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70rd

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    Comment #44589204

    https://archive.is/XwtK7

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    Comment #44578175

    Check out Precursor (FPGA device with softcore CPU running on it for trustability). Xous (microkernel OS for Precursor) has an application called Vault that does FIDO2/U2F as well …

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    Comment #43015607

    Doesn't Ardour support VST?

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    Comment #42922901

    Heads up your link is broken, doesn't match any PRs on that repo.

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    Comment #41351635

    That channel is great, would be great to find repositories of similar hacker/electronics channels, if anyone has some.

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    Comment #39886251

    Anyone tracking signup conversion will realize that phone numbers are autofilled whereas 2FA requires an installation for a greater number of users, leading to drop-off.

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    Comment #38879298

    Most enduring sofware is always those "one-off prototypes" that people cook up over a few days.

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    Comment #38792621

    I'd buy this (and gift it to everyone I'd think would like it) in an instant. Especially if you somehow included and refined the analysis you have in the blog posts.

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    Comment #38779215

    You run into ToCToU issues. Even if a chip is "open", how can you be sure the chip you have corresponds to the specification? If that isn't a concern, any FPGA based SoC fits the b…

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    Comment #38766276

    Supply chain attacks can be mitigated with "golden chip analysis", you destructively analyse a known good chip after measuring various power and timing benchmarks across adversaria…

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    Comment #38766233

    Different product at a different price point with different objectives. Security keys are suitable for mass deployment across an entire workforce, precursor aims to be a launchboar…

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    Comment #38727391

    Good at what they're being programmed for is a bit of tautology. FPGAs being selected for performance per watt was only a fairly recent phenomenon, when they were deployed on semi …

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    Comment #36976176

    Huh? I quickly scrolled through and he does mention a move which could explain the tree change. This is a pretty generic homelab, there's communities built around the hobby on redd…

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    Comment #36078060

    Some software has PDF reflow, like koreader.

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    Comment #35636341

    https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64 Those boxes are at higher price point, but far exceed the apu lineup in features/compute.

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    Comment #35021851

    Remember to contribute money/time if you love and use emacs! Microsoft recently cancelled PayPal for Github sponsors and Tarsius lost significant amounts of income (that was alread…

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    Comment #34546924

    Geocoding is a non-trivial problem, and OSM's engine,Nominatim [1] isn't great. [1] https://nominatim.org/

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    Comment #34465854

    What exception? If you are a citizen and intend on returning to the US (or even intend to renounce) you should be in good standing with the IRS (FBARs and annual filings). You owe …

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    Comment #34421477

    Some folks over at r/ergomechkeyboards have done this (for example https://redd.it/yhioec ). Also probably worth checking out https://www.reddit.com/r/trackpoint_builders

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    Comment #34375253

    Gwern's fairly comprehensive blog post [0] could be a good starting point. [0] https://www.gwern.net/Modafinill

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    Comment #34375244

    It's available as grey-market generics shipped from India (in the US). That said, it is Schedule IV. It's fairly well tolerated and widely prescribed for narcolepsy, and used off l…

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    Comment #34275742

    Would you say Kagi has escaped the Google SEO deterioration? Google has essentially gotten so bad for me that DuckDuckGo, without noticeable improvement, is now on par with Google.…

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    Comment #34089733

    Yeah, I'm kind of flabbergasted to be honest, total failures like that are rare for metal tubing.

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    Comment #33529730

    You can find bespoke assembly services with a lot of the vendors, it will usually run around 100$ extra so 300/400 for the keyboard which altogether isn't that bad compared to preb…

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    Comment #32905899

    An interesting approach to vendor-independent attestation was outlined in [1]. Basically the bitstream is fed into a physical unclonable function (PUF) which is used to derive a ke…