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by duskwuff 4mo ago
I mean... yeah, it's beyond time. AppleTalk was a local, non-IP networking protocol used by early Macintosh systems, akin to IPX. All Mac OS systems have supported IP networking since the release of System 7.5 in 1994, and have used it
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Personal blogs are not necessarily self hosted. Substack is very popular and not uncommon nor dying. That isn't necessarily quite as personal as a personal blog from the era I'm remembering, though. My impression is that Su
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Personal blogs aren't going to disappear, there's right now more of them than ever! I'm not at all convinced. The personal blog , as it existed in the 2000s/2010s, is essentially dead. There are certainly still som
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
The threatened cancellation was over Watterson demanding an unmodifiable half-page for his Sunday strips, not over the content of his strips.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Not just that, but also - it's not as though there's a single Optical Mouse Interface which every mouse uses internally. There's probably hundreds of slightly different sensors, all of which work differently - having a single
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> By "that mode", do you mean "1.5A @ 5V" permitted by BC Neither - OP means devices with missing CC resistors which will fail to charge with a compliant PD source. (The A-to-C cable works because it provides 5V Vbus
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
The free software world has enough on its plate already, and there are a lot of other higher-priority targets for free firmware - e.g. mobile phones, GPUs, certain NICs, etc.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
I think you are underestimating just how many computing devices have CPUs of some sort in them. For example: - Optical mice have a processor running an image processing algorithm to detect motion. - Hard disks have a processor implementing
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
If there wasn't enough demand ~20 years ago for Intel to continue manufacturing the part, it's far less likely that there's enough demand now to justify designing, manufacturing, and qualifying a new part to replace it.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> unless Intel built a lifetime supply This is standard practice for low-volume legacy parts. A single production run will often yield enough parts for months or even years of demand; once demand gets low enough, the manufacturer will ju
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
It's a bit less of a thing than it used to be, but disposable books on technology were a thing for quite a while too. Think titles like "iPhone 6 for Dummies", "Learn Flash in 24 Hours", or "Windows 8 for Senio
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Wake-on-LAN works fine, but only wakes the machine from sleep . It won't boot a machine that's fully powered off.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Oh, that makes more sense. I'm still not sure why you couldn't give the binaries setuid in their default locations, given that compliance testing also requires SIP to be disabled - but, in any case, at least they aren't setui
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
As an aside: > ... copy the binaries uucp, uuname, uustat, and uux from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin and the binaries uucico and uuxqt from /usr/sbin to /usr/local/bin ... This should be yo
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Third alternative: Mythos is so catastrophically bad at medical tasks that attempting to use it for medical research would instead create bioweapons. ;)
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> This is hilarious considering you can easily[1] get a whole ARM laptop with 16GB for $425 all day, and that will also include a screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery, and storage. That "laptop" will also absolutely smoke the
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Especially if the real change is a couple levels separated from the problem. For instance, I can imagine a situation where the manufacturer of that "special cloth" didn't even change anything themselves, but their lubricant s
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> If it was more painful for the suing party, it was a good thing. It's a lot easier for a large plaintiff - like a record label, a movie studio, or a software publisher - to file a lawsuit than it is for a small defendant like a we
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Not precisely. The issue at hand isn't just that Google displayed the AI summary, but that they authored it, making them responsible for its contents. If the defamatory content had been in a snippet in the search results, they would&#x
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Precisely. What it replaced was rightsholders suing web services (like a forum or web host) as a first resort, which was a much more cumbersome and painful process for all parties.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
DMCA provides some rather important protection for service providers (including small-scale services like web forums, not just ISPs and web hosts) - it makes them not liable for copyright violations by their users, so long as they take down
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Early editions of Inside Macintosh implied that code segments couldn't exceed 32 KB, so you'd never run into that situation. (It's not clear whether this was an enforced limitation or just a recommendation.) Instead, develope
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
I can confirm that. On the TI-83, many of the TI-BASIC tokens contained lowercase characters which couldn't be typed at all - you could only type uppercase letters on the keyboard. (There were a few lowercase letters available as token
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
My guess is the author is a "domainer" (i.e. someone who manages a large portfolio of domains for resale) and doesn't realize that their needs are atypical.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Expiry notifications are offered by pretty much every registry already? It's an ICANN requirement. They all do it.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Why on earth would the backend function even take an email? In principle , it could be designed to do so to handle cases where a new email address has been confirmed out of band, e.g. for an account representing a company or a politic
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> I would expect a mature code base like rsync to have a lot of unit tests and integration tests You might be surprised. C applications which interact heavily with the system - like rsync - can be tricky to test comprehensively, as it&#x
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> I tried to use picoprobe to debug an nrf52 chip, it failed to even detect it I've literally got a Pi Debug Probe and a nRF52840 dev board on my desk, so I gave it a shot - and it works just fine. Make sure the core is awake when y

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