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[DrYak]

Yup, Smart TV's chip are probably going to still be available without cell modems for quite some time (unlike smartphone, tablet or smartwatches)....

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The thing is, even if the one modem that is connected to the 3G/4G antenna and SIM-card isn't the one with the over-reaching access,
there's still...

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But :

• You'll still have a modem on your SoC
• That modem will still be in charge of crucial things like bringing up the whole hardware (act as a northbridge
• That

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[DrYak]

Networking effect.

A niche platform has few users, and therefore few commercial companies are interested in developing native apps for it....

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It's nice but as Almindor pointed out, the main hardware where most of the kernel adaptions are going to be needed doesn't even exist yet.
They...

[DrYak]

Michael : the HTML typo is still there.


And overall regarding the whole UBPort thing : it's an interesting effort at providing an...

[DrYak]

Raspberry Pi in its current form is still limited by its power circuit. It can only receive up to 2.5A (I think) on its micro USB port and is even more...

[DrYak]

Without tools as such, your mouse is simple standard USB mouse the exports all the standard features that any other USB HID device can export :
...

[DrYak]

Or simply use efficient Perl-onliner written by their cat randomly walking across the keyboard.

(pun intended)

Or you can substitute...

[DrYak]

In this specific case : Firefox binary with as much telemetry disabled as possible, you might have a look into Tor Browser.

This is a customization...

[DrYak]

Saddly, it's a bit out of reach of Mozilla's capability.
They are basically just forced to include the option to download and install Videwine,...

[DrYak]

As pointed by other, it was never "hidden". I was at best not widely advertised because it initially mostly targetted sys-admins with lights-out-management...

[DrYak]

The most interesting thing is how Mozilla tries to handle the problem.

They are pretty aware that by refusing to use patented codecs (like...

[DrYak]

Luckily, 4.4 is one of the required LTS kernels for Android 8 Oreo.

i.e.: this kernel is going to see a lot of bugfix backports for quite...

[DrYak]

Teodor Ts'o reply is regarding *cryptographic-grade* randomness. That's /dev/random and block is an expected feature.

There the question...

[DrYak]

That is a bug. That is not somethings that is supposed to be happening under normal circumstances (the whole purpose of /dev/urandom existing is to have...

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It could come with it, but won't necessarily.
Hence the point of using Scheme, in their opinion that's about the simplest thing you can manually...

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there are lots of different parts running firmware in a modern Intel CPU.

the one that is required to avoid spurious locks and reboots is...

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The logic is different. Let's say that there's a new machine that pop-up (a new hardware constructor making a RISC-V platform). Somebody has to write...

[DrYak]

The missing question :
- If hashmaps are considered to not be critical to the point that a "not-necessarily-trusted" RdRand opcode could...