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rys commented on The RubyGems "Security Incident" andre.arko.net/2025/10/09... · Posted by u/semiquaver

anon84873628 · 5 months ago

In a comment under the submission for Ruby Central's post, I said Arko changing the AWS password was an inexcusable ethical violation.

This context does slightly soften my view, especially the part about multiple 1Password accounts being in play. However there is a big thing still missing to me... Why would Arko not immediately notify RC that he had changed the password due to these concerns?

If it was really a noble good faith action by the assigned on-call, giving a heads up to the remaining stakeholders would be the obligatory next step, no?

According to RC's timeline, the password reset happened on September 19, but Arko did not disclose the issue to RC until September 30. From what I can tell, he has not refuted that timeline or explained the gap.

rys · 5 months ago

He does explain it in his blog post. He changed it after the erratic communication and actions of RC leadership, then after realising what they were really doing, left them to complete their “security audit”, assuming they’d discover it themselves and take appropriate action as part of that. That never happened (which is wild), so he let them know.

They still don’t seem to be in complete control or understanding of the infrastructure they forcefully took control of.

rys commented on Microui+fenster=Small GUI bernsteinbear.com/blog/fe... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

freeCandy · 2 years ago

the pixman link isn't working

rys · 2 years ago

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixman/pixman

rys commented on AMD and FreeBSD Begin Collaborating over OS Improvements phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD... · Posted by u/BSDobelix

nullindividual · 2 years ago

Xbox uses Hyper-V on Windows. bhyve support is meaningless.

rys · 2 years ago

What about the PlayStation OS, which is reportedly based on FreeBSD?

rys commented on The Snapdragon X Elite's Adreno iGPU chipsandcheese.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/pella

benreesman · 2 years ago

“In Adreno tradition, Adreno X1’s first level cache is a dedicated texture cache. Compute accesses bypass the L1 and go to the next level in the cache hierarchy. It’s quite different from current AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPU architectures, which have a general purpose first level cache with significant capacity. On prior Adreno generations, the GPU-wide L2 cache would have to absorb all compute accesses. Adreno X1 takes some pressure off the L2 by adding 128 KB cluster caches.”

People have been tinkering with L1 cache conditionality since the L1i and L1d split in 1976 but the Qualcomm people are going hard on this and the jury seems out how it’s going to play.

The line between the L1 and the register file has been getting blurrier every year for over a decade and I increasingly have a heuristic around paying the most attention to L2 behavior until the profiles are in but I’m admittedly engaging in alchemy.

Can any serious chip people as opposed to an enthusiastic novice like myself weigh in on how the thinking is shaping up WRT this?

rys · 2 years ago

In practice, what gets labelled as the L1 cache in a GPU marketing diagram or 3rd party analysis might well not be that first level of a strict cache hierarchy. That means it’s hard to do any kind of cross-vendor or cross-architecture comparison about what they are or how they work. They’re highly implementation dependent.

In the GPUs I work on, there’s not really a blurred line between the actual L1 and the register file. There’s not even just one register file. Sometimes you also get an L3!

These kinds of implementation specific details are where GPUs find a lot of their PPA today, but they’re (arguably sadly) usually quite opaque to the programmer or enthusiastic architecture analyst.

rys commented on GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN gitcode.com/... · Posted by u/EtaoinWu

rys · 2 years ago

One interesting thing is they seem to have also cloned the number of stars each repo has on GitHub. At least that’s true for a cursory check of a few that I’ve committed to. If you click on the star count you’ll then see two separate counts for GitHub and GitCode stars.

It’s one thing to mirror the repos, but it’s another to initially misrepresent the interactivity the repo is getting, even if they’re clear about it when you dig in.

Also, how do you authenticate so you can keep committing and interact with the repo to manage PRs and issues if it’s yours?

rys commented on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/terramex

rys · 2 years ago

So was there ever a deal with OpenAI? Nothing in the keynote mentioned them or needs them. If there isn’t a deal, I’d love to know how everyone claiming it was signed on the dotted line was led so far down that garden path.

rys commented on BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor" benq.com/en-us/monitor/pr... · Posted by u/LorenDB

xanathar · 2 years ago

Plus a waste of computing resources and energy that is better spent elsewhere rather than pointless eye candy.

rys · 2 years ago

For me, if you spend your life reading and writing prose or code, text rendering quality is surely paramount. I’m curious what you think the energy should be spent on instead.

rys commented on Rabbit R1 as an Android App theverge.com/2024/4/30/24... · Posted by u/brothrock

alpaca128 · 2 years ago

So why don't they sell a phone with customized Android that does what they want, like every single Android brand other than Pixel?

The Rabbit R1 is doomed to be obsolete as soon as Google and Apple add similar functionality to their OS.

rys · 2 years ago

It’s way more fun to set a huge pile of VC money on fire.

rys commented on UniFi U7 Pro store.ui.com/us/en/produc... · Posted by u/qzervaas

JoshTriplett · 2 years ago

Ubiquity equipment always looks impressive, except that the heavy push towards cloud-based and/or app-based management is extremely offputting.

I'd much rather have something I can always manage via a local web UI from any web browser, without any cloud subscription.

rys · 2 years ago

Just in case anyone reads the parent and the takeaway is you can’t: you can still operate UniFi that way if you want to. The cloud connection and apps are optional.

rys commented on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job cohost.org/stillinbeta/po... · Posted by u/luu

Osmose · 3 years ago

"Stabbing you in the back" is pretty strong language for posting social media about a personal experienced at a job she no longer has at a company that will barely see any consequences from this post using a right that literally the government has granted all workers now.

Like what world do you live in that people don't complain about their old jobs such that you think it's that unacceptable?

rys · 3 years ago

Agreed. As to the world lived in: most people are so enthralled with money that any risk to earning more in the future is unacceptable to them, sadly. Companies then bank on that behaviour to help sweep things under the rug.