As of: September 10, 2024 11:27 a.m.
The European Court of Justice has made two far-reaching rulings against tech giants: The judges confirmed a fine of 2.4 billion euros against Google. Apple must also pay 13 billion in back taxes.
German link
Gotta love how EU is keeping these giants under control, wish other countries do too!
This is what I have started using since a couple month, I was traveling in remote areas like Northern BC, Yukon and Alaska with poor cell phone coverage and mostly no data but still wanted to have some GPS guidance while driving, or at least know where I am on the map. So I downloaded those Organic Maps for the areas I needed them , it does route you from A to B as well. I love how clean their maps look like, awesome
But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming “really really big” that it’s beginning to cause issues for Plymouth that commonly provides the initial boot splash screen experience on modern Linux desktops.
There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support.
Much of the nearly six million lines of code making up the AMDGPU driver are auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. Most of them are unused by the driver itself and serve as a sort of living documentation around the GPUs with AMD focusing less in recent years on putting out hardware documentation publicly and focusing more on just enhancing the AMD open-source graphics driver.
Marek’s proposed solution is rather straight-forward: move all the AMDGPU GPU header files out into its own separate dedicated repository. The AMDGPU driver can pull in just the header files actually needed and used by the driver. Other user-space software depending upon the header files like Mesa and the UMR debugger can fetch from that dedicated repository rather than from within the kernel source tree.
As a refresher on RPMB: Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) is a several year old specification for having a portion of memory be more secure and accessed via a hidden security key. The RPMB block in eMMC can be used for matters like storing DRM protection keys, OEM security keys, and other information that can’t – for whatever legal or security reasons – can’t be stored via normal storage. RPMB aims to be tamper resistant and requires authentication for reads/writes.
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Joachim Ringelnatz (1883 - 1934)
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Make you wonder if we are ever even safe in real life.
/me looks at youtube dashcam videos
yeah, nah. we aren’t safe ANYWHERE.
whatfor they said exactly do the authorities need more powers and monitoring for now?
He didn’t say anything about it.
It’s just your interpretation of things.
“If they demanded that we not use their content, then we wouldn’t use it.”
Nice try Mark, they already have that, it’s called copy right. It’s not the artist that has to write to every single AI bubble and demand something, you just have to abide by the law.
Probably the Severe (9.9/10) Linux Vulnerability
It is.