I take SNI as a given because since April 2014, every web browser that receives security updates uses SNI. The last widely used web browsers that didn't were Android Browser on Android 2.x and Internet Explorer on Windows XP.
Anything of any import, even damned cat videos, are secured by https these days. If someone sniffs your packets, all they see is cyphertext
The ClientHello message that opens a TLS session contains the destination hostname in cleartext, so that the server can tell which name-based virtual host's certificate to present.
3) "Unless all ISPs serving your area" Moving goalposts as is usual for you, eh?
If you claim that "Unless all ISPs serving your area" counts as "Moving goalposts", then what course of action do you recommend for people affected by an abusive ISP? In particular, are you recommending that people move to a different city for the primary purpose of being served by a less abusive ISP?
Yes, because "bits" are a lot like "water" and "gas". right?
Transmission and reception time slots on your ISP's upstream connection are scarce resources. So are DOCSIS transmission and reception time slots on your neighborhood's CMTS. Thus if Billy Hacker uses 90 percent of the bandwidth during congested time, he ought to be footing 90 percent of the bill for the bandwidth.
[Paid prioritization and zero rating] would be illegal. Are you another one of those America-centric morons who thinks that your laws (or lack thereof) apply to the entire world?
For one thing, Slashdot's headquarters is in the United States. For another, to what extent is your country willing to accept refugees from the U.S. last-mile cartel?
The free market allows you to have a practical choice between Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu, Redhat, any of a dozen flavors of fully open-source/free Linux, BSD, EComStation (PS/2...remember that?) running on hardware from dozens of manufacturers using CPUs from a half-dozen or so big chipmakers.
Except laptop computers shipping with (and warranted to run) GNU/Linux tend to demand a higher price than laptop computers shipping with (and warranted to run) Windows, despite GNU/Linux's smaller royalty per copy than Windows. What in the free market makes this happen? And what in the free market results in there being only two chipmakers producing CPUs capable of running Wine, namely AMD and Intel?
I'm trying to understand how other Slashdot users cope with the restrictions imposed by Chromebook firmware, including how to ensure that I continue to qualify for warranty service.
Or you don't let other people stick their greasy mitts on something that can be wiped accidentally.
The practicality of that suggestion depends on each individual Chromebook owner's circumstances. Back when home computers still used floppy disks, I once came out of the shower to find that my my little brother had reformatted one of my important floppies when The Print Shop suggested to "INITIALIZE" a data disk. He admitted not knowing what "INITIALIZE" meant and in particular that it would cause data loss. And back when consoles still used cartridges, I came back to find that my little brother had erased all save files on my Super Mario World, not knowing that "ERASE DATA" on the main menu wasn't a fourth save file.
Or you replace the firmware/bootloader.
That's the same suggestion that squiggleslash made. Here's what I asked previously but never got an answer:
Wouldn't that void the warranty on a Chromebook? If so, and the screen or power jack ends up failing, how would I flash the stock bootloader back onto the device in order to have it serviced under warranty?
Then you either check Amazon or any other retailer of your choice.
Let me rephrase the original poster's question in terms of your reply: What laptop currently sold on "Amazon or any other retailer of your choice" is comparable to the Eee PC 701?
Try this definition: A device with 10" screen and keyboard capable of running GNU/Linux and Wine without prompting the user to wipe the drive at every boot. ASUS Transformer Book can't run GNU/Linux well (no suspend, no backlight brightness control), ARM devices can't run Wine, and Chromebooks in developer mode prompt the user to wipe the drive at every boot.
In what way does a 10 inch tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad not replace a 10 inch laptop, other than that the 10 inch laptop was more likely to have a chipset compatible with Linux?
I use a HP Chromebook that runs [Crouton] so I have both Linux an Chrome.
Crouton requires developer mode. If someone turns on your developer-mode Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, and presses Enter as prompted, the firmware begins a factory reset. What do you do to restore the use of the machine after the firmware has performed a factory reset?
Go to PC World (or your local equivalent), look at the laptops and choose a small one. How hard can it be?
Harder than you might think. The only 10 inch laptop in a local Best Buy is an ASUS Transformer Book, and those are known to have serious problems with Linux compatibility.
Sounds like he could get a modern tablet and be happy with that as a replacement for the netbook.
I own a Dell Inspiron mini 1012, on which I ran FamiTracker, FCEUX debugger, Python with Pillow, and ca65 (a 6502 assembler) inside Xubuntu. I used it when working as lead programmer on the video games Haunted: Halloween '85 (2015) and The Curse of Possum Hollow (2016) published by Retrotainment Games. Because the laptop is so small, I could whip it out and get work done while riding the bus to and from my other job. I stopped using it when its third lithium ion battery could no longer hold a charge; unfortunately, its replacement is much bigger and thus not nearly as portable.
I need it to be x86-64, not ARM, because FamiTracker and FCEUX debugger are Windows applications that run usably in Wine, and Wine needs x86. (FCEUX works on other-than-x86, but without the debugger.) So what x86-64 tablet with keyboard do you recommend for running GNU/Linux? Or would an x86-64 tablet with keyboard running Windows 10, such as the ASUS Transformer Book, be better for work loads like this?
we probably would have seen abominations like "Yars Revenge for CGA" (shudder), ignoring the fact that the game's entire reason for EXISTENCE was the "color static" effect.
You mean that trench just to the left of the screen's halfway mark? There are plenty of other ways to draw a trench that the player can duck into, other than just filling a background stripe with game code.
It's also about the JavaScript JIT code generator. If the x86 and x86-64 versions of Firefox are hardcoded to emit SSE2 instructions, the browser can't be so easily recompiled not to require SSE2.
Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, Debian (or anything else with apt), and Fedora (or anything else with yum/dnf) all phone home to check for system software updates. Your ISP can see what hostnames your device is accessing through DNS requests and the Server Name Indication field of TLS ClientHello. If these include some desktop operating system's software update repository, or Google Play Store while the SIM is in an iPhone, or Apple App Store while the SIM is in an Android phone, you're tethering. Or if these include substantial traffic to sites relying on Flash Player, such as Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Kongregate, or the like, you're tethering. If popular sites that use an m. hostname consistently fail to redirect you to the m. hostname, you're tethering. If you're consistently connecting on ports used by a desktop application not ported to mobile, you're tethering.
if your CPU uses clz to count trailing zeroes, you should report that as a bug.
Not necessarily. Use s = (s & (s - 1)) ^ s to clear all 1 bits other than the least significant, giving a "one-hot" integer. Then you can count leading zeroes and use that to infer trailing zeroes. It might look like the following (in a generic pseudo-assembly language):
mov B, A sub A, 1// A differs from B in the lowest 1 bit and all bits below it and A, B// A is B with the lowest 1 bit cleared xor A, B// A is the lowest 1 bit of B clz A// A is the number of leading 0 bits rsb A, 31// A is the number of trailing 0 bits
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I take SNI as a given because since April 2014, every web browser that receives security updates uses SNI. The last widely used web browsers that didn't were Android Browser on Android 2.x and Internet Explorer on Windows XP.
It's the Reptilians. They have a penchant for pederasty.
I didn't get a pedo vibe from Chris Bucholz's interview with Mr. Malok.
Microwaves are fixed wireless. Thus it "would require probably close to a million bucks just to construct (plus an act of congress, no joke)".
Anything of any import, even damned cat videos, are secured by https these days. If someone sniffs your packets, all they see is cyphertext
The ClientHello message that opens a TLS session contains the destination hostname in cleartext, so that the server can tell which name-based virtual host's certificate to present.
If the owner is providing slow support to move wires, cables, etc., then that is another matter.
That was exactly the matter that OTMR was intended to address. How else would you have addressed this matter?
3) "Unless all ISPs serving your area" Moving goalposts as is usual for you, eh?
If you claim that "Unless all ISPs serving your area" counts as "Moving goalposts", then what course of action do you recommend for people affected by an abusive ISP? In particular, are you recommending that people move to a different city for the primary purpose of being served by a less abusive ISP?
Yes, because "bits" are a lot like "water" and "gas". right?
Transmission and reception time slots on your ISP's upstream connection are scarce resources. So are DOCSIS transmission and reception time slots on your neighborhood's CMTS. Thus if Billy Hacker uses 90 percent of the bandwidth during congested time, he ought to be footing 90 percent of the bill for the bandwidth.
[Paid prioritization and zero rating] would be illegal. Are you another one of those America-centric morons who thinks that your laws (or lack thereof) apply to the entire world?
For one thing, Slashdot's headquarters is in the United States. For another, to what extent is your country willing to accept refugees from the U.S. last-mile cartel?
The free market allows you to have a practical choice between Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu, Redhat, any of a dozen flavors of fully open-source/free Linux, BSD, EComStation (PS/2...remember that?) running on hardware from dozens of manufacturers using CPUs from a half-dozen or so big chipmakers.
Except laptop computers shipping with (and warranted to run) GNU/Linux tend to demand a higher price than laptop computers shipping with (and warranted to run) Windows, despite GNU/Linux's smaller royalty per copy than Windows. What in the free market makes this happen? And what in the free market results in there being only two chipmakers producing CPUs capable of running Wine, namely AMD and Intel?
I'm trying to understand how other Slashdot users cope with the restrictions imposed by Chromebook firmware, including how to ensure that I continue to qualify for warranty service.
Or you don't let other people stick their greasy mitts on something that can be wiped accidentally.
The practicality of that suggestion depends on each individual Chromebook owner's circumstances. Back when home computers still used floppy disks, I once came out of the shower to find that my my little brother had reformatted one of my important floppies when The Print Shop suggested to "INITIALIZE" a data disk. He admitted not knowing what "INITIALIZE" meant and in particular that it would cause data loss. And back when consoles still used cartridges, I came back to find that my little brother had erased all save files on my Super Mario World, not knowing that "ERASE DATA" on the main menu wasn't a fourth save file.
Or you replace the firmware/bootloader.
That's the same suggestion that squiggleslash made. Here's what I asked previously but never got an answer:
Wouldn't that void the warranty on a Chromebook? If so, and the screen or power jack ends up failing, how would I flash the stock bootloader back onto the device in order to have it serviced under warranty?
Then you either check Amazon or any other retailer of your choice.
Let me rephrase the original poster's question in terms of your reply: What laptop currently sold on "Amazon or any other retailer of your choice" is comparable to the Eee PC 701?
I have a Linux and a Windows VM in "the cloud" that I connect to from [my iPad Air and Chromebook] via Apache Guacamole
How much do you pay per year to lease your Linux and a Windows VPS, and how much do you pay per year to connect to it through a cellular ISP?
Depends on what you call 'capable'.
Try this definition: A device with 10" screen and keyboard capable of running GNU/Linux and Wine without prompting the user to wipe the drive at every boot. ASUS Transformer Book can't run GNU/Linux well (no suspend, no backlight brightness control), ARM devices can't run Wine, and Chromebooks in developer mode prompt the user to wipe the drive at every boot.
In what way does a 10 inch tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad not replace a 10 inch laptop, other than that the 10 inch laptop was more likely to have a chipset compatible with Linux?
I use a HP Chromebook that runs [Crouton] so I have both Linux an Chrome.
Crouton requires developer mode. If someone turns on your developer-mode Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, and presses Enter as prompted, the firmware begins a factory reset. What do you do to restore the use of the machine after the firmware has performed a factory reset?
Go to PC World (or your local equivalent), look at the laptops and choose a small one. How hard can it be?
Harder than you might think. The only 10 inch laptop in a local Best Buy is an ASUS Transformer Book, and those are known to have serious problems with Linux compatibility.
You could try a Chromebook
Until you need to run an application that is not a web application. Then you have to use developer mode, whose self-destruct button is too easy to trigger accidentally.
Sounds like he could get a modern tablet and be happy with that as a replacement for the netbook.
I own a Dell Inspiron mini 1012, on which I ran FamiTracker, FCEUX debugger, Python with Pillow, and ca65 (a 6502 assembler) inside Xubuntu. I used it when working as lead programmer on the video games Haunted: Halloween '85 (2015) and The Curse of Possum Hollow (2016) published by Retrotainment Games. Because the laptop is so small, I could whip it out and get work done while riding the bus to and from my other job. I stopped using it when its third lithium ion battery could no longer hold a charge; unfortunately, its replacement is much bigger and thus not nearly as portable.
I need it to be x86-64, not ARM, because FamiTracker and FCEUX debugger are Windows applications that run usably in Wine, and Wine needs x86. (FCEUX works on other-than-x86, but without the debugger.) So what x86-64 tablet with keyboard do you recommend for running GNU/Linux? Or would an x86-64 tablet with keyboard running Windows 10, such as the ASUS Transformer Book, be better for work loads like this?
we probably would have seen abominations like "Yars Revenge for CGA" (shudder), ignoring the fact that the game's entire reason for EXISTENCE was the "color static" effect.
You mean that trench just to the left of the screen's halfway mark? There are plenty of other ways to draw a trench that the player can duck into, other than just filling a background stripe with game code.
Firefox works on ARM which has no SSE2.
Is this about the precompiled binaries?
It's also about the JavaScript JIT code generator. If the x86 and x86-64 versions of Firefox are hardcoded to emit SSE2 instructions, the browser can't be so easily recompiled not to require SSE2.
How would they know I am tethering?
Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, Debian (or anything else with apt), and Fedora (or anything else with yum/dnf) all phone home to check for system software updates. Your ISP can see what hostnames your device is accessing through DNS requests and the Server Name Indication field of TLS ClientHello. If these include some desktop operating system's software update repository, or Google Play Store while the SIM is in an iPhone, or Apple App Store while the SIM is in an Android phone, you're tethering. Or if these include substantial traffic to sites relying on Flash Player, such as Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Kongregate, or the like, you're tethering. If popular sites that use an m. hostname consistently fail to redirect you to the m. hostname, you're tethering. If you're consistently connecting on ports used by a desktop application not ported to mobile, you're tethering.
But don't confuse the base internet pipes with those companies that sit on top of it.
Ajit Pai and his FCC voted along party lines to allow ISPs to perform exactly such confusion in the United States.
People can decide to route around [the Internet giants] whenever they want to.
Unless all ISPs serving your area have decided to deprioritize and/or charge per bit for traffic other than to the Internet giants.
if your CPU uses clz to count trailing zeroes, you should report that as a bug.
Not necessarily. Use s = (s & (s - 1)) ^ s to clear all 1 bits other than the least significant, giving a "one-hot" integer. Then you can count leading zeroes and use that to infer trailing zeroes. It might look like the following (in a generic pseudo-assembly language):