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by phkamp 5mo ago
The other CPU that was designed for Ada succeeded spectaculary: https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400
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by phkamp 5mo ago
I'm not "refusing to add TLS support" I insist that the certificate is safely isolated in a separate process for security reasons. There are many ways to skin that cat.
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by phkamp 5mo ago
And before anybody speculates too much about Matthias use of "jail-like": I think this can make a lot of sense, because there are many situations, in particular in embedded systems, where you can and should confine at a much small
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by phkamp 6mo ago
To me that text reads a lot like an affidavit supporting a Qui Tam suit ?
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by phkamp 8mo ago
Here is what I submitted: I am a well known FOSS developer. At one point code I had written protected half the passwords on the entire Internet, and today around a quarter of all HTTP(S) traffic on the internet goes through software I have
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by phkamp 9mo ago
I huge factor in iAPX432 utter lack of success, were technological restrictions, like pin-count limits, laid down by Intel Top Brass, which forced stupid and silly limitations on the implementation. That's not to say that iAPX432 would
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by phkamp 9mo ago
All the examples you bring up are from an entirely different time in terms of hardware, a time where one of the major technological limitations were how many pins a chip could have and two-layer PCBs. Ideas can be good, but fail because the
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by phkamp 9mo ago
The important bit here is "their failed approach", just because Intel made a mess of it, doesn't mean that the entire concept is flawed. (Intel is objectively the most lucky semiconductor company, in particular if one conside
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by phkamp 9mo ago
Author here. This is one of those things, where 99.999% of all IT people have never even heard or imagined that things can be different than "how we have always done it." (Obligatory Douglas Adams quote goes here.) This makes a ce
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by phkamp 1y ago
Just think how many people the new owners can spy on, now that they control the backend-servers ? Bandwidth is the only limit...
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by phkamp 1y ago
And that's precisely it. Your right to encrypted communication, if there is such a thing, ends well before it is used to stage a coup or plan a bank robbery.
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by phkamp 1y ago
And now you overlooked article 52 ? It's really very simple: NO human rights are absolute.
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by phkamp 1y ago
Which is /precisely/ what is going on right now: ChatControl is a proposed new law, in compliance with the EU Treaty. ... Unless the EU courts find the law unconstitutionally broad.
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by phkamp 1y ago
Somehow you overlooked that Article 8 has a second clause, even though it comes right after the bit you quoted ? 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with th
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by phkamp 1y ago
I suggest you look into how much of chemistry, physics and biology has already been "outlawed", and how the legislatures went about it ?
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by phkamp 1y ago
Danish dude here. We had a number of cases in Denmark over the recent years which pushes this agenda: In addition to the obvious child abuse, there have been a case where video of a high-school girls private sexual activities where spread w
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by phkamp 1y ago
"fairly standard" is a bit of an understatement in this particular case. The machine actually has both an ALU as we know it, called the "VAL" board, but it also has a second unit, which runs in parallel on the "TYP&
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by phkamp 1y ago
I'm personally no fan of ClearCase myself, it's far to rigid for my taste. But if I were the pilot in an F-22 or the Space Shuttle, I probably would want it to be even more rigid :-) It's important to keep in mind the context
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by phkamp 1y ago
Apologies for outdated information there... On an Apple M2 CPU it runs around the same speed as the real hardware now. (The first version based on the unaltered hardware schematics ran 4000 times slower than real hardware, it's been qu
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by phkamp 1y ago
This is not only where ClearCase comes from, this is where "The Booch Method", UML, and the software for the Space Shuttle, The International Space Station, EuroControl (= pan-european air traffic control) and the F-22 fighter jet
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by phkamp 1y ago
The R1000 is a micro-coded computer built from approx 5k TTL functions, with an instruction set consisting of Ada Primitives like "Define a type for a variant structure with 3 variants, you'll get the details later". It proce
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by phkamp 1y ago
POLA = Principle Of Least Astonishment
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by phkamp 1y ago
Please note that only approx 79 employees are affected by this.
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by phkamp 1y ago
Please note that only ~79 employees will be affected by this decision, which, taken in context, looks a lot like just political posturing in preparation for "Folkemødet" the week-long politician+lobbyist festival going on this wee
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by phkamp 1y ago
Please note that only ~79 employees will affected by this decision. A number of circumstantial factors point at this being primarily political posturing.
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Who is "Absolute Persistence", and why is their spyware on 600M computers?(absolute.com)
41 points by phkamp 2y ago|20 comments
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by phkamp 2y ago
I have never seen a single article anywhere mention this company or their factory installed spyware. Why ?
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by phkamp 2y ago
If you look at page 51 it says: 2. […]an economic operator shall not be exempted from liability where the defectiveness of a product is due to any of the following, provided that it is within the manufacturer’s control: (a)a related service
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by phkamp 2y ago
Doesn't the word "Commercial" in "Commercial Linux distro" answers that?
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by phkamp 2y ago
That's the entire point of EU directives: The differences should be so small that it will not matter to anybody.

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