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by ndiddy 2y ago
The hacker posted a screenshot of the shell on the 4chan server. It was running FreeBSD 10.1, which came out in 2014 and stopped getting patches in 2016. It seems like there was basically nobody doing maintenance after moot sold the site. I
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Hyperion Entertainment is a company that has access to the AmigaOS source code because they were contracted over 25 years ago to port AmigaOS to PowerPC (called AmigaOS 4) as part of a failed attempt to keep the platform going. After that d
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by ndiddy 2y ago
AI companies have started using a technique to evade rate limits where they will have a swarm of tens of thousands of scraper bots using unique residential IPs all accessing your site at once. It's very obvious in aggregate that you&#x
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This makes it much more expensive for them to scrape because they have to run full web browsers instead of limited headless browsers without full Javascript support like they currently do. There's empirical proof that this works. When
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Really good article! Personally it has me convinced that the 0x7F character was originally meant to be a delta, but whoever drew it did a poor enough job that it made other teams at IBM think it was supposed to be a house. As the article sa
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The vetting on Windows is that basically any software that isn't signed by an EV certificate will show a scary SmartScreen warning on users' computers. Even if your users aren't deterred by the warning, you also have a signif
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Nice, I hadn't heard about that before. The original Mac game was really fun, but your new Steam version looks way smoother. I like how the UI's like an old B&W Mac UI but with Egyptian touches thrown in. If you don't min
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Section 14 of the GPL says "The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may diff
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Looks neat! SDL seems open to supporting legacy platforms, so hopefully it'll get mainlined at some point (at this point, may be more likely if they port SDL3 though, SDL2 is in maintenance mode). Does anyone know if it's possible
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At companies where I've worked, all of the money we've put into open source has been in contracting the developer(s) to add a feature we needed to the upstream version. Of course, this means that we didn't really fund ongoing
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> The OpenSSH project is careful about not taking on unnecessary dependencies, but Debian was not as careful. That distribution patched sshd to link against libsystemd, which in turn linked against a variety of compression packages, incl
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People dunk on the USB port being on the bottom because it's an example of how comically opinionated Apple's design is. Even if it only takes a few minutes to charge, Apple decided to make the mouse unusable during those few minut
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> So 5 years after he started with an empty repo and some political ramblings? Or around 4 years after the first public GNU Emacs release, 4 years after the first public GNU Bison release, 3 years after the first public GDB release, and
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The first time any BSD code was made publicly available was Networking Release 1 (just contained the networking stack) in 1989, or around 5 years after Stallman started the GNU project. It took until Networking Release 2 in 1991 for the cod
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> Some of the things I thought to be completely safe were not as definitive to the lawyers. Can you elaborate?
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Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial VS Code forks(github.com)
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Fun fact, GW-BASIC was a descendant of the original Altair BASIC. The "Translation created 10-Feb-83" headers on each source file refer to tooling Microsoft had that automatically translated the 8080 assembly to 8086 (it shouldn&#
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It was distributed on paper tape. You needed a teletype with a paper tape reader to run it. Basically you would manually enter a bootloader using the switches on the Altair's front panel, and the bootloader would read BASIC off the tap
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Note that the new 34% China tariffs are on top of the existing 20% blanket tariffs Trump has already imposed on China, so it's really 54%. https://x.com/EamonJavers/status/1907540655871521264
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Taiyo Yuden sold their process and tooling to CMC, and they're now sold as "CMC Pro" discs. I previously used JVC branded Japanese Taiyo Yuden discs. I switched to CMC Pro when I ran out, and haven't noticed any differen
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I recommend you read the decision if you're interested in this subject: https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qdc/2025/41/p... > Mr Mitchell said that John Weeks was the organiser of an
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Thanks, I hadn't heard of that.
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AFAIK the entire lawsuit was about Jobst falsely accusing Mitchell of driving Apollo Legend to suicide and then not properly retracting it (Jobst buried the retraction at the end of an unrelated 30 minute video). The reason why Mitchell&#x2
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IMO the closest analogue for Nvidia now is Cisco during the dot-com boom. Cisco sold the physical infrastructure required for Internet companies to operate. Investors all bought in because they figured it was a safe bet. Individual companie
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Compiling with -ftrapv will cause your program to trap on signed overflow/underflow, so when you run it in a debugger you can immediately see where and why the overflow/underflow occurred.
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I believe this: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p36...
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Great news, there's a distro called Slackware that eschews centralized package management (besides optionally delivering updates for preinstalled packages). It's been around for ~20 years before you started using Linux. If you&#x2
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I'd recommend switching, OpenOffice is basically abandonware. There's been security issues that were reported over a year ago that have gone unaddressed. If you look at OpenOffice's git repo ( https://github.com&#x2
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Keyboards from the late 90s and early 2000s often did something similar. The controller supported both PS/2 and USB and the keyboard would come with a PS/2 plug and a passive adapter. That's why if you're trying to use a
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Mac OS X versions before Jaguar supported GPU accelerated applications, but the windows were composited in software which caused severe performance problems. Jaguar introduced something called Quartz Extreme, where the windows are treated a

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