People care about what they care about breaking in their hands and exploding into their faces.

ASD and BAD, probably also ADHD.

People also love to assume what they keep on their hard drives and memory sticks is somehow preserved over time and machine time. Bitflips and other physical effects onto your imagined perfect machine are why it’s not, and is as good or worse as what’s written on paper. A cat decides to piss onto your grandpa’s diary and there’s no more diary. Or humidity slowly eats it. With computers it’s even faster.

Each and every one of them, moron. Everything you do on a computer every moment.

I don’t want to use the M-word or the T-word, but those “made up use cases” constitute every computer program in existence.

Apple M-series are ARM64. Are they not competitive?

You can’s speak about not having frequent corruption of files when you are not using tools detecting it. I can guarantee you have plenty of already corrupt stuff on your hard drives. RAM bit flips do contribute to that.

You have bugs (leading to broken documents, something failing, freezes, crashes) in applications you use and part of them is not due to developer’s error, but due to uncorrected memory errors.

If you’d try using a filesystem like ZFS with checksumming and regular rescans, you’d see detected errors very often. Probably not corrected, because you’d not use mirroring to save space, dummy.

And if you were using ECC, you’d see messages about corrected memory errors in dmesg often enough.

There’s a jump instruction by an address read from RAM, a bit flip occurred so a condition “if friend greet else kill” worked as “if friend rape else kill”. Absolutely anything can happen, that wasn’t determined by program design flaws and errors. A digital computer is a deterministic system (sometimes there are intentional non-deterministic elements like analog-based RNGs), this is non-deterministic random changes of the state.

In concrete terms - things break without reason. A perfect program with no bugs, if such exists, will do random wrong things if bit flips occur. Clear enough?

Of course. I’m also generally a low-end user, so to say. 18GB is the biggest I’ve used on one machine, and the program I run that realistically often takes much of it isn’t even the web browser, it’s POV-Ray. Sometimes some work VMs, but that’s rare.

The bright side - they can also be used to mask pseudonymous users. Guess how.

No, that’s you happily laughing at the nonsense you yourself said attributing that to me.

I said that RAM compression in MacOS is an OS feature, well-tested and always on. You can play with something similar under Linux and find out it really makes things better. Which means you can fit more there. Like 10%-20% more is notable enough.

And I said that unified memory is a feature of their hardware, which is correct. Which is the reason Intel and AMD were playing with that X86-S idea (a new architecture with much of legacy removed, and also, yes, unified memory), until they dropped it because Intel is going to shit.

I don’t see any marketing nonsense in technical facts. Your GPU can use all the same RAM with less expense for doing that. And RAM allocated to applications does get compressed, which is more CPU-intensive obviously, but happens.

These are obviously correct.

Unified memory, so more efficient with that. Also MacOS has RAM compression.

I suppose more is better, and 8GB seems like bare minimum for something useful. But one should always mind that now (unlike before 2020) Apple’s hardware has caught up with their advertising in the fact that it’s really specifically optimized for the job.

It’s fine for an “Apple Chromebook” I think, especially if bulk orders for institutions will get different deals.

In Russian “мокросовт” (mokrosovt), as in “wetly poke”.

There’s another Tolkien’s notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don’t lie and thus are hard to deceive.

The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me.

Perhaps Hegseth’s approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien’s characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.

They, eh, want for every local user account to be tied to some central database?

In general this is going out of hand, age verification is parents’ responsibility.

But they do have a clue how laws work, and the element of fuzziness in who’s guilty is a beneficial effect.

Well, that something common in Russia as a metaphor is also common in Estonia wouldn’t be a surprise, but in English seems a bit less common. Anyway, that wasn’t the point of my comment.

It’s a trope that every problem posed by the plot has a solution of difficulty level properly fit to the audience.

A culture of arcade games, unfortunately, has such long-standing effects.

While we are playing a roguelike. With no respawns.

As a source it’s rude. As a piece of unreliable help of the kind “we both don’t know the syntax of that programming language, let’s ask Ollama how to draw such and such a shape in it” it’s kinda fine.

You can run actual Windows in a hypervisor, and have all malware you want for everything inside that hypervisor, and also hypervisor escape is a thing if you have something like guest additions with access to host filesystem etc.

Attack surface is smaller.

it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition.

The right kind of pop, saying only the obvious and nothing more.

It’s a thread about comparing Signal to Telegram of all things. In comparison to Signal as anything secure Telegram doesn’t exist in any quality.

At the same time Signal doesn’t have mass group chats and is not intended for that purpose.

The first link does count, it’s a valid failure from Signal devs. Humans err.

The second link does not, it’s an unofficial centralized aggregator, not from Signal devs, and the “hack” was a direct consequence of how it worked. It’s absolutely something that no sane person would use.