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by jasomill 2y ago
While apparently undocumented, you can disable WPBT execution by adding a value to the registry: reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" /f /t REG_DWORD /v DisableWpbtExecution /d 1
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by jasomill 2y ago
Why would you trust Secure Boot in the first place on a system where an attacker controls the firmware? And if they don't control the firmware and Secure Boot is enabled, how are they injecting ACPI tables? While I'm no fan of WPB
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by jasomill 2y ago
In screen, I just use a single backtick, as I very rarely use it for any other application in a terminal session (I prefer "$()" in shell, invariably edit TeX and Lisp in GUI Emacs, and the only only other thing that comes immedia
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by jasomill 2y ago
Nice. After five minutes: 95.6% with a mouse; 96.2% with a Wacom tablet; trackpad (Apple Magic 2), hopeless. As for opportunistically relevant posting: see the first chapter of Felix Klein's Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Sta
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by jasomill 2y ago
You might find OpenCore Legacy Patcher[1] worth a look. In many cases, it allows later-that-supported Mac OS versions to be installed on older Macs. As a data point, I still use a 2013 Mac Pro as my primary desktop, and I've been using
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by jasomill 2y ago
So basically the next generation of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8gF0KTfMrQ
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by jasomill 2y ago
Better yet, use a container. Distrobox[1] automates the process of installing popular distros released in the past decade or so in containers. For games in particular, Proton[2] (a game-specific Wine fork) or one of the Steam container runt
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by jasomill 2y ago
Regarding .NET: • .NET installers install to systemwide locations and therefore typically require elevated privileges. • Microsoft supplies both install scripts (dotnet-install) and .tar.gz/.zip archives to support unprivileged install
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by jasomill 2y ago
0.999… always reminds me of my favorite definition of the real numbers: “A real number is a quantity x that has a decimal expansion x = n + 0. d ₁ d ₂ d ₃…, (1) where n is an integer, each d ᵢ is a digit between 0 and 9, and th
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by jasomill 2y ago
Most TVs have a "game mode" that reduces latency to a single frame time, give or take a few milliseconds[1]. Not as good as the best monitors, but close, and certainly not dozens of milliseconds. [1] https://www.rtings.
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not just "could"; e.g., Yamaha's latest workstations, with gigabytes of samples, still support General MIDI[1]. [1] https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/7/2172427...
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by jasomill 2y ago
VMware Fusion isn't sandboxed and installs daemons running as root (which requires Gatekeeper approval or bypass to run, followed by an admin password to install the daemons). AFAIK, XProtect is the only remaining line of defense again
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by jasomill 2y ago
Even on an Intel Mac with a discrete GPU, fractional scaling is rarely a problem. I typically run my trashcan Mac Pro (low-end D300 GPUs) at 4K/1440p, and only a few problems come to mind: • Microsoft Remote Desktop (with "Optimiz
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by jasomill 2y ago
Yes. In fact, IBM created SWT to implement Eclipse. Ghidra is an example of a large, cross-platform application I use regularly that does use Swing. While it's a terrific reverse engineering tool, its UI leaves at least a little to be
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by jasomill 2y ago
I'll second the recommendation for the E3-1265L v2 as an upgrade for the Gen8. Note that the onboard SATA/firmware RAID controller on the Gen8 only supports 6Gb/s SATA on two drive bays; the other two (and the SATA interface
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by jasomill 2y ago
Unless something has changed in recent macOS versions, by default: 1. Thunderbolt Bridge exists and is enabled. 2. All active (enabled, connected) interfaces get link-local IPv6 addresses. 3. All active interfaces without static or DHCP-ass
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by jasomill 2y ago
To put this into perspective, per Wikipedia[1]: 60 dB SPL: TV (set at home level) 100 dB SPL: Jackhammer [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sou...
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by jasomill 2y ago
"Overwrite" on flash requires erasing the block containing the data you wish to overwrite, so pre-erasing blocks that will never be used again until rewritten doesn't reduce available write cycles, and can improve both endura
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by jasomill 2y ago
I completely agree with you, but on a side note, you can at least get descriptive text for most Microsoft-defined error codes using https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/download/details.aspx?id=100... which effectively
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by jasomill 2y ago
Interesting. Also note that, while File Explorer and Windows file/open dialog boxes don't accept "\\?"-style paths at all, you can use the "Run" command (Windows Key+R or choose "Run" from the Start M
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by jasomill 2y ago
AFAIK, Windows Remote Desktop always renders through virtual display adapter devices, though it can optionally make use of GPU resources to accelerate rendering to these devices. I just tested in an ESXi VM[1], and Windows 10 will happily b
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by jasomill 2y ago
Depends on what tools you give the average user. A simple GUI wrapper around something like yt-dlp or ffmpeg would suffice for downloading DRM-free HLS videos. As a concrete example, try yt-dlp --format english_192-English+bestvideo htt
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by jasomill 2y ago
PDF documents support launching external programs. I wouldn't want my email client to support arbitrary PDF features, either.
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by jasomill 2y ago
Indefinitely, even in the case of near-total destruction. While not exactly historical fiction, this scene from Dr. Strangelove comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y
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by jasomill 2y ago
So long as you're willing to pay enterprise subscription prices for both Office and Windows with no volume discount, single-user subscription licensing for Windows Enterprise is exactly as easy as subscribing to Office 365: https:&#x2
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by jasomill 2y ago
In the case of static linking, yes; they even share a common file format: $ file /usr/lib64/libzstd.a vcpkg/installed/x64-windows*/lib/zstd.lib /usr/lib64/libzstd.a:
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by jasomill 2y ago
.NET supports "inlining" DLLs as you suggest, though it extracts bundled libraries to a temporary directory before execution when native libraries are involved. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/co
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by jasomill 2y ago
Looks like it’s just XML .plist format, and (at least partially) publicly documented: https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configura...
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by jasomill 2y ago
While most of these things can be disabled in a supported fashion using Group Policy, notable settings restricted to "non-consumer" Windows editions include: Enterprise and Education only: "Disable all apps from Microsoft Sto
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by jasomill 2y ago
As another data point: I used Fedora Silverblue for a couple years, switched to Kinoite (Silverblue - Gnome + KDE) without reinstalling a couple months ago, and updated to 40 last week, and everything seems to be working fine. While I can&#

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