Posts by xlerb@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #ASRdqRM3s3xByVDY0m by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-02-07T18:43:47Z
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@mjg59 Lazy FPU restore in general is a pretty old and well-known technique, isn't it? This seems like a more or less straightforward extension of the idea; I wonder if Intel didn't foresee it, or had some other reason for being less than ideally helpful here.Meanwhile, trying to search for “lazy FPU restore” to find the history, I see it was involved in yet another Spectre variant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore). Sigh.
(DIR) Post #AXPGILR6Yq0NmSlcYa by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-07-06T04:30:50Z
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@qdot I've been purposely *not* sticking my head into the Fedi drama because I already have enough problems, so I don't know what the temperature of things is, but: if enough people are serious enough about not letting That Company in here, I'm thinking the bit of history that repeats itself is the founding of EFnet. Fun times, either way.
(DIR) Post #AXo9PtZGrzhAXMJvQe by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-07-18T04:12:44Z
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I regret to inform you that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has poisoned the SEO landscape if the thing you're trying to look up is actually a reference to the Open Container Initiative.(The reasons why I'm in this situation are annoying and also involve PKCS#11.)
(DIR) Post #AXs36HxXaGEPOtPgEC by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-07-20T01:49:13Z
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@mjg59 There's also Netscape's galaxy brain move of having the list of trusted CAs be a PKCS#11 module.Thus leading to this bit of, uh, system integration: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/8274edca65deb6dd9591f10abc90431fab823d99/elements/components/nss.bst#L138-139
(DIR) Post #AXwFlqCb9OeHYesNO4 by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-07-22T02:25:57Z
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@mjg59 If it were me, I would simply leave the forest and acquire rum *before* trying to think about remote attestation.
(DIR) Post #AaeCXzb6PSOYdfmu1o by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-10-11T03:07:08Z
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@BrodieOnLinux X11, FVWM. I don't know if there are any Wayland compositors yet that have the verb “iconify”.
(DIR) Post #AcxBFG1mK9M5GBI8pc by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-12-19T02:34:53Z
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@mjg59 Hodie natus est radici frater?
(DIR) Post #Ad7n1L1kQnetWOZT1c by xlerb@sfba.social
2023-12-24T05:25:15Z
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@qdot It looks a lot like Factorio based on random screenshots, and Factorio annoyed me so much I never got very far, so think I'm safe from that one.Timberborn, though….