jmb99

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by jmb99 2y ago
How many attacks have they stopped that would have DoS’d a significant fraction of the world’s Windows machines roughly instantly? The ends don’t justify the means.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Would not shock me for AV companies to immediately work around that if it were to be implemented. “You want our protection all of the time, even if the attacker is corrupting your drivers!”
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by jmb99 2y ago
> and I really hope they get the price down Very much agreed. I get why it’s expensive and I’m no stranger to the apple tax (and usually don’t mind it all that much), but I got the email today that it’s now available in Canada and $5k fo
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by jmb99 2y ago
The best solution I’ve found is an HDMI matrix. If all you need is to connect your HDMI devices to the TV and an older receiver, get a 2x2 or 4x2 matrix, have one of the outputs go to the TV and one to the receiver. This solves the problem
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by jmb99 2y ago
There are many keyboards without home and end keys.
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by jmb99 2y ago
> I don't see any reason why we don't just use Linux direct instead for everything. Because that would only allow you to boot Linux kernels. One of the benefits of bootloaders is the ability to boot other OSs. You can’t kexec w
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by jmb99 2y ago
Is your argument that people should be unable to attend concerts/etc without presenting ID? I for one am not a fan of that idea
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by jmb99 2y ago
It’s not weird UX when you consider why it’s so hidden: to increase “engagement” metrics (i.e. make it more likely for you to click on other videos, view/interact with ads/etc). Same reason the feature is unavailable on iOS (even
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by jmb99 2y ago
I’ve found that it works pretty well, at least in my home environment. The first time going to a new host, it has to include https, but subsequent visits auto-complete to the host rather than a web search. For example, I can type “opnsense”
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by jmb99 2y ago
It doesn’t count as advocating is your audience is only people who (in general) agree with you. I don’t think anyone on hackernews wants PWAs to be a worse experience, but they are . If you want to make a difference, you’re not gonna mak
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by jmb99 2y ago
> PWA (if it were implemented properly): "Click here to install app". Click. Confirmation dialog. App is installed. App opens in the same window. > App store: "Click here to install app". Click. An entirely differe
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by jmb99 2y ago
As much as modern Ethernet standards are much nicer (my house is wired for and running 10Gb everywhere, with 40Gb Infiniband to a couple locations too), 100Mbps still has its place. Specifically, anything embedded, slow, and/or cheap.
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by jmb99 2y ago
That… actually doesn’t seem as bad as I thought it would be. Obviously it’s not going to be evenly spread across the globe, but that’s about (napkin math) 350μg/m^2/year. Even over a century that’s barely a light dusting (to be fa
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by jmb99 2y ago
But that's missing the point. You can be doing all of those things but your manager still may not like you. Admittedly they're probably more likely to like you if you're a good employee, but if they like you and you're a
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by jmb99 2y ago
I personally measured over 90dB in a friend’s apartment downtown. NIOSH recommends exposure to levels above 90dB for less than 30 minutes per (work) day. She said it was that loud 24/7, and I believe that. If you have some evidence tha
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by jmb99 2y ago
I would argue that >90dB measured inside apartments for weeks on end 24/7 isn’t peaceful.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Unless I missed a memo, Linux LTS is 2 years of support these days. Many distributions offer 10 year LTS releases, but I’m not sure of any off the top of my head that currently offer more.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Coverity will definitely warn you about use-after-free. It’s not a “correctness” tool, it’s a static analyzer and probably the best one out there (imo). Yes in this use case it’s probably not too important to care about, but really any code
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by jmb99 2y ago
Unless I’m mistaken, Rhapsody (released 1997) used LF, not CR. At that point it was pretty clear Mac was moving towards Unix through NeXTSTEP, meaning every OS except windows would be using LF. Microsoft would’ve had around 6 years before t
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by jmb99 2y ago
brew install --cask xquartz Or install from the project homepage [1]. Then just launch the X11 app. Note that it does require the application to be built for Mac - it’s not an emulator, just an implementation of the X11 APIs. [1] https:&#x
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by jmb99 2y ago
This one is a bit more reasonable (to me at least). It seems to be an internet/texting convention that messages ending with a period are more formal/serious or potentially angry/irritated, whereas messages without a period ar
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by jmb99 2y ago
Not really sure how it could? It’s just effectively adding ~5” of wire and a differently shaped connector. Unless you’re worried about the fraction of a nanosecond the extra wire will add...
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by jmb99 3y ago
Unless said hacker has a big magnet.
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by jmb99 3y ago
Admittedly, this was almost a year ago. I found I could pay with credit cards in Berlin, but once I was in smaller areas I was looked at like I was insane if I tried to pay by anything other than cash. Probably didn’t help that my German wa
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by jmb99 3y ago
Any log that root on that box has write access to. It’s theoretically possible to have an anomaly detection service running on a vulnerable machine dumping all of its’ data to an append-only service on some other non-compromised box. In tha
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by jmb99 3y ago
That’s the biggest difference - here there isn’t a request, the money’s just gone. I can of course go through the process of calling my bank, filing a fraud claim, waiting 6-8 weeks and then hopefully getting my money back, but that’s not p
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by jmb99 3y ago
I’ve been running a personal mail server since 2016, and I’ve been struggling mostly with Microsoft off-and-on. I haven’t make any changes since setting up DMARC, SPK, and DKIM in 2016, but I’ll still sometimes randomly get blacklisted for
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by jmb99 3y ago
At least in Canada, the numbers provided for direct deposit are the same numbers used for direct/pre-authorized debit (i.e. withdrawals). So, while your employer likely wouldn’t abuse that information? People may be wary of giving out
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by jmb99 3y ago
Why can’t an Xbox run general purpose applications? Windows 11 can run both video games and general purpose applications on Xen 2 CPUs and RDNA2 GPUs. The current Xbox OS is a Windows NT kernel running under Hyper-V, same as desktop Windows
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by jmb99 3y ago
iPhone is a mobile application appliance, not a general-purpose computing platform.

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