* Posts by shawn.eary

10 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2021

Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak

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Re: Wasn't the whole point fo Secure Boot

"Besides, running an OS that has been designed hand in hand with the hardware it runs on has its advantages." - We didn't have all of these problems when the Amiga 500 was in its prime...

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This is precisely why Microsoft should drop the TPM requirement for Windows 11. TPMs are basically useless... Well, they aren't actually useless, but they aren't as secure as people have been led on to believe. From my understanding, it's very easy for skilled Electrical Engineers or state actors to hack TPMs.

Generative AI won't steal your job, just change it, says UN

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Who's in Charge?

No need to worry about generative AI. It will merely engineer the next strain of COVID. The World Health Organization (WHO) will then needlessly lock you up in your home until you die of obscure diseases (other than COVID) while YouTube censors all free speech and objective academic discussion surrounding the topic.

Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions

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I'm not sure why things like Windows 10 and MS Teams eat up so much CPU/Disk usage when "idle". If only Steinberg Cubase would run on GNU\Linux...

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Please Don't

I paid a ton of money for MS Office back in the day. It still works and runs. I would rather Microsoft not try to deactivate products on my computer. I don't have the money to endlessly upgrade for no reason on every Microsoft whim. I've some high dollar hardware get phased out in the past because Microsoft reconfigured the kernel and the vendor refuses to rewrite the drivers into compliance.

Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs

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Personally, I think TPM chips offer very little in terms of improved security... The bigger problem is that eventually Microsoft will stop patching Windows 10...

Linus Torvalds's faulty memory (RAM, not wetware) slows kernel development

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At home, I run dual socket MB with ECC FB DIMMs. My home machine is probably 10 years old now and I'm seeing serious issues [1]. My most recent DIMMs were bought used off eBay and I think one of them is going bad. Logically everyone should be using memory that can correct errors, but for me, I seriously wonder if things like ECC, Fully Buffered, Dual Socket and power-loss SSDs are worth the extra cost. I've seen plenty of people with SSDs that don't have power loss safety and people that don't have ECC memory that seem to have more reliable, cheaper and faster computers than I have. I'm still on mechanical HDs at home BTW.

One last think, I know this thread is about GNU\Linux, but I wish Microsoft would get rid of that stupid TPM requirement for Windows 11. I'm pretty sure TPMs don't increase security as much as most users believe they do. I'm pretty sure many Electrical Engineers can figure out easy ways to hack TPMs.

[1] - Specwise, this home machine is massively multi-threaded and should perform really well, but what I seem to be seeing is that many computer programmers still don't properly take advantage of parallelism as much as they could. For this reason, it is often better to maybe get a cheaper computer with fewer cores and really fast single threaded performance (i.e. high but stable clock rate with high MIPS).

Dell opts out of Microsoft's Pluton security for Windows

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Can we dump the TPM requirement for Win 11 already? TPMs can be easily hacked from my understanding...

Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'

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Re: It is fine

Version 1.0 Said>> The "Best Language" is just the one you are good at.

Not sure I necessarily agree. I don't have any special skill in Haskell, but I still feel it is the best language ever invented primarily because of its purity. It's also a lot easier for people to learn than they think. It's just a bit "odd" for people that are used to imperative programming. Of course, some of the skilled developers in the Haskell community tend to be a bit "rude" an that doesn't help language adoption...

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Long Live PERL

Honestly, I've used PERL and prefer it over Python. I've actually gotten a few emails back from what appeared to be Larry Wall's email address. I suppose Python is "reasonable", but I wish Guido had picked a better name for his language. I also wish people would stop calling GNU\Linux background drivers daemons. That REALLY bothers me. Please stop it. In terms of the ultimate "scripting" language, I actually prefer Haskell but I thing PERL is cool. Not sure we should attack the language PERL because I liked it just fine. It's just that I like Haskell more than any language ever invented. If only my bosses and coworkers could understand that... Maybe the new language Nim will be okay, but I doubt it will be better than Haskell.