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571.
by usr1106 2y ago
Why? Because Unix was written in the 1970s when privacy and computer security where not a topic yet. Hardenings have been added later, but the one you mention is still not the default.
572.
by usr1106 2y ago
https://speed.cloudflare.com/ produces more details than many other speedtest sites. Interpreting them correctly is of course another question
573.
by usr1106 2y ago
Nowadays they seem to broadcast legally on medium wave (aka AM to Americans), but I doubt I could receive their 1 kW here. Less traditionally on https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/radioplayer4/index.html
574.
by usr1106 2y ago
Is postcrossing still a thing?
575.
by usr1106 2y ago
Sorry, I forgot. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/QnUgsd1SiT4
576.
by usr1106 2y ago
Slightly (un)related also railways in Northern Italy used biphase supply until the 1970s. There is a nice Youtube video, let's see whether I remember to dig out the link a bit later and edit this comment.
577.
by usr1106 2y ago
Deutsche Bahn is not a startup, but provides public service. Are the Autobahns profitable? That they have problems with service quality does not mean other problems should not be addressed. Noise pollution has massive health consequences fo
578.
by usr1106 2y ago
A law in which country? Well, GDPR showed a bit that rather global impact is possible. If you offer an open service on the internet you need to be prepared that users and misusers will cause costs. However, if you block it for public access
579.
by usr1106 2y ago
Every decent CI would include at least a smoke test on the bigger platforms in the field. Google obviously having zero test coverage for FF on Windows, is that incompetence or malice?
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by usr1106 2y ago
I got a onedrive license with a new PC. I stored a large encrypted backup there and did nothing else. Nearly a year later when the free license was about to expire I wanted to access the storage again. It told me that the account had been l
581.
by usr1106 3y ago
Ironically the video is hosted by the worst targeted advertising company. So I did not watch it, try to avoid them as much as I can.
582.
by usr1106 3y ago
Better design enabling rowhammer, meltdown, and the like... But when it comes to failures I would bet things must have improved when you measure failure per operation. Computers did not fail often 30 years ago. If they failed orders of magn
583.
by usr1106 3y ago
Interesting. I bought the book with Reuter's student discount, but never read it (apart from some pages). Haven't really done anything with databases since university if I don't count looking into some sqlite database an appl
584.
by usr1106 3y ago
Requesting free journalism is like requesting free food. Both are essential, but few would expect food being distributed for free. Subscriptions are fine, I pay for several. But they don't fit every use case. There should be a way to p
585.
by usr1106 3y ago
I doubt that. Computing has a greenhouse effect similar to air traffic. Edit: While true that's maybe not a good argument. Financial processing hardly is the biggest culprit. The worst impact / benefit ratio are probably video and
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by usr1106 3y ago
systemd-analyze dot is nice in theory. In practice the sheer amount of dependencies makes the results difficult to use or understand. That it's a mixture of before and requires (probably also wants, don't rememeber) does not make
587.
by usr1106 3y ago
Trump does not understand or accept democracy. Yes, on that Jan 6th democracy won, but there is no guarantee it will end the same way next time. Roughly 50% of the voters don't seem to have a problem with abandoning democratic traditio
588.
by usr1106 3y ago
This is a 43 minute video. Has anyone watched it in full length? I haven't, but I (European) agree with the title.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Trump is nowhere near the level of Putin or Xi in following evil goals or keeping his office organized and loyal. But in the role of US president he would be able to do equal harm, just by acting like a 5 year old.
590.
by usr1106 3y ago
That's correct. But only when entering the US I have been asked for example: Do intented to engage in illegal activity? That's question seems to violate common sense: No one intending to do so would admit it.
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by usr1106 3y ago
From the article: > Instead, Firefox offers an individual pdfjs.enableScripting preference that can be configured from the about:flags page. As a long time FF user I have never heard of about:flags and it does not work either. about:conf
592.
by usr1106 3y ago
Plus the world would probably really a better place if Windows weren't one of the dominating systems, limited to desktop computing, but still...
593.
by usr1106 3y ago
Past tense seems to be important here. From what I hear from people who lived there in the past things have gone only to the worse since 2018 or so.
594.
by usr1106 3y ago
Which has told me as a European that the US is an unreasonable place I don't want to enter anymore, neither for business nor leisure. But I have full understanding for people who are in a situation that the US is still the smaller evil
595.
by usr1106 3y ago
For root partition sure. But for boot? Normally when you choose an encrypted root partition you get an extra boot partition without encryption. Unless that has changed rather recently.
596.
by usr1106 3y ago
As a European I expect at least some common sense behind a law. Every time I visited the US I noted a complete absence of common sense.
597.
by usr1106 3y ago
Interesting. I used to work for a big international corporation and visited the US twice for work. A six week customer support gig and a one week field testing trip. The first trip was still under older visa waiver rules for Europeans, the
598.
by usr1106 3y ago
Sure. But that does not answer any questions about their tooling or methods. Considered a business secret? They present the readable C code of the binary payload like it has appeared just out of the blue.
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by usr1106 3y ago
So assuming your machine supports UEFI, what are the common use cases that systemd-boot would not support, requiring you to use grub? Encrypted boot partition I'd guess? I tried that once with grub, but it was unbearingly slow, because
600.
by usr1106 3y ago
As far as the 3 first stages are concerned that article adds little to what has been known for 2 weeks. Just a nice write-up with flow charts. But the analysis of the binary in that detail seems new to me. So how has the source code shown t

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