Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)

Sorry for the reddit link, I don't know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1fitgri/labwc_pimp_your_10_inches_laptop_with_alpine_linux/

https://github.com/thias/glim

The binaries in question are various GNU and FOSS tools from elsewhere, not part of the Ventoy project itself. So no, the Ventoy author does not own the copyright of the tools in question.

So your approach to security is that you cross your fingers and hope?

Ventoy has a lot of work to do if they want to earn our trust:

Remove BLOBs from the source tree #2795

This ticket has been open now for 5 months with no engagement from the maintainer.

Your install media and anything that modifies your EFI partition or UEFI firmware settings needs to be the most trusted part of your system. And here is Ventoy, a tool that looks open source and then includes a large number of binary blobs in its repository, with no indication of how they were compiled. This is horrible security practice and for me that's enough for me to never use it.

You can also see a discussion on the subject on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629

A much better alternative, if you want a multi-boot USB, is GLIM: https://github.com/thias/glim

It's just a collection of Grub configs, so very simple and easy to audit.

From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?

In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.

You can't improve on perfection.

I used Ubuntu from version 8.04 to 18.04 and not once did I have a successful upgrade between major versions. There is always something that gets broken to the point that a reinstall is necessary.

That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

Too soon

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/15/us/waffle-house-employee-killed-after-customer-becomes-irate-police-say/index.html

they can’t be jammed the way radio can.

I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.

By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it's just giving oxygen to people who don't deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.

This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there's no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.

(Federated) email didn't survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It's now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn't interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that's exactly what it looks like is happening.

Wait until you see the ones that let you choose between "Accept All" and "Subscribe to monthly plan 4.99/mo"

I saw a website like that the other week and it was based in an EU country.

Got a link to that?

Can't wait to read about it telling someone to put glue on pizza.

It's not reading the contents of RAM via EM emanations, it's using the EM emanations caused by certain memory access patterns as a side channel to exfiltrate data. Of course, that data could be anything, including whatever is in RAM, but the point is that you need to be running the code that generates the necessary memory access patterns to transmit the bits of data. This is not like TEMPEST where you can reconstruct a video display just using the emanations.

Thanks! I was racking my brain trying to think of where I knew it from, and after seeing the page that you linked I'm almost certain that it's After Burner that is causing my brain to trigger the 80s association.

You can tell just from the font that this book is from the 80s

She's a great chess player but she's never been a World Champion. There's no need to embelish her story. She's currently training to become a surgeon at University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Is there something significant about this release, or are we just going to have a post every time every piece of software releases a new version?

perhaps

If it was plausible this would be bigger news. There's a claim like this every couple of months and none have held up to scrutiny so far.

I love that the local translation feature is getting regular small updates to make it more useable. It's a great feature.

Porges believes

This is an interesting article and yet you've chosen to quote the most speculative unscientific part of it from the final paragraph.

"Have you tried going outside" is not a scientific cure for depression.

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Note to readers: Don't install python dependencies for random python projects of unknown provenance. PyPI is regularly being used as a vector for distributing malware. See recent news stories here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tag/pypi/

You should manually check every package listed in requirements.txt and verify that it is a trustworthy python library.

Sorry but your satire isn't funny enough for me to continue reading when the page gets gradually darker as I scroll down so that it can show me a popup asking me to subscribe to your newsletter or whatever the fuck.

AI is definitely capable of making great music right now.

Got any links?

!esolangs@programming.dev

• Does your phone automatically join open wifi networks?
• Do you have worse cell signal than usual in this store?

But website ads don’t get the ad money like YouTube.

Their website doesn't even have ads

You can see the planned specs for the two different models on their indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emudeck-machines-retro-emulation-console-pc#/

I'm guessing they have a pre-selected all-in-one board (designed for mobile devices) and they're just designing a chassis around it. There's still a lot that could go wrong, but it's a bit more achievable than actually designing, testing and assembling your own board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLVSEhB5DI

You need to find a schematic for your car's electronics in order to get a proper solution for what you're trying to do. I would be particularly cautious about connecting a relay coil to some unknown wiring. The back e.m.f. from a discharging relay coil could easily fry a microcontroller if it happens to be connected to one.

Slightly OT, but for these instructions that do pick range of bits, add, insert into range, does x86 have dedicated silicon in the ALU to implement this process or is it implemented in microcode? If it's the latter then how can it be faster than the equivalent unrolled instructions on a RISC ISA?

This is more of a general question about how microcode can be faster than using separate instructions, which is something I have never quite understood. Any CPU engineers that can enlighten me?

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from it.

He doesn't actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

• assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
• assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
• using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold "multiple millions".

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn't know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.