VogonPoetry

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by VogonPoetry 3y ago
Not sure exactly which way round you are asking -- should requests be tied to the person or be generic? In the HomePod settings there is a section for "Personal Requests". When enabled, adding reminders will then go to the device
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by VogonPoetry 3y ago
I'd recommend setting up some Shortcuts with the addresses that can be triggered from Siri. For example, "Siri, we're going to the office", "Siri, let's go swimming", One nit with this is that I haven&#x27
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by VogonPoetry 3y ago
I think the software decoding technique used here is incomplete. Consider what would happen if a data sector contained 12 * 0x00, 3 * 0xA1, 0xFE, ... then this implementation could mis-sync. On real hardware you'd have to be even more
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't think this is the first time he has been socially manipulated in this way. Mr Krebs does seem to have a habit of only getting the details from one side of things and only writing things from that side of the story
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
<humour> If you thought global warming was bad, wait till you hear about the problem of universal expansion. How are we going to meet our neighbors? Is this the sign we need that other intelligences are working to stabilize the univer
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Early in that timeline Solaris was heavily into being a "pure" System V r4. The pipes and sockets implementations were based on System V Streams -- the in joke was that streams were much more like sewers and they weren't plea
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Need to give the article author a lot of slack! If you are here, please read some more about networking :-). Networking is dynamic it takes many sequential steps to configure. There is no ZAP, it is done. I don't know of an OS that loc
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
This comment is confusing and perhaps misleading. The code that creates CP/M-86 (not multi-user) and CCP/M-86 (multi-user) are very similar. Some versions are publicly available. It is possible to download and compare. All Multius
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I think that a lot of technical books are written from the perspective of already knowing the material or expecting a particular learning path. A lot of important details or framing get left out. The technique of reading multiple sources is
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Half width vehicles ignores the following issues. - Busses. How do you make them half width? (or perhaps, uncharitably, do you think public transportation is worthless?). If busses stay the same width how do you write the driving regulation
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Booting Apple Silicon has strong cryptographic protections for all of the boot components. An alternate view on the EULA is that it is a legal statement that nobody can get into trouble with any DCMA stupidity if they want to boot their own
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I believe that Apple uses something similar to their "Handoff" mechanism, described in the "Apple Platform Security Guide" [1]. This uses Bluetooth Low Energy out of band paring to establish a shared key. I believe it us
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I went and found my code, with a side trip into being able to "unzoo" the archive! Yes, I agree. I also used SI as the PC so I could use "lodsb" (cute HN name BTW) and "lodsw" for 2 byte args. My register use w
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Given that the 8086 has SI and DI with a +imm8 mode, like the (IX+imm8) and (IY+imm8) instructions on the Z80. I do wonder if Z80 CP/M machines were the real target rather than the 8080. I did write an 8086 assembly based Z80 emulator
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
There was and it ran on quite well on 286 systems. It started out as Concurrent CP/M-86 but evolved into Concurrent DOS. It was able to run simple MSDOS programs and eventually ran from a FAT filesystem. This OS came from Digital Resea
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I can answer this. Ruby is my favourite language! Am I a haiku
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I think that the plague of speculative execution bugs qualify as a single error in virtual memory systems that cause complete system compromise. This was not a logic error in code, but a flaw in the hardware. It isn't clear to me if CH
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
So I decided to look at the code that implements talking to gs.apple.com on my Mac. It already supports using TLS. If I am reading this correctly, there are ways it could be enabled right now. Out of respect to Apple; as they are clearly no
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Here is a thing. The endpoint gs.apple.com already supports HTTPS (and on port 433). In fact, a new cert was issued to that endpoint on 23rd Feb 2022 -- before the date of your article. Something was already afoot before you wrote about it.
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
What you appear to be saying here is that the "test" is based solely on comparing write performance, not on the conformance to what was written, when it was written and what was written when power was pulled and what was read back
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Opinion. The bizarro thing with this is that O_<xzy> flags are for a per file open, but the guarantees can only be supported by an underlying filesystem. On Linux you can mount a filesystem and invalidate some metadata updates using o
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
This is complicated. It involves identity, credibility (accreditation), reputation and authority. For me to be taught, my parents ceded authority to the school to appoint credible teachers. Those teachers will have an identity, qualificatio
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Yes, agreed. It is a term of inclusivity that is applied to observations and models, the testable items. I don't think "we" it is acceptably used for individual opinions unless it reflects the opinions of multiple authors. Th
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Yup, it should have been moot.
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
Governments are in a privileged position to get this data and they likely have it and have reasonable models. The classic knob to influence inflation is interest rates. This can be also be modeled. Non-politicised civil servants have a good
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
These: "Now that you know what right-half-plane zeros are, in this article I'm going to begin a deep-dive into a control-systems-based analysis of a certain feedback system that is drawing particular public attention today: inflat
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
I have now read the followup article. There are, to me some language red flags. The followup article now uses "we' -- suggesting this is not the work of an individual. This was not present in the initial post. An attempt is made t
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
In the classic social media sense. You saw my post on X, now believe what I say on Y.
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
The context of the writer. Apologies if I implied that the notation semantics were important -- letter exchange is free; concept change is not. What I indented to mean was the use of the terms poles and zeros is a bit wonky. Attempting to b
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by VogonPoetry 4y ago
In this case the author (A) is setting themselves up as an authority in (T). The statement (P) in this article has not been revealed, but because (and I suspected separated) is in the followup (which I have now read). The followup does refe

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