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by p_ing 9mo ago
This is standard, especially when the size of the company grows. Actually, Microsoft might be a rare exception. Extensions are full of malware of various sorts, so it makes sense that they take them away. Allow list vs. block list makes sen
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Yes, because those systems cost gobs of money. You don't replace them just for the hot new thing.
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The purpose of Notepad, for Microsoft, is that it is an experimental playground, and always has been. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=98...
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Yes, that's the point. It's further removed from UNIX than the BSDs are. macOS contains BSD userland, networking, file system, POSIX, and a couple of other things. But XNU, the kernel, is "X is Not UNIX", if there ever w
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by p_ing 9mo ago
You can do that as long as you're comfortable with unfixable processor security vulnerabilities.
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I have it not only because of hardware, but because of color matching for photography/processing RAW images. That's as close to 'professional' as I get to using macOS for personal use (photography is nothing more than a
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by p_ing 9mo ago
To certify any version of macOS as UNIX, the security had to be significantly altered (disabling SIP) among a few other things. This is why what is shipped is not what is certified as UNIX. You can /make/ it match what is certifie
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Orion, and presumably other Webkit-based browsers that are actually up-to-date, can also see the image. Hopefully my photo processor will accept JPEG XL in the near future!
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by p_ing 9mo ago
> its not about the firewall. there's just a lot of extra attack vectors without a nat. Not if your firewall is dropping packets. It doesn't matter if your internal network has routable public IPs or not. Apple used to have all
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by p_ing 9mo ago
NAT introduces complexity, not simplicity. Besides, NAT isn't a security feature.
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Microprose owns Falcon again. I don't think there's much official information yet, but Falcon does have a dedicated spot on their official Discord with the Falcon 5 developer chiming in now and then. https://steamcommun
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Nice! It's like a Falcon 1.0. And btw, Falcon 5.0 is in development :-)
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> Windows is not actually backwards compatible; it's why they have something call "WoW" (Windows on Windows) Boring semantics. Windows can run it. That's backwards compatibility. NTFS is neither crappy or obsolete. No
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Home Depot used to have a large fleet of RHEL machines within the stores. Looks like they've more recently rolled to SuSe. https://linuxdevices.org/linux-based-pos-rolls-into-home-dep... (2001!) https://www.
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Yes, deep async I/O has practical applications -- here's an example (which is now outdated, but sans io_uring, demonstrates the issues with "async I/O" on most Unicies sans Solaris) - https://speakerdeck.
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by p_ing 9mo ago
ReFS doesn't give you any more rollback capability than NTFS in that sense. ReFS supports file level snapshots, not volume. And on a client machine, it's of much less importance overall (to you, it may be super important and I don
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by p_ing 9mo ago
> Modern Linux supports asynchronous I/O. Not nearly to the depth and breth of NT. NT is async I/O throughout. Linux has a bunch of libs that ride on top of pretend async I/O with io_uring as a more recent bonus. > It&#
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by p_ing 9mo ago
> Right now the only thing we could glean is reduced investments in Windows. What "reduced investments"? They just put out 25H2 with numerous changes and many monthly updates bring new features online.
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Can't recall the last time I saw a corrupt NTFS volume... even when using Storage Spaces. I'm sure it's happened to someone given Windows is in use by billions of machines, but NTFS becoming corrupt can't be all that com
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by p_ing 9mo ago
> The kernel is a piece of legacy cruft that isn't necessary for selling OneDrive and Office 365. The kernel is running OneDrive and Office 365. It's making money hand-over-fist.
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Azure runs Linux for networking and Windows (Azure Host OS) for services.
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> I also don't get why people claim NT is "better." Because it does do some things "better". All I/O is async. No stupid OOM. Personality support. Stable ABI. > Linux is a modern kernel under very active
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by p_ing 9mo ago
It's possible during setup though I'm not sure how supported it is. Not sure why you'd really want to, writes are much slower than NTFS in general due to journaling.
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All of those Linux workloads are running on NT.
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Yes, you can use ReFS on desktop Windows.
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No. The original NT TCP/IP stack was purchased from Spider Systems, which may have been based on BSD. The Spider Systems stack was completely ripped out for NT 3.5 and replaced with a Microsoft-developed stack that has no basis on the
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by p_ing 9mo ago
Except ODSP/EXO/Dynamics don't use CoreCLR -- they use good ole fashioned .NET Framework. Those products with their 20+ year old code base would require a full rewrite. That doesn't make economic sense.
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There are performance penalties for moving drivers out of the kernel/ring 0. For some things, that matters (network, graphics), for others it doesn't, like printers. And Microsoft has made the least stable of the drivers a recover
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by p_ing 9mo ago
> with legacy apps etc run seamlessly in VMs or containers? We kind of have examples of that already in DOSBox. Even where Windows OOTB compatibility fails, getting some ancient piece of software running in DOSBox is often not an issue.
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Exchange is very dependent on Win32 and .NET Framework. As is ODSP and Dynamics. Azure under the hood is Hyper-V with most services built upon that dependency. Yes, millions of man hours, monkies, and typewriters you could transform this to

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