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The great pretender

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als0··on Intel Arc Pro B70 Review
> Please don't charge too much for it

Intel wouldn’t decide to do this even to save their own life

als0··on Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Same. What a disaster Tahoe is.
als0··on Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Is this for Tahoe only? I’m still clutching onto Sequoia
als0··on OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
> we might see something approximating post-scarcity economics in our lifetimes

Can you elaborate more on this? All I see is growing inequality.

als0··on Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
Still an amazing hack today and I love it. However, I heard Apple are developing a touch screen MacBook this year, and I simply don't get why they're doing that. I don't know what's worse, the ergonomics or the fingerprints.
als0··on Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities
Implementations include seL4, Barrelfish, Google Fuchsia OS, Capsicum, and a slew of research systems too long to list. It's also worth checking out tangential things like the E programming language and Google's old Caja project.
als0··on Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities
Good work. I'm happy to see this for Redox. There are numerous implementations of capabilities now, and they confirm that the concept really does simplify access control and sandboxing.
als0··on Arm AGI CPU
What is your point? NASA is upper case
als0··on Arm AGI CPU
I also miss the all-capitals ARM spelling. I think they've never been the same since they've changed that, since around the same time their business strategy went from sensible to nonsense.
als0··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
You really do need to try the latest ones. You can’t extrapolate from your previous experiences.
als0··on Tony Hoare has died
Finally. The black bar is there.
als0··on Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)
There are two versions of MPK. One is only applicable to userspace pages. The other is newer and can be applied to kernel space pages; last time I checked, this was only available on newer Xeon processors.

By the way, MPK memory is not encrypted. The key is just an identifier for the requestor. If the requestor key doesn’t match the same identifier for the memory page, then an exception is raised.

Funnily enough, MPK isn’t new at all. It’s almost a reintroduction of a feature from Itanium.

als0··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
Since the base model is still 60Hz, I'm struggling to pick between the base model or a Kuycon G32P. Can anyone on here help?
als0··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
YouTube
als0··on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
Yes, you can watch DS9 without having seen the other series. I hope you enjoy DS9 and also the other series should you continue.

There are occasional TNG references but they are not important to the plot.

als0··on OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
Notarize it.
als0··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
Why does every sentence have an emoji?
als0··on Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
That seems like an awful amount of overhead for questionable gain.
als0··on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
Does this have a negative impact on SEO or search results in general? I'm clueless about this.
als0··on Handheld PC Community Forums
It was a great little device.
als0··on Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture
"There is only a single reference5 dated to 2010 indicating that Microsoft might use a similar approach for its NT kernel."
als0··on AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago
Not instructions per se. Rosetta is a software based binary translator, and one of the most intensive parts about translating x86 to ARM is having to make sure all load/store instructions are strictly well ordered. To alleviate this pressure, Apple implemented the Total Store Ordering (TSO) feature in hardware, which makes sure that all ARM load and store instructions (transparently) follow the same memory ordering rules as x86.
als0··on Unifi Travel Router
You can self host with Headscale.
als0··on Landlock-Ing Linux
Just need the container manager to not block the landlock system call
als0··on Landlock-Ing Linux
If the application in the container wants to add more restrictive rules then it should be allowed to. But it should not be able to mess with the existing rules imposed by the container manager. This would be the ideal outcome.
als0··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
I use them on Teams on macOS (and Windows) every day and is the main reason I have them. What you say is simply not true.
als0··on Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware
It's not open. It's not really about devices. And it's certainly not a partnership.
als0··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
So they are using RISC-V already for some embedded cores. For application cores, they are participating in the RISC-V consortium to keep the pressure on ARM and also to be ready for the long game.

I do not expect to see Qualcomm made RISC-V application cores until Android or Windows is completely ported to it, which I think rules out the next several years.

als0··on Memory Integrity Enforcement
Second bus?
als0··on The future of large files in Git is Git
10 years late is better than never.
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