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by ndiddy 5mo ago
One large part of this is that all the heads of AI companies and business leaders in the US and Europe keep talking about how AI is going to take jobs away and displace "lower-value human capital", while we see power shortages and
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If you look at the first binary patch for Equation Editor, it's very well done: https://blog.0patch.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-... . The problem was that when they fixed it once, other researcher
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There was a bit of a controversy a few years ago when people realized that the head of the Linux Foundation was using Mac OS to give a presentation at a conference (especially ironic considering the presentation was about using Linux on the
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There's a writeup here from one of the people on the team about the work it took to go from the listings to source code. http://cini.classiccmp.org/recoveryblog.htm > With less-than-satisfactory OCR output, I resort
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
They will never release the code for anything that new because at that point, there's tons of licensed third-party code and the codebase is so large that going through everything to verify ownership would not be feasible. The code to N
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Looks like they fixed the problem and reset everybody's weekly usage limit. https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2058280452851638313
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Nice, I'm glad to hear that.
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I think the Vizio lawsuit will set a more narrow precedent than the SFC wants. The tentative ruling the judge in that case made in December (not binding, but represents the judge's current understanding of the case going into the trial
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
This is an AI generated summary of a blog post ( https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/microsoft-cancels-int... ) which is a summary of an AI generated article ( https://blazetrends.com/microsoft-can
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It's interesting how when you talk to people who are vocally in favor of capitalism, they always turn out to be in favor of an imaginary version of capitalism where everybody is a small business owner, rather than in favor of how the s
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I don't know why he's being so obtuse, but Apple did discontinue the model with 512 GB of RAM, which is what's being scalped on ebay.
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It takes longer than ordering with a cashier, it keeps trying to upsell you, and it's always out of receipt paper because unsurprisingly the company that isn't willing to pay a person to take orders is also not willing to pay a pe
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The advantage of going with AWS is that when us-east-1 goes down, half the internet goes down so you don't have to defend why you had a service outage.
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I think the practical difference is that the rates that publishers charge libraries for ebooks are significantly higher than what either consumers pay for the ebook or what a physical book costs. See https://archive.is/Ha3VQ
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Yeah I don't think it would be a good thing, but I also think that just the threat of having their IP range cut off would make the provider drop them. The point I'm trying to make is that the actual provider hosting the content is
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They used Cloudflare as a CDN, so now they lose that protection. Additionally, depending on how far up the chain the publishers are willing to go, everything on the Internet eventually leads to Western jurisdiction. For example, even if the
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I've used Kagi for a few years but it's gotten significantly worse for me the last year or so. I'm curious if anyone else has seen the same thing happen. I'll search for something and usually see a bunch of barely releva
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Well the 1970s era programming language would be the assembly language for the bespoke Voyager processors, and the spotty institutional knowledge and lack of a Voyager on the ground means that there's no full understanding. I'm no
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
I grew up using Paint Shop Pro, so I'm not familiar with either. I've recently had to start using both Photoshop and GIMP (Photoshop because the best tool for descreening printed documents is the Sattva Descreen Photoshop plugin,
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> Regarding "that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore", I claim this is nonsense, and definitely not an obstacle. It seems like you aren't very familiar with the history of the Voyager or the computer systems
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> Now I wonder how the test it ? They have a simulator for one of the three computers on Voyager, the Computer Command Subsystem. They don't have a simulator for the other two computers, the Attitude and Articulation Control Subsyst
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If you scroll down, the poster got it running on real hardware.
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My interpretation was that the authors received a National Security Letter and chose to shut down development rather than let their software get backdoored. IIRC the shutdown announcement cited the discontinuation of Windows XP as why the s
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If code in an unsafe block triggers undefined behavior, then the assumptions the compiler makes regarding safety will no longer be true, and purely safe code (code with no unsafe blocks) is no longer guaranteed to be safe. This is what&#x27
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Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"(github.com)
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Since they're such a positive, I'm sure you would be fine having one built near you: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dvOuZmmJm7A
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> KDE or XFCE seem to mimic the Windows 2000 design in many ways, but they are still far away from feeling as snappy or as well-thought out than Windows 2000 did. They also paradoxically feel more "gray" than I remember Windows
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Note that Microsoft did take the “Linux can decrypt drives in TPM-only” scenario into account. If any UEFI settings are changed related to stuff like boot order, the computer is supposed to see that the settings have changed and require the
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The author claims the exploit also works with TPM+PIN, he just hasn't released the PoC: > Second thing is, No, TPM+PIN does not help, the issue is still exploitable regardless, I asked myself this question, can it still work in a TP
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
I think the Bitlocker "vuln" is a good reminder not to use vendor provided encryption for any sensitive data. https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey/ You load a specific file onto a flash drive,

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