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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
Note: this has absolutely nothing to do with the Windows registry, despite the name
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
In Australia, apparently
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
> X509 certificate It should be a PGP or SSH key, absolutely not an X509 certificate (unless you allow self signed). Personal identity keys should be fully autonomous and not contingent on the formal recognition of any external authority
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
As long as you're OK with self signed certificates or PGP keys, I'd be on board with this. I really, really dislike the idea of using TLS certificates as we know them for this purpose, because the certificate authority system is t
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
Know your customer
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
While ironically leaving themselves open to supply chain attacks.
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
I'd be interested, but it's not in my city (Houston) so tough beans I guess, unless someone else wants to start it here. I very much agree with this being its own thing independent of Big Social Media. We need more of that. Too ma
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
That would exclude me and others who refuse on principle to use Facebook (or really any social media owned by Meta).
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
As I understand it, this is the essential insight behind dynamic programming algorithms; the whole idea is to exploit the redundancies in a recursive task by memoizing the partial results of lower order stages.
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by benchloftbrunch 1y ago
The other problem is that (if we take literally the absurd proposal of computing "every possible block" up front) you're not actually saving any space by doing this, since your "pointers" would be the same size as t
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
And one could argue that it's counterproductive to ban symbols that have been co-opted by hate groups regardless of context, because doing so legitimizes their use as hate symbols, and by proxy legitimizes the hate groups that use them
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
As I understand the issue is not with "undefined behavior", but with the phrase "the ______ question", due to its surface-level similarity to (one possible translation of) that Nazi-era buzzword. Which is still kind of a
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
It's a bad thing because Google's monopoly gives them enormous power to influence browser standards, while also having conflicts of interest re: their advertising business. See for example their recent war against ad blocker exten
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
> the SNES PPU's default-on-boot graphics mode is compatible with drawing NES-PPU-formatted CHR-ROM data; SNES 2bpp tile format is actually identical to the Game Boy's format; iirc the difference from NES is that the bitplanes
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
This has been settled case law in the US since the 90s, see Galoob v Nintendo. (Although that was subtly different since the Game Genie worked by intercepting ROM accesses, instead of rewriting values in RAM like this one does.)
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
> Another issue we ran into was certain dependencies that only have .cjs versions that work fine when building, but during dev would fail to import via ESM correctly I'd say that's more node's fault for half assing their E
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Under US law, for works created by companies the term is a flat 95 years from publication, so MS-DOS 6.22 will become public domain on January 1 2090. You and I will likely be dead.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Imo any article using the term "computer codes" to mean "software" is not worth taking seriously.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
A few that I've personally used. - OpenMPT (music tracker) - FamiTracker (music tracker for NES chiptunes) - WinSCP (FTP,SFTP,etc client) - WinMerge (file diff tool)
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
In what world is reading someone's public posts online equivalent to abuse worthy of a restraining order? That's what the hangup is with respect to twitter's implementation of blocking, and others like it. Denying specific
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Something not mentioned is that on Windows `long` is always 32 bits (same size as `int`), even on 64-bit architectures.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Probably because of the bad example set by XP Home (which deliberately crippled a lot of NT's advanced security features) having insecure defaults, and most people not bothering and just running as admin all the time.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
WTF-8 barely qualifies as "another encoding system" - it's a trivial superset of UTF-8 that omits the rule forbidding surrogate codes. Imo that artificial restriction in UTF-8 is the problem.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
The point is much of what the C standard currently calls undefined behavior should instead be either unspecified or implementation-defined. This includes the controversial ones like strict aliasing and signed overflow. Additionally, part
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Historical reasons. Windows NT was designed to support architectures with only two privilege rings.
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
I too am curious about the, imo, overemphasis on Unix clones in research and hobbyist OS development. All the shenanigans with modern Windows aside, I am genuinely a fan of NT's design, think it does several things better than POSIX an
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by benchloftbrunch 2y ago
Nintendo's entire argument in that case revolved around the unauthorized use of their encryption keys to bypass their DRM. None of the consoles mentioned in this manpage use encryption this way (and aren't powerful enough to do so
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by benchloftbrunch 3y ago
Microsoft Office from 97 - 2003 handled toolbar UI almost perfectly in my opinion. As a young kid I discovered many advanced and obscure features of Word and Excel through the customize feature. I really disliked the relatively dumbed down
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by benchloftbrunch 3y ago
Are Fidelity brokerage customers also affected by this? Or just life insurance?
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by benchloftbrunch 3y ago
Diagnosed Aspie here. No, they did not diagnose high functioning autism back then, at least in English speaking countries. The first English translation of Dr Asperger's research appeared in the 80s. That's when they first coined

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