Mihies
@Mihies@programming.dev
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 21 hours ago:
The only way to fake it would be to use a “public” signature, but then again, I’m sure google will revoke them eventually. I guess rooting won’t be enough, one would have to change some internal binaries. Perhaps it’s time for a ungooglified android OS 🤷♂️
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
Torrent client is just an application, author shouldn’t be responsible - naive thinking I suppose
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
I’d say a big ton of them :(
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
I’m on your side and you are correct, besides Google amassing a ton of money (each registration costs $25) they will have total control and we know that Google is far beyond “not evil”.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
Sideloading still works, just the apps have to be signed. Still awfull.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
Interesting. I have flatpack Chrome and camera works (hence my it should). OTOH I have dnf Firefox and camera doesn’t work because ‘You did not allow the browser to use the web camera. Reload the page and try again.’ I guess (your) Firefox issue might not be related to flatpak. (Fedora 42/KDE)
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
It should.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 week ago:
SSDs have controllers that help mitigating storage issues whereas SD cards are dumb.
- Comment on US ready to provide Ukraine security guarantees, but opposes NATO membership, Macron says 1 week ago:
At this point US guarantees are worthless.
- Comment on Sony Closes All Operations in Russia After 18 Years, Ending PlayStation, Music, and Film Presence 1 week ago:
I bet they have still a string presence in Israel.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
See my other reply
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking about Apple’s M CPUs that have fixed length and they benefit out of it. It was explained on Anandtech years ago, here is a brief paragraph on the topic. Sadly Anandtech article(s) isn’t available anymore.
Since this type of chip has a fixed instruction length, it becomes simple to load a large number of instructions and explore opportunities to execute operations in parallel. This is what’s called out-of-order execution, as explained by Anandtech in a highly technical analysis of the M1. Since complex CISC instructions can access memory before completing an operation, executing instructions in parallel becomes more difficult in contrast to the simpler RISC instructions.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but RISC knows the exact position of that instruction in cache and how many instructions fit the instructions cache or pipeline. Like you said, it doesn’t help with data cache.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
From what I remember one of problems with CISC is that it has variable length instructions and these are harder to predict since you have to analyze all instructions up to the current one wheres for RISC you exactly know where is each instruction in memory/cache.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
RISC is perfectly good for desktops as demonstrated by Apple. Microcontroller chips are suitable for light desktop tasks, they are nowhere near modern x64 CPUs. For now.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
ARMs are more oriented towards servers and mobile devices for now. Sure, we saw Apple demonstrating desktop use but not much is there for desktops for now. RISC-V is far away, Chinese CPUs are not competitive. It’s coming doesn’t help in short term, questionable in mid term. 🤷♂️ Yes, alternatives will come eventually, but it takes a lot of time and resources.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
We don’t have that many other processors, though. If you look at the desktop, there is AMD and there is Apple silicon which is restricted to Apple products. And then there is nothing. If Intel goes under ground, AMD might become next Intel. It’s time (for EU) to invest heavily into RISC-V, the entire stack.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
Probably not just capital, also political influence and other ways I guess. But yes, it’s always a problem if it’s like that. If you ask me, there should be a generic independent payment backbone, where many providers could provide payments - like internet or something like that.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
The issues here are trust, security, adoption and so forth. It’s not easy to start a competition here I’d say.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
STASI enters the chat.
- Comment on Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery 3 weeks ago:
Also the size of the thing and what happens to batteries after they die.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 5 weeks ago:
That’s quite a speed. How much does it cost and is this a company or personal subscription?
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
It’d be only fair if they required NSFW selfies.
- Comment on Europeans warn Iran of UN sanctions if no progress on nuclear deal 5 weeks ago:
Also Iran obliged to nuclear deal until the Orange unilaterally pulled away.
- Comment on Slovenia bars two far-right Israeli ministers 5 weeks ago:
Slovenia is all bark and no bite, this is the first tiny step that we actually took. But don’t be mislead, we still won’t don’t anything meaningful except for being concerned. Our right it’s also totally pro genocide and elections are next year.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France 5 weeks ago:
Nope, the way he did it he endangered bicyclists and his life. And at the end of the day, nobody understood his protest until reporters told us. Instead he should find a more creative and safer way such as huge banner or something. As I said, the message was right, the execution was poor.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France 5 weeks ago:
His message is to be heard, the way he did it was not a good one.
- Comment on Trump says Ukraine should not target Moscow 1 month ago:
Wasn’t 24 hours? And then Orange also made the situation much worse, not just didn’t make peace.
- Comment on Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate court case against government 1 month ago:
Perhaps these Aborigines should send their children somewhere safe, such as inland government schools, to be safe.
- Comment on Excavations begin at child mass grave site in Ireland 1 month ago:
As God intended, right? What a disgusting chapter of Catholic church, not the only one, and yet, people still trust them. 🤷♂️