drspod

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read the source code and this is a hobby-project that you could write in an afternoon with no knowledge of cryptographic protocols.

There are dozens of obvious deficiencies even to me and I am no expert in cryptography. An easy example to point out is that there is no input validation and no error checking or exception handling. Both the client and server just assume that the other side is a well-behaving correct implementation.

The author should not be posting this around as if it's a serious tool for people to use. If anything it's a starting point for OP to get advice from experts on how real systems do this properly. I'd recommend that the author spends a LOT of time reading before doing. There are numerous design documents of real systems and protocols, and some good comprehensive books too.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Sorry, there’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

At the end of its third quarter of its fiscal 2024, [...] Qualcomm had $7.8 billion in cash and [...] just over $23 billion in total assets. That means Qualcomm, [...] is almost certainly looking at a stock-for-stock transaction. As of writing, Qualcomm's market cap is $188 billion, just more than double that of Intel's at $93 billion.

In fact, Chipzilla may not be worth much to Qualcomm unless it can renegotiate the x86/x86-64 cross-licensing patent agreement between Intel and AMD, which dates back to 2009. That agreement is terminated if a change in control happens at either Intel or AMD.

While a number of the patents expired in 2021, it's our understanding that agreement is still in force and Qualcomm would be subject to change of control rules. In other words, Qualcomm wouldn't be able to produce Intel-designed x86-64 chips unless AMD gave the green light.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago (12 children)

is there any ARM chipset out there that can deliver performance on par with the Steam Deck’s CPU

Yes, but they're made by Apple.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about two months

what? what kind of orbit is that?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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/

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You can't improve on perfection.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

(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.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got a link to that?

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