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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Wayland was first released in 2008, so it's 15 years old. Xorg was a fork of XFree86, which was released in 1991. So that codebase was 17 years old when Wayland was first released. I don't think the date of the fork is what's
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
You just discovered domain drop catching.
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
How would Mastodon know that the HTML page lacks any metadata in <head> without actually requesting the HTML page?
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
You could also generate 10s of gbps of actual billable traffic with a puny VPS by forging TCP ACKs and getting AWS to send you data faster than you can actually receive it, but that's closer to an actual DoS attack and more likely to
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
I don't know if Backblaze charges for failed requests, but it lets you set spending limits, so the worst case is that the attacker drains the daily quota that you set and later requests fail (DoS), not that you get a surprise $1000 bil
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Could you point at what part of the old rules was forbidding emulators?
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Fun fact: "British citizens had their .eu domains suspended on 1 January 2021 for three months, and then deleted on 1 March 2021 after a grace period to allow EU/EEA citizens to update the registration information to show their no
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_background_steel but for web content.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
"Content you're allowed to scrape from the internet" is MUCH smaller than what LLMs have actually scraped, but they don't care about copyright. > The fears that we have “used all the data” are incredibly unfounded. Th
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
If a binary library ABI is backwards-incompatible, they change the package name. I was just guessing at the reason epoch is avoided and that <6 is probably an awful example. So now I actually bothered to look it up, and it turns out the
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
The backdoor is in an .m4 file that gets parsed by autoconf to generate the configure script. Running autoconf yourself won't save you.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
.deb has epochs too, but I think Debian developers avoid it where possible because 1:5.4.5 is interpreted as newer than anything without a colon, so it would break eg. packages that depend on liblzma >= 5.0, < 6. There may be more
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
What software is using libarchive to decode HTTP responses?
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
It's not a "product" that will be "sold" or has intention of being "successful" in a commercial sense.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
It's a complete re-implementation from scratch, they don't share code, using the same programming language is not particularly relevant.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Just one example: iCloud uses an entirely different set of servers formally managed by a Chinese company if you're a Chinese user. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754 https://www.bbc.com/news&#x
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
> I trust Redis to not do something weird with their licensing or pricing in the future. Aged like milk.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Analog TV needs a lot more spectrum than digital TV, and in the US analog TV spectrum has already been reallocated.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Ask your product how to improve your marketing strategy.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
And that is the illegal part, rather than the development of the emulator...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
And the moderator's mental health.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213465#verify
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Are you from the USA? I don't like splitting my conversations over multiple apps when literally everyone with a mobile in Argentina has WhatsApp. SMS costs money and having it in the same app as a free messaging platform sounds risky :
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Malicious bots using the same technique as nitter to get into the site, and X blocking them will affect both.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
As of a few months ago, 99% of the ads I see are cryptocurrency scams. Blocking them doesn't help because the same ads are each being posted by dozens of accounts.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
What do patents have to do with this?
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Speaks really badly of the Vision Pro if there's anything that can be compared to Juicero.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Here we go, kernel panic in the M-series chip: https://twitter.com/0xjprx/status/1753575170101461266
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
"Apple good Google bad"
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Funny when Google Glass was announced there was a huge amount of criticism about filming, and there were even signs on shops prohibiting Google Glass, even though it never became a consumer product at all, and even though Google Glass did h

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