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zibzab··on AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use
I need a second opinion on this, the article sounds a bit click-baity to me.

If L3 really is 4 cycles slower, how much does it _actually_ affect performance? Specially given that L3 can now be made much larger.

zibzab··on Apple Is Still Tracking You Without Consent
Why not download from main OS and verify from uefi like everyone else does?
zibzab··on Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s botched war with Ukraine
This is probably one area where software projects and wars differ:

When things go bad in a war, you can always throw more bodies on it to turn it around.

zibzab··on Security Comics
Wellcome to the lonely world of Firefox users.

The sad thing is that Firefox desktop and Firefox android are identical. This breaking is probably due to someone trying to be fancy on mobile.

zibzab··on Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Maybe that's why CCP took the company from him? Not enough totalitarian work conditions?
zibzab··on Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s
What is surprising to me is that they compare A53 to A52s and not A52.
zibzab··on Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s
This is because of old contracts and agreements, including patent agreements for LTE modem etc
zibzab··on RISC-V takes steps to minimize fragmentation
I disagree.

Binary compatibility is bare minimum for any cpu project. Riscv as the new kid on town, and after basically promising a CPU revolution, needs to achieve far more than that.

ARM is currently moving towards a standard and open boot system, and making previously optional things mandatory.

zibzab··on Great Resignation Isn’t Slowing and May Persist, Randstad Says
"Great Resignation" = after some soul searching during the lockdown, I realized I want to the other things with my life.

There are still people on the fence, so this will continue 1-2 more years.

zibzab··on Pine64 Announcing Pinebuds and Pinepods
> People are frequently asking us to create more mainstream devices such as an inkjet printer or a microwave

All other days in the year, Xiaomi (and to some lesser extent Nokia) is ahead of you in this department.

zibzab··on What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?
vscode lets you turn off analytics in the settings (IMO it should be off by default, untill a crash is detected).

Isn't that enough?

zibzab··on SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test
Started 2018 IIRC
zibzab··on Daily-driving a Mac, one year later
> but you made it yours by tweaking it to your liking.

Serious question: why do you assume that?

My "tweaking" of a new Ubuntu machine is normally limited to changing the background. I am busy getting work done and don't really want or need to tweak things.

zibzab··on Why is Europe suddenly so interested in helping refugees?
Short answer: because they understand that with the current mess, they could very well be next.

Excluding Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria, I don't think for the rest it has _that_ much to do with Ukrainias being European and Christians.

zibzab··on Heap Overflow in OpenBSD's Slaacd via Router Advertisement
How old is this idea?

At a conference years ago, someone proposed the idea of using this as the _only_ security mechanism in really tiny embedded systems. The implementation was 100-200 bytes in total.

zibzab··on Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
Friendly reminder that if you install virtualbox with guest services at work, Oracle lawyers will eventually demand a huge sum from your company.
zibzab··on What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Android send to Google? [pdf]
Question: what happens if you use a third party dialer (e.g. Samsung)?
zibzab··on Ask HN: Why did Apple create their half-baked Metal insead of using Vulkan?
When did "walled garden" become a taboo word?

It is not an impossibility, we simply don't know. Just flagging comments _you_ find tiresome is not good for the discussion.

zibzab··on 3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
> Why did Germany put itself into this strange Russian dependency is also very strange.

Because they wanted to go green but also have a really, _really_ bad case of NIMBY.

zibzab··on 3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
Also: Germany and US are in talks to lift the sanctions on Iran.
zibzab··on Ask HN: Why did Apple create their half-baked Metal insead of using Vulkan?
Is this an official Steam recommendation?

BTW, it hurts me to see GP being flagged. Please discuss your arguments instead of flagging comments you don't agree with.

zibzab··on Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip
Looks interesting, although I am not sure if it is worth the trouble for hobbyist who can buy similar SOCs in much more friendly packages.

A commenter compalined about his "negative and accusatory language". Where does he see that?

zibzab··on Major government surveillance revelations fail to make a big splash
Yeah, but once we had the proof we realized that the conspiracy theorists around the world wouldn't recognize a real conspiracy it it hit them on the head.

Why do you think the UFO and Area-51 conspiracy theories peaked around that time? Because it was always about keeping your head in the sand, while believing you are enlightened.

zibzab··on Anatomy of the Mariupol Hospital Attack
> Medical facilities and workers have been repeatedly hit by Russian forces since their invasion of Ukraine

I believe this is fully intentional, similar behaviour was observed in Syria.

Right now this is an at extreme level because the Russian army needs Ukraine to forfit ASAP or the generals are going to end up in Gulag any day now.

zibzab··on Escaping privileged containers for fun
> You also described docker.

Can docker do secure multiuser?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O0q3rSWr8A

zibzab··on Republican county clerk indicted in voting-machine breach, arrest warrant issued
> leak of voting-system BIOS passwords

Why would this be needed for analysing the software? This sound more like encouraging others to hack them.

> Knisley had an IT employee shut off the surveillance cameras in the election offices.

Actually, this sound like they first tried to tamper with the machines themselves

> Peters introduced them to a man she called Gerald Wood. ... But the real Gerald Wood apparently wasn't there.

Or bring in some unknown hacker to do it?

>But Wood testified ... that he never received a YubiKey that was assigned to him, ...

Sounds like this was much more than leaking proprietary information. They actually planned to hack these machines and blame it on Wood if detected.

zibzab··on PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead
Most pipewire users here seem to be arch users with access to bleeding edge releases.

But how does PW work for, say, Debian/Ubuntu users?

zibzab··on PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead
Yeah, but in practice I never managed to get that work consistently.
zibzab··on Unofficial yet comprehensive FAQ for LoongArch
goodson _was_ mips, I assume they made it official mips at some point.

so the question is basically the opposite: why riscv when MIPS already existed and was being used by third parties?

zibzab··on Covid Policy Killed My Grandmother
Counterpoint 1: Sweden delayed locking down nursing homes and then implemented it really poorly. A huge percentage of COVID deaths were due to a nurse getting sick, coming to work anyway and basically killing half of the residents. Without lockdowns your 95 old grandmother would probably have been dead by now.

Counterpoint 2: did you take care of her and talked to her everyday, or maybe taken her home? Otherwise at 95 she could end up like this with and without lockdowns.

I find it funny that you bring numbers into this (at her age she had only 3.4 years to live but only 11% chance if dying of COVID). You cannot mix emotional and cold like that in the same post...

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