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by temac 5y ago
The longest personal name, according to the Guinness World Records, was 747 characters long, and happened to be in a latin alphabet. So I guess ~ 1000 bytes should be OK. Or even maybe what could be enough to fit 200 arbitrary utf8 codepoin
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by temac 5y ago
> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had The funny thing is: "small" systems are probably not presenting problems
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by temac 5y ago
So I just took a few minutes to lookup for the picture of an "N2040" (or various random low cost laptops, N4020 seems more likely if it's about a Celeron CPU, but I actually found one laptop model named "N2040") and
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by temac 5y ago
About showing their products in the best light, it seems they also chose to limit the view of the notch of their brand new MBP to one (kind of small) picture... among pictures of 30 devices.
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by temac 5y ago
There is a fight for both. And the fight to stay in control of your data is far easier when you use Free Software.
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by temac 5y ago
Iirc this software exist since the release of windows 10, or maybe shortly after, so I guess they can stay "gold partner" forever. There is probably nothing in that program attempting to prevent them to release that kind of softwa
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by temac 5y ago
It can but from the article, with a not so old Windows stack it seems that this encryption is not used: > At the time of this writing BitLocker does not utilize any encrypted communication features of the TPM 2.0 standard, which means an
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by temac 5y ago
Unless I do that all day, not really (and then I would need to configure tons of things to block the traffic), and things are getting worse and worse. I just received an update from Dell of Intel integrated graphics driver and it seems they
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by temac 5y ago
> break the disk encryption of a computer protected with tpm 2.0 + secureboot + luks w/tresor* On Windows (even modern versions IIRC) you can sniff the traffic (or maybe forge requests? I think it was simply sniffing though) to the
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by temac 5y ago
Yes the GUI was mostly ported from consumer Windows to NT. First the 3.1 GUI, then 95.
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by temac 5y ago
> notepad pros: > * doesn't send your text to the botnet hm, yet? And are we even sure about that? Who expect that what you type in the Run dialog being spied on and sent to MS? Is this even documented anywhere? At this point I&#
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by temac 5y ago
The customness of the hardware is partly relative. One had to guess the trajectory of the PC to bet on clones and their components. Of course at one point there was no question the non-x86 workstation used "custom" hardware vs. th
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by temac 5y ago
Switch back to a langage you know?
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by temac 5y ago
IIRC, TI Basic dynamically translated keywords (and probably function names) depending on the current langage. That's less interesting if you have lots of libraries if you don't translate them.
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by temac 5y ago
The thing is that you can not apply this method (suddenly stockpile because of anticipated shortage) globally. Now of course, putting gratuitous buffer everywhere would not be the panacea either. But some buffers may be needed to improv
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by temac 5y ago
There were tons of windows 95/98 computers with network shares exposed to the internet with no or weak passwords. It was really convenient to get their stored password list.
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by temac 5y ago
For projects of mixed quality without basically an unbounded workforce maintaining them (who could investigate rare/arcane bugs "introduced" by the "optimizers" in some builds), and/or using "tricks",
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by temac 5y ago
Couldn't it be argued that it is unfair for that to be required to be qualified as a breach of contract rather than "copyright" (droit d'auteur) violation if anybody can "contract" with you without even you bei
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by temac 5y ago
Or don't do that (the char array trick) in C++ because implementers and standardizers are not clear about when/if you are allowed to store other objects in an array of chars, and even if you are it is tricky because you need to ma
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by temac 5y ago
From a purely technical point of view, what would you have wanted next? Windows XP running "on" DOS? And the irony is that it was not even that much different on that point: Windows 9x did not really run "on" DOS either.
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by temac 5y ago
Not much in there require the DOS version to be precisely MS-DOS; on the contrary it was done mainly for compat with 3rd party code which e.g. "knew" where the DOS structures were, and surprise 3rd party DOS obviously had to be
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by temac 5y ago
> The generous 8192K glibc thread stack size isn't actually used on Linux with overallocation Is it even (over)committed? The main reason for having a max stack size is multithreading, but I'm not sure why it should be committe
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by temac 5y ago
Maybe the comparison with amputation is a little over-the-top but let me illustrate with a few other real-world examples why this kind of concern is not completely illegitimate. The health policy in some countries e.g. in France (and mayb
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by temac 5y ago
Except how will people access such Windows 365 VMs usually?...
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by temac 5y ago
> The economics make so much more sense in that world. Actually the economics still does not make any sense in that world, but some people in some companies count things (only) using such rituals that they think it does. Which is, obviou
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by temac 5y ago
There is an indirect relationship in that only out-of-tree kernel-space Linux drivers are inconvenienced by that, that lots of out-of-tree kernel-space Linux drivers are proprietary ones, and that most kernel-space Linux proprietary drivers
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by temac 5y ago
With such a laundry-list, I'm not 100% sure being "ready for prime time" means having a graphical interface for all those configurations.
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by temac 5y ago
> The Macintosh was not text-oriented internally. I'm not sure what you mean by this specific part; Windows is not "text-oriented internally"; neither is let's say Gnome. Actually if that's about how often e.g. D
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by temac 5y ago
And it's not even just the UI. But yeah, that's basically for both systems, would be really hard to say "this one is overall more consistent than this one."
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by temac 5y ago
That's the case with tons of compiler optims.

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