kogepathic

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by kogepathic 5mo ago
> Did they ever fix PCIe over thunderbolt security? It seems to depend on whether you're on a desktop or mobile device. [1] > macOS 13 Ventura was released in 2022 and for portable Macs with Apple CPUs Apple introduced a featur
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by kogepathic 6mo ago
> That sounds like what Software Freedom Conservancy would call a GPL violation Sure, it is. So what? Have you got 200k for lawyers and years of your life to spend in court fighting over it? I have personally contacted the SFC with amp
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by kogepathic 6mo ago
> AFAIK you could, today, with no legal changes, have a vendor release 100% of the code under eg. a MIT license while also making the device refuse to run firmware not signed with their keys. This is already the case today with many e
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by kogepathic 8mo ago
> Forcing the release of signing keys would be a security disaster. The first person to grab the expired domain for the auto update server for a IoT device now gets a free botnet. Have you seen the state of embedded device security? It
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by kogepathic 8mo ago
This is very much not an option on most embedded devices. They allow one key to be burned once. IIRC, a certain Marvell SoC datasheet says multiple key slots are supported, but the boot ROM only supports reading the first entry (so really,
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by kogepathic 8mo ago
> What I am asking for: publish a basic GitHub repo with the hardware specs and connection protocols. Let the community build their own apps on top of it. This concept works fine for the author's example of a kitchen scale, but fa
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by kogepathic 9mo ago
> She would see 'sign up now for 20% off!' and smile! like it positively hit her like she just won the lottery If you intend to purchase an item from the merchant anyway, why would you pass on 20% off? I sign up for newslette
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by kogepathic 10mo ago
Hard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014. Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding round [3] and then decided the Asian LLC handling the crowd
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by kogepathic 10mo ago
> Pick any app you want and search for it. Ideally it has a pretty unique name and not just a dictionary wod. What will you see? The first result will always be an ad for a completely different app. This is also the case on the Play Stor
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by kogepathic 1y ago
> The problem is that if everyone hops jobs every 9-18 months, it’s not worth training up juniors because the employer will never get to benefit. It is absolutely worth hiring and training juniors. The quality of your onboarding proces
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by kogepathic 1y ago
Xperia 5 IV owner here, don't give Sony any of your money. Their support is garbage: 1 Android version and only 3 years of security updates for a phone that cost nearly $1000. Google and Samsung offer 5+ years on their flagship phones.
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> To my knowledge, any switch OEM producing Broadcom-based gear will get their NDAs and silicon access revoked if they so much as dream about making devices with non-Broadcom silicon. Cisco Meraki did; their low end switches are Marvel
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by kogepathic 2y ago
I have a 12th Gen Intel Framework from work. I cannot recommend Framework as a brand. Yes, they are repairable. That is where the list of Pros ends for me. Perhaps the only unique selling point is being able to upgrade the motherboard later
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> Both MacOS and Windows offer that without all constraints and privacy negligent services from Google/Alphabet. As yes, Windows, the famously privacy respecting OS. [1] [2] Apple has also been hard at work developing new ways to
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> Forbidding your users to see the inner workings of the system (hiding the jank that has been shoven into the box, as you say), does not seem like a positive thing.. Indeed, I don't consider the BSD license a good thing from a us
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by kogepathic 2y ago
The author has a good point but I am surprised they neglected to mention the most important aspect for any aspiring appliance maker: The BSD license Yes, thanks to the magic of the BSD license you can ship an appliance that is nothing more
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> transformers windings in vs windings out Transformers only apply to AC, where there is a fluctuating magnetic field. A transformer in a DC circuit is just a physically large (very low resistance) resistor. The standard practice to co
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> The TS-7250-V3 is an industrial grade SBC based on the NXP i.MX 6UL with a 696MHz Arm® Cortex®-A7 core and 512 MB or 1 GB DDR3 RAM This is their latest "High performance industrial grade embedded computer" that I can see on
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> All the other manufacturers have really really shitty BSPs in comparison, even if you're just offloading everything realtime to an MCU. The irony here is that other SOC/SBC makers are focused more on throwing a barely stabl
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by kogepathic 2y ago
> Name a storage brand without such a reputation? Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent. Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless
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by kogepathic 2y ago
Going to be a hard pass from me. Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDisk Extreme [2]. Western Digital's response has been very PR and not at all he
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by kogepathic 2y ago
I don't know the implementation details of this specific StarTech dock, but other Thunderbolt docking stations (like the HP USB-C Dock G4) have a PCIe NIC which supports PXE booting. It's the same implementation as an internal NIC
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> Apple might be left with the maintenance burden forever but no real prospects for a mainstream product. This seems unlikely. Apple has not hesitated in the past to exit market segments they felt did not suit them. To name a few: serv
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> I dont think you will be really motivated to go to work if all you had was one room to sit and close the doors to not see anyone You're describing an office like it's solitary confinement. I'm describing somewhere wher
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> “People are coming in to do occasional big meetings, but really the rest of the time, they want a quiet private spot to get on a Zoom call,” said Witting, a partner at the company. “It’s weird.” It's not weird. Before we had ope
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by kogepathic 3y ago
BT Home Hub 5a, although you do need to disassemble it to flash. https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> You mean that the Bojiadafast adapters work fine? I have no experience with this particular vendor/brand but the adapters are not complex. If you're concerned, verify that it has 11VSB before you plug it into the motherboar
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> The Fujitsu ones have D3417(-A!) boards (not -B) having proprietary power supplies with 16 power pins (no 24pin ATX but 16pin). There are Adapters on Aliexpress for 24PIN to 16pin (Bojiadafast), but this is a bit risky - I'm vali
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by kogepathic 3y ago
Chromebooks still do this, they just swapped the write-protect screw for disconnecting the battery [1] or using a special closed-case debug (CCD) USB-C cable (which was discontinued and is now neigh impossible to buy). You can DIY your ow
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads? YouTube with youtube-dl [1] or NewPipe [2]. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl [2] https://newpipe.net/

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