Hacker News: tachion

Microsoft: ARM Windows virtualisation on Apple M1 Mac 'Not a Supported Scenario'

tachion — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/14/arm-windows-m1-macs-not-supported/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523118

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New comment by tachion in "Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?"

tachion — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:01:52 +0000

There is fairly new Zeiss camera that implemented the whole "camera OS" with Android and even included mobile Lightroom editing capabilities. I guess it's as close as it gets right now. My theory is that the main Japanese companies are extremely conservative and they don't pick up such changes easily - see how Canon and Nikon completely missed mirrorless and suffered huge market loss to Sony.

New comment by tachion in "Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?"

tachion — Mon, 10 May 2021 14:56:53 +0000

But of course they have - every major smartphone manufacturer is eating the whole consumer camera market alive for quite few years now.

New comment by tachion in "OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways"

tachion — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:09:55 +0000

One of very important reasons why FreeBSD haven't incorporated the patches from HardenedBSD was that their code quality was disputed and historically the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes. HardenedBSD may do a very good job for the PR about their "superior security" but one may wonder if a system without badly implemented feature isn't more secure than the one with it.

New comment by tachion in "OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways"

tachion — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:17:18 +0000

You need to be aware that while pledge is a security technology, linux containers aren't. Pledge was designed as another security layer, while containers were designed as "management" or "separation" layer, but not strictly as security measure - read up on how bad is to run things as a root in a container.

New comment by tachion in "Deliveroo shares drop 30% on UK IPO listing"

tachion — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:49:23 +0000

You may not be aware, but recently Uber drivers have been recognised as actual employees in UK by the court.

New comment by tachion in "In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router"

tachion — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:56:39 +0000

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparin...

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

tachion — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:26:46 +0000

I wouldn't be so hasty in saying that Jails implementation doesn't suffer either - there are dragons there too, it wasn't all just designed and written in one go, there are layers upon layers and it is not all pink and unicorns as it perhaps initially was ;)

RunC isn't "their own implementation" but rather an OCI (Open Containers Initiative) standard that world seems to be adopting and I wish FreeBSD Jails would be a part of it.

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

tachion — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:32:11 +0000

No, it doesn't and this is where an initially "superior" technology (Jails existed years ago, I was using them at least 15 years back in time) gets overrun by "inferior" tech (Linux containers), because the latter gets a user oriented tooling, packaging and so on (no flame war intended at all). Now the Linux container is much more "superior" as it catch'd up and exceeded Jails in many areas, especially user oriented readiness and integration.

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

tachion — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:21:09 +0000

Actually, you don't need another copy of userland. You merely need a dedicated space for the jailed OS (assuming we're talking OS-style jails, not process-style ones) to write the things OS writes to (devices, logs, etc.). You could get away with null mounting your host filesystem and then mounting writeable space on top of it. Once I've had read-only mounts for my jails, for funsies.

New comment by tachion in "Intel is dying and we can’t save it"

tachion — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:42:45 +0000

While I agree it's easy in hindsight, you're not comparing apples to oranges here: comparing the comment author to a person running a business, with very high expertise in particular subject (chip making) and general subject (technology), having access to information not accessible to others (Apple plans and visions about the product, tech specs required, price asked, etc.) is not even close to being the same thing. I can see how a much better decision could be made very realistically given that expertise and information no one else had and yet the worst possible was made.

New comment by tachion in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

tachion — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:36:27 +0000

What's the point of using Pi 4 when it is also ARM cpu? You can use the Docker beta on your M1 mac and it's going to be a better experience.

New comment by tachion in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

tachion — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:35:21 +0000

I've experienced something like that as well. Depending on what you can do, try a different monitor and/or different cable and/or different dongle. I've managed to find a combination that doesn't do that anymore.

New comment by tachion in "AirPods Max"

tachion — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:44:47 +0000

They don't let engineers design and implement UX/UI's but instead have them create properly designed UX/UI by UX/UI people who know what they're doing? It does make sense, I have no idea where does the notion of engineers doing UX/UI came from, would we want UX/UI people to actually code the software delivering their designs? ;)

New comment by tachion in "FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify"

tachion — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:56:53 +0000

Out of pure curiosity, what's wrong with him? I don't feel his vibe so I never got into listening to him, but I was under impression he's popular and quite liked.

New comment by tachion in "FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify"

tachion — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:50:22 +0000

Your mileage may vary - I've got plenty of Amazon support staff blatantly telling me I've got no consumer rights (both national and EU) "because Amazon rules", no matter how high you try to escalate it.

New comment by tachion in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

tachion — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:43:01 +0000

Not if it runs NetBSD.

New comment by tachion in "Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak"

tachion — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:47:37 +0000

One could say that you're mixing Thinkpads from IBM era, where they were really well made (my first A21m holds a special place in my heat till this day), Thinkpads from Lenovo that are plastic piece of garbage and MacBooks from Apple post keyboard change, that was indeed faulty, but it isn't anymore. There you go, I've fixed it for ya ;)

Epic Games, Spotify, and Tile Form 'Coalition for App Fairness'

tachion — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/24/epic-games-spotify-tile-coalition-for-app-fairness/

Hacker News: tachion

Microsoft: ARM Windows virtualisation on Apple M1 Mac 'Not a Supported Scenario'

New comment by tachion in "Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?"

New comment by tachion in "Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?"

New comment by tachion in "OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways"

New comment by tachion in "OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways"

New comment by tachion in "Deliveroo shares drop 30% on UK IPO listing"

New comment by tachion in "In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router"

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

New comment by tachion in "Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools"

New comment by tachion in "Intel is dying and we can’t save it"

New comment by tachion in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

New comment by tachion in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

New comment by tachion in "AirPods Max"

New comment by tachion in "FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify"

New comment by tachion in "FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify"

New comment by tachion in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

New comment by tachion in "Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak"

Epic Games, Spotify, and Tile Form 'Coalition for App Fairness'

Google Pulls Fortnite from Play Store