PaulCarrack

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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
Toshiba? Lost a lot of good men there.
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
Since LUKS is exposed as block device like a hard drive, it's really no different than saying that they are just having issues with certain kind of hard drives. There is a PR out for this: https://github.com/openzfs&#x2
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
That's simply not true: https://9to5google.com/2023/01/31/google-fi-customer-hack-st... T-Mobile is still the weakest link here. Google Fi appears to be just as vulnerable to a SIM swap attack as seen in
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
It's "silent corruption" so a scrub would not detect it. This is the worst possible scenario which is why this is getting a lot of publicity in contrast to bugs in the past. What's worse is that the bug has been in produ
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-...
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
They are not wrong, I can attest that there have been a ton of breakthroughs and new developments. I don't know what else you're looking for here? Are you expecting them to list every single breakthrough here for you?
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
> but LineageOS can keep OS and software securities rolling past the manufacturers date. It's unfortunately a false sense of security because you don't get security updates for any proprietary blobs that are needed for your pho
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
I would love to see the PS or VBS example of this
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
Hey there, I'm an individual dev who uses it only for personal projects. I use the docker container for on-premise, private usage only in a VM with no internet connection that I run at home. I use it to index all my personal projects a
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
I've been watching since the original cast in the 70's. I don't know much about what he did as a writer on the show, but I didn't care for him as a performer. Strangely, I did get a kick out of his Stewart Smalley charac
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
> or we can accept that sometimes people use language imprecisely and expect readers to make an effort to understand rather than make an effort not to understand. I don't disagree with you there, however, things like pointers and st
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
> If malloc is accidentally being called with a pointer instead that would be an error Not true, just tried it in MSVC and it compiled fine but with a warning on conflicting types. "HTTP" is of type const char* and sizeof(size
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
> malloc(1213486160) is really malloc(0x48545450) is really malloc("HTTP") No it's not / that's not how C works. malloc("HTTP") is malloc of the address of a string literal in memory. If "HTTP&quot
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
Okay, that is garbage... I don't know what to say other than to also look at Amazon reviews... But yes, totally misleading and you would never know until you get the printer in hand and purchase the subscription.
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
But like anything that has a subscription, don't buy it if you don't agree with it. Purchase the non-subscription based printer.
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by PaulCarrack 3y ago
You bought one of the printers that end with an "e". For example: HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e vs HP OfficeJet Pro 9025 OR HP LaserJet Pro M234sdwe vs HP LaserJet Pro M234sdw The "e" printers support subscription based ink and
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by PaulCarrack 4y ago
Love the work Ken, been reading your articles since the early 2010s. Do you get paid to write these posts and do the research or is this just a hobby? I wish I could find the time to do something similar, but between family and work I have
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by PaulCarrack 4y ago
What a bizarre flex... I'm sure you're a blast to talk to at parties and events lol
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by PaulCarrack 4y ago
That's odd, I'm having a Mandella Effect here, I thought the company name was Hewitt-Packard.
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by PaulCarrack 4y ago
My very first computer as an HP. My dad came home with one from CompUSA back in the mid-90s. I think this was shortly after Packard Bell rebranded themselves. I don't know what involvement Carl had with the company by that point in tim