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by JdeBP 1y ago
Mine. Not asking whoever happens to have local physical access interactively , strictly speaking, as that just papers over one of the problems; but controlling what Human Input Devices are allowed when plugged in, by applying rules (keyab
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The entirely opposite perspective is quite interesting: The "natural numbers" are the biggest mis-nomer in mathematics. They are the most un-Natural ones. The numbers that occur in Nature are almost always complex, and are nei
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by JdeBP 1y ago
More usually, people imagine the reverse of the advanced alien civilizations: that the thing that we and they are most likely to have in common is the concept of obtaining the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, wh
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You need to look at non-x86 architectures. It was common years ago on MIPS. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/function-perilogues.html#StandardMIPS I wrote up the x86 equivalent of doing just two read-modify-write operations on
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The irony of that example is that it is not the same as BlueSky here. There were huge parts of the FediVerse entirely untouched by what happened at Mastodon.LOL .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The protected mode drivers are already loaded in this scenario. The VMM and all of the VxDs are already up and running. All that's really happening here is the first VM (the "systemm VM") is running the DOS+Windows 95 ker
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Trying to find a technological fault is what people did at the time. There were long threads on Usenet trying to ascribe things anecdotally to hypotheses that even then did not hold water. It's sad to see looking for technological rea
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Correct. But you didn't see that the source was one level up in the directory tree from the untrustworthy binary blob? * https://github.com/kaushikgopal/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/usb... Presuma
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That's because it is in ports rather than in base. (-: * https://freshports.org/textproc/highlight/ * https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/textproc/hi...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You read wrongly. The 2013 amendment merely allowed customers to consent to disclosure electronically via the Internet. Before then, it had to be in writing. It didn't change 18 USC § 2710's explicit application only to a &quot
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Viewers thought of them as that, and in popular culture that is what cue dots are remembered as today, especially by the Map Men, but technically that is not what cue dots were. They were a way for the network to cue the regions for when to
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The actual title is A cartoonist's review of AI art .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I don't understand the deduction, either. But it seems that no BusyBox bug-fixer has spotted an easy-to-fix error that is stopping the BusyBox Bugzilla from working, and causing the hyperlink in that e-mail to lead to an error message
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Clippy has done a complete volte face when it comes to memes, in 2025. This is because of the right-to-repair people. "Clippy never wanted to harvest you, turn you into the product, and clandestinely copy your stuff into some language
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The situation with one major ISP in the U.K. is so chronic that someone even maintains a WWW site tracking its patent inability to progress any further than where it was on World IPv6 Day: * https://havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
"Clippy did not want to harvest you with AI copilots. Clippy only wanted to help."
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Four other still-open discussions of this: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400422 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379840 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303437 *
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Those two are already balanced by Zutty and Rio. So let's have a look around at some of the emulators that make using the GPU a marketing point. DarkTile ( https://github.com/liamg/darktile ) accepts TTF and OTF, s
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by JdeBP 1y ago
All of the talk of ROMs on the WWW site makes me wonder where the YouTubers who have just this year bought Commodore stand on the ROM copyright issue, and whether indeed the ROM copyrights were included in what they bought.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Here's a collection for dang/tomhow, as this is (as it always has in the past) going to collect duplicates as everyone posts their own news source's version: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423880 (N
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For some insight on bitmap font support on the "We use the GPU!" terminal emulators, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354014 . As I noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433715
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Your thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354014 can probably be extended from that particular one to all terminal emulators that have "We use the GPU!" on the marketing features list, because they are
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you want to banjanx the algorithm, instead, watch a few Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIouDxRfTb8 ) or Shimane Prefectural Izumo Commercial High School Band videos (e
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The question is whether a disembodied pair of hands, that could be those of a body double, is enough to satisfy stronglikedan. The good news is that Big Clive, 3Blue1Brown, and even Jago Hazzard have all appeared on camera, albeit not alway
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's all too easy to be unsympathetic. But the unsympathetic should remember the soliciting of donations to the non-existent charity for supposedly aiding children; and then bear in mind that there are going to be AI-wielding con-arti
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Unfortunately, that rules out the likes of Minute Physics, ScienceClic English, and the famous for being camera-averse Lockpicking Lawyer. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In addition to the video types that mpicker0 and lysace mentioned, here's yet another: Fake, and dishonest, Christian Country Music. I learned of this through Fil Henley, who just pointed out Ella Scott ( https://www.youtube.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Well one is a random directive from 2022 about radio equipment marketing; and the other, hyperlinked by outadoc in the first place, was the very text of the European Union Public Licence version 1.2 as PDF and text/plain formats in 23
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Indeed, the problem isn't necessarily even the site being taken over. There was an example of what happens to comments over a period of 9 years without anyone dealing with spam on Hacker News just the other day. * https://n
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One interesting reason is that there are no official non-English versions of the GPL at all, the FSF (as it says itself) not having the means to ensure robust legal text in multiple languages, whereas the EUPL has official versions in 23 of

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