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by hulitu 2mo ago
SMR ? As in shingle magnetic recording ? 40 TB ? At those speeds you will never be able to fill such a disk.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> A parliamentary process where a law is being proposed, amended and voted upon isn't "corruption". If the law is initiated by the parliament and not by some company through lobby. Lobby is corruption.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
Wow, it really looks like Win 10/11. Microsoft is back to the roots now. But Word 1.0 even has 3d GUI elements. They must have had impressive computers back then.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> How is it NSA/DHS negligence? By mandating backdoors.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Oh, so that's why my neighbour, Vasile, drills day and night. He hopes to discover a new life form. /s
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> Despite newer security measures mandated in Windows 11 computers keep getting pwned by cyber-criminals Those are "OS security measures" used to protect the OS from the user. User data is not protected at all. Google pioneered
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by hulitu 2mo ago
2 ? Google, Apple, Microsoft, Palantir, Meta etc.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> your device violated the USB-C spec I heard there are more than one USB-C specs.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
But they ran out of names. The S in USB still sucks. Just try to transfer a lot of small files over USB.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> Do we do this for every new version and combination of versions for USB? USB-PD? Thunderbolt? DisplayPort? Yes.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> “is that a linguist hiding behind that bush?” No, a FAANG employee. /s
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by hulitu 2mo ago
Again ? Wasn't '45 a lesson for them ?
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by hulitu 2mo ago
Business is business. It it the same in the whole world.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
Because he didn't have any apple, that's why.
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by hulitu 2mo ago
> I certainly hope the EU is studying the problem US-controlled EU-trusted issuers cough DE-CIX cough CIA cough
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> wrapping text at 55-75 characters per line What happened to 80 ? Ok, 75 is "close enough", but 55 ?
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> I don't know why you'd want the content potentially getting covered by unrelated UI elements. Well, if Google and Firefox does it, it must be good. Ah, yes, I forgot Microsoft with its helpfull transient "We just introd
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by hulitu 3mo ago
Thank god there was no Google then. They would have put the knobs on the screen.
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> Think about users who don’t maximize the window, for whom centering to the screen, not viewport, would just be broken. This in blasphemy. Never, ever, think about the user. Users are idiots anyway. The apps shall be used for their inte
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> If I have a sidebar open, it's because that space is not yours to care about. Drawing UI is hard. Firefox likes to draw the websites underneat the scrollbar. Google likes to draw system nabigation buttons over the window with all
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> I am kind of surprised GitHub doesn't seem to have built a simple classifier for public repos to proactively lock the account of anyone uploading such obviously fishy things (for their own good, at least before the repo is publicl
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> That's why governments want to do something about it in the first place. Really ? Like what ? I never heard about mandated "working parental controls". I only heard about "protect the children" (where are the l
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> because now government is protecting that crap without even realizing it. I don't think politicians are _so_ stupid (except some of them, of course). But business is business. See how they "fight" the big tech.
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> How about NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeDOS, Plan9 Good luck booting those OSs on a system with secure boot enabled
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by hulitu 3mo ago
Surveillance is to protect about ... hm... terrorists. Not to spy on political opponents. /s In the end, those who do not learn from history (hello EU) ....
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> The antivirus companies knew it existed, but did not flag it partially because it was by a legitimate company Just like Google today with play protect. From this point of view, Sony was a pioneer. /s
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by hulitu 3mo ago
Look, they only have a 600 Mhz processor to emulate the look of Windows 2.0. /s
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> Somehow the rendering of that dashed line at the top runs across into the "pinned tabs" section Graphics programming is very hard. Borland tried to improve the situation in the 90s with it graphics library, but little progres
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by hulitu 3mo ago
> shouldn't that prevent it should. It doesn't.
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by hulitu 3mo ago
Because, for some reason, someone at gcc decided that some warnings shall be treated as errors. Good luck finding out which those are and which flags you need as a countermeasure. Of course it has documentation. Of course it is useless.

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