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by magnat 4y ago
Huge pages need contiguous free physical pages. Without preallocating them at boot time, with higher system uptime, chances of finding such region to satisfy the allocation are slimmer, especially for 1G pages, to the point when even servic
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by magnat 4y ago
For a proper page numbering, consistent word wrapping, pixel-perfect font rendering and document outline support.
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by magnat 4y ago
Not if you brought your cellphone on the trip. Or used a car that has a built-in SIM card and cellular modem. Or you bought that laptop from a supplier that registers all MAC addresses of sold devices. Or that laptop had Computrace or some
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by magnat 4y ago
> when power drops, and the voltage levels on the power rails start drooping, DRAM tends to go insane and starts returning garbage long before the DMA engine and the hard drive stops functioning That doesn't sound right. DRAM can ke
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by magnat 4y ago
And how that's different from gzip or base64, which can re-create original image when given appropriate input?
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by magnat 4y ago
It could transmit at 22 TW EIRP, a feature quite rare in smaller arrays.
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by magnat 4y ago
> Currently, it's not possible to run gray386linux on i486 machines (but it's possible to run gray386linux on Cyrix 486DLC and similar CPUs) What's the cause? Incompatible/missing peripheral or some breaking changes i
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by magnat 4y ago
> Not a big deal at all considering that they're public keys, there's no security concern there. I might be pushing the analogy too far, but: all the URLs I have visited are public and are not identifying me personally, yet u
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by magnat 4y ago
> Did you know that ssh sends all your public keys to any server it tries to authenticate to? Never really thought about it. Feels kind of "leaky", even if necessary.
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by magnat 4y ago
After doing the same since 2003, out of ~200 email addresses used 18 are listed on HIBP, ~15 receive dozens of spam emails a day (or rather: would receive if I hadn't completely blocked them) and ~10 see almost non-stop login attempts
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by magnat 4y ago
> These changes were accompanied by reduced EEG power in the theta band, together with preserved levels of Lempel-Ziv broadband signal complexity. Sounds more like a specs of a DSL modem than a psychiatry paper. I certainly didn't e
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by magnat 4y ago
The whole contraption should be shielded from the environment, otherwise its output could be easily influenced by an outside adversary pointing X-ray gun at it.
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by magnat 5y ago
small issue = whole datacenter burned down
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by magnat 5y ago
I have been using one of those for a year or so (Dell Latitude 3190, 4GB, Debian 11), mostly for web and remote access. Firefox with uBlock and NoScript runs OK, not much difference between this and a proper PC. YouTube on 1080p60 maxxes ou
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by magnat 5y ago
NTP is commonly used for DDoS amplitication.
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by magnat 5y ago
Blizzard watermarks screenshots produced by World of Warcraft find and track users of emulated servers by embedding user account info and server IP all across the image. https://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraf
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by magnat 5y ago
Ethereum hashrate dropped by 20% in last month, too.
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by magnat 5y ago
No mentions about privacy, more bundled in apps, more "AI", more cloud connectivity. I don't know what I even expected.
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by magnat 6y ago
> Low res analog video -> high res digital video Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I'm curious to see how DJI
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by magnat 6y ago
Why wouldn't automatically starting a simple local recursive resolver be a better fallback than consuming a public one?
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by magnat 6y ago
Opening and querying untrusted SQLite database can lead to (remote) code execution. Original research at https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-f...
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by magnat 6y ago
> A team at IBM eventually figured out that with a well crafted dance of instructions this could be achieved by taking advantage of specific quirks within the chip. Details are described at [1], tl;dr: - store register values in RAM - se
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The Future of .NET Standard(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by magnat 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Microsoft ReportViewer recompiled for .NET Core(github.com)
5 points by magnat 6y ago|2 comments
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A look at the die of the 8086 processor(righto.com)
217 points by magnat 6y ago|123 comments
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by magnat 6y ago
When I still used it ~5 years ago, there were additional conditions on Action Pack licenses. AFAIR your company had to generate 80% of income from software development or similar services to be eligible and licenses were for internal use on
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by magnat 6y ago
Until recently there was a free Bizspark program which granted you five MSDN subscription for two years. Apart from that, there is a Action Pack which comes with (among others) three MSDN subscriptions and ten Windows 10 Enterprise license
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by magnat 7y ago
Serious question: what's the reasoning behind naming scheme of Xboxes? Only serious, non-ranting explanation I've found [1] is that they're rebranding it back to just "Xbox", which somehow makes even less sense. [1]
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by magnat 7y ago
Does anyone remember what is their definition of "drive failure"? Is it SMART "failure imminent" report, single uncorrectable read error or complete data loss for a whole disk? I recall reading about it in one of their p
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by magnat 7y ago
Nokia 225. Three weeks on one charge.

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