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by ntauthority 4y ago
Isn't it a bit ironic that a site - or its operator - 'going public' means all the content on said site actually 'goes private'?
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by ntauthority 4y ago
The Windows-specific 'vulnerability' is weird. For one, it's part of the uninstaller , which isn't a common scenario, and secondly... C:\Windows\Temp isn't even writable by unprivileged users by default, it's
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by ntauthority 5y ago
NFS is a Sun thing. If you consider Sun as the canonical historical Unix, this is still correct. Sun had a few interesting early views on networking.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
With modern x86 or ARM CPUs, you're doing the exact same. The OS you're running on the high-level OS cores being perceived as less unfriendly doesn't change this state about your hardware's monitor OSes (AMD PSP, Intel M
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by ntauthority 5y ago
You can do the same on Windows, though this isn't done for client editions as they're mostly for interactive use - and on Linux you might run into issues the more complex dbus-y GUI bits you use too. There's even kernel hot p
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by ntauthority 5y ago
That is, assuming something is even packaged as a .deb for your distro's age in the first place. Trying to get something written using new, say, C++ runtime libraries shipped as a binary working on even a two year old Linux distro is a
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by ntauthority 5y ago
MSYS2, rather, which often seems to be bundled with a hybrid mingw install, but itself is based on a patchset to the main cygwin DLL and generally is a 'saner cygwin'.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Adding to this historical reasoning, it is to be noted that in traditional Unix, /usr was pretty much the equivalent of /home in Linux systems: the parent directory for user home directories, i.e. 'usr'. The existence of
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Thanks, now I know this 'personalized feed' seen in the Google apps on mobile actually has a product name! https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/mobile/go... Some of the content on
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by ntauthority 5y ago
There's what I consider the 'hierarchy of legal arguments' when it comes to patched software distribution: 1. Trademark infringement. Easy to prove even in a court, often can get an injunction approved with no further effort.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
One could argue it does, one could also argue it does not. If a company wants a quick takedown of something it feels 'isn't right', having to rely on something like that with limited precedent (and a high risk of setting the
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Not exactly. They use a different calling convention (for systems where 'this' pointers are normally passed in a special place) from usual C++ classes to match C-ish, and there's a few other restrictions for things (overloads
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by ntauthority 5y ago
This feels exactly like why Microsoft (and others) during the 90s started to define a well-defined subset of C, with some fancy IDL stuff, and a C-like ABI where all the C stuff needed could also be generated from the IDL, as standard som
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by ntauthority 5y ago
On macOS, there's a prominent top banner in 'System Preferences' for 'Apple ID, iCloud, Meida & App Store', where if you click the 'Apple ID' button there, you are then one click away from a button lab
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by ntauthority 5y ago
New captcha question: "What is the should of 20?"
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by ntauthority 5y ago
It's a little ironic that this application actually does not run on Windows[1] apparently due a bug in a library[2] unfixed since 2018, which is owned and maintained by a $83B publicly-listed company[3], last updated 14 days ago, but
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by ntauthority 5y ago
> I think the worst part though is the bit about prohibiting future re-downloads for users who bought perpetual licenses in the past. The sort of company that pulls that nonsense is very precisely not the kind of company I expect to prov
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by ntauthority 5y ago
It's interesting to see that 'joining' is apparently a modern-day euphemism for 'murdered by'.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
It's a shame that even the underlying compiler tech seems to be proprietary and intended to be commercially licensed once 'finished'. I feel like a lot of creativity (and optimization?) could be possible if tech like this wer
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by ntauthority 5y ago
With Windows being componentized, this is often a lot easier than it used to be - there's official minimal editions like the forgotten Nano Server (or an attempt at remaking it like remin-core: https://github.com/replis
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Remember OpenID (from before it became a OAuth variant)? The premise of an universal identity from any IdP usable anywhere would've worked just as well.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
There's no global search across all your DMs and guilds you are in either.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Why is DNS resolution even part of the libc and not, say, the base OS, a service on the base OS, or if need be, an external library like c-ares? In fact, I thought Node already depended on c-ares, why is it failing on this?
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Slightly offtopic, but is there any open source/fair-code equivalent of Parsec that doesn't fail blatantly on non-standard aspect ratios such as 32:9 or have lots of other failure modes that they seemed entirely uninterested in
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Personally, I love 'tracker music from the 90s', and it's great to see things resembling it pop up in my streaming app's recommendation list every so often.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Even for platforms that Chrome can't easily be ported to, WebKit itself has a very simple and actually reasonable porting API which led to it for example being used on Sony PlayStation platforms, but also being the most important brows
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Slightly offtopic: does the article link not work for anyone else? It briefly opens, shows a cookie warning, then I get redirected to Facebook(???) showing a 404 page in a language I don't have configured in my browser preferences at a
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by ntauthority 5y ago
It is amazing that the output of a random number generator can be considered a core part of a DMCA-style 'illegal to work around' anti-circumvention solution.
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by ntauthority 5y ago
These days there's a self-service panel on the Microsoft 365 sign-up/admin page once you've set up a tenant. I've not been asked for any formal business registration numbers via that process, but the old days of needing
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by ntauthority 5y ago
Funnily, you can find various somewhat-Linux devices in stores mostly, except they're called 'Chromebooks'. This is the same device series that uses Coreboot as a boot loader and usually had an internal screw to remove to dis

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