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by coldacid 5y ago
Some newer parts of Windows are open source, and in other places they've added open source software to the overall distribution (such as OpenSSH). But yeah, almost nothing legacy in Windows has been or will be open sourced, due to the
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by coldacid 5y ago
Yet another reason to skip Windows 11. At this point I wish we could roll back to Windows 2000.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Many machines on IX.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Every day my belief that the web should never have been allowed to go beyond hyperlinked documents grows stronger.
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by coldacid 5y ago
>Would it be able to get the key from the usb device? Or does the hashing happen on the device itself with the private key never exposed? If you could extract the key, you probably have access to the intelligence resources of a very larg
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by coldacid 5y ago
Ditto on the hardware token. This SSH signing thing looks to require an actual file in the file system, which is a complete non-starter to those of us who don't keep our keys in ~/.ssh/id_* files.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Peer review is performed by other experts in the same field, and the journal has to arrange that for the authors.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I almost always instrument all my code with logging messages for the purpose of local development. Sometimes it can be very inconvenient for different reasons to run something in the debugger, and so generating log files while running the c
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by coldacid 5y ago
It's both, really.
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by coldacid 5y ago
And here I thought that the Altaic family theory had died out.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I think the row order in BMP is OS/2 related. Windows, X, etc. all put 0,0 in the top-left corner, but OS/2 puts it in the bottom-left instead.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Yeah RIFF is essentially IFF with opposite endianness. Regarding IFF usage in The Sims, it's not surprising given that EA designed the format. I believe that SimCity 2000 cities and scenarios are also IFF.
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by coldacid 5y ago
They'd just nudge their other Five Eyes friends into sharing their copies.
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by coldacid 5y ago
According to what law or precedent?
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by coldacid 5y ago
For a start, by opting out of as much of the "conveniences" that enable this bullshit to begin with. Easier said than done, but it's truly the most necessary step.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I hear that the reason we went from Windows 8.1 to 10 was that Redmond didn't want to release Plan 9 from Microsoft. ;)
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by coldacid 5y ago
Tried a headshot of myself framed like the example pictures and all I got was something that looked like it was bombed by effects out of Paint.NET. Definitely looked nothing like an anime character.
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by coldacid 5y ago
If only this was our timeline.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I doubt that it'll be successful, but I hope these House and Senate bills actually get somewhere.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I certainly get having some kind of searchable log of a Discord server, but turning that into an actual forum with separate discussion threads and everything strikes me as something that probably doesn't work all that well. The forms o
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by coldacid 5y ago
Which, interestingly, uses 9P as the file system protocol between Windows and the WSL instance.
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by coldacid 5y ago
This would be good enough for me.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I don't think they're allowed to do that. I mean, they can /ask/, but until the court hears the case or releases the stay, they can't /tell/.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Now if only something could be done about its schizophrenic standard library and built-in functions.
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by coldacid 5y ago
This is the avenue I've started taking, myself.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I wish the article was clearer about that.
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by coldacid 5y ago
Why do the snipping tool, touch keyboard, or emoji panel need to connect to the internet in the first place? Seems like more shitty spyware built into everything in the OS.
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by coldacid 5y ago
I'm very happy with Code not having any kind of toolbar in it. One of the things I did in my Emacs config for Windows was disable its toolbar, because it's just a waste of space when you do most things with keystrokes. It's t
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by coldacid 5y ago
This comes off as threatening to personal freedoms. Today they're doing something like this because of COVID, but how long before they start doing this for areas full of people saying things that the government just doesn't like?
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by coldacid 5y ago
From my reading, possibly more than just a temporary dip for those who have a severe case of COVID-19.

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