kr99x

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by kr99x 9mo ago
You can look through my comment history here, if you like, to see that I've been consistently banging the same drum at least since 2020, but unfortunately without connecting this profile to others I can't show you I've been o
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by kr99x 9mo ago
Not irrelevant. I'm responding directly to somebody saying people like me basically don't exist so that I am a data point. We do exist. We're rare, but not that rare.
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by kr99x 9mo ago
Hello. I would not trust any corporation (sometimes it's profitable to remove something so they retain control of some market) or government (sometimes it secures their power to keep people unaware of some facts about their actions) to
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by kr99x 1y ago
In my phrasing, 128k + 7 -> 81k + 5 for all positive integers k. Pick a power of 3 n to be the coefficient for k on the right/reduced side, and then the left side will have at least one valid reducing form with coefficient power of
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by kr99x 1y ago
I've been down that road, and it's unfortunately a dead end. You can generate an infinite number of reducing forms, each of which itself covers an infinite number of integers, like 4k + 5 → 3k + 4. Each one covers a fraction of
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by kr99x 3y ago
There are indeed modern releases that live up to nostalgia for games of yore and they are... games that are incredibly similar to their predecessors. Game design has gone through a variety of eras and fashions and fads, and games "bac
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by kr99x 4y ago
UEFI is not a big bloat of closed source. UEFI is a spec that defines a newer, more feature-rich and easily-extensible way to boot than legacy BIOS. There is a common core, used by just about every single UEFI-based firmware out there,
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by kr99x 5y ago
Two "fun" examples: 1) System trying to boot would hang at seemingly random points. Could never be pinned down to a particular instruction, but could be caught doing it when stepping through with attached hardware debugger. It
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by kr99x 5y ago
I'm "lucky" enough to deal with buggy hardware on a semi-regular basis (I start writing firmware before the hardware is finalized and run on prototypes), so I really do get bugs where the the input data and the logic are all
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by kr99x 5y ago
I think there's lots of information that should be censored, and if I were made data czar of the world I would surely not be corrupt and do a diligent and thoughtful job removing only what must be removed for the good of the world. B
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by kr99x 5y ago
Voluntary removal of one's own information does not, in theory go against the free exchange of ideas, but it's a difficult path to follow. How do you grant removal powers to only the owner of something? If you hold a private
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by kr99x 5y ago
No, no information should ever be banned from any public/commons - the end. You want to ban certain information from a particular place you control? Go nuts. The wider public? No. The power to ban information is too great to be e
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by kr99x 6y ago
People saying that we should not bother colonizing Mars at all are clearly wrong. I can buy the argument that we should not yet do it, but come on. The Earth will one day be dust, whether by astronomical disaster or by the sun's n
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by kr99x 6y ago
Firstly, this article and the discussions on this page are about Signal, it's hardly irrelevant. For the particular case of the company Signal, there are many actors claiming that censorship is needed. Signal for now disagrees, but
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by kr99x 6y ago
You prove to still be misunderstanding. Firstly in that "Signal's Audience" is not a thing under contention - it's willing parties who are already both using Signal being prevented from using that tool to talk about [x]
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by kr99x 6y ago
You are badly misunderstanding the situation. A world with 3 TV networks is a world of limited airtime , so of course people will not give their slots up freely for others. That is not the world we are in now. It costs no "space&qu
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by kr99x 6y ago
Again I lament the falling respect for and understanding of free speech as a principle that helps us all. Only when communication between two willing parties is unhindered is it even possible to build a just world. The power to clamp do
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by kr99x 6y ago
So you're okay giving someone else the power to declare something "a threat" and sacrificing your rights to neutralize it? China is perfectly happy to declare all kinds of opinions threats to their way of life and disallow
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by kr99x 6y ago
I'm going to skip over defamation for now, both because I'm not a lawyer and because it's slightly more complicated. You can tell that's different because nobody preemptively censors defamation - it's a suit brou
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by kr99x 6y ago
You're thinking I'm upset specifically about reddit banning the group because that's the article I posted it on. That's sensible, and on me somewhat for not being quite clear enough. I'm upset at the broader topics
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by kr99x 6y ago
I've been having this argument more and more lately. People keep coming around to "surely, we must prevent *THIS* content?" and every time the answer is no. Somehow, we seem to be forgetting how free speech benefits us all
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by kr99x 6y ago
No! God, I don't understand why people keep falling into this mindset. Do not hide/remove/censor/block/stop speech because of its content, ever, for any reason! Let all speak their piece, and let all hear what th
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by kr99x 6y ago
I'll just repeat again what I've said a few times in comment sections on UEFI-related articles: UEFI is not Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a feature that is implemented by UEFI-compliant systems these days, but UEFI systems orig
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by kr99x 6y ago
The three "biggest deals" here are all... a lot less important than they look. Clarifying info on all three: "Did Intel get hacked?" I can't confirm the exact mechanism by which these files got out, but I do know
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by kr99x 6y ago
The number one (by a wide margin) reason for Intel123 is that somebody is trying to email a zip to somebody else, but a mandatory filter notices "bad files" (oh no, executables!) inside the zip and removes it to keep people &quo
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by kr99x 6y ago
Close R , yes. Close? No. For one, memory init code differs from product gen to product gen and pulls in platform/board specific libraries and inputs to set up some parameters. The bigger problem though is just how big and messy
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by kr99x 7y ago
FastBoot just caches a bunch of known things that your system was able to boot with and then doesn't bother re-initializing/re-training/re-discovering various bits and bobs in the hardware. It's not taking away some 90%
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by kr99x 7y ago
The intrusive parts that you see in a lot of firmware today fall into two categories. One is like Intel ME. It supports use cases you as an end user do not give one single damn about and could easily do without, if given the option. Clean
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by kr99x 7y ago
The only firmware code running after boot that UEFI mandates is not below ring 0 and is fully optional - called only if and when the OS asks for it. The UEFI runtime services table is not a kernel and is parked in ordinary memory waiting t
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by kr99x 7y ago
Patches existing for the firmware vulnerabilities of major manufacturers is good (I'll take your word for it, having not looked recently, but I know that a few years back this was not the case and known vulnerabilities could be found e

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