drspod

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please down your use of "up" as a verb. It ups my blood pressure and downs my tolerance of reading newspaper headlines.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Isn't it the Cloudflare bot detection page that says "Just a moment" (... while we check that you're human)?

It's probably because lemmy servers are constantly loading a bunch of websites to generate previews and Cloudflare decides that those clients look like bots.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months 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 6 points 10 months ago

Intel's assets are worth more than Intel's market cap. That's how badly they're doing in the stockmarket, and also shows you how market cap is a fairly irrelevant indicator of a company's value.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (11 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 10 months ago (1 children)

You're just kink-shaming sex toys now.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about two months

what? what kind of orbit is that?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 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/

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