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by trotsky 13y ago
For every problem, how many times did package management work flawlessly? Fedora systems often enter states where manual intervention with the package system is necessary to fix and issue preventing updates, they're usually just much simp
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by trotsky 13y ago
Wait a minute, mob justice behavior on reddit has absolutely zero to do with why the "government wants to take control of the internet". Whatever trends there are along those lines are entirely related to state interests in espionage and cr
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by trotsky 13y ago
That sounds like a rather credulous statement in the face of regularly imposing restrictions in the ios ecosystem that punish or restrict users to damage a competitor. It's difficult to believe the ebook war was pro-customer for example. Th
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by trotsky 13y ago
I can report the opposite - I've had to assist a fedora user when yum/rpm left them in a state that prevented a ton of new packages from being installed due to an interaction between the official fedora repos and rpm fusion, the repo everyo
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by trotsky 13y ago
looking at their twitter history it looks like they had bank accounts closed on them left and right. They had a lot of different people depositing cash in different places, lots of wires maybe ach. I am sure the fraud/risk/laundering scorin
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by trotsky 13y ago
Oh, I don't mean app positions or use patterns or anything like that. I mean toolkit widgets like sliders, buttons, chrome, window manager elements, that kind of thing. And for the record i feel the exact same way about plain xtk, old style
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by trotsky 13y ago
thanks!
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by trotsky 13y ago
If you're not primarily spending time doing audits on n-tier web and enterprise, I'm not sure how inclusive that is. At least for user devices os and interprocess defense along with chains of trust and mitigation via painless refresh is all
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by trotsky 13y ago
The article this one rewrote explains the why much better. https://readwrite.com/2013/04/17/intel-acquires-mashery It'd be kind of interesting if you dropped an api layer in the firmware more or less like ipmi but sharing the ethernet and
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by trotsky 13y ago
Anyone familiar enough with such things to compare its theoretical or practical abilities compared with the seccomp/namespaces/syscall filters/selinux world? I mean besides their horribly disjoint nature.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Since you seem rather familiar, I've always wanted to ask what the story with the widgets/theme is. I have nothing but respect for all the work that's been done. But the UI really stands out as distinctively from a very specific era and jus
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by trotsky 13y ago
Well because that's the first time I'd ever heard that and I've followed it off and on since he first issued the press release. I don't doubt he might have though, as he's a fucking idiot. But if you're actually going to do that you're not
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by trotsky 13y ago
html version of the document in english via google translate: http://trotsky.github.io/AM_52124/
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by trotsky 13y ago
I think I'd remain skeptical until the specific details emerge. Let's not forget weeve is doing federal time for running a script to download email addresses from a public website. I'm not saying it couldn't be legit, but I think we can all
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by trotsky 13y ago
I am always in awe of these guys just for the sheer dedication. This is what, 12 years? And at least as far as I've seen they've been consistently active through it or at least it's never seemed dead. Yet they're still a good chunk away fro
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by trotsky 13y ago
I understand you want to help, but i would have some serious reservations about building a proof of concept crowdsourced surveillance analysis platform and demonstrating whether it's viable. There are an incredible array of surveillance too
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by trotsky 13y ago
It's interesting to note that one of the authors of the original paper, Ken Rogan, was the chief economist at the IMF 2001-2003. He also joined the group of 30 in 2008, an economic policy organization that is very influential in things like
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by trotsky 13y ago
Intel platforms have a very similar risk via SMM and the platform code & controller. It's less advanced, but it can easily exert full control over the system without the os allowing it, minus access to some registers and on die cache. I
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by trotsky 13y ago
Who is going to post on a dating site that their friend is really fatter than they're claiming? I imagine most people would consider that unthinkably mean.
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by trotsky 13y ago
Awesome explanation, thanks. I love that you can learn about things outside your field here without it being super dumbed down or having to google half a dozen domain specific terms.
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by trotsky 13y ago
I think this may just be a novel way to sell a dev board for their custom silicon and get some of that heavy kickstarter press coverage. If you figure that what they're really trying to do is get people familiar with it and see how well it
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by trotsky 13y ago
Cayman XT [Radeon 6970] outputs 2.7 TFLOPS in Single-Precision and 675 GFLOPS in Dual Precision. [1] I think the 6990 is just two of those, or at least that's normally their convention. [1] http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/12/13/a
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by trotsky 13y ago
Can anyone explain what the practical differences between something like this and a gpgpu approach? It doesn't sound particularly performant compared to modern gpus otherwise. Maybe they add in some more general purpose instructions for a l
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by trotsky 13y ago
Well, I only have one real datapoint, but I took a look at a laptop a grandmother type had brought to them for help but probably didn't do a very good job explaining what was wrong. It sounded like her email had stopped going in or out, but
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by trotsky 13y ago
Credit card numbers are of pretty low value. Like way less than a buck in medium volume and still just a few bucks for the super premium ones. And there is way, way more inventory of them than interested buyers. The likelyhood of a coordina
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by trotsky 13y ago
It seems like some sort of natural law that any industry with a lot of revenue and teens/young adults dream of working in ends up with similar issues. Poor work environment, poor or deceptive compensation, tons of time or travel, psychopath
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by trotsky 13y ago
While stuck with the dreaded neighbor "hey, you're a computer guy" support visit It was a real eyeopener about the ux of crapware laden toolbar filled ie9 win 7 experience. No wonder some people just hate computers. What struck me the most
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by trotsky 13y ago
I guess I was being too dry, but I was suggesting that such massive deployments in multiple regions costs far more in ongoing fees and engineering effort than an equivalently performing environment that is managed by the end user (campaign)
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by trotsky 13y ago
That just drives home how much simpler things have become with no SLA IaaS. Instead of spending 20+ hours racking an east coast/west coast pair of small cages or perhaps just 2 full racks each, you can save time and money by going with simp
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by trotsky 13y ago
As a Chef user, what are the honest selling points of cuisine vs. something like Chef Solo? I'm definitely up for moving to something that isn't as heavy as Chef but so far nothing has really clicked. Is it just that you preferred python? L

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