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by smileybarry 1y ago
> I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company Because your company already has considerable experience in working remotel
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by smileybarry 1y ago
That's not the conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is painting every single commenter as part of said company/PR agency.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Back in 2012 or so, I reused an old netbook (an Asus Eee PC) with an Atom CPU & 1GB of RAM, installed Ubuntu Server, and used it as a home server. It handled the printer, DNS-VPN proxying for streaming, and a few other things admirably
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Well, that's essentially Windows Update.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
No, they're tightly coupled together. Even same-release updates update both the kernel and the userland syscall-implementing DLLs to match.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Windows 7 is still dramatically less secure by design (i.e. not missing patches but architectural changes) compared to Windows 10, even Windows 8 had some meaningful kernel security features that 7 lacks. This includes sandboxing measures
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by smileybarry 1y ago
The Israel Azure region wasn't launched until 2023, and AFAIK has substantially less services available than the others. I know Google's Israel region doesn't have as many GPU options, for example.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Dyamically-adjusting (higher) pricing to take advantage of your spending problem, for one.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
From the original post: > According to the German Automobile Association, manual opening is only possible from the inside, which complicates rescue attempts for emergency services. The issue, other than complicated internal release, was
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Twitter -- sorry, "X, the Everything App" -- is suspiciously missing from the list. I wonder what could possibly be the reason.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
The only APIs that are locked this way AFAIK are PPL, Defender-disabling, and AV registration, all not exclusive to Microsoft, you just have to sign up to an antimalware developer program and sign an NDA.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
> They still have the best sync engine[...] If you mean differential sync (or "delta sync"), Google Drive added it this year and OneDrive added it a few years ago. Google Drive's client is much worse than Dropbox's,
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Google Drive added delta sync this year, while OneDrive added it in 2020 apparently. I also overstayed with Dropbox for that reason, and now I don't see a real reason for their higher $/GB. Though their client is more stable than
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by smileybarry 1y ago
> Incredibly, Vault was discontinued by automatically turning PIN-protected folders into regular unprotected ones! Oh that's great! I currently use OneDrive because of Personal Vault (and other smaller reasons), because no one else
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by smileybarry 1y ago
That post is very outdated and was in the pre-alpha stage. At the time you paid (once) to join a sort of staging ground where they also discussed features with users, and asking what they'd prefer. And that buy-in pre-alpha period also
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Gems is deceptively named but it's essentially just for posting interesting things that gets discussions or Diggs, or being early to post something. It has nothing to do with crypto etc. Source: I've been using the app since the a
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by smileybarry 1y ago
I can't find mentions of any enterprise SSDs in the linked Twitter thread, just consumer SSDs ranging from "budget" to "pro" from various brands. The Twitter author later did some basic testing on a list of SSDs and
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by smileybarry 1y ago
The irony of getting that popup on Stack Overflow when I clicked that link
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Microsoft supposedly aligned with deprecating MV2 back when Google announced it but they've indefinitely postponed it. The KB about it still says "TBD", and there's zero mention of it around the actual browser. IMO it&
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by smileybarry 1y ago
It’s also a relatively “old” Call of Duty entry (2020-2021), in a series that famously ditched its older yearly entries quickly. The newer ones probably work fine with E-cores.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
It's mentioned in some ASUS docs, but it's not available on their support anywhere. Probably reserved for big OEMs, yeah.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
I would care if I could change it, but you need a proprietary tool that you can't obtain. (Every other way I found involved patching the UEFI and turning off Secure Boot)
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by smileybarry 1y ago
I get that, but I'd expect it to be a setting I can change in BIOS, or at least default to the motherboard's model number. Instead, if I build my own, I just can't change it ever because ASUS refuse to release it publicly.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Betas at the time were physical and tightly controlled, not a download or a toggle. I wouldn’t really call it “shipped”.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
I’m fairly sure my expensive ASUS ROG motherboard (ergo: not even their budget line) also had a “to be filled in by OEM” string that I couldn’t even override. (ASUS have a utility but it’s not publicly available, probably just for computer
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by smileybarry 1y ago
No, it's supposed to refute the title & assumption of the article linked here.
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by smileybarry 1y ago
They’re usually IoT editions of Windows 10, I.e. still the same kernel but with a lot less bundled apps etc. and a LTS support cycle. I’m also not sure how much of modern Windows is that big of an attack surface, given that most things are
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by smileybarry 1y ago
Wait until you find out OEMs now make UEFI applications that NetBoot off the internet. Lenovo have a recovery app implemented this way
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by smileybarry 1y ago
I assume it’s probably because the baseboard management thing (iDRAC and the like) boot beforehand and can do various USB & ISO manipulation.

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