st_goliath

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Is 1995 the Last Time I Install Debian? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by st_goliath 7mo ago|0 comments
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BasicBox: A 486 PC emulator written in Visual Basic 6(github.com)
3 points by st_goliath 7mo ago|1 comments
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> For repairing a broken thing? After provably trying in vain to get the landlord to fix it? Down the hallway from my office used to be the management of a small hotel chain. We often had lunch together and I got to hear a bunch of inter
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> It's interesting how they found the unused code. From the article: the code was broken. The breaking bug was discovered in 2023 by syzbot, a fuzzer, and found out to have been introduced in 2016. This means that probably nobody ha
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
The key features that is used here is the '%n' format specifier, that fetches a pointer as the next argument, and writes a character count back. There is actually an interesting question here: was '%n' always in printf,
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
In the past, you had to wait for the tubes to warm up, before you got a picture. Nowadays, you have to wait for the thing to finish booting. In the future, you have to wait for the ads to finish playing?
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> Ever since LLM generated content proliferated we now have... Or maybe, ever since you became aware of it, you started increasingly becoming aware of it? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> The Megahertz Wars were an exciting time. About a week ago, completely out of the blue, YouTube recommended this old gem to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0jQZxH7NgM A Pentium 4, overclocked to 5GHz with liquid n
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> I wonder how many out there seriously think we could ever completely rid ourselves of the CPU. It seems to be a rising sentiment. This sentiment is not a recent thing. Ever since GPGPU became a thing, there have been people who first h
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
> How feasible is it to make a crt from parts? [...] I've never seen a DIY CRT kit before. The closest thing that springs to mind: A friend of mine once drilled a hole into an empty Vodka bottle, stuck two wires in it (one at each e
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites. On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure if you really want to, you could do something like this as a hobbyist with a Pentium right now . Instead of futzing with wires on a breadboard you could simply designing a PCB up front , throw the design over the fenc
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by st_goliath 7mo ago
I've seen a similar project a while ago and thought this was about the same thing at first: [1][2] Both essentially built a DIY chip tester for a 286 and both built around a Harris 80C286. If I understood it correctly, the goal behind
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Pentium 4 – 5GHz overclocked (2003) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by st_goliath 7mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
Microsoft Research had an experimental OS project at one point that does just that with everything running in ring 0 in the same address space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) Managed code,
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Data Confidentiality via Storage Encryption on Embedded Linux Devices(sigma-star.at)
2 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|0 comments
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Giant stop killing games updates 2026 [video](youtube.com)
5 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|0 comments
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The History of a Security Hole(os2museum.com)
39 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|2 comments
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SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping(github.com)
1 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|0 comments
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False Assurance in Formally Verified Cryptographic Libraries(eprint.iacr.org)
2 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
> can't hear you from all the way up here ON THE MOON. cough https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-German-phrase-Hinter-dem...
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
Well, the name Davy originally proposed was alumium . I propose we switch to that instead, so everyone can be annoyed equally and in the same way.
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
> I just found the acting in the first season really, "soap opera" like. I'm not sure how to describe it better. When I first started watching, season 1 with its gratuitous 90s CGI, the dramatic musical cues, and Michael O
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
Don't worry, this will probably be flagged to death and gone from the front page real soon. EDIT: and it's gone. From #1 on the front page to page 14 or so in about 35 minutes. To be honest, that took a lot longer than I expected.
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
> "I don't want to" is not a valid excuse for the client . If you're implementing a server, "the client SHOULD but didn't" isn't a valid excuse to reject a client either. You can do it anyway, you
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
> Viva.com's outgoing verification emails lack a Message-ID header, a requirement that has been part of the Internet Message Format specification (RFC 5322) since 2008 > ... > `Message-ID` is one of the most basic required hea
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
Up next: forgotten Piet[1] autorun feature discovered in MS Paint. Customers complain after removal, insist they have existing legacy applications depending on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
yes, e.g. the version of Windows 3.x and accompanying office suite that I used as a child had German words next to the icons. The idea of labeling a pictogram with text isn't a concept that suddenly breaks when using a language other t
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Do not put code diffs into Git commit messages(mas.to)
20 points by st_goliath 8mo ago|1 comments
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by st_goliath 8mo ago
It's a DataExpert OPTI-495SX: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/dataexpert-opti-495sx It is running some AMI BIOS variant with a copyright date of 1992, I currently don't have the exact version stri

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