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2024-11-22 22:35:46 UTC

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well, they're buying hardware instead of clouding it up, which has the advantage that in the near term that looks like one-time costs, and in the long term it means lower recurring costs. So that's handy. The staff seems pretty small, too.

2024-11-03 23:28:00 UTC

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two more hours of daylight before noon than after is absolutely ridiculous.

2024-11-03 21:37:46 UTC

Hello, Darkness, my old friend.
I see it's Standard Time again.

2024-10-28 20:35:19 UTC

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that poor kid whose parents are feeding them this crap, tho :(

2024-08-16 16:07:04 UTC

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is it being recorded?

2024-08-13 05:00:20 UTC

The replays of actual Olympic events are now all gone from the Peacock app. One day later. This is shameful and ridiculous.

2024-07-09 07:40:54 UTC

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any chance you can help me understand how to do that, and preferably (though not manditorialy) not at 4am?

2024-07-09 07:25:05 UTC

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does the firmware provide write to a filesystem on nvme?or do we just get block storage? Or... Less?

2024-07-09 05:10:48 UTC

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okay, so DT lets us write to the boot options? If so we probably don't need uboot (might be a useful intermediate, might not). We already have the userspace signal, so that will be a useful thing to hook up. (It sounds like you're implying it's pretty straightforward?) The real question is how hard it is to do a one-time boot option and can we have multiple boot options and change the order atomically. The former we can fake with counters and reboot, the latter...

2024-07-09 04:02:00 UTC

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this is why full boot stack A/B (i.e. last known good booting as a fallback) is so critical. That allows us to use switchroot() instead of kexec(). But I don't know if we can do that on the apple platforms yet (I haven't looked in to it), so we may be stuck with a legacy loader or possibly a much smaller loader to do kernel selection and nothing else on these platforms. In general we're going to wind up with slightly platform specific implementations, no way around it.