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4y ago
A long time ago. Sourceforge has been more or less abandoned/forgotten for the past five years. Some projects continue to stick to it though due to inertia and laziness.
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4y ago
Plus a million.
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4y ago
To fuck with karma, I'll tell you what, this is the wrong story, the wrong conclusions, the wrong pretty much everything with our society. In most cultures people are raised such a way, the naked body is something "forbidden"
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4y ago
> AMD is paying a smaller price; they still had some mitigations to do, but they didn't let speculative memory accesses bypass access control, IIRC, so there's less speculation to turn off. And this is also blatantly false. Zen
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4y ago
> since they never revamped the fundamentals of their hyperthreading technology their spectre/meltdown/etc mitigations still send every new chip they make to the barber for a 15-30% haircut in performance. Most of this is blata
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4y ago
This guy definitely deserves a Wikipedia article.
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4y ago
The website has been updated and permissions are now hidden everywhere. WTF are you doing Google??
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PVS-Studio vs. open source Nvidia drivers
(github.com)
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4y ago
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4y ago
> AI art is about to lay utter waste to traditional visual art forms. This will be so much more destructive than what the Internet did to music. It will be a technological conquest of one of the great human avenues of spiritual transform
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4y ago
I'm using VPN 99.9% of the time, so it's all the same for me. The perks of living in a authoritarian state which tries to limit your access to the Internet.
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4y ago
Windows XP, Vista and 7 were the most beautiful operating systems ever. Since 7 we've had what could only be described as horrendously unusable and ugly.
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Google Play has hidden applications permissions
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> When was the last time you used Linux? $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Fedora Description: Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five) Release: 35 Codename: ThirtyFive > For a 
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4y ago
> Some even seem like wilful lies (e.g. the one about Windows and Mac allowing you to 'configure everything via the GUI'). That's true excluding registry hacks 99.9% of people couldn't care less about. In Linux on the
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5y ago
I can imagine the script they've created removes certain DLLs/EXEs (and disables Windows Updates - which is a red bloody flag) but there are numerous ways in which this can break Windows down, so the whole topic is a load of poo a
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5y ago
> Windows 7 is becoming very outdated, both in usability and security. Usability? What's wrong with its usability? There have been a lot of BS claims in this topic but this one looks the most egregious. Anyways, the topic was hidden
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5y ago
I've no idea what this crap is doing here. It's also warez and no one but microsoft can distribute Windows ISO images.
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5y ago
And precisely for that reason many companies nowadays don't allow to edit/modify certain fields unless you request support and provide a proof of your identity.
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5y ago
It's almost never been about growth. Actually deleting accounts means you're losing very valuable information about [past] customers, their behavior, geo, etc. Also some people may suddenly decide to delete their account and reque
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5y ago
I've worked for several companies and let me tell you the truth: * accounts are never deleted, period * At most there's a column in the table which specifies whether the account is alive or not. That's it.
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5y ago
This has been my pet peeve for ages. Google ignores the Accept-Language header on pretty much all of its websites and uses your location instead. And I fucking hate them for that.
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5y ago
> and even if it was, it would be on a tiny fraction of running devices right now. That's correct and I misjudged the situation. Sorry!
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You're right, I though kernel 5.8 is a lot older than it actually is. I've edited my post. Sorry!
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5y ago
This if f*cking scary. Such a simple code, so dangerous and it works. You can trivially add an extra root user via /etc/{passwd|shadow}. There are tons of options how to p0wn a system. Please update your devices ASAP!
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5y ago
I've been saying this for years. Whoever came up with the idea that passwords need to be regularly changed must be shot because no one has ever proved it makes any sense. What it actually does is that people write passwords everywhere
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5y ago
I've got six google accounts and never seen this message while connecting from my normal IP address or a random VPN provider (so hundreds of users sharing the same IP address). I presume something is wrong with your Firefox profile.
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So far "Linux works well for you and countless others" but almost all these people fall under the category of IT specialists or people with a high IQ. There are many anecdotal stories how Windows doesn't work but considerin
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5y ago
> It's just nothing to get hyped-up or excited about. Exactly my sentiment which is kinda sad.
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I didn't know about Dash, it's the first time I've seen such an admission. Need to read more about that. Thanks!
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Has the software market for PC slowed down to a standstill?
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5y ago
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