Wednesday, January 31, 2018

And now for something completely different: the Dark Side of the Superblueblood Moon

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And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed By the moon (Taken with a Canon PowerShot SX1 IS between 3:45 and 5am P...
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Why my next laptop isn't gonna be a Mac, either

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I'm typing this in an early build of TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 6. This version contains speculative fixes for hangs on Facebook ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

TenFourFox FPR5 available

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TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 5 final is available for testing ( downloads , hashes , release notes ). There are no other changes other ...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Actual field testing of Spectre on various Power Macs (spoiler alert: G3 and 7400 survive!)

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Tip of the hat to miniupnp who ported the Spectre proof of concept to PowerPC intrinsics . I ported it to 10.2.8 so I could get a G3 test r...
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Friday, January 5, 2018

More about Spectre and the PowerPC (or why you may want to dust that G3 off)

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UPDATE: IBM is releasing firmware patches for at least the POWER7+ and forward, including the POWER9 expected to be used in the Talos II. M...
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Thursday, January 4, 2018

Is PowerPC susceptible to Spectre? Yep.

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UPDATE: Yes, TenFourFox will implement relevant Spectre-hardening features being deployed to Firefox , and the changes to performance.now w...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

TenFourFox FPR5b1 available

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TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 5 beta 1 is now available ( downloads , hashes , release notes ). The biggest changes are lots and lots o...
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