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[discordian]

I qouted the problem of why the Linux Desktop wont ever not-suck and be forever stuck in the denial phase. Any 200€ Atom system running Windows will...

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As someone who just switched from a Nvidia 770 to a and 570, I have to say: guess again.
Gnome is a slow, chugging mess whatever you use. It got...

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And are those languages "cross plattform" enough to run on DSPs that have weird stuff like non power-of-two bittness?
Can they use alternative...

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Just found out that zst (the command line tool) actually supports multi-threaded compression. No big surprise so far.
What I would call "black...

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You have security measures that should try to prevent malicious code from running, but if a used can replace the BIOS/Bootloadern then so can malicious...

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With secure boot (alikes) you need to have a way to either sign your own Bios, or disable secure boot. Which means you cant depend on a chain-of-trust....

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Consider what would be required if your Motherboards Bios Implements secure boot and is under GPL3. Anyone that bought a motherboard would be elligible...

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So how does this mend with the GPL3, that requires users to be able to replace it?
Is there a requiref backdoor/off switch making the 'secure' part...

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booting in mere seconds, not beeing stuck with a BIOS that wont ever get an update (I have to keep an SSD, as the Bios does not support NVMe drives)?...

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Not quite right, several years ago you could half the transistor size and need half the power per transistort (rule of thumb). That meant powerdraw would...

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Well.. I said when Specte and Meltdown where released, then its only a question of time until all high precision performance counters will require elevated...

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That would surprise me, it does not do anything during the build, only on/after the install step. At any rate, it will fall flat as soon as you want to...

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I think he means external dependencies like using zlib or gtest in your app, you cant comfortably build external projects your project depends on. CMake...

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Does Meson allow reusable scripts/plugins now? When I tried you had to push everything in the upstream project vs creating some re-usable CMake scripts...

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Yeah, weird feeling ...

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As usual - its not that easy. Processes typically reserve a lot space, that's not backed by physical memory:

• mapping large files to memory
• copy-on-write

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There is often an amount of nonvolatile registers in basic hardware components, I implemented such a scheme on the Realtime-clock of some SOCs. Also,...

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Would have needed this quite a few times on hardware that has no display or working serial at boot. if this is added to the bootloader spec its great

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you mean if I take a debian installation with a recent gcc/clang to build my initial bootstrap compler its a "blackbox binary"?
Did you...

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Yeah its much better, but there was also alot effort poured into the library to be forwards-compatible on a binary level. for example changing the string...