Pavel Machek
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@krcmar Hele nevim. Android je spyware od googlu, a trochu bych se divil kdyby bankovni aplikace nespehovala (nebude open-source, ze?). Plus vyrobci telefonu... rekneme... nejsou s bezpecnosti tak poctivy jako Linuxove distribuce. Mam dve zarizeni -- relativne bezpecne PC a neprilis bezpecny telefon, a utocnik by musel kontrolovat obe. S bankovni aplikaci mu staci kontrolovat jedno... Chapu ze SMS nejsou uplne bezpecne (ale to spousta bankovnich veci taky neni, treba m-bank si s bezpecnosti hlavu v podstate nelame), ale porad to jsou dve zarizeni misto jednoho.
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@libcamera But it seems ov64a40 driver is not yet supported by mainline kernel, yet, so there's still more work to do?
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@ptesarik @cas @kernellogger @gregkh CIP project maintains 4.4 and 4.19. Feel free to use our kernels, and feel free to join the project.
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@molly0xfff Copyright was meant to "promote useful arts". Original copyright (14 years or so) may have done that, current one blocks innovation if anything. If it blocks language model developement, it is one more reason to fix the copyright.
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"If it's max, not a pax". It looks like 737MAX saga is continuing, this time it is not computers. It looks like door flew of a plane at 14000 feet, vas-av has a good video on youtube.
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@drewdevault Yep, that's ugly. Would like to see that one fixed. (But if you can open /proc/self... you can usually also go to the original file and open that; and that's why it survived for so long).
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@jiska First, thanks for nice talk at 37c3. I don't have an iPhone, but catching IMSI catchers is cool. OTOH it is also too late -- by the time you analyze your logs, IMSI catcher already has your position logged.
Early gsm phones (like Nokia 5110) had service menus with capabilities such as 'lock to specific cell tower' which could be used to prevent that -- just lock your phone to "known good" cells. Have you seen similar functionality in modern modems?
Early gsm phones (like Nokia 5110) had service menus with capabilities such as 'lock to specific cell tower' which could be used to prevent that -- just lock your phone to "known good" cells. Have you seen similar functionality in modern modems?
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@drewdevault NixOS may not be for you, but I believe it has its uses. Would not use that emoticon...
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@martijnbraam @linmob I never seen machine with ARM SBBR. Yes, that's a step in right direction, I wish PinePhone (etc) would be using that. (And it would be nice to have something similar for R-V, preferably without complexity of ACPI.)
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@martijnbraam @linmob Not sure, and have not met those uefi-only laptops, fortuantely. But I'm sure they for example power down when battery goes low? Don't require vendor-patched u-boot of particular version to init their DRAM? Can charge battery without vendor-patched Linux kernel successfully booted? I really wish there was standard arm64 platform (and standard risc-v platform).
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@thatprivacyguy One possible solution would be to start a local proxy and make chromium use that...
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@martijnbraam @linmob While x86 hardware can be pain, it usually does not have problem booting bootloaders or charging its batteries. I expect RISC-V to be improvement over x86 CPUs, and it would be cool to have some kind of next-generation platform. We should not really need 100 drivers for RTC.
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@slightlyoff It is somehow important small&light phones keep existing. (And I don't mind "cheap"). Usually I'm either on horseback (where 180gram smartphone breaks easily) or carry notebook (where I already have decent screen I want to use, thank you). I played with Geeksphone Keon, and that one is almost right size and non-evil. I wonder if I should get one of those kaiOS things.
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@AsteroidOS So... There likely is place for Linux smartwatch, but do you really want big-enough watch so that they can run Linux for weeks? Smartwatch is good reason for good & small system that is smaller than Linux (in particular does not need MMU and can run in less than 256KB RAM). See https://www.espruino.com/ , I like that one.
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Trying to do debayering on CPU using vector extension. So far targeting x86-64 and pinephone... and so far it is few times slower than naive approach. Is there good high-level overview of avx and neon somewhere? Any hints? Anyone willing to help?
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@hrw @haeckerfelix I'm afraid there way too little video clips with permissive-enough licensing...
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