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by mrandish 1y ago
I'm not in this field but I was under the impression that people who know they are likely to be individually targeted use two (or more) phones and the one they use for their (target-worthy activity) is kept heavily locked down. Inconve
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by mrandish 1y ago
> It genuinely baffles me that people are nostalgic about CRTs. I don't get nostalgic about any technologies - and certainly wouldn't get nostalgic about cathode ray tubes which were big, heavy and had innate limitations. Howev
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by mrandish 1y ago
Windows 11 has been a failure technically and as a product concept - and I say this as a multi-decade daily end user and general fan of the Windows OS technology. Before Win11, every version of Windows generally got better in meaningful way
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by mrandish 1y ago
Interesting how a fairly obscure technical requirement gets prioritized legislatively when flights collide at the airport U.S. senators use every week. Anyway, it's definitely good this is getting addressed. All crewed powered aircraft
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Dr. Normal Bourlag is for Iowa Bourlag's work directly saved millions of lives. Out of those mentioned so far, he's one that truly deserves more name recognition.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Typically, they need to get a conviction in court to actually do anything with the seized funds. At the moment, they don't even have the guy in custody.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Good reply. While #2 and #4 are certainly possible, I find it hard to believe this guy gets this far for this long without being sufficiently paranoid and street smart. I think the most likely is a combo variant of #5 and #6. Maybe the USG
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by mrandish 1y ago
> they already had the means to get the keys. Yes, and the other big questions are how they even know about the existence of the bitcoin and then how they were able to demonstrate sufficient probable cause to a judge that A) the bitcoin
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by mrandish 1y ago
Sounds like good news but the press release doesn't detail how the FBI managed to trace, positively identify and then seize such a huge pile of crypto ($15B) from a suspect they say took extensive steps to launder and hide the source a
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by mrandish 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll put it on the list for when I'm next forced to reinstall. That's when I'll take a hard look at how well I can replicate the Windows experience (back when it was still good) on Linux.
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by mrandish 1y ago
What makes this even worse is that MSFT doesn't just do it with their "free", subsidized or bundled versions. They also do it to users who are using the full paid versions of the OS and Office. I paid an extra hundred dollars
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by mrandish 1y ago
If you were using a TV streaming stick, many have slow Ethernet due to slow port (Micro-USB), slow PHY hardware (100 mbps) or slow network stack. For the popular streaming apps they only need 25 mbps max, so most stick makers put no effort
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by mrandish 1y ago
TFA makes a compelling contrarian point we probably need to consider more than we do. As someone who's been in high tech for 40 years, progress in fundamental enabling drivers like semi scaling has slowed significantly since 2010 and
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yep. When such a massive "yuge new ground floor opportunity!" hype hits the mass media zeitgeist it not only triggers an influx grifters but lots of lower-effort dilettantes. They're attracted not only by the promise of quick
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by mrandish 1y ago
> A vector display is visually unique for a few reasons. Agreed. I'd add to your list the unique way vector displays are brighter and have more bloom at the intersections where two line endpoints overlap due to being double traced.
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by mrandish 1y ago
For sure. That the MU80 (or later) is the best way to hear MIDI game music from the 90s and early 2000s should take nothing away from the passionate musicians and coders who did brilliant (and sometimes unnatural) things to extract better r
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, but that parallel example is not relevant here because modern online messaging is profoundly different in crucial ways. Governments can (and do) intercept and store nearly all electronic messages which permits instant searching and d
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by mrandish 1y ago
Agreed. Even in the U.S. personal privacy is not a left/right issue. Both major political parties will sometimes pay lip service to privacy when campaigning yet when in power they both engineer votes that permit further erosion of priv
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by mrandish 1y ago
Wow. That's a shocking difference and it's similar to what I remember from back then. There was some truly wonderful music composed for these games which only a lucky few players got to hear. That video shows the similar MU50 whic
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by mrandish 1y ago
Even after 28 years, there continue to be a lot of interesting things happening across MAME - and it goes well beyond the arcade machines MAME is known for to lesser known home consoles, vintage computers and other hardware. One example I&#
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by mrandish 1y ago
Indeed. With most of the more well-known, higher volume arcade hardware platforms now pretty well emulated there are still a lot of lesser-known (but still quite interesting) systems unemulated. Various people have put effort into most of t
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by mrandish 1y ago
The many-year effort to finally break the CPS2 hardware protection is a fascinating story. It was huge not only for the preservation of some well-known, historically significant games but it also allowed a lot of dead vintage arcade boards
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by mrandish 1y ago
I generally agree with your point. OpenAI committing to buying a bunch of AMD hardware and doing the work to integrate support for it in their systems is a risk for OpenAI and a benefit for AMD (as demonstrated by the AMD stock popping on t
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Microsoft really makes me scratch my head sometimes. Indeed. > I know power toys has that setting for low level hook but I think it's only for the windows key As far as I've been able to determine, PowerToys remapping is t
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by mrandish 1y ago
> is there a reason Using more modifiers reduces the odds of conflicting with any other existing shortcut/hotkey - and since the intent is that the combination is only ever generated automatically with the CoPilot key - there's
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by mrandish 1y ago
One thing worth mentioning as a possibly-contributing factor was that in the very early 90s a lot of the installed base of high-res (eg non-interlaced) color monitors where still digital RGB (RGBI) which were limited to 16 colors (and often
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by mrandish 1y ago
Correct. Further down thread I wrote to another poster a summary of what's really happening now when you remap the CoPilot key - copied here... The CoPilot key is really sending: Shift+Alt+Win+Ctrl+F23 which Windows now uses as the sho
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, remapping can work in narrower cases where right-CTRL is only used in combination with non-modifier keys. CoPilot is really sending: Shift+Alt+Win+Ctrl+F23. When you remap the CoPilot key to right-Ctrl only the F23 is being remapped to
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by mrandish 1y ago
It doesn't work like it did before and will fail in some contexts. For example, if you try to use it with other modifier keys (as I do), you cannot because they are ALL already pressed and those presses cannot be masked. A real modifie
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by mrandish 1y ago
1.8% is terrible adoption, especially in light of MSFT hijacking the right-CTRL key of every Windows licensed PC to rename it "CoPilot" key. I'm thrilled that Copilot is sucking wind because their over-aggressive pushiness

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