would surpass it by a wide margin Well, in which tasks? Comparing e.g. geekbench results for the M1 Ultra https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14664498 and a decent 5950X (PBO) result https:&#x2
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by floatboth 4y ago
> "finger following" touchpad desktop switching gestures Ha. I'm the author of the vswipe plugin, glad you like it :) > blur behind windows KDE is ahead of everyone in blur tbh, they've had client-controlled blur
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by floatboth 4y ago
No, not yet (not without jailbreak, at least). https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/ mentions that M1 iPads "already have Hypervisor support unlocked in the kernel" so they might be planning something for someday…
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by floatboth 4y ago
Well, realistically not all services will support WebAuthn… spending an hour to handle a dozen important ones doesn't sound like a big deal to me.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Just add more authenticators to every RP (site you auth into). From the point of view of an RP, "your account in the Apple ecosystem" here is the exact same thing as "one of your Yubikeys", basically.
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by floatboth 4y ago
As an RP, there is nothing Apple specific for you to do, just WebAuthn.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Yeah, since Apple's (and Google's) soft WebAuthn implementation is designed for syncing across devices, it should also work with many browsers on the same machine.

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