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by ndiddy 2y ago
Microsoft is the reason why this practice exists in the first place. Their Windows distribution contracts with OEMs say that all computers that an OEM ships must be preloaded with an OS (likely for the piracy issue you mention). Shipping Fr
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by ndiddy 2y ago
This is extremely easy to avoid in practice, just don't contribute to projects that make you sign a CLA.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The Chevron decision allowed the Reagan EPA to not enforce regulation that was added by Congress to the Clean Air Act during the Carter administration.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Allen's will gave his entire estate over to a living trust. The trust documents are private, so nobody but the beneficiaries truly know what his wishes were. However, as far as I'm aware from reading press coverage of his estate,
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Here's a news article saying that Sony had only sold 3 PVM-4300s as of April 1990: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1990/04/22/for-40000-tvs-pictur... I guess it makes sense considering the price. I wonder h
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I would imagine they did it based on price range rather than presence of a fan. The cheapest Macbook Pro with a fan and the same amount of RAM and storage (16GB/1TB) is $2000, while the Asus only costs $1300.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There's a good summary of the legal issues surrounding Ms. Pac-Man here: https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Ms._Pac-Man_legal_... . Essentially, the game was originally created as an unofficial upgrade to P
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There were long-lasting bulbs on the shelf, but they were niche products because they produced poor quality light and were inefficient. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQpqyt3oeqk . Note that it cons
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There’s a Reddit post here with some initial feedback: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyBook/comments/1dd7t0v/samsung... The laptop is limited to 2.5 GHz (possibly for battery life or heat reasons) meaning
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There was a point where Google had a good quality alternative to iMessage. Hangouts was popular and had features comparable to iMessage. Google also allowed setting Hangouts as the default SMS app so you could have mixed Hangouts and SMS co
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by ndiddy 2y ago
One of the main points the article makes is that Bowlero spends the "ton of money" on superfluous additions (giant TVs, bars selling expensive drinks, etc) while forcing centers to operate with skeleton crews and cutting back on n
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by ndiddy 2y ago
In general, read-out protection provides a very limited level of protection that I wouldn't rely on to stop cloning. There's quite a few firms that will extract the firmware from protected microcontrollers for a couple thousand do
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by ndiddy 2y ago
He's saying that the bootloader is in ROM so it's unbrickable, but the application code that the bootloader jumps into can be updated over USB. Most mid-range and higher microcontrollers have a similar feature, but they almost alw
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There’s comments on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
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YouTube is A/B testing limiting logged out access to videos(twitter.com)
60 points by ndiddy 2y ago|26 comments
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Without Recall, an attacker needs to get a program to stay resident in memory to log keystrokes, screen contents, etc. for an extended period of time without getting detected. With Recall, they can get the same end effect by exfiltrating th
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Sounds like a great improvement to me, the 8-bit PICs have great peripherals and are easy to use but the CPU cores are garbage (slow 4T architecture, no hardware stack, bank switching necessary, forced to use Microchip's proprietary co
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The June 1984 date is a fabrication that was invented by The Tetris Company in 2009 so they could have a 25th anniversary event at that year's E3. Every source from before 2009 points to Tetris releasing in 1985. https://tet
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by ndiddy 2y ago
This shouldn't matter, in general Cloudflare responds to complaints about allowing illegal content with "we're a neutral utility, we forwarded your complaint to the site's webhost". To me, the article showed that Cl
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by ndiddy 2y ago
He's still at it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/01/most-mcdonal...
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Not an urban legend, he confirmed it in an interview with John Romero (great interview BTW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3EmtTpoEa8 )
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Great article! Quinn should get in touch with Dan to see if he remembers the answers to some of the questions she had.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The link isn't working for me, I think this is the same article as the one OP posted? https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/c23-library/
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The reason why platforms such as Discord, Facebook, etc don't give open access to your content isn't because they don't want a predatory ML company to vacuum up your content, rather it's because they want to sell access
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Some context: Winamp's owners have been going through financial difficulties since last year and as a result have laid off the skeleton crew they previously had maintaining Winamp (their main focus seems to be a streaming service also
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Winamp has a ton of proprietary licensed library code (codecs, Gracenote API, etc) that all has to be replaced with open source equivalents before the code can be released. I believe the skeleton crew that they had working on maintaining Wi
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Unfortunately, the increasing prevalence of eSIMs in new phones makes temporarily switching to a foreign carrier far more inconvenient than "just buy a SIM at a vending machine".
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The issue is that an interface that's good for a touchscreen often isn't good when using a keyboard/mouse, and vice versa. Touchscreens require significantly larger targets than mice, which reduces the amount of information t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
SerenityOS is probably your best shot, although it’s definitely not ready to be a daily driver yet.
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Windows Defender is now blocking ExplorerPatcher(twitter.com)
6 points by ndiddy 2y ago|0 comments

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