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Linus hasn't pulled it yet. (And it's doubtful whether he will.) It's just David Howells has requested him to do so.

There's a bug in Apple's EFI driver for BCM4331 cards present on a lot of older Macs which keeps the card enabled even after handing over control to the OS. A patch went into Linux…

Porsche for instance isn't earning any money with their LMP1 race cars. They need them to sustain the illusion that they're a sports car company, despite the majority of their sale…

Revolution Pi for SCADA / IoT applications. Mounted on an industry standard EN 50022 top hat rail with a 24 VDC power supply. https://revolution.kunbus.com/

https://hopperapp.com is just 89 €, I've found its decompiler to be sufficient in most cases.

> You can plug a TB3 device into a TB2 laptop with a simple adapter. Apple sells theirs for $29; Chinese versions will be cheaper. Apple's adapter has turned out not to work on Lin…

You need to read the whole thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=148238610022972&w=2 "obviously i am interested to get this upstream with the least amount of effort. I am quite a…

LEDE folks have started to dump their patches on kernel mailing lists, but they don't seem to be mainline-able as is and the submitter is loathe to rework them: http://marc.info/?l…

BMW has a subsidiary in Ulm (BMW Car-IT) working on the next head unit. This will be designed and engineered in-house, at least to a large extent. Any opinion on that? The current …

> Google doesn't do laptop/desktop computers They do: "Google Chromebooks outsell Apple Macs" (May 2016) http://www.businessinsider.com/google-chromebooks-outsell-ap...

Yes, because the PCIe root complex in the CPU can only connect one other device besides the southbridge, and that's used for the Thunderbolt controller on the left handside. The se…

Business as usual with macOS. The other day I was browsing the ocspd source code. Turns out it calls openssl using system(). So openssl is officially deprecated on macOS and yet th…

This is an issue in the kernel. You don't report this to the distro vendor but to the appropriate kernel mailing list. In this case the interface to user space is broken AND it's a…

You can download firmware updates for lenses as well as camera bodies, and with MFT there's even an open standard for interchangeable lenses/bodies across manufacturers.

It was done in an afternoon according to its creator: https://mobile.twitter.com/WrkRiot/status/769357556762324992 https://mobile.twitter.com/tessstevens/status/76935690644803...

Birthday paradox.

Totally off base. BSD versus GNU conventions.

In German industry, there's plenty of angst that incumbents might be displaced by IT companies. E.g. Apple introduced their watch a bit more than a year ago and now they're dominat…

I'm not surprised at all that BIND performs poorly, look at those graphs (granted this is for authoritative servers, but says a lot about BIND's performance in general): https://ww…

For this to be correct, all records to be resolved would need to have completely disjunct labels from the root down. Which they cannot if they are indeed in the millions.

Ugh, so public resolvers are flooded with requests? Wouldn't it make much more sense to set up a local caching resolver like unbound and feed your queries to it? It would be much m…

I've had an Intel S3500 brick within 4 weeks and a SanDisk Extreme Pro start to show occasional I/O errors after a few months. The latter doesn't just lead to bit rot, but unreadab…

So they still have a team working on ZFS? Could the anonymous "ilovezfs" involved with OpenZFSonOSX and coming from a California IP address be part of this team?