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by janc_ 1y ago
Which is something that can cause annoying bugs when 2 identifiers that are "obviously" different when you see them in CamelCase are interpreted as identical by the compiler…
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by janc_ 1y ago
It never was "alphabetical" but rather an order determined by the numeric index into the used encoding table.
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by janc_ 1y ago
Doesn't help that most surveys are on external unknown domains, and look very suspicious (tracking codes, etc.). I get such links to surveys & other commercial bullshit from my bank too, like they want to train you to click fishing
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by janc_ 1y ago
You think they haven't done that sort of things yet?
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by janc_ 1y ago
My first thought was also that this relates to Intel's foundry business. Even if only to be able to use it in price negotiations with TSMC (it's hard to threaten to go elsewhere when there is no elsewhere left).
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by janc_ 1y ago
That was a problem at some point, but I think most of the GPL3-to-GPL2-relicense-issues have been solved by now?
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by janc_ 1y ago
Most Android users have the malware scanner in Google Play Services enabled.
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by janc_ 2y ago
There are bots that hurt the expected operation of your server, of course: - those that cause far too much traffic - (comment) spam bots - (for some companies) bots from companies that steal data & resell it verbatim - …? Whether CloudF
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by janc_ 2y ago
Those bugs also exist(ed?) in other browsers, and from what I understand they worked on fixing them, but they still can’t get through CloudFlare’s blocking after fixing the crash.
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by janc_ 2y ago
There might be ways to deduct that from total traffic/referral/… numbers without spying on individual users. Not unlike how they (roughly) deduct deaths by an epidemic from peaks in deaths compared to averages.
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by janc_ 2y ago
Testing all (or at least most) browsers should be quite easy to automate…
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by janc_ 2y ago
"Mozilla" & "Firefox" are trademarks which would come with their own legalese I’m sure, and of course there are some services used by Firefox (the Mozilla addons store, the malware blacklists managed by Google IIRC,
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by janc_ 2y ago
In 2023 the Wikimedia Foundation had 700 paid employees/contractors working for them. At the end of 2023 Mozilla Corporation had 964 employees and Mozilla Foundation had 118. So the difference isn’t that large…
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by janc_ 2y ago
"Online menus" are fine; they allow quick updates without requiring the restaurant to re-print menus, and allow for just one copy/version of the menu to be used everywhere. But then they should also display them publicly outs
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by janc_ 2y ago
Most such bad software is provided by a small number of very large companies, so none of it is "niche".
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by janc_ 2y ago
The main difference being that you talk with real humans who try to help you, not computer programs designed to give you an illusion…
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by janc_ 2y ago
That works out only as long as you don’t have to replace the whole machine (motherboard & possibly CPU/CPUs) to be able to add more RAM… So essentially the same problem as with disks. In the end it all comes down to: there are a wh
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by janc_ 2y ago
It's actually very simple & cheap to be compliant: stop tracking EU citizens.
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by janc_ 2y ago
The more DDoS there are, the more business CF gets. Take your own conclusions…
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by janc_ 2y ago
The fact that they block some people from accessing the websites behind their service negates their claims to be "just a passthrough"…
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by janc_ 2y ago
I assume you mean running btrfs on top of md (mdadm) or dm (dmraid), not the other way around?
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by janc_ 2y ago
And for reference: a ultra-tiny tactical nuclear bomb would still be >1 GJ.
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by janc_ 2y ago
Interpol is an organisation for cooperation between national police organisations. They don't visit ordinary citizens or tourists, nor are they allowed to do any police actions in (other) countries. Are you sure that wasn't part o
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by janc_ 2y ago
Intentions. The first is a conscious decision, the second is not.
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by janc_ 3y ago
JiaT75 also used "jiatan" on Libera.Chat using a Singapore IP address (possibly a proxy/VPN).
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by janc_ 3y ago
This particular file was described as an archive file with corrupted data somewhere in the middle. Assuming you wanted to scroll that far through a hexdump of it, there could be pretty much any data in there without being suspicious.
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by janc_ 3y ago
Or they have just one or a small number of targets, but don’t want the target(s) to know that they were the only target(s), so they backdoor a large number of victims to “hide in the crowd”. I agree that this is likely a state actor, or at
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by janc_ 3y ago
You would think so, but then I just read about eBay executives sending cockroaches & spiders, funeral/grieving-related items and a bloody pig mask to a couple that wrote some not-so-positive reviews about that company… https:&#x2F
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by janc_ 3y ago
FreePascal is pretty good but could be better with more manpower; Lazarus never was as good as Delphi GUI-wise, and hasn't been updated for modern GUI toolkits, so (unfortunately) it's almost obsolete by now.
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by janc_ 3y ago
A 1-person company beating IBM & Microsoft really...

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