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[stormcrow]

I don't think it's really that surprising Corelium has done it. The basic M1 (excluding the GPU) is a fairly standard ARM64 core with mapping to manage...

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So don't use it....

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If you and your fellow numbskulls had bothered to read the referenced news article you'd see they're using Game of Trees which is BSD licensed. Git is...

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I think the more interesting change is that FreeBSD is working on securing NFS with TLS and should have a working implementation of it in v. 13. NFS...

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Two part loader. First a key unlocks the master key stored the TPM or hardware dongle. From there the support software unlocks the rest of the drive with...

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And Intel claims to have solved the problem of ransomware while being faster than AMD. Has as much credibility....

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Woo, yet another electronics product no one but scalper bots can buy because tech companies outside of Apple suck at logistics and managing their supply...

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True. It depends on the version of Spectre. There's POC to exploit certain versions of Spectre via web browsers. No one would ever know if it's being...

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... only to have the Gnome people infiltrate and steal governance away from the people that created it? That's what GTK is for....

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Yeah, anyone that says this isn't needed or no one asked for has literally not used an x86 laptop for the last two decades. It's not just thermal design...

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China was a massive driver for some reason. As a demographic it has enough sway to massively skew numbers for the rest of the world. Most of those Chinese...

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What's to catch up to? SATA is on the way out as a legacy bus interface. AMD is ahead of Intel on PCI-E implementations which NVME drives directly interface...

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Generally speaking, Intel NICs aren't bad. Realtek is hit or miss - the one in my desktop is fine for what it is.... the really bad NICs are the "Killer"...

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Fairly difficult to get right. Expand is normally just a matter of changing the partition and filesystem boundary. Most filesystems format on the fly...

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Congrats. You just discovered the xfsprogs package that contains the tools to manage XFS Now can you find coreutils for extra credit?...