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    Comment #49145642

    X86 CPUs with support for 57 bit of virtual address space have been produced by both Intel and AMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging .

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    Comment #48809952

    You might be interested in the Turris Omnia NG which has two 10g SFP+ ports: https://www.turris.com/en/products/omnia-NG-wired/

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    Comment #48592569

    I never understood the mindset which seemed to interpret “we must preserve this for 5 years” as “we must _delete_ everything after 5 years”. I understand they want to minimize stor…

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    Comment #48083757

    In 2016 there were enhancements added by ‘802.11ac wave 2’ which might help explain some of the 8 year gap.

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    Comment #47912509

    Right, but I don’t think a x2 slot exists so hence being physically a x4 card. If you had an open ended x1 slot you might be able to run as PCIe v4 x1.

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    Comment #47904537

    There are RTL8127 cards with SFP+, e.g. https://www.lekuo.com/product_view.php?id=659 edit: on looking closer, that still seems to be an x4 card.

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    Comment #47904392

    I think the point he is making is that the industry first went with a 10g single link, and then 40g over 4 links. Then they figured out how to do 25g over a single link, and 100g o…

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    Comment #47904347

    ServeTheHome is a good place to look for reviews of the switches available, e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/10gbe-in-2026-is-finally-hittin...

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    Comment #47819845

    My experience: I was using synergy to handle a Windows and a Linux machine, and later display-switch, but they started to be flagged as suspicious by our corporate AV. I tried some…

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    Comment #47627168

    It is commonly known as ‘Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND)’. Some standards organisations will only accept contributions where a patent owner agrees to license them …

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    Comment #47523457

    If you want to avoid the initrd loophole then you will want to look into UKI images. These extend the secure boot signature to include the kernel and ramdisk: https://uapi-group.or…

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    Comment #46313477

    EXO lets you run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices. We take advantage of Apple's M-series hardware and unified memory to run large language models, building a clust…

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    Comment #41750394

    One which gets mentioned often is NAND 2 Tetris, which starts with basic logic gates and progresses to produce a simple computer: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

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    Comment #41746362

    Olimex just released a 1 euro game ‘computer’ based around a tiny RISC-V microcontroller. It drives a monochrome VGA display by bit-banging a couple of GPIO lines in software. Obvi…

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    Comment #40090769

    It was recently enabled in the Home Assistant ‘HAOS’ kernel. https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/pull/3248

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    Comment #35014407

    The repo below has support for building a 32bit RISC-V CPU for de10nano. It also includes information about booting Linux. https://github.com/litex-hub/linux-on-litex-vexriscv The …

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    Comment #35013342

    They do have something like this, an ESP32 based system for IoT using FreeRTOS. https://devices.amazonaws.com/detail/a3G0h000007djMLEAY/M5St... I am not sure of the exact relations…

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    Comment #32207850

    Article from BBC News on the same topic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-62261094

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    Comment #31297748

    Another person reverse engineered the hardware protocol and built a replacement controller which also implements MQTT https://www.revk.uk/2022/04/new-air-con-part-2.html https://gi…

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    Comment #25587576

    When you ran basic code you were effectively root, you could peek or poke any memory address or hardware register.

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    Comment #25584901

    M5Stack is an AWS partner for a new “AWS IoT EduKit” so I imagine you will be seeing more projects using them in IoT roles. The getting started guide has some examples. https://aws…

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    Comment #23934284

    > it’s too expensive. Can you identify a time when cost was obviously a signifcant factor in a military choice? To me it seems that cost is low in the grand scheme of things.

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    Comment #23934152

    What I was told is that if you research the patent and aware of its existence then you may be guilty of willful enfringement with treble the normal penalties: https://www.jonesday.…