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by cesarb 3y ago
Sounds like you want PICS (though it works on the opposite direction, with the web site sending the flag, and the browser deciding whether to show the content based on it).
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by cesarb 3y ago
There are some things Wine doesn't do. Last time I checked, it didn't fully implement DCOM, so it couldn't be used for OPC (OLE for Process Control) and similar. And the use case in the parent comment might need Windows 98 be
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by cesarb 3y ago
A smartphone minus the cellular modem is just a PDA. Or rather, the modern smartphone could be viewed as the fusion of the PDA form factor and a cellular phone; this can be more clearly be seen in early smartphones like the Treo 650. Before
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by cesarb 3y ago
> but grid access fees should be equal for every household No, they should vary depending on the grid connection type. Someone with a three-phase max 100A per phase connection should pay more than someone with a single-phase max 50A per
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by cesarb 3y ago
> mains frequency of 50 or 60 Hz depending whether you're from the metric or eagles/freedom land. Sorry for nitpicking, but the huge country I live in uses metric but has 60 Hz for the mains frequency (and our analog TV standar
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by cesarb 3y ago
> because of space constraints (typical CA trust root collections are around 100 KB in size). Since shim is an executable in the ESP, which is a HDD or SSD partition, the space constraints are more relaxed (it's not a small SPI NAND
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by cesarb 3y ago
> [...] any methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions of a covered work [...] From what I understand, allowing the user to install their own trusted keys is enough; th
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I'm curious how shim avoids the issue Microsoft is concerned about. IIRC, shim has a way to allow someone physically present to add additional keys which will also by trusted by that instance of shim. That's enough to satisfy
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked. It's not so simple. If the Windows 7 computer is on a physical network with only trusted devices, and behind a firewall, an
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Flash (and probably ActiveX) were also executed in a "sandboxed environment", including "limited access to the system's resources". IIRC, the main issue with ActiveX was that it did not execute in a sandboxed
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by cesarb 3y ago
That's a leftover from back when IPv6 was very new (yes these utilities are that old), and the networking utilities (ping, traceroute, etc) understood only IPv4. It's no longer necessary, all relevant networking utilities have sin
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by cesarb 3y ago
> there is no nat w/o a "firewall" Actually, there is! People normally don't notice because NAT is usually co-located with a stateful firewall (since both need connection tracking to work, unless it's the rarer 1
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The prefix acts as a flag that indicates it is a new address and routers read an additional 5 bytes from the beginning of what would be the data section of a traditional v4 packet to get the complete address. Your proposal, as usual fo
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by cesarb 3y ago
> ISPs are SUPPOSED to allocate a /64 for a single customer. Weren't they supposed to allocate a /48? Or did that change while I wasn't looking?
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by cesarb 3y ago
At least for me, whenever I have Javascript enabled for that site, it automatically loads all the pages (sometimes with a slight delay) as if the article had a single page. It only appears as multiple pages when I have Javascript blocked, w
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by cesarb 3y ago
Rust has panics too, which also unwind, and you can also recover from them; they are also a type of exception handling. Unless the project was compiled with panic=abort, in which case they don't unwind at all and you can't recover
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by cesarb 3y ago
> particularly when it comes to grocery shopping. Transporting a large quantity of goods can be impractical, if not impossible, without a car. Even carrying a moderate amount can be exhausting due to the 'last 100 meter' issue,
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by cesarb 3y ago
That style of #ifdef use, while common in the past, tends to be somewhat fragile and also gets more and more tangled as more conditions are added. A better way is to have an always existing inline running_on_valgrind() function, and use the
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by cesarb 3y ago
I'm not him (and I'm also not a pilot or aircraft designer), but AFAIK there's also the elevator trim, which uses a separate mechanism and could be used to shift the range of the control authority.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> then the physical link can be disabled and then the inputs are considered "desynchronized" and only then to the inputs become averaged. My understanding is that it always averages the input, even when they're not desynch
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I don't know what those advantages might be, but I really hope they exist. The advantage is obvious: it's the most similar to how it worked back when the controls were fully mechanical. IIRC, some old planes even had each sid
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Visual C++ has been available for free, for at least 20 years now The context of this discussion (DJGPP) is from the MS-DOS and Windows 9x era, which was more than 20 years ago.
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by cesarb 3y ago
The same happened to me (including the download of a stack of Slackware floppies, though I had a faster modem). In my case, it was because of a desire for true multitasking; under DJGPP, telling the IDE to use your Makefile to compile a pro
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It allows programs written for Linux to run under Microsoft Windows. No, at its core it's a port of GCC to MS-DOS (not Windows); it has no compatibility for Linux programs other than by virtue of both using the same compiler (GCC)
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by cesarb 3y ago
> unable or unwilling to do the work to avoid it The problem is that it's rare to write code which uses no third-party libraries, and these third-party libraries (most written before Java virtual threads ever existed) have a good ch
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Why do i get this faulty patch if i'm not even using Bitlocker ? You might not be using it now, but you might want to switch it on later. And more importantly, it prevents an exponential explosion on the amount of different varian
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by cesarb 3y ago
It's hard to avoid. I know I can open the GUI file manager to look at a directory, and sometimes I try to force myself to do that, but way too often I quickly open a terminal and type a "ls" command. It's just what I g
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by cesarb 3y ago
The code which outputs the error message is probably getting it from GetLastError() or similar (the Windows equivalent to POSIX's errno). But meanwhile, some error handling code has called some library functions (probably to restore th
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Pirates get a better product. Your comment reminded me of this classic article: https://blog.codinghorror.com/oh-you-wanted-awesome-edition/ "If I choose open source, I don't have to think about licensin
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by cesarb 3y ago
> brief power outage > typically able to resolve this kind of issue within ~10 days time We seem to have a different opinion on what constitutes a "brief" power outage. I live in a third-world country, and 24 hours is alread

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