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Yeah, I thought we stopped posting freenode links here on HN a while ago. Kinda surprised about this one (especially since it is covered in detail elsewhere as well)

"hätte man wissen können..."

> a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers

I would bet that if it will ever be resolved, it will turn out to be just some bored kids[] who read the recent report from France and had access to Shodan and a competent AI model.

[] I'm using the term "kids" loosely here, not refering to a certain age group but to a certain mindset, similar to the original term "hacker"

How can I select a specific line in a country? I keep getting new (random) lines when I click on the same country again, is there any way to actually choose a specific line?

simply creating a Microsoft account would have been far quicker and easier ;-)

So what's stopping people from creating their own indivicual law, everyone for him/herself? That would be the closest you can get to the people ;-)

That's different. They cant create new "laws", and they can't spy on you etc. Also that's just for one building usually (the building where you live in) not a whole community

but why would you need an HOA for that? If your neighbor drops their junk on the street you can just call the cops on them yourself

So they are able to enact their own laws? That's pretty different from Germany, where a municipality cannot override laws from higher courts.

Can someone explain to me (an European) what purpose HOAs serve? I mean do they actually have any benefits? I only know them from videos where people are being harassed by them

no idea who Frank is (neither do I care) but these files have been readily available for years (and still are), all they're doing is collecting them at a central place and make them searchable (and vievable at a decent speed, compared to IA).

So yeah, I'm fine with people funding that

works fine here. Maybe try a different browser, or disable Adblocker/NoJS (the reading page looks like it uses lots of JavaScript)

That very blog post describes where they got their materials from, most of it comes from Retromags and out-of-print-archive. You can find downloads over at their sites, and those sites usually also upload to IA.

I don't think you can download directly from VGHF as that is not what it's intended for (it's a research tool)

I've been telling people for years that it's probably easier that they get used to the thought that everything about them is "public" in some way than waiting for the day when computers and databases are suddenly safe from hacking.

That doesn't mean that all of your neighbors know your medical history, but you have to assume that someone who wants to know those details about you will know them.

I have lost faith in people protecting any significant database from hackers.

Usually you do "rdrand % <some-number>" anyways, and in that case you will still get zeroes. True, your result might be skewed by 1/(maxint/some-number) but I guess that's not a big problem in practice

this is not how crypto works

Yeah but I don't want Chachacha, I prefer AES. If you can't do AES, I'm not interested in the website :)

I don't get what this is supposed to prove. That my browser doesn't allow websites to declare what encryption they use? I am pretty sure there's a point to all of this, but please let me (and my browser) choose which encryptions I want to trust.

Is this a spec violation or something?

I mean what other competitively similar AI models are there? DeepSeek is nowhere near. Are there others?

I used CLFS (Cross-Linux From Scratch) once to bootstrap Linux on my SGI Indy, and I learned quite a lot from this. That was back in 2008 or so, so way before AI and extensive online guides for almost everything. It taught me how cross compilers work, what dependencies exist in the GNU toolchain, how the SGI boots, and much more.

Too bad Cross-LFS is no longer a thing. Then again, with all these microcontrollers and ARM and RISC-V systems today, cross-compiling is no longer as magic (and tricky) as it was back then...

here you go: https://archive.org/details/386BSD1.0

probably faster downloading it than searching around in the attic ;-)

At least the Wolfenstein screenshot is VGA, not EGA. Yes, it looks weird with that dithering effect, but it's still VGA (too many/wrong colors for EGA, and also: Wolfenstein never was released with EGA graphics in the first place)

it would be awesome if there was an ISA bus emulation using some sort of modern protocol. You could create "modern" ISA cards using an RP2350 on every card that does the emulation, to split emulation between multiple RP2350's (one emulates a VGA card, one emulates a sound card, one emulates a network card, etc.)

Bonus points for a standardized connector that everyone could develop towards. Imagine a tiny ISA PC that you could place on your desktop, swap miniscule (ISA)-cards in and out of, and play retro games etc.

it's not that bad. At 120MHz, the PSRAM still gets only around 90-100ns per word in the worst case. If you use some SRAM for caching and do bulk transfers, you can get that down quite a bit. Also you can easily overclock the PSRAM to 133MHt (10 decrease in latency) with no problem, maybe even (much?) more.

normal dynamic RAM back then was at 60-70 ns so it's really not that bad. And YT videos show that it also works fine in practice

How is the RP2350 6 times faster than the RP2350? That must be a typo...

yeah, this is a bug. And yes, it should be fixed. But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

maybe this is the real reason why governments don't switch to Linux: the nerdy images. Because we can't have that in an official government building, no sir, it's all numbers and abstract icons in here please :-)

Is there a way to just browse hosted projects without creating an account? I couldn't find anything

"backing" is a Virtual-Memory related term. With virtual memory, you can have memory areas (called "pages") that are not really there but only present in the metadata (the "book-keeping", so to say). The first time, someone actually tries to access this page, that access is interrupted ("faulted") and the kernel gets a say in what should be done to that piece of memory (i.e. load it from disk somewhere, reserve actual physical memory and fill it with zeroes, or crash the process).

The "backing" refers to the physical memory that might or might not be present for every "virtual" piece of memory that your program has allocated.

"Freshly faulted" means that a page of (virtual) memory has just received a "backing" by the process above and is, thus, very fresh in physical memory (even though the virtual memory might have been allocated much earlier)

"~10 instructions later" refers to the assembly- (machine-) code, which, contrary to a high-level language like C, usually has long(ish) sequences of rather simple "instructions". 10 instructions is a rather short interval in assembly code.

As for the "localize", the term used is actually "localizes to" which I read as "turns out to be located in" (probably just a bad English translation by the original author)

While this whole summary reads a bit weird, I don't think it is necessarily the result of an LLM, it's probably just that someone who is rather inexperienced at writing up technical summaries did it.