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hacker_homie··on I said no and Apple said yes
Not from looking at this graph it's not please don't mislead people https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/
hacker_homie··on Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up
Like most things Microsoft, "gave up after six months" is accurate.
hacker_homie··on Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest
What are the isolation implications?
hacker_homie··on I said no and Apple said yes
Run Linux, Virtualizise windows or Mac OS be happy.

The cost? You have to research a machine that will run Linux, not everyone can do this. I'm quite happy with my hp zbook is it a mac, no bit it's as close as I can go.

hacker_homie··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Just hope nothing changes the latency is terrible.
hacker_homie··on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Normal people don't know what half the word in that paragraph mean, you are not the uninformed consumer.

with that said I was blown away by the steamdecks support for AMD's APUs so I was looking for a laptop with the same generation APU to ensure support.

I was looking at framework(too big wants 13-14") dell xps (I don't like the new design)

Then HP released the ZBook Ultra G1a 14" and I brought it on the spot because it lined up before ram went to hell (128GB unified RAM).

They do have an ubuntu image but it's heavily patched, so I was running bleeding edge mesa for a few months and beta kernels for 6 months.

On Gentoo this isn't too bad but it wasn't a turn-key experience.

hacker_homie··on SDCC – Small Device C Compiler
I used it for some toy projects never ran into "bugs" as in this is just broken, but it's quirky for sure.
hacker_homie··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
I'm so glad we stopped microsoft from shipping a browser with their OS in the 90s, <sarcasm/>.

Regulate them! that is the only way.

Their should be a path for an AOSP build to be just as privileged as a google signed build.

hacker_homie··on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads
They should have to ask for the ccv every double in billing average.
hacker_homie··on Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
"it going down will immediately be visible to consumers who will balk"
hacker_homie··on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
I am running Linux, but I had to spend a solid month researching laptops before buying, and I didn't get up-streamed webcam support for a year after purchase.

The driver situation is a better but for cheap hardware it's so hit and miss, and when you mention this they shame the user for not knowing better and that isn't their fault.

At least if they buy a mac they know it's going to work otherwise you need to buy a computer that's two years old.

hacker_homie··on Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
My thought was to write legislation that gives 20% of my generated ad revenue to me the customer as legal tender (no store credit, coupons) then have the government tax that income.

1. government gets new income source.

2. government is invested in making sure they are not getting short changed.

3. failure to pay me is fraud.

4. When you pay me now I know your crap is spying.

5. Government taxes almost never go down, with this system it going down will immediately be visible to consumers who will balk.

Problems: ad revenue is the new shrink-flation without it prices will rise. companies will fight this tooth and nail, but voters get "free" money.

hacker_homie··on Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
Thus finally the 0F FF believers were rewarded by being give the honor of op code UD0 making it the one and true original invalid opcode permanently disgracing the 0F B9 adherents with the shame of UD1.
hacker_homie··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Skills still confuse me, why isn't this just a repo with a single md file. why does it need js to load a md file.
hacker_homie··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
When it finally is the year of the linux desktop, what are we going to do about malware on linux?
hacker_homie··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
So I guess,

1. This chip for an 8B model even if it was done at 5nm would still be twice the size of a conventional CPU die so what are the yields for this going to be like for even a 30B model?

2. They say 2 months but llama 3.1 was released 2024, ~2 years which is normal lead time for silicon, I suspect this would take longer if the architecture is not llama?

3. Can google do the same thing in house with their Gemma 4 series (two year lead time puts Gemma 4 on silicon April 2028) ?

I can see the benefit for hyper scalers but at the rate of model turn over does this type of investment make sense?

hacker_homie··on A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
I wish this was setup like a certificate authority so only the government is able to unmask an individual, but it's going to be pictures of government ID.

I don't think the government themselves are prepared for the amount of identity theft that is going to follow mass collection of government documents.

hacker_homie··on Open Source is not immune to monopoly
Yeah that might be a better way to put it, if anyone is used to dealing with developer slop is the kernel.
hacker_homie··on Open Source is not immune to monopoly
I get where you are coming from, I assume most of the "code" in the linux kernel is driver code?

That being the case my understanding is splitting this project up is not only a technical challenge but a legal one.

You could make a common API for driver code, this would make the main driving force of linux much weaker.

Nvidia tried to stay out of tree for years and was dragged kicking and screaming upstream because they needed the reliability.

I'm saying the very thing you are calling out as a problem is currently what is forcing everyone contribute to the mainline kernel.

Without centralized leader ship the facturing of the linux kernel would be a disaster.

hacker_homie··on Frame – Linux X server in Assembly
Daniel Stone from linux.conf.au 2013, The Real Story Behind Wayland and X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

You can always use XWayland if you feel that way.

hacker_homie··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
This really helps I was organically doing something very similar to this but it wasn’t the “conventional wisdom” this makes me want to try and integrate AI again.
hacker_homie··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
that would be jurisdiction on you committing murder, which they do have.
hacker_homie··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Sony is “stealing” 551 movies from customers.
hacker_homie··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
lying about the license to linus probably wasn't a smart move for AGPLv3 adoption. In my experience the virality clause is the main reason those projects don't get used therefor sponsored.
hacker_homie··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
I thought a solution to this would be to use a physical smartcard to store the certificate(perhaps on your government ID). if the protocol is a challenge/response and the private key never leaves the card it would make proxying without the physical card more difficult.
hacker_homie··on After AI Takes Everything
It was never about the code, all that really matters is does it work.

In that light I’m not happy about it, but the code always was just a means to an end.

hacker_homie··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
I do qwen3.6 on an amd ai max laptop getting about 6-10tok/s it’s slow enough that I can follow along. It has issues with design and large piles of code. Otherwise it’s a good programming buddy.
hacker_homie··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
I have had issues where the Frontend team is unable to explain how to communicate with their SPA, they say "just use this package/just run node" and are unable to explain the workflow in primitives.

Then they just validate on the front end, and we validate on the backend.

hacker_homie··on ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks
Investigate local llm on company owned hardware it’s really the only way to be sure.
hacker_homie··on Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
I would pay for a car lobotomy service.
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