AlexB

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Show threadAlexB21h ago
@ai6yr are the halls of Montezuma involved?
AlexB3d ago
jwz3d ago

systemd-censord.

*Slow clap*

From: FloofyWolf
Recently, a proposal has been made to implement an API for a new California censorship regulation, "On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states" by Aaron Rainbolt. I believe the approach outlined to be very short-sighted, in that creating a bespoke API for each of the hundreds of government censorship requirements that debian will presumably now be following...
https://jwz.org/b/yk41

Show threadAlexB4d ago
@ireneista if they're green ;)
Show threadAlexBMar 14
@gewt I love the hot isle. I go idle there whenever the inconfigurable office air conditioning is blasting out blizzard
Show threadAlexBMar 8
@whitequark @azonenberg @equinox that's right! gpioke! 🤘
Show threadAlexBMar 8
@azonenberg @whitequark @equinox of course, some of those are sometimes documented like, "this looks like PCI for cosmetic reasons. If you actually try to map the BAR somewhere else you crash the machine". Then the BIOS of course hides the device entirely as a workaround
Show threadAlexBMar 8
@azonenberg @whitequark @equinox it's pretty progressive actually, instead of copy pasting a magic base address from (hopefully) a manual (or figure out where the BIOS has put it), you get normal pci id-based enumeration and mmio to a BAR (or config space)
Show threadAlexBMar 1
@cks @ricci @azonenberg @rootwyrm @whitequark @geoffl for extra spice, one can carry Avocent KVM over identical RJ45
AlexBMar 1
@mathieui @whitequark aye. I have one of those too
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@whitequark i have never pressed "buy now" faster