cesarb

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1081.
by cesarb 3y ago
> There is some approach you can use sort of like this within PNGs themselves I think. [...] You can achieve better compression by brute forcing the possible operations used to encode the rows to find the "most compressible" ou
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by cesarb 3y ago
The Flipper Zero is already banned in Brazil by Anatel (the Brazilian equivalent to the USA FCC): https://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/2023/03/anatel-barra-fl...
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I can imagine a world where the first time my browser encounters a file of some new format it gives me the option to download a codec to render it That world existed, in the 90s and early 2000s, and it was called "ActiveX". T
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The author says he used all the VR systems that exist under the sun, but he doesn't mention SimulaVR. I don't think SimulaVR counts, since all they have so far is a few prototypes and a single pre-release build sent to an ext
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by cesarb 3y ago
IIRC, the lack of maintenance predated the murder; the development was focused on reiser4, basically abandoning reiser3, and for that reason there was a higher resistance against merging reiser4, since the kernel maintainers didn't wan
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by cesarb 3y ago
There's also the I/O ports (PCI has three address spaces: configuration, memory, and I/O, with the I/O space being a legacy x86 thing which does not exist on ARM and most other CPU architectures), which some cards might
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by cesarb 3y ago
> A machine staying up for almost 3 years is irresponsible in this day and age. [...] but you only need to look at the ssh logs of a 5 minutes old machine to realize this is a terrible idea in modern times. You don't need to reboot
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by cesarb 3y ago
> JSX chose to align names to the DOM spec [0]. Same for htmlFor and friends. And the DOM spec changed these names because "class" and "for" are reserved words in Java (and if you look closely, you'll notice that
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by cesarb 3y ago
> There is no issue with producing HTML with string templates. There is no issue, until you forget to use escaping (or use the wrong one) for one variable, and someone uses that hole to inject arbitrary HTML and/or JS into your page
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I still shake my head at how they were able to successfully rebrand it from amd64 to x86-64 It's the opposite: the original name was x86-64, and amd64 is a later rebranding. See, for instance, the original web site for this (then)
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by cesarb 3y ago
> but both Linux and Windows support suspending to disk out of the box. At least with Linux, out of the box all you'll have is the message "Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7" in
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It was so quiet that I wish it would've always stayed that way. And the smell! It suddenly smelled as if I were in the middle of a small rural town, instead of a major metropolitan area. That's the main reason I'm rootin
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by cesarb 3y ago
> This! Even so my local utility is putting in tracking solar projects. Got to be eco-theatre as well. They probably did the math, and at that location, the ROI for a single-axis tracker was better than the ROI for fixed panels. > And
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by cesarb 3y ago
> So, you want to manually download an update, install it and brick your device on your own schedule? Yes, because I can plan for it. I can do it on a weekend or a local holiday. I can do it in the evening after work, or in the morning s
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Hardware people can't write software Domestic routers, in particular, are infamous for their web interface and management daemons often calling command line programs through system() to configure the network (and other system mana
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by cesarb 3y ago
I think adding telemetry to a compiler goes in the opposite direction of the current "minimal privileges, sandbox all the things" trend. For instance, it would make sense to create a set of selinux rules (or something like it) to
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Is there a reason the latest chrome can't run on 7 if it didn't check for it? The reason is precisely because it doesn't check for it. That is: instead of checking for older Windows releases, and using fallback code path
1098.
by cesarb 3y ago
> use "May 10th, 2023" or at least "05/10/2023" to make it less ambiguous, using dots implies DD.MM.YYYY the same way as using dashes implies YYYY-MM-DD... For most of the world, using slashes also implies D
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by cesarb 3y ago
Perl 6 did get released, with that name, after years stuck in development (source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-... ). Only later was it rebranded.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I feel like I just don't understand, as someone who has to upgrade hardware every few years just because it breaks. My PC laptop's keyboard is broken [...] That's your mistake: you're using a laptop. In my experienc
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Note Zen4 has a 32 KB L1 instruction cache while the M1 has a 192 KB L1 instruction cache, requiring extra cleverness here instead to handle the higher latency and area. There's another factor here: to have a low latency, the L1 c
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by cesarb 3y ago
> When the day comes that I shutter another I'll ask the active members at the time what they want to happen to their data. You might not have that chance; unless you have a co-admin with full access to everything, the reason for th
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by cesarb 3y ago
That's not necessary; listening on the wildcard IPv6 address without the "IPv6 only" flag enabled on the socket is enough. A IPv4 connection arriving at it is mapped to a special IPv6 address, so the code doesn't have to
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Can anyone explain the deep nostalgia and longing for old DOS era software, and in particular VGA text mode interfaces? Nowadays, our computers have instant access to an uncountable amount of storage, information, and software through
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Between just the populations of the US, Europe and China (places with high levels of internet connectivity), you have over 2 billion people You have to consider the context: back then, multi-user computers were common. Each user didn&#
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The first 4 bits of both IPv4 and IPv6 packets are a version field. And in case it wasn't clear enough: it's called IPv4 because the value of that version field is 4, and it's called IPv6 because the value of that versio
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Add a one-byte option into the header, give it an unassigned value (e.g. 6) and assume that any box that does not understand it will pass it through unchanged. As many have found out, unfortunately "any box that does not understan
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by cesarb 3y ago
> There are no instructions for telling the JVM how to manually fiddle with raw memory. Ahem, sun.misc.Unsafe.{get,put}{Byte,Short,Int,Long,Float,Double,Address} > What, for instance, do you turn a malloc() call for a number of byte
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by cesarb 3y ago
> A few things are effectively grandfathered in due to their vintage: /favicon.ico, /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt are the three that occur to me—so if you’re running something vaguely like S3, you’ll want to make sure users
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Nuclear is clean by the criteria that is applied to energy these days [...] Sure, it generates nuclear waste that must be stored, but it doesn't uncontrollably emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Whether nuclear is clean or

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