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Re:The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:53AM (#35685535)
You explicitly mention the MNT Reform and the Librem 5, which use this chip. I agree that you never say that any given device can't work around this, but that is what I understood from the way this was presented. I was vaguely familiar with the MNT Reform and went looking for that converter chip because I thought they had a solution to this, which they do.

Perhaps if the last bullet point in the article said something about not being able to use HDMI or displayport without a converter chip, it would have been clearer to me.

Re:The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:44AM (#35685485)
Shouldn't you have mentioned this in your article? The way the article is written makes it sound like the MNT Reform is flawed in a way this clarifies it is not.
Re:The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:39AM (#35685452)
Isn't this why the MNT Reform, and possibly others, use a DSI to eDP converter - specifically to avoid having to play this game?
Re:A complete guide to Linux process scheduling [pdf] on Monday February 20, 2023 @07:47AM (#34867585)
Should append [2015] to the submission title. This is practically ancient news due to the rate of changes in the Linux kernel in this domain.
Re:Signal TLS Proxy on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:25AM (#32948977)
They already know people who are trying to access signal without a proxy, so I don't think this would make a significant difference. Also note that from the Signal Blog post above:

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The Signal client establishes a normal TLS connection with the proxy, and the proxy simply forwards any bytes it receives to the actual Signal service. Any non-Signal traffic is blocked. Additionally, the Signal client still negotiates its standard TLS connection with the Signal endpoints through the tunnel.

This means that in addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects everything in Signal, all traffic remains opaque to the proxy operator.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:14PM (#28933976)
You sorted by single core performance, then compared multi core performance. Sort by multi core performance, and you will see that the i9-11900K is nowhere near the top spot.

For example, the Ryzen 9 5950X has single/multi core scores of 1,688/16,645 - which is higher in multi core score than the M1 Max, but lower in the single core.

The 3950X is also an AM4 part (non-threadripper).