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by ndiddy 2y ago
One other cool project is that someone ported the SoftPC MS-DOS emulation layer to x86, allowing for 64-bit Windows to run 16-bit DOS software (it couldn't do this without emulation because x86-64 doesn't have access to virtual 80
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by ndiddy 2y ago
In theory yes, but because it's running in a VM the only way to get data into the computer is via the keyboard. You'd have to set something up like what this guy did to install Doom (except pretending to be a USB keyboard instead
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by ndiddy 2y ago
>I suspect HP could(and do it appears) get away with a minimal console only linux install for their firmware flashing needs. but the long tail of low level dos tooling for the PC world is still hanging on. Historically, the FreeDOS optio
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by ndiddy 2y ago
This is one of my least favorite aspects of modern UI design practices, the user doesn't have any agency. Everything's a choice between "Yes" and "ask again later".
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> I personally wouldn't invest in increasing open source adoption of an Apple property like that, unless someone has a compelling new argument for that. See here for his reasoning for picking Swift: https://x.com/awe
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by ndiddy 2y ago
In 2010, an HDCP master key was leaked, allowing anyone to generate an infinite number of valid new HDCP devices. This has made HDCP useless for stopping piracy for the past 15 years. All it's done since then is add another point of fa
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> This is so consistent, I wonder what is driving it. Microsoft has a cert called "Most Valuable Professional" that gives out a ton of free stuff (free MSDN subscription, free admission to a conference that gives away hardware,
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Given that Mozilla updated their site a couple days ago to remove any wording along the lines of "Firefox will never sell your data to advertisers" when a flag associated with the new Firefox terms of use is enabled (see https:&#
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Both the modem module and the device incorporating the modem module have to be FCC licensed. When I said "FCC won't let you sell a device that has a user-accessible method to violate wireless regulations", I was referring to
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by ndiddy 2y ago
That's probably it, the FCC won't let you sell a device that has a user-accessible method to violate wireless regulations. At most, they could release the source code but not the signing keys so end-users could inspect but not cha
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Microsoft did a similar thing around 15 years ago, where they got OEMs to preinstall a limited, ad-supported version of Word and Excel 2010 with new computers. They discontinued it after Office 2010, probably due to a combination of the fea
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Not just US, looks like globally as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1iwmpzo/technicolor_tr...
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> There's no point in going to university anymore when you can just go straight into big tech. Assuming wanting to work at big tech is a goal, I'm not aware of any of the big tech companies recruiting for entry level roles outs
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by ndiddy 2y ago
From the Xbox press release ( https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empoweri... ): > Today, countless classic games tied to aging hardware are no longer playable by most people. Thanks to
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Interesting how he brings up AI companies paying botnets to scrape sites, I hadn't heard of that before. It's extremely malicious behavior because as he mentions, it's literally a DDoS attack. > But, increasingly, the scra
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Of course your phone has a short runtime, it both has a small battery and it's 3 years old so the battery's worn out. One of the main reasons why small phones remain a niche is that improvements in battery technology have been far
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by ndiddy 2y ago
>They didn't have an annoying CEO grandstanding about the amazing tech while handwaving away hallucinations and common bugs, something Valley leadership does way too much of. From The New York Times' coverage of the company ( h
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> Humane’s AI platform Cosmos, backed by an incredible group of engineers, will help us create an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms. This will unlock new levels of fu
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I like the idea of Sam Altman investing in a physical OpenAI wrapper. That's one way to try to increase revenue.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The wording used in the release notes was: > The bad news: this code only compiles and runs on linux. We couldn't release the dos code because of a copyrighted sound library we used (wow, was that a mistake -- I write my own sound c
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by ndiddy 2y ago
How is this relevant to the article? I had a look at my Thinkpad T42 and X201 and both were manufactured in China. I looked up a picture of the T40's bottom case and it was manufactured in China as well. I think the differences in dura
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I think you're mistaken, the Kindle is also Linux based and you can also do anything the cpu/display permits on a jailbroken Kindle. Most people install alternative reader software that supports more formats like epub, but you can
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Do they make their employees ask for the hall pass to go to the bathroom as well?
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm curious what Microsoft will do in 8 months when over half of PC users will be running a Windows version that doesn't get security patches. As a comparison to your 60% figure for Windows 10, Windows 7 had around 30% market shar
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I don't understand what the big deal was there. Debian has its own bug tracker for all of its packages so the distro maintainers get bothered about bugs in old packages shipped by the stable version of Debian rather than upstream devel
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The C maintainer in question had no power to stop the code from being merged, it wasn't in his directory. He was tagged as a courtesy in case he wanted to do a drive-by review since the code was wrapping his subsystem. The Rust code be
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The vast majority of the Apache OpenOffice commits are done by two people who solely focus on manually fiddling with the source code formatting and fixing typos in the comments. I'm not sure why this is (maybe they think it's a fu
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The tweet he got called out for on the thread was "Thinking of literally starting a Linux maintainer hall of shame. Not for public consumption, but to help new kernel contributors know what to expect. Every experienced kernel submitt
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by ndiddy 2y ago
One example: Microsoft's closed-source Pylance extension (their replacement to the previous open source Python language server) has DRM that will refuse to run on non-Microsoft builds of VS Code.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The FAA were already not allowed to ask employees about their demographics. The article you're commenting on states that the actual problem was that the FAA added a new biographical questionnaire to the ATC hiring process, which had st

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