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by ntauthority 4y ago
A more interesting variant of your question would be 'how come Wine is better at running decades-old Windows software (on systems such as Linux) than Linux is at running decades-old Linux software on Linux?' ... perhaps Win32 is a
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by ntauthority 4y ago
> (f) presents a risk to consumer safety or (financial) wellbeing By some measures, PayPal itself does. Should PayPal ban itself? (for example, anecdotally from an acquaintance in Germany a few years ago, there are some flows that can an
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by ntauthority 4y ago
This 'modern' Notepad is actually not 'a wrapper around a Win32 edit box', it's (likely to support additional use cases like macOS TextEdit in the future - most the modernization seems to be to haphazardly 'com
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Somewhat regrettably given the connotations also associated, cryptocurrency. In countries where there are legal, regulated exchanges, this pretty much meets the requirements there.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
MRT is the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool which has been distributed via Windows Update since around 2005.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
My favorite issue with phone number-based identity verification is that it doesn't account for multiple different countries well at all. In some regions, getting more than one 'legit' phone number (i.e. not on any of the VoIP
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by ntauthority 4y ago
For Windows, there once was a similar tool that synthesizes a .pdb file using the DIA API from a list of names: https://pefrm-units.osdn.jp/pe_debug.html
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by ntauthority 4y ago
> I’m touching lightly to scroll, but pausing for a moment to finish reading Just checked on my own behavior in this regard, and I seem to have grown a habit of just scrolling slightly enough to not make it appear to be a long press befo
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Anecdotal point of data: M247 seems to run a lot of bad-faith traffic as well - while a service I run tries to keep block lists minimal even for frequently abused endpoints (eg credential stuffing) their ASNs are a mainstay in there.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
The 'normal' system being complex is a bit exaggerated here - if you have to travel one-off via local multi-mode transportation you'd usually just get a regional Deutsche Bahn day ticket which will generally by accepted by lo
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by ntauthority 4y ago
By 'affectionately named', I rather think someone thought it sounded cool to name it such. Perhaps CloudCore proper allows 'upgrading' a running system to the 'Win3' composition in case one would want to run GU
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by ntauthority 4y ago
FactoryOS is from an entirely different set of compositions (composable core/WCOS, meant to reduce the amount of MobileCore-based SKUs) which was meant for a few new products (10X, HubOS, Andromeda) that never really shipped and got ch
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by ntauthority 4y ago
It's a different composition, this seems to be a derivative of some 'CloudCore' product used internally with Azure, with layered compositions affectionately named 'run levels' (the full GUI boot also known as Client
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by ntauthority 4y ago
With Chrome, it's taking away. With Safari extensions, it's adding functionality that didn't exist before. Compare 'some ad blocking' to 'no ad blocking at all' - you go from 100% of ads being shown to may
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by ntauthority 4y ago
The verbatim email: --- Our limitations due to new United States sanctions Dear sir, Due to recent sanctions from the United States government, we have reviewed the organizations we have been communicating with to understand to which organi
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Mattermost [update: isn't] suspending our licenses because of 'US sanctions'
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Counterpoint for this rant (showing it's again not very objective, and just what your or your environment's expectations are): it's easier to cross-compile binaries for Linux (using Clang and a sysroot on Windows) than it is
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Every existing library follows the standard which specifies host byte order, which usually means little endian. The Rust library cited a few levels up this chain ignored that, somehow assuming big endian, and then had to correct for this mi
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Even those points can be argued around in various ways, so they're not even that clear-cut. > uniform, comprehensive, robust package management, including for the system software Every Linux distribution has its own package manager,
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Yeah. The bundled ones in the main OS image are the worst. Who the hell knows what nefarious acts lie behind IOPCIFamily.kext?! /s, though not entirely, moving more stuff to unprivileged contexts would be nice
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by ntauthority 4y ago
I barely even knew Medium was a platform that had its own post feed. I only knew it from clicking link submissions here that looked like they were from a corporate blog, but then turned out to be Medium with a custom domain, mainly as I wou
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Qualcomm has even ended up in a legal quarrel with Apple over a modem contract that in the end led to Qualcomm getting what they wanted. They're a ferocious company when it comes to legal.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
A year ago, I had to go to a bank office and engage in some verification process that also required me to use the physical bank card with its preassigned PIN. No matter what I tried, I hit the 3-try limit for the day, and opted to have the
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Of note is that pairing the desktop APU with one of the higher end desktop chipsets will still have the chipset (which is just another legacy IO die) have the excessive 10-15W idle consumption it would anyway. I'm not sure if the Bx50
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Comment threads everywhere (including on commits and lines of code), these comment threads then having emoji reactions, and the inability to disable any of that (same for the pull request feature, which also leads to more comment threads) c
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by ntauthority 4y ago
First off, nobody deserves any sort of abuse. Secondly, the Sneedacity incident was abuse targeted at a fork of the Audacity project, not at the original 'hostile takeover' project itself. The fork was intended to remove said abus
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by ntauthority 4y ago
From the article: > Starting today on Android and iOS globally, it’s now easier than ever to travel back in time right from your phone. So yes, this is possible now.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
I accidentally clicked this on my phone. Skimmed it. Read the last paragraph. Ignored it. Thought about it. Can confirm: it worked.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Piracy and such hoarding are inextricably intertwined. If you want a particularly uncommon variant of some pirate content (like an obscure movie in any quality, or a somewhat popular movie in original BD format), you better grab it when it&
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by ntauthority 4y ago
I would agree, to the extent that terminology may matter - it ideally wouldn't. This scenario OP sketches sounds an awful lot like it can be extrapolated to 'no matter whether I try and fail, or don't try and fail, I'll

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