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by bentley 3y ago
Yes, the credit is in the original Reflections on Trusting Trust . > Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique of the security of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find
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by bentley 3y ago
You’re responding to a caricature you’ve constructed, not to the post I made. In this case, it’s not freeloading (l)users who left The Escapist in response to its new direction, but its own employees. And their immediate next action was
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> Without external ads and with only promotion for their own properties, how were they supposed to make any money? Among other things, they advertised direct moneymakers like paid subscriptions. > Is making money ‘blatant’? There’s ma
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by bentley 3y ago
It’s not too surprising that Nick got fired given The Escapist ’s desperate attempts at monetization of late. Zero Punctuation videos typically start with a short 30‐second ad for some other Escapist property, read by Yahtzee himself. Bu
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When I force push to a branch on GitLab with an open merge request, GitLab retains the previous set of commits, and provides an interface within the merge request to compare the current set of commits to previous sets. I love this feature.
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If you click that link, you’ll see it’s a reference to an ancient and prolific Slashdot troll post (“Netcraft confirms it—BSD is dying…”).
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PRO is a prominent player in the space. https://public.resource.org/ Notably, it’s thanks to them that in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled Georgia’s legal code, including annotations, is uncopyrightable.
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I recommend against attempting to divine opinions of “the OpenBSD team” from mailing list randos. Theo is the only OpenBSD developer in that thread. > They … dislike modern programming languages. You based this statement on the words of
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by bentley 3y ago
> In the second Bourne film (the first one directed by Greenglass), he starts off in Goa, then shows up in an airport in Italy, and later appears (with no indication of how he travels) in Munich, Berlin, Moscow, and New York City. Actual
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It takes intent. When it comes to DRM‐free digital copies (similar in spirit even if they’re missing many of the “benefits” described in the article), it took some practice at first for me to get used to copying books to my ebook reader ove
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by bentley 3y ago
A sibling comment mentions Neon Genesis Evangelion , which was “made” in the 90s but still had the original end credits song “Fly Me to the Moon” on the ADV Films DVDs (2008), losing it in the Netflix release (2019) and the GKIDS Blu‐Ray (
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I know a family with multiple Nintendo Switch handhelds who now only buy physical game copies, because that’s the only way the game won’t be locked to one console. (Myself, I’m a “GOG games on the Steam Deck” kind of guy.)
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Profit. A locked device that can’t be unlocked is unusable, probably stolen, and therefore cheap. An unlocked device is worth something.
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That passage is fascinating in that it itself confidently makes statements about history that are based more on supposition than evidence. For starters, it’s true that the name “Easter” probably comes from a Germanic goddess, but in most ot
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> If the binaries are freely redistributable but worthless without the blockchain auth How can that happen in our right‐click‐save world?
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My complaint is not that companies shut down their servers, but that reverse engineering to create your own compatible server is likely to get you sued and forcibly shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
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You’re extrapolating a huge amount of shock content from just one or two examples, but no strong evidence. Sure, I’ve heard of Blood and Honey , but that’s the only nasty Pooh derivative that’s made its way to my consciousness. Comparing t
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by bentley 3y ago
Some PC games are heavily DRM encumbered. Most (on Steam) are lightly DRM encumbered. Many (everything on GOG and other such stores) are not DRM encumbered. This is a much better situation than on consoles, where all games are heavily DRM e
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by bentley 3y ago
> Do you think a person’s cartridge of Pokemon Sun is going to stop working after this? Actually… I have a legitimate question here. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was broken on launch for the Wii U, and required a day one pat
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Unpatched on a phone that was ever promised security updates in that time window?
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The Bill of Rights is just as amendable as the rest of the Constitution. Witness the various efforts to “repeal Citizens United ,” which often (always?) require amending the First Amendment.
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> Of course you are you simply don't realise it. Don’t be ridiculous. Of course I know that the customary units are formally defined in terms of metric. I also know my milk jug, like all gallon milk jugs in America, says “3.76 L” ne
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> As an electrical engineer don't you deal with temperature? Sure, but I’m talking about in the context of everyday life, shooting the breeze, and all that. > My point is that 100C (boiling point) is not very useful for a person
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> The US public are really just pretending that they don't use metric. That’s a silly thing to say when this whole thread is complaining about how Americans don’t use metric. We’re not pretending—we really don’t use it. I myself am
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I leave it unchanged. The result is stylistic variation across sections of the codebase based on the nationality of the writer, but that’s fine—my focus is on fixing unclear or outright incorrect writing, not necessarily forcing every tense
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Buckley is one of Robin Williams’s impressions as Genie that I was too young to get. https://youtu.be/RBUSp7LglJg?t=36
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One that sticks out in my mind is the Coen brothers’ True Grit (with dialogue largely taken from the 1968 novel), which consciously avoids contractions—not entirely, but enough to result in a noticeable (though pleasing) aesthetic. Except
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I update diction in open source docs periodically, but avoid Americanizing the text (unless the project I’m working on has a policy of doing so). Sometimes, though, I don’t realize something’s an Americanism. One US–UK difference I hit last
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CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded SSH-agent(qualys.com)
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When I was a kid with no money and no game stores nearby, I “collected” Pokémon cards by pasting JPEGs from the web into Corel Wordperfect documents stored on my stack of 3.5″ floppies.

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