josephcsible

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MS patents system to freeze games, inject ads – commercials earn playtime credit(tomshardware.com)
5 points by josephcsible 6d ago|2 comments
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Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows(theregister.com)
5 points by josephcsible 10d ago|1 comments
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by josephcsible 12d ago
There is oil for the gearbox, but there's no scheduled maintenance for it at all, and in practice, people regularly get hundreds of thousands of miles without ever needing to think about it.
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by josephcsible 13d ago
Isn't that the same mechanism as the one you were saying it didn't need to use, though?
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by josephcsible 14d ago
> But the extension doesn't need to use that exact mechanism How do you figure? How else could it possibly work now?
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by josephcsible 14d ago
They changed how they do it, such that it's no longer possible for extensions to revert it.
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by josephcsible 14d ago
The reason this change is so bad is that it encrypts the actual URL, specifically to break addons like that.
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by josephcsible 14d ago
But then why mention execution at all, rather than just saying this is a place you can store arbitrary data?
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by josephcsible 14d ago
Yes, that's kind of what you need to be able to successfully back up and restore an encrypted file. Why are you making it sound like that's such a strange thing to want?
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by josephcsible 14d ago
It's unreasonable to ask everyone to own a second computer just to test restoring backups on, and it sounds like doing the test on the same computer wouldn't have caught this problem.
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by josephcsible 15d ago
The right way to do that is FDE, where you can't even mount the filesystem to see the files without having the decryption key.
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by josephcsible 16d ago
If it were possible to correct the size distortions with no downside, support would be unanimous. The problem is that that's impossible, and correcting the size distortion requires introducing some other kind of worse distortion. Equal
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by josephcsible 16d ago
There's nothing incorrect about the Mercator projection, unless your definition of incorrect covers every flat map and calls only globes correct. Every flat map projection has to make some compromises.
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by josephcsible 16d ago
> If Biden did that, he'd have been impeached in a hailstorm of critical media coverage. Biden did do that, on multiple occasions: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/02/joe-biden-doz
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by josephcsible 16d ago
Equal area projections don't preserve distance.
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Scammers demand ransoms from Instagram users over fake copyright claims(bbc.com)
5 points by josephcsible 16d ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 16d ago
This looks to me like you're copying the contents of an ELF binary from userspace memory into a kernel keyring, and then immediately copying it back from the kernel keyring to userspace memory, followed by userland exec the usual way.
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Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads(virtualizationhowto.com)
269 points by josephcsible 19d ago|158 comments
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by josephcsible 19d ago
The AGPL doesn't prevent competing services.
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The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video](youtube.com)
2 points by josephcsible 19d ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 21d ago
Another ADA disaster, along the same lines as when UC Berkeley was forced to get rid of all their free online course videos, because they didn't have the budget to have someone write captions for them. You should never have to take som
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Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths(phillyvoice.com)
22 points by josephcsible 21d ago|46 comments
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by josephcsible 1mo ago
This wouldn't be that bad if they had a functional website you could use instead, but their website doesn't even let you do things like pick your monthly rewards category or configure auto-replenish for your debit card.
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by josephcsible 1mo ago
Didn't that turn out to be a lie? https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-secu...
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I ditched cloud to keep my 3D printer private and stop mandatory file scanning(xda-developers.com)
2 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 1mo ago
Why shouldn't the foreground app be able to use all available memory if it needs it?
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by josephcsible 1mo ago
No, they're worse than both of those groups. I'd accept having to deal with both of them forever if it meant manufacturers didn't have a way to remotely brick things after they sold them anymore.
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Wildfire alert backfires as public blocks all government warnings(telegraph.co.uk)
14 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|5 comments
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Farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI weed and pest control advice(tomshardware.com)
5 points by josephcsible 2mo ago|3 comments
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Navy drone boats 'were sending data to China'(thetimes.com)
5 points by josephcsible 2mo ago|0 comments

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