digi_owl

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931.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Their basic "problem" is that existing products in the sector has long since reached saturation, so they are looking at anything that may entice a customer to replace their existing, fully working, product.
932.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Indeed. With Linux in particular there is a growing sub-set of the community that see the unix inheritance as something to be ignored or even vilified.
933.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Well it was primarily designed as an educational tool, and thus a direct inspiration to the RPi. After all, David Braben, creator of Elite (that originated on a BBC Micro), is also co-founder of the RPi foundation.
934.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Not just designed. IIRC, C64 games often ran slower on the European variant. This because the CPU clock had to be synced with the video output.
935.
by digi_owl 9y ago
For some reason i thought this involved the Micro:Bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit
936.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yes and no. A chip can't be copied like a mag strip can, so it is safe from the classic skimmers. Also a pin is worthless on its own. I have however read about a kind of mitm attack that was demoed in the UK. It involved a device sitti
937.
by digi_owl 9y ago
To me it seems more that the world has become beholden to the spreadsheet. The basic problem is that maintenance can't be filed as an investment, and thus gets filed as an expense. And while investments can be written off over years, i
938.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Indeed. We witnessed ethis with H264, where even the likes of Nokia (before they sold the phone business to Microsoft and later licensed off the brand) leaned in on not having webm be part of the HTML video standard. This because they had a
939.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Similar from Norway, and why it increasingly hurts to think that USA is considered the leader in technological development. It may be the leader in consumer hype of technological development, but dear deity so much of the actual daily opera
940.
by digi_owl 9y ago
He lives in Estonia, that is a very "strange" place when it comes to the use of public key encryption. Most places using chips for payment is a continuation of the magnetic strip and pin, only that now the chip can attempt to veri
941.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Gold, and silver, was nice metals for making durable tokens off back in the day. What made said tokens currency was not the metal, but the stamp. That said, daily, local, transactions were likely done either using simpler copper tokens or b
942.
by digi_owl 9y ago
There is no way any company would dare pull that in the present political world... I found it more interesting when the engineer picked up the readied punchcard and filled in some numbers. I suspect that beyond the storage medium (these day
943.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Any OS from the era of cooperative multitasking should have much the same behavior, iirc. Heck, even DOS with a few TSRs could come close.
944.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Say hello to the offspring of Anon...
945.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Aspergers is a walk in the park compared to what Terry is dealing with.
946.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sweden may also have more stringent license requirements...
947.
by digi_owl 9y ago
The _sec world has its own variant of the architecture astronaut problem. These are researchers that see anything that can't stop a TLA in its tracks as fundamentally flawed. And yes, you will likely find them congregating at defcon, l
948.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Likely the graphics card ROM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA-compatible_text_mode
949.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I think what is going on these days is that the font change coincide with the GPU driver kicking in, as much of what was done with GPUs are now done in the kernel, rather than X, via the DRI sub-system.
950.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I guess you could try booting freedos from a thumbdrive. Or some kind of console only Linux live boot. And i do believe that George R R Martin is (in)famous for using a DOS setup for writing. That said, i think i have seen a few "distr
951.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I seem to have encountered similar notions when politicians have to face the people their decisions affect on a person to person level.
952.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Then again the notion of religion and state as two separate entities is a fairly new one. Dig far enough back into the texts of most religions and you find that they have sections that are old laws dealing with everyday domestic quarrels.
953.
by digi_owl 9y ago
It basically applies to anything.
954.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And thus bump yourself way up the list of possible "troublemakers"...
955.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Or pay someone else to take care of certain chores so that they have the time to sit down and think.
956.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Not likely. Aspergers is not about a disinterest in social interaction, it is a "blindness" to the unspoken "rules" of social interaction. Most kids will given just a bit of time pick up the indications in body language
957.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sound like something out of Hong Kong...
958.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> supporting legacy code is not something that volunteers love to do. And this is perhaps the Achilles heel of FOSS in the long run...
959.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Copyright was hatched back when the act of copying was laborious and mechanical, meaning that the copier likely had deep pockets and financial backing (and there were few of them in the neighborhood). This logic falls flat when we get a dev
960.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Oligarchs backed by the west in many cases. Note how Russia was a cuddly uncle all the years under Yeltsin, while the oligarchs ran rampant. Then came Putin, the oligarchs were beaten into submission, and suddenly Russia was back as the big

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