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331.
by blackoil 2y ago
Thin and Light are two independent variables, you can make a lightweight PC which still has good keyboard, thermals, repairable and ports by making it few mm thick. Its utility on the go comes primarily from weight and not thinness.
332.
by blackoil 2y ago
JS lives in a sandbox, that will require a bug to escape. Plugins are out of sandbox and random plugins should be disabled if security is a concern.
333.
by blackoil 2y ago
IIRC only 5% of Windows machines were affected. So, it is very probable that most people just saw the news but have no real impact on them. Some had minor and maybe memorable impact, like Indian airlines giving handwritten boarding passes.
334.
by blackoil 2y ago
223 million units are sold in 2023.
335.
by blackoil 2y ago
Curtains/blinds are cheap. DIY https://youtu.be/WlFVPnGEb8o
336.
by blackoil 2y ago
umm. Give a x days deadline and make after it public like Project 0 works, threaten to take away "Verified by MS" badge or create a WhatsApp group of Fortune 500 CIOs and badmouth in it.
337.
by blackoil 2y ago
MS should have something like Project Zero for Windows applications and drivers. Any app on more than 1-5% PC should be tested and fuzzed and ... And the vendor than pressured into fixing the issues. Even if it is not technically their faul
338.
by blackoil 2y ago
Java/dotnet pipelines don't have Windows penalty. Both have dependencies as compiled modules zipped into large jar/dll. While even simple node project have 10s of thousands of files inside node_modules folder.
339.
by blackoil 2y ago
A third party s/w crashed because users failed to validate deployments. So from MS perspective users can't be trusted and need to be further locked down.
340.
by blackoil 2y ago
Unfortunately, role of food in human health isn't studied properly because of won't make anyone money. Traditional Indian medicine and grandma's wisdom have a long list of foods to eat or not depending on disease/pregnan
341.
by blackoil 2y ago
Since weights are not distributed only used by Github to provide the service, they need not worry about GPL atleast. I don't know about AGPL.
342.
by blackoil 2y ago
> The best would of course to teach your kid to exclusively drink water when they're thirsty, and keep the soda as a weekend treat. Best way is don't keep these drinks in school and at home. Don't buy in bulk. You buy at o
343.
by blackoil 2y ago
I don't think Lego company will have to bear cost of these theft. It will be the retailer.
344.
by blackoil 2y ago
Words can have different meaning than its etymological parents. If I seed Ubuntu it doesn't become blckoil distro. So the word distro means different from distribution.
345.
by blackoil 2y ago
X in AJAX stands for XMLHttpRequest, which was predecessor of fetch API. It was originally used for XML in Outlook Web but wasn't tied with it. You can send any content type with it. Also it was for async web, I don't remember it
346.
by blackoil 2y ago
Lack of collaboration with folks in other expertise areas who won't/can't use that tool.
347.
by blackoil 2y ago
It has always been same. "Might is Right".
348.
by blackoil 2y ago
Where are you getting 10%. It is close to 25% for fy23.
349.
by blackoil 2y ago
That would be very very stupid. Their marketshare is already going down in China. Soon RoW will bring in similar laws and Apple will sell only in Texas and Florida.
350.
by blackoil 2y ago
Assuming EU won't slap a $30B fine. this approach didn't work very well for MS.
351.
by blackoil 2y ago
If it is so clear, so put so many roadblocks. Let there be other stores/payment gateways which no one will use.
352.
by blackoil 2y ago
Airbnb is one of the many players and they don't have any practical sized lockin over consumer or vendors. While Apple is dominant force with complete lockin over all iPhone users.
353.
by blackoil 2y ago
> There are no laws in the books that says what Apple is doing is illegal. Ummm. The whole discussion is that allegedly Apple is not compliant with DMA.
354.
by blackoil 2y ago
That would be very bad for customers and Apple will love it. Instead of buying iPhone you'll subscribe to it and pay $99/m for iphone+one+Apple telecom
355.
by blackoil 2y ago
In that case it should be owned/regulated by the govts. In India's UPI has multiple banks talk to multiple consumer and vendor apps in one ecosystem standardized by govt agency. and it is damn good compared to other systems.
356.
by blackoil 2y ago
This is very lazy argument. You may love paper book or hardbound or whatever, that is orthogonal to the discussion about copyright and lending.
357.
by blackoil 2y ago
They have multiple politicians from different countries pushing for legislations, some can be "surveillance" and some "pro consumer" and some both. I would say likes of GDPR are pro consumer. Also, it is better than pro-
358.
by blackoil 2y ago
For average user both are secure enough and privacy is more important concern. I don't think 0-day will be wasted on targeting random nobody. To be more secure, only way is to reduce surface area. Someone like journalist should disable
359.
by blackoil 2y ago
Vietnam has lot of terrace farms done on side of hills. Maybe land vehicles aren't optimized for them.
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by blackoil 2y ago
One reason of them being banned is they are very good and hence very popular.

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