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ddcc7on Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

NanoV2 was only used for smaller size classes. The current allocator is xzone malloc: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/libmalloc/blob/ma...

ddcc7on Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas

I have the same issue, I'm in an area with underground utilities so Sonic isn't an option, it's just Comcast or Monkeybrains. But the problem with Monkeybrains is that they had me behind a IPv4 NAT with no IPv6, and when I asked them to change that, I ended up with very bad packet loss that their technical support couldn't resolve.

ddcc7on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant

Post the FB numbers and perhaps some helpful readers may be able to take a look?

ddcc7on Motherboard Specifications on MotherboardDB

I've found that geizhals.eu is great for this sort of stuff. Here's an example for Intel LGA1151v2: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=mbp4_1151v2

You can filter by details like the LAN chipset (e.g. Realtek RTL8111E, AQuantia AQC107, etc), the audio chipset, etc.

ddcc7on Propeller: Profile-guided, optimizing, large-scale LLVM-based relinker

It's a fairly recent project, you can see the original announcement from the team on the LLVM mailing list in September 2019: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-September/135...

ddcc7on WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

I was looking into this last night, and just wanted to point out that Ubiquiti's 3rd generation APs do support 802.11w. The feature is labeled "Protected Management Frames" (PMF) under the WLAN Group settings on the controller.

ddcc7on Anatomy of an ELF executable

Are you the author? Great job for the detailed writeup. Small nit, I noticed you misspelled the interpreter section, it should be .interp instead of .intrep

ddcc7on Chip 2.0: High Level C to Verilog with Python Bindings

Does anyone know how this compares to LegUp [0], an academic HLS tool for C to Verilog? Apparently that tool has also been commercialized into a startup [1].

[0] http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca

[1] http://www.legupcomputing.com

ddcc7on Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts

The direct URL is https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_setup-security... , it's no longer accessible from their new web interface.

ddcc7on Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs

For an FPGA to play around with, the Lattice ECP-5G is really nice: http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/FPGAandCPLD/ECP5andEC... . PCIE and DDR3, in a $99 dev board.