That max 40GB memory to me means:
1x8GB soldered on board
1x32GB so-DIMM

what is this trend of soldering RAM onboard high-end laptops? Then we get asymmetrical memory config, meaning memory drops to essentially single-channel, which hampers performance, especially with the new wave of more powerful itegrated graphics.

So, 16GB or bust with this notebook then?

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ARM restricts their property too, so can't be totally open source.
Let's face it, OSS's strong point is allowing itself to break ABI.

These vulnerabilities are not directly exploitable, but they can be used to build a model of behviour, and that can be used to spy on people. So it should be adressed.
I wouldn't be surprised that a similar exploit could work on all cpu's with prefetchers. (a larger set than those with speculative execution).

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It's good to know how much they can bounce as a defence mechanism.

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So, is there ever going to a legal resolution to the mfplat issues? Does it require mfplat to be implemented as part of Wine? Or is there patent issues, so unlikely to ever be resolved?

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So... this is Epic using their money to, er, skew the market? In essence, equivalent to Intels contra-revenue plans, which was deemed anti-competitive.

I mean it is the "We want to lock you in to use ONLY our products", or make it too expensive to switch away, kind of thing.

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Apple's business practices and walled garden chased me off years ago already (Technically I was never "on" it, despite being given a Mac for work, which I just gave back after 2 weeks as I just couldn't deal with all their shit).
So no surprise there.

But MS is doing striving to be like Apple, increasingly locking down control of Windows, so that article seems a bit self-defeating to me.

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Yay, thanks it works. Just having winetricks installed resolves it for me too!

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Quoting: 0ttmanHas anyone had success on getting the cinematics in Darksiders Warmastered Edition working with 4.15 GE-2? It's not working for me.

Not for me either, All I noticed differently is that it asked to download winemono, but no cinematics to me either?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: crt0megaIs that a bottle of rum you're cuddling with? xD

Wine ;)

And I finally get it now.
Wondered why a parent would cuddle up with liquor, but I get the implicit pun now :P

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So, as a developer that worked with security researchers I see these two sides of the coin:
"file" is a utility that does a best guess at mime-type of a file, so they took this, extended it with some new kde features. They tried their best to make it work for all use cases they know of.

This probably included shell expansion at runtime to handle some requirement.

Then the mistake could have been that the "file" extended utility would do shell expansion to help resolve the actual type.

Honestly these kinds of mistakes happen, and the common "best practices" re security won't help you find it.

It could even be that originally it didn't do it, but some bugfix for some issue inadvertently made this possible.

So, please don't diss people for not being able to keep all context in memory when doing work.
(And the Gnome related comment is out of place, unrelated, and could even be considered as a form of harassment, so please don't do such trolling)

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