floofloof to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agoULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left offwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down11
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left offwww.techradar.comfloofloof to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareInsurgentRat@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoSure of course of course but umm have you seen software? There are still windows xp computers on the internet. It’s not insurmountable, and of course I have no idea if/how this will roll out. Just it seems to mess with a rather deep assumption we have about how computers operate when we develop software and threat models.
minus-squarebedrooms@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoThe better example is that there are still programs compiled in Win 95 running here and there if I’m correct.
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoSure, but anyone who’s still running WindowsXP on their laptop wants to suffer. As always, the security-minded will be able to secure their devices and everyone else will not care until it bites them. ULTRARAM isn’t revolutionary in that regard.
Sure of course of course but umm have you seen software?
There are still windows xp computers on the internet.
It’s not insurmountable, and of course I have no idea if/how this will roll out.
Just it seems to mess with a rather deep assumption we have about how computers operate when we develop software and threat models.
The better example is that there are still programs compiled in Win 95 running here and there if I’m correct.
Sure, but anyone who’s still running WindowsXP on their laptop wants to suffer.
As always, the security-minded will be able to secure their devices and everyone else will not care until it bites them. ULTRARAM isn’t revolutionary in that regard.