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AKSF_Ackermann··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
I would like to point out that the website in question has a button to download the entire dataset. Probably would be a good idea to save a copy.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
I am not by any means a copyright lawyer, so can anyone enlighten me on if it is a good idea for upstream projects to accept such kind of code from an ex-Apple employee, especially since Apple is currently suing OpenAI.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
As Apple themselves proved with M1-M3, you can make really good cpus without violating the ARM architecture spec in dumb ways. Why they decided to do that in M4+ is anyone's guess.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
Content-addressed email breaks mailing lists, as those need to be able to add headers for subscribe/unsubscribe/list id, etc. There is a reason DKIM allows you to pick which headers to sign.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
And i am wondering what do people even fill their storage with, and why do they need so much. In my case it is ~200-300 out of 1TB on 2 laptops, 37 out of 128gb on phone. And i don't even actively manage it.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Late intel macs are in fact crimes against thermal design, but this is no longer a problem on most M-based ones (except the 14-inch M4 max, that one does throttle.). The keyboard is also no longer e-waste tier. The rest is true, but you may wish to update your talking points.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Apple's PSCI interface is not a mystery, and there is perfect knowledge on how it is implemented. It isn't. Which is the actual problem, Linux wants PSCI, Apple platforms do not have it.
AKSF_Ackermann··on 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea
True, graphics is a better example of a period-correct >=64k work, but the point is that there are multiple things where you don't expect the data to be that big until it suddenly is.
AKSF_Ackermann··on 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea
The segment model seems clever if you assume that you never have an object that is larger than 64kb. And once you have that you need to care about segment overflow, pointer comparisons no longer work, everything now has to carry around segment+offset instead of just offset, and so on. And if you want an example of a >=64kb object - the html alone for that page is one.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
Just curious, why is there a login gate before seeing the list of projects that participate in the platform? Usually similar donation(?) websites list those publicly for better visibility and less friction.
AKSF_Ackermann··on There are no instances in ATProto
I wonder why were relays mentioned only mentioned in passing and there was no elaboration on how they interact with the rest of the network. Maybe because doing that would show that there are in fact "instances" in atproto, but who knows?
AKSF_Ackermann··on macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux
> There isn't likely to be advanced power management drivers for Apple Silicon on Linux within this decade.

Amazing levels of confidence, when per Asahi's last progress report, one exists already.

AKSF_Ackermann··on macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux
They don't. ME and PSP are separate cores with full memory and configuration bus access. TrustZone is nothing like this, it is a higher privilege level on the main cpu cores, more similar to SMM and used for pretty much the same purposes. Secure enclave is yet again nothing like any of the former and is similar to a TPM.
AKSF_Ackermann··on macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux
Apparently fixed already, or will be fixed soon. https://social.treehouse.systems/@chaos_princess/11672546441...
AKSF_Ackermann··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
I am not sure how what happened can be considered "being outed", the vtuber's puppeteer was obvious from day one to anyone who was paying any attention at all, it is just that a lot of people decided to uphold the kayfabe. (And I don't blame them, at least before the lkml crashout it was a pretty fun character.)
AKSF_Ackermann··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
So, if star to fork ratio is the new signal, time to make an extra fake star tier, where the bot forks the repo, generates a commit with the cheapest LLM available and pushes that to gh, right?
AKSF_Ackermann··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
The adjacent POWER architecture seems to be used in ppc64le mode these days.
AKSF_Ackermann··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
Not sure why you consider that to be an issue, if you need to interact with a format that specifies values to be BE, just always byte-swap. And every appliance/embedded box i had to interact with ran either x86 or some flavour of 32-bit arm (in LE mode, of course).
AKSF_Ackermann··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
> When programming, it is still important to write code that runs correctly on systems with either byte order

What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only, as the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x, and if someone wants to run your code on s390x, they can afford a support contract.

AKSF_Ackermann··on Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header
It feels like a header is the wrong tool for this, even if you hypothetically would want to disclose that, would you expect a blog cms to offer the feature? Or a web browser to surface it?
AKSF_Ackermann··on What the hell is a target triple?
NEC Vector Engine. Basically not a thing outside supercomputers.
AKSF_Ackermann··on GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]
Please pay more attention to the point 3 in my original post. To reiterate: their encoding is hilariously bad, and is easily outcompeted by a modem from the 60s.
AKSF_Ackermann··on GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]
They stepped on every single rake possible, didn't they? 1. Why are you making a phone call in the first place, your agent probably got the number from the internet, just keep using that. 2. If you insist on initiating the conversation over a phone call, why not immediately terminate the call and again, go over the internet once you realize that it is an ai to ai conversation. 3. You did in fact re-invent a modem but worse, the quoted speed on that library is 8-16 bytes/sec, and i would like to point out that the Bell 103 did ~37 bytes/sec, and was released in 1963.