Microsoft at least does IDKFA -- with apple, the K are entirely Apple's, not shared for you. (Hint: you're doomed. A cookie (of the non-tracking kind) to anyone who gets the reference.)
In Poland, we have a dense network of "packomates" -- lock boxes that you receive a pick up code for. There's a packomate within 2-3 street segments of every place I needed a package delivered to.
Then, a competing carrier instead signed a contract with a widespread chain of convenience stores. This was spurred by the govt banning shops from being open on Sundays -- except for churches, gas stations, post offices, etc. The way the law was written, a convenience store that you can send packages to/from does count as a post office -- which, after a series of lawsuits, stuck. Other carriers followed suit and now you can pick up packages at several store chains -- as the contracts are not exclusive, effectively every of those stores serves each of the carriers, providing a very dense network.
To-door deliveries not only are ~3 times as expensive and tend to take longer, but suffer from the porch pirate issue you mention. No wonder hardly anyone uses them anymore. Problem solved.
Use any filesystem that supports transactions, and you can have both safety and performance. It's especially easy to do for whole-file writes which are the usual way of using USB sticks.
Not sure if NTFS transactions work sanely, but if they do, here's compat with any version of Windows since Vista.
"Whether you stand or you lay, three thousands is the pay", "we fake we work, the government fakes it pays us". For everyone except dissidents, there was effectively a guarantee of employment. Even if you were drinking at work every day, you didn't get fired as long as you showed up. No one cared about the quality of work. There were also organized vacations, etc. Any consumer goods were at a permanent shortage, and even if you actually found them in a shop (after queues of truly epic length), many common items costed you ~1000 times the work time as for a worker in the western world. But basic food was obtainable, and no one starved.
Many shortages were intentional, sometimes due to cartoonish villainry on the part of the government. My grandpa was a sailor, and once his ship got held at the port's approach for two weeks because their cargo included a load of oranges, and the govt didn't want oranges to be available for Christmas -- they were supposed to be for New Year. The oranges spoiled. Orwell didn't invent this part -- many parts of 1984 were depictions of actual life in the soviet world.
So the population was held at sustenance level, with any luxuries (even such as toilet paper) being hard to obtain and a cause for celebration. But the sustenance level was kept -- if you were neither in the Party nor a dissident, you lived a poor but safe life, neither above nor below sustenance.
I don't personally know anyone hat plays DND, but plenty of people who play fortnite.
That says a lot about your social circles. I know a bunch D&D players but no one who plays Fortnite. Among all my friends and relatives, my dad is the only person who watches TV -- and most do read books (including dad).
Main-memory for a server is even worse - they'll run through the expected life in months, if not weeks.
If you bothered to read TFA, the endurance is expected to last 5 years when being driven at maximum possible throughput the whole time -- and if a given stick fails within that 5 years, you get warranty replacement.
Optane is not Intel only. The NVMe-mounted stuff works perfectly for me in an ancient Phenom 2, or in a RockPro64. And it's not just some "pass-through cache" but a real disk. with latency 3-4 times better than on best SSDs, great linear read speeds and not so stellar but still nice linear writes. The linear speed can be fixed with RAID0 -- I found someone selling suspiciously cheap but apparently (according to SMART) new 16GB disks, I snagged four. Still waiting for the delivery of machine I can put them into at same time -- can't wait to benchmark this setup. Yeah, RAID0 is unsafe, but I'm going to do backups to bulk slow storage (an ordinary NVMe SSD disk).
You'd want sacc to view it -- forg breaks ASCII-art, and OverbiteNX requires non-packaged Onyx, thus is beyond my current amount of shit to give. OverbiteFF used to be good, but is no more.
Obtain two distinct copies of the audio, diff them. Anything not common to both copies is either watermarking, noise, or compression artifacts -- and you want none of that.
Then your machine sucked ass. Quake was damn slow on 486 but pretty snappy on Pentium; a single Pentium 2 was enough to send four 320x240 streams over X forwarding to IRIX boxen at a semi-playable frame rate.
Yet another reason is that even Microsoft rapidly goes away from Windows. nVidia's drivers for anything but Windows are of such low quality that Linus' word choice is way too mild.
Find a boss who'll let you work 8-4 in the summer instead of 9-5.
Mine for example. A big multinational corporation. Want to come to work at 7? At 12? Either is fine. There's enough overlap for anything important that needs to be communicated face-to-face. And after 19 or so, people stop coming to bother you and you can get some shit done.
For this reason, there's no real option other than demanding the source (and rights to modify and distribute) of every piece of code you run on your machine. In particular, this means no Android (and free forks lack drivers for any modern hardware).
Only then you can have a possibility of killing phone-home.
Nope, Flash can't be accessed randomly, only by a block of the whole page. And even worse, those blocks need then to be erased in large groups. Actual memory not only is byte addressable, but also has around 4 orders of magnitude better access time than the flash disks in the article. As for non-volatile memory, it's 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than this fancy flash.
Per your definition, a spinning disk would also count as memory, as you don't need to read it sequentially but can seek to a given sector.
They're turning Macs into phones with keyboards and bigger screens, because everything is a terminal for the cloud now, right?
Fortunately some folks are going the other way. 100% free software (modem being isolated) Pinephone is coming, so is some Purism stuff -- no need to use Android nor iOS spyware.
Or Gemini for that matter -- it has nasty non-free drivers, but is pretty functional. Just this Friday I spent a long bus ride hacking on a work project -- as the problem I'm working on involves something multithreaded not scaling well, a 10-core phone is actually better than the 4*2 dev machine. There are folks who use a phone without basics like compiler or valgrind, but I'm not one of them.
Newsflash: in Debian alone there's 57 different window managers (counting packages that declare Provides: x-window-manager). They vary wildly in functionality, but you get both fully-featured/bloated ones and 1990-era alikes.
it has killed my productivity because window management is a pain and inconsistent, and features that used to work no longer do (it's now impossible to suspend while in a docking station, and this is apparently by design according to the bug report).
Aye, Gnome 3 is insane -- even Microsoft has backed out of Metro.
Yeah -- Karman's line was selected purely for propaganda purposes, to be able to claim an achievement sooner. This would happened even without the rivalry with Soviets, as politicians try to exploit any such perceived win.
That's actually pretty safe, as long as you have a semi-saneish firewall with a deny-incoming rule (such as most IPv4-only connections (for "deny-incoming", not "sane")). There's no Microsoft _client_ program that's reasonable to run, so all you care about are vulnerabilities in Firefox or such. Barring a hole in low level TCP/IP, network attacks are limited to the local network. Even a hole in eg. Microsoft's implementation of DNS stub resolver can be avoided by running a local cache (no idea what's Windows' equivalent to unbound) then letting the system use that.
Dear Beloved Bill, on the other hand, is either suffering from accelerated senility or is merely continueing the subtle eugenicist fuckery of his ilk.
This. This is the guy who sends poor countries some medicine (valuating them at five orders of magnitude above reasonable price) for the tiny string attached of agreeing to forbid local manufacture of said medicines. Or, promoting male genital mutilation instead of fighting it. And so on, so on. His "philantrophy" sets back what he touches about as badly as his "contributions" in the software world.
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Microsoft at least does IDKFA -- with apple, the K are entirely Apple's, not shared for you. (Hint: you're doomed. A cookie (of the non-tracking kind) to anyone who gets the reference.)
In Poland, we have a dense network of "packomates" -- lock boxes that you receive a pick up code for. There's a packomate within 2-3 street segments of every place I needed a package delivered to.
Then, a competing carrier instead signed a contract with a widespread chain of convenience stores. This was spurred by the govt banning shops from being open on Sundays -- except for churches, gas stations, post offices, etc. The way the law was written, a convenience store that you can send packages to/from does count as a post office -- which, after a series of lawsuits, stuck. Other carriers followed suit and now you can pick up packages at several store chains -- as the contracts are not exclusive, effectively every of those stores serves each of the carriers, providing a very dense network.
To-door deliveries not only are ~3 times as expensive and tend to take longer, but suffer from the porch pirate issue you mention. No wonder hardly anyone uses them anymore. Problem solved.
My cochlear implant has a 3.5mm port [...] It'll work with a phone, too
Sounds like you haven't heard of new, courageful innovations in phone design.
The article would be drastically more informative if it gave a comparison to a similar building on Earth.
Every piece of our surroundings is teeming with bacterial and fungal life, you'd need to go to extreme lengths to eliminate that.
Use any filesystem that supports transactions, and you can have both safety and performance. It's especially easy to do for whole-file writes which are the usual way of using USB sticks.
Not sure if NTFS transactions work sanely, but if they do, here's compat with any version of Windows since Vista.
"Whether you stand or you lay, three thousands is the pay", "we fake we work, the government fakes it pays us". For everyone except dissidents, there was effectively a guarantee of employment. Even if you were drinking at work every day, you didn't get fired as long as you showed up. No one cared about the quality of work. There were also organized vacations, etc. Any consumer goods were at a permanent shortage, and even if you actually found them in a shop (after queues of truly epic length), many common items costed you ~1000 times the work time as for a worker in the western world. But basic food was obtainable, and no one starved.
Many shortages were intentional, sometimes due to cartoonish villainry on the part of the government. My grandpa was a sailor, and once his ship got held at the port's approach for two weeks because their cargo included a load of oranges, and the govt didn't want oranges to be available for Christmas -- they were supposed to be for New Year. The oranges spoiled. Orwell didn't invent this part -- many parts of 1984 were depictions of actual life in the soviet world.
So the population was held at sustenance level, with any luxuries (even such as toilet paper) being hard to obtain and a cause for celebration. But the sustenance level was kept -- if you were neither in the Party nor a dissident, you lived a poor but safe life, neither above nor below sustenance.
I don't personally know anyone hat plays DND, but plenty of people who play fortnite.
That says a lot about your social circles. I know a bunch D&D players but no one who plays Fortnite. Among all my friends and relatives, my dad is the only person who watches TV -- and most do read books (including dad).
That's still a direct attack against the phone's user.
Main-memory for a server is even worse - they'll run through the expected life in months, if not weeks.
If you bothered to read TFA, the endurance is expected to last 5 years when being driven at maximum possible throughput the whole time -- and if a given stick fails within that 5 years, you get warranty replacement.
As persistent as that on a legacy disk? That's terrible!
Optane is not Intel only. The NVMe-mounted stuff works perfectly for me in an ancient Phenom 2, or in a RockPro64. And it's not just some "pass-through cache" but a real disk. with latency 3-4 times better than on best SSDs, great linear read speeds and not so stellar but still nice linear writes. The linear speed can be fixed with RAID0 -- I found someone selling suspiciously cheap but apparently (according to SMART) new 16GB disks, I snagged four. Still waiting for the delivery of machine I can put them into at same time -- can't wait to benchmark this setup. Yeah, RAID0 is unsafe, but I'm going to do backups to bulk slow storage (an ordinary NVMe SSD disk).
Then there's DIMM-mounted Optane, as in TFA...
You'd want sacc to view it -- forg breaks ASCII-art, and OverbiteNX requires non-packaged Onyx, thus is beyond my current amount of shit to give. OverbiteFF used to be good, but is no more.
Obtain two distinct copies of the audio, diff them. Anything not common to both copies is either watermarking, noise, or compression artifacts -- and you want none of that.
Because a wall is orders of magnitude more cost-effective than checking individuals, that's some funds available for NASA right there.
US Democrites want illegal imigration because illegals overwhelmingly support them rather than Repugnicants, not because it makes economical sense.
Then your machine sucked ass. Quake was damn slow on 486 but pretty snappy on Pentium; a single Pentium 2 was enough to send four 320x240 streams over X forwarding to IRIX boxen at a semi-playable frame rate.
Yet another reason is that even Microsoft rapidly goes away from Windows. nVidia's drivers for anything but Windows are of such low quality that Linus' word choice is way too mild.
Find a boss who'll let you work 8-4 in the summer instead of 9-5.
Mine for example. A big multinational corporation. Want to come to work at 7? At 12? Either is fine. There's enough overlap for anything important that needs to be communicated face-to-face. And after 19 or so, people stop coming to bother you and you can get some shit done.
For this reason, there's no real option other than demanding the source (and rights to modify and distribute) of every piece of code you run on your machine. In particular, this means no Android (and free forks lack drivers for any modern hardware).
Only then you can have a possibility of killing phone-home.
Nope, Flash can't be accessed randomly, only by a block of the whole page. And even worse, those blocks need then to be erased in large groups. Actual memory not only is byte addressable, but also has around 4 orders of magnitude better access time than the flash disks in the article. As for non-volatile memory, it's 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than this fancy flash.
Per your definition, a spinning disk would also count as memory, as you don't need to read it sequentially but can seek to a given sector.
They're turning Macs into phones with keyboards and bigger screens, because everything is a terminal for the cloud now, right?
Fortunately some folks are going the other way. 100% free software (modem being isolated) Pinephone is coming, so is some Purism stuff -- no need to use Android nor iOS spyware.
Or Gemini for that matter -- it has nasty non-free drivers, but is pretty functional. Just this Friday I spent a long bus ride hacking on a work project -- as the problem I'm working on involves something multithreaded not scaling well, a 10-core phone is actually better than the 4*2 dev machine. There are folks who use a phone without basics like compiler or valgrind, but I'm not one of them.
Gnome 3 is an abomination
Newsflash: in Debian alone there's 57 different window managers (counting packages that declare Provides: x-window-manager). They vary wildly in functionality, but you get both fully-featured/bloated ones and 1990-era alikes.
it has killed my productivity because window management is a pain and inconsistent, and features that used to work no longer do (it's now impossible to suspend while in a docking station, and this is apparently by design according to the bug report).
Aye, Gnome 3 is insane -- even Microsoft has backed out of Metro.
it's dangerous for the numbered to have their person-numbers be widely known
I got an idea: can't we tattoo the number on left arm? That'd be secure against hacking unless someone sees you or a photo without a long sleeve.
Other ideas would be the forehead (never tried AFAIK) or right hand (semi-popular as implanted RFID).
Yeah -- Karman's line was selected purely for propaganda purposes, to be able to claim an achievement sooner. This would happened even without the rivalry with Soviets, as politicians try to exploit any such perceived win.
That's actually pretty safe, as long as you have a semi-saneish firewall with a deny-incoming rule (such as most IPv4-only connections (for "deny-incoming", not "sane")). There's no Microsoft _client_ program that's reasonable to run, so all you care about are vulnerabilities in Firefox or such. Barring a hole in low level TCP/IP, network attacks are limited to the local network. Even a hole in eg. Microsoft's implementation of DNS stub resolver can be avoided by running a local cache (no idea what's Windows' equivalent to unbound) then letting the system use that.
Dear Beloved Bill, on the other hand, is either suffering from accelerated senility or is merely continueing the subtle eugenicist fuckery of his ilk.
This. This is the guy who sends poor countries some medicine (valuating them at five orders of magnitude above reasonable price) for the tiny string attached of agreeing to forbid local manufacture of said medicines. Or, promoting male genital mutilation instead of fighting it. And so on, so on. His "philantrophy" sets back what he touches about as badly as his "contributions" in the software world.