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by nullindividual 2y ago
What would you define as 'suspicious'? How would you distinguish suspicious from not suspicious?
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by nullindividual 2y ago
It's not a script, which would be a .ps1 file, but from the sounds of it the actual script block/PowerShell function which isn't governed by the signing policy. It could simply be an Invoke-WebRequest to download that executa
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by nullindividual 2y ago
> I feel like that's a great way to make everyone hate you Maybe. But at least you'd know what the discussion is about. Or ask for notes. I can't say I've been in a meeting where someone asking questions was frowned u
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by nullindividual 2y ago
You already have your solution. You typed it out. You ask questions. You stop them and circle back to the overview and context. Ask them about the high level. Ask them for the pretty pictures PPT. If they deviate from what you need, stop th
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by nullindividual 2y ago
The author is mistaken to believe that the features used by EDR moving out of the kernel will impact any other kernel driver implemented for non-EDR reasons.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
N100 and fans? What fans? https://www.servethehome.com/fanless-intel-n100-firewall-and... The advantage over Arm is that it is x86-64.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Welcome to Microsoft Loop.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
All major browsers now implement the ability to use a browser-defined resolver.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
IT is a profession that attracts that type of personality. From autism to assholes. "Technically correct" is the best kind of correct for technology. Technology is an often "exacting" science in the eyes of those individ
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by nullindividual 2y ago
How String theorists lied to us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Check out Terry Davis' TempleOS. It's not named "The OS", but it fits with the numerous paragraphs included with this post.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
The golden age of flight splattered the blood of professionals and innocents alike to write those regulations. Flight is not for cowboys.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
That’s less than a year’s salary for most Seattle PD officers.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
> Customers get increased integration with Cloudflare Email Security and Zero Trust through expanded partnership with CrowdStrike About that Zero Trust...
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by nullindividual 2y ago
The Spider engineers weren't the ones to port BSD utilities. That was Microsoft.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
That already exists! It's the HKCU.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
They licensed Spider Software's TCP/IP stack. And you have no knowledge that Spider leveraged BSD code. You're probably too young to remember, but there were many vendors making TCP/IP stacks back in those days. Some bas
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by nullindividual 2y ago
The version picker is in the ToC on the upper left.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
> Are you pretty sure about that? NT OS/2 started development in 1988 and NT Win32 in 1990. Build 297 of NT 3.1 contains a TCP/IP stack dated June 25th, 1992. This is not the earliest public build.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
You're not seeing "pure" FS performance. You're seeing all of the abstractions between you and the file system. To get more of the abstractions out of the way, you want DevDrive. And don't use Explorer.exe as a test
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Raymond Chen says "Not true, but true enough" [0]. But to your original claim of more advanced than NT... nah. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20111110161740/http://blogs.msdn... [Extra] https
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Linux wasn't a thing by the time NT was in development. Hell, the GPL itself wasn't a thing when NT began development!
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by nullindividual 2y ago
What happens if you have an extensible app, say Microsoft Office, which enumerated it's own subkeys to discover 3rd party plugins? What if an app provides COM services and needs to write that to a centralized location that is enumerate
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by nullindividual 2y ago
It was introduced with Windows PowerShell 1.0[0]. A text editor would need to directly support managing the registry, but you can read/write/search/do terminally-stuff to the registry via PowerShell. The term we're looki
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by nullindividual 2y ago
The registry was capable of being compacted, negating the need to defragment it. This was done via the standard Windows Backup utility provided OOTB. As for performance, the registry was mapped in paged pool memory[0]; only sections in-use
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by nullindividual 2y ago
That's an assumption that neither of us are qualified to make. BSD wasn't the only TCP/IP stack on the market[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Adopti...
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Windows is no different. Next time you're in front of Terminal, try: cd HKCU:\SOFTWARE You're now browsing the registry and can use terminal commands.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
> Windows/386 are hypervisors that run VMs under hardware-assisted virtualisation. Not really. There was no Ring -1 (hypervisor), no hardware-assisted virtualization as we use the term today. On Windows/386, it ran in Ring 0. V
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by nullindividual 2y ago
HKLM and HKCU have specific ACLs. It wouldn't make sense to have _two_ user-modifiable registry hives and ditto for machine.
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by nullindividual 2y ago
Like I said, the userland applications (ping, tracert, etc.) were ports from BSD, probably nearly 1:1 copies. The TCP & IP stacks were written by Microsoft in NT 3.5. What Spider Software used (again, used by Microsoft in NT 3.1 due to

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