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by mkup 6y ago
How does that matter? You have the right to install any apps you want, and wacky questions deserve wacky answers.
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by mkup 6y ago
Microsoft can give out free code-signing certificates like LetsEncrypt, but bind publisher reputation to the domain name, rather than to a particular public key or certificate. In such way, malware makers won't be able to build up enou
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by mkup 7y ago
That's why it is essential for end user to have an ability to sideload apps to the phone (i.e. to bypass vendor's store).
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by mkup 7y ago
Hardware initialization after power-up is HARD, here a high-level overview: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
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CDC may ground flights if airlines fail to collect data on Covid-19-prone flyers(boingboing.net)
1 points by mkup 7y ago|0 comments
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Chrome 80 update cripples top cybercrime marketplace(zdnet.com)
2 points by mkup 7y ago|0 comments
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by mkup 7y ago
But how would Haskell version of wc compare with C version of wc running with LC_ALL=C environment variable? UTF-8 locale is much slower than C locale in coreutils, it's a well-known fact, and their Haskell version of wc is already usi
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by mkup 7y ago
I have a very good experience with SpyShelter Firewall. FortKnox Personal Firewall works too. Also, all frontends for builtin Windows Firewall that I've tested, have failed in "2ip Firewall Tester".
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by mkup 7y ago
"now does cloudy things" has really made my day, thanks. Unfortunately, a lot of modern software does cloudy things, Windows 10 and MS Office included.
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by mkup 7y ago
https://www.pcministry.com/win10_telemetry/summary_stats_and... Windows 10, when left alone for 1 year, sends about 4.5 Gb of outgoing data. There are no apps running all this time, so there are no crash reports to sub
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by mkup 7y ago
I guess, Google can, in turn, extend Windows 7 support in Chrome until 2029.
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by mkup 7y ago
Let's draw similar graph for Windows 10
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by mkup 7y ago
Telemetry is far more than stack traces. It includes domain names of visited websites, names of executable files you've run, names of documents you've opened via explorer, clipboard contents, keyboard logs and other privacy-sensit
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Microsoft Is Testing Ads in WordPad for Windows 10(twitter.com)
1 points by mkup 7y ago|1 comments
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by mkup 7y ago
Are you aware of any other web browsers for Windows XP, which are still updated, besides MyPal and this one (SeaMonkey)?
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by mkup 7y ago
Out-of-tree drivers, support for closed-source drivers in Linux (assuming kernel API for wasm drivers is stable).
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by mkup 7y ago
If curl loses connection to the source website while downloading the script, then partially downloaded script will be executed, no matter what. This is a main drawback of curl-to-shell piping approach, and the original article is missing it
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by mkup 7y ago
What's the point of collecting telemetry in Windows 7, if there will be no future versions of Windows 7 (this OS is near its EOL)?
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by mkup 7y ago
There's no need to distribute MSVCRT dependency if CRT is linked statically (/MT or /MTd C++ compiler option vs /MD or /MDd C++ compiler option).
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by mkup 7y ago
I have a positive experience with Turris Omnia. It doesn't run OpenBSD, but it runs OpenWRT-based TurrisOS, and also supports LXC containers (generic ARM-based Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu etc). By the way, it's possible to i
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by mkup 8y ago
I hope this Intel VISA Exploit will shed some light upon inner workings of Intel Management Engine, its memory states, software modules, their undocumented features etc.
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by mkup 8y ago
Offset and a length in Pi are not going to be shorter than original data to transmit.
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by mkup 8y ago
Try inurl:forum search operator in Google. Works suprisingly good.
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by mkup 8y ago
That's why we developed a product which main feature is to aid in installation of Windows 7 to new PCs: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/install-w... There's a growing community of user
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by mkup 8y ago
In FreeBSD, /dev/random = /dev/urandom. But in Linux, there's a difference.
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Ask HN: Alternatives for low-tier Hetzner VPS
3 points by mkup 8y ago|4 comments
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by mkup 8y ago
It gathers a lot of info and transfers it to vast number of domains under Microsoft control: http://www.pcministry.com/win10_telemetry/summary_stats_and_...
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by mkup 9y ago
Yes, but would VMWare Workstation run under Windows 10 Polaris?
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by mkup 9y ago
You can do it with FlashBoot Free (no VHDs required): http://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/
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by mkup 9y ago
in a pure C, without operator overloading and threads: int aa = 0; #define a (++aa) if(a == 1 && a == 2 && a == 3) { printf("pff"); }

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