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> Did they ever fix PCIe over thunderbolt security? It seems to depend on whether you're on a desktop or mobile device. [1] > macOS 13 Ventura was released in 2022 and for portable…

> That sounds like what Software Freedom Conservancy would call a GPL violation Sure, it is. So what? Have you got 200k for lawyers and years of your life to spend in court fightin…

> AFAIK you could, today, with no legal changes, have a vendor release 100% of the code under eg. a MIT license while also making the device refuse to run firmware not signed with …

> Forcing the release of signing keys would be a security disaster. The first person to grab the expired domain for the auto update server for a IoT device now gets a free botnet. …

This is very much not an option on most embedded devices. They allow one key to be burned once. IIRC, a certain Marvell SoC datasheet says multiple key slots are supported, but the…

> What I am asking for: publish a basic GitHub repo with the hardware specs and connection protocols. Let the community build their own apps on top of it. This concept works fine f…

> She would see 'sign up now for 20% off!' and smile! like it positively hit her like she just won the lottery If you intend to purchase an item from the merchant anyway, why would…

Hard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014. Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding…

> Pick any app you want and search for it. Ideally it has a pretty unique name and not just a dictionary wod. What will you see? The first result will always be an ad for a complet…

> The problem is that if everyone hops jobs every 9-18 months, it’s not worth training up juniors because the employer will never get to benefit. It is absolutely worth hiring and …

Xperia 5 IV owner here, don't give Sony any of your money. Their support is garbage: 1 Android version and only 3 years of security updates for a phone that cost nearly $1000. Goog…

> To my knowledge, any switch OEM producing Broadcom-based gear will get their NDAs and silicon access revoked if they so much as dream about making devices with non-Broadcom silic…

I have a 12th Gen Intel Framework from work. I cannot recommend Framework as a brand. Yes, they are repairable. That is where the list of Pros ends for me. Perhaps the only unique …

> Both MacOS and Windows offer that without all constraints and privacy negligent services from Google/Alphabet. As yes, Windows, the famously privacy respecting OS. [1] [2] Apple …

> Forbidding your users to see the inner workings of the system (hiding the jank that has been shoven into the box, as you say), does not seem like a positive thing.. Indeed, I don…

The author has a good point but I am surprised they neglected to mention the most important aspect for any aspiring appliance maker: The BSD license Yes, thanks to the magic of the…

> transformers windings in vs windings out Transformers only apply to AC, where there is a fluctuating magnetic field. A transformer in a DC circuit is just a physically large (ver…

> The TS-7250-V3 is an industrial grade SBC based on the NXP i.MX 6UL with a 696MHz Arm® Cortex®-A7 core and 512 MB or 1 GB DDR3 RAM This is their latest "High performance industri…

> All the other manufacturers have really really shitty BSPs in comparison, even if you're just offloading everything realtime to an MCU. The irony here is that other SOC/SBC maker…

> Name a storage brand without such a reputation? Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent. Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues Of course…

Going to be a hard pass from me. Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDisk Extreme [2]. Wester…

I don't know the implementation details of this specific StarTech dock, but other Thunderbolt docking stations (like the HP USB-C Dock G4) have a PCIe NIC which supports PXE bootin…

> Apple might be left with the maintenance burden forever but no real prospects for a mainstream product. This seems unlikely. Apple has not hesitated in the past to exit market se…

> I dont think you will be really motivated to go to work if all you had was one room to sit and close the doors to not see anyone You're describing an office like it's solitary co…

> “People are coming in to do occasional big meetings, but really the rest of the time, they want a quiet private spot to get on a Zoom call,” said Witting, a partner at the compan…