For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline

The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality

“We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”

I was reasonably certain, but left it open in case OP knew of some edge case where flags that are intended to be machine independent caused bugs on different architectures

-O2 vs -O3 adds -fgcse-after-reload -fipa-cp-clone -floop-interchange -floop-unroll-and-jam -fpeel-loops -fpredictive-commoning -fsplit-loops -fsplit-paths -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-partial-pre -funswitch-loops -fvect-cost-model=dynamic -fversion-loops-for-strides

I don’t think any of these optimizations require more modern hardware?

I’ve used Matrix since the app was called Riot.im and there was no encryption

I didn’t realize once encryption was added, that there were still metadata leaks as compared to Signal

Could you give me some information on what metadata is unencrypted, or point me towards documentation about that?

For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice

Yeah. The crowd rooting for Qualcomm has never worked with them

ARM has it’s problems, but they aren’t in the wrong here

Every carrier lets you use an unlocked phone on their network

T-Mobile no longer lets you buy unlocked phones from them

Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-power-ai/?guccounter=1

The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins

This new reporting of they can’t afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety

I mean, it’s internally consistent with the inbetween too, for the first three:

They went Xbox, did a 360 to face the same direction, and re-released the Xbox 1

If your speedometer/tachometer is a screen instead of dials, it’s extremely likely it’s running Linux, too

So still somewhat useful in the auto space

All the “portless iPhone” rumors have seemed unlikely because of DFU mode.

If they can now enter DFU wirelessly from the initial bootloader in silicon, they might actually be close to a portless iPhone

I… I know they made colorful iMacs… But… What was the marketing idea behind this ad?

What did they mean by “No artificial colors” for a computer…?

It’s not just betas - it’s in the main release, too

We’re still using them on machines where performance doesn’t matter

On build machines, they’re on a special VLAN and don’t have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror

Their ftrace hooks caused all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound

We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed

Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch

Somewhere around 0,0 or 1,1

There are amazing possibilities in the theoretical space, but there hasn’t been enough of a breakthrough on how to practically make stable qubits on a scale to create widespread hype

I’d used Linux a bit out of curiosity in the Windows XP era

Windows Vista came out and was completely unusable on the computers I or anyone around me owned. It was also harder to configure than Linux and the new UI looked worse than the Linux UIs at the time

So I switched and haven’t been back to Windows since

If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of their access

It will persist across operating system installs

However, this requires them to get access first

How does one flash a ROM without unlocking the bootloader these days?

Shouldn’t that break Android Verified Boot?

A pure GSI image could use a Google key, I suppose, but others shouldn’t, right?