The big issue that the author kind of mentions is that while the kernel has all these neat features, the overlaying OS seems to use them in such a way that they’re often not effective. XP before SP1 was a security nightmare and we got lucky that blaster was not working correctly. A secure token for the processes in your session? It doesn’t really help if every process you spawn gets this token with the user being the administrator (I know this is kind of different nowadays with UAC). A very cool architecture that allows easy porting? Let’s only use it on x86. Even today, it’s big news for Windows running on ARM, which the not-by-design-portable Unices have been doing for years.

Maybe if Microsoft had allowed the kernel to be used in other operating systems - not expecting a copyleft license - the current view is that Windows Is Bad, and the NT kernel is an inseparable part of Windows. And hell, even Windows CE which did run on other devices and architectures, doesn’t use the NT kernel.

So while the design and maybe even large parts of its implementation may be good and clean, it’s Microsoft’s fault that the public perception of the NT kernel.

The R in LLM stand for Return on Investment

“YouTube delenda est”

I actually have an account on there with almost nothing, just my nix configuration, plus a repo I cloned to commit a bug fix on software I used. But it seemed like the most responsible solution as in the price is reasonable, plus I actually like the interface. Codeberg also looks good and claims to be better in some regards, but these are the only choices nowadays.

Anyhow, I’m still waiting for Pijul to have a final 1.0 release and independent hosting solutions to appear.

Which is dumb. Secure Boot does make sense (if handled correctly, unlike here).

The news is about Core i9 CPUs, which are the enthusiast / possibly workstation offering by Intel with high single core clock speeds. Amazon, Google and Microsoft use server CPUs which usually don’t feature such high speeds, but rather focus on more cores and more possible RAM.

However, if a vendor sells a product with the main feature of high clock speeds and the product fails when I’m using that exact feature for prolonged periods of time, I’d say it’s faulty.

Grey market chips usually include chips that failed quality assurance to prop up numbers.

50%?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

These are absolutely disastrous numbers. This is worse than I would expect from illegally sources parts.

Well, that’s kind of a bromide. By extension, everything is a security risk. Managing and minimizing risks is the hard part.

But then what? So you have a camera signing its files and we pretend that extraction of the secret key is impossible (which it probably isn’t). You load the file into your editing program because usually, the source files are processed further. You create a derivative of the signed file and there’s no connection to the old signature anymore, so this would only make sense if you provide the original file for verification purposes, which most people won’t do.

I guess it’s better than nothing but it will require more infrastructure to turn it into something usable, or of this was only used in important situations where manual checking isn’t an issue, like a newspaper posting a picture but keeping the original to verify the authenticity.

Nice until you’re at a hotspot that blocks most ports but the most common ones.

I use HTTPS for all stuff, that has given me the best results overall. But of course, you can offer multiple options simultaneously

Also game servers because they’re generally very easy to host at home, and due to generally high RAM and storage needs paying for hosting can be quite pricey.

Really?

I thought this was more the case with flexible providers like DigitalOcean. My current provider charges 5,36€ per month for 4 cores (though I assume this corresponds rather to 2 SMT-enabled cores), 6 GB of RAM and a 400 GB SSD. It offers better latency for most players (obviously not for myself) and in most cases has been sufficient regarding performance.

No, you’re reading it wrong with emphasis on against, while she emphasized the us.

What she calls values aren’t stupid, they’re malicious, but usually targeted at groups she doesn’t like

Maybe not the best acronym, with Node Package Manager around

Ahoy sailor

Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding, so it’s not an option for the issue discussed here

I mean I think I know what you mean I also think “digitizing” doesn’t really describe it. Most media nowadays is digital to begin with. Even audio CDs store a digital format.