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by vanchor3 2y ago
The Macintosh would disable any interrupts that were not level 4 or higher when accessing the floppy disk to prevent data loss. This was basically everything other than the programmers switch. It did however have a check to see if the seria
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by vanchor3 2y ago
DJI and Insta360 are starting to become prominent in the action camera market with better marketing tactics (e.g. providing cameras to influencers/sponsorships).
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by vanchor3 2y ago
So what's the alternative then? Because when developers uncheck this box I have to go through the trouble of decrypting the IPA and sideloading it, and I usually just end up not bothering to use the app at all.
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by vanchor3 2y ago
I believe Patreon's fees are a percentage of the total cost. i.e. if the payment is $10 and Patreon takes 10%, they'll still get $1, Apple get's $3, and the creator gets $6.
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by vanchor3 2y ago
Unfortunately it is both... the CVE is for Oracle software but they're running it on Solaris servers.
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by vanchor3 2y ago
Personally I would say people should not be able to make money off someone else's copyrighted content without permission, but someone putting a lot of work into making a good video and having someone else claim all the money over 10 se
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by vanchor3 2y ago
> It’s so incredibly stupid to sell off each piece of the museum - 50K for a DEC-10? Does the Allen estate really need the cash? Supposedly the proceeds are going to "charitable causes", though the article doesn't go int
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by vanchor3 2y ago
I'm sure it doesn't make a big difference but the issue with this is it doesn't count Mac users using CrossOver/Whisky because they get detected as Windows users, while Linux users with Proton are reported as using Linux
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by vanchor3 2y ago
The funny thing is most games in my library say they won't run on macOS because they're 32-bit applications, and they won't show up in my library when filtering by "Mac". But they all run perfectly fine, so they&#x2
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by vanchor3 3y ago
It's not necessary to have the ground and there probably isn't enough cost savings to remove it. They've used the same design for years and just disconnecting the ground wouldn't make any sense because then the grounded
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by vanchor3 3y ago
There's a difference between "paying interest because you didn't pay off your entire balance" and "paying a $40 late fee because you forgot the payment was due at 10:59AM Eastern Time and you were an hour late"
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by vanchor3 3y ago
Sure, you can do 2.4GHz on a 2 layer board with even the simplest programs, or even Inkscape really. The hard part is arguably knowing the write math involved to design with signal integrity in mind. When you start working with very high sp
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> The article says it provides 10Gbps of service to 98% of customers upon request This part is funny to me because I've tried to sign up for their FttH and they declined despite it being in the area, and the same thing happened to o
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by vanchor3 3y ago
I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far too many Macintosh Portables...
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> Essentially if you copy a lot of copyrighted material into a blob and then apply some sort of destructive compression to it. How destructive would that compression have to be for the copyright no longer to hold? My guess it would have
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> People would argue that it's up to the seller whether they want to make their creations available. If I don't want to sell you something, then I'd entertain the argument that downloading it anyway is in some sense immora
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by vanchor3 3y ago
Bought by Epic Games then Epic sold to Songtradr, which is when the layoffs happened.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
Juniper is another one that definitely charges/requires contract for updates. Can't remember who else off the top of my head.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
Network hardware vendors have been doing it for years, more money for Microsoft I guess.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
There's a brief write-up on porting it to other Macs here: http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/macromboot.html
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by vanchor3 3y ago
They are called ROMs because that is what the computer called them. The computer uses them to load initial startup code and base functions, and the ROM is in the "ROM" address space (as opposed to RAM, I/O, etc.). It does not
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by vanchor3 3y ago
It most often seems to be the power management/charge/USB-C chip, with no particular pattern other than "playing a demanding game". Doesn't seem to matter whether plugged in or on battery, official charger or other
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by vanchor3 3y ago
Understandable, I was hoping there was some sort of board schematics or even block diagrams to aid in fixing blown up chips and other faults. I most often see failures on the main board and of course that's the part they don't sel
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> And they provide you parts and schematics in case you need to repair/mod your device. Where are the schematics? I was trying to do a repair on an unusually common failure and couldn't find anything.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
For your total completion stats in Steam it doesn't count games that you have not earned any achievements in, it may be the same for global stats.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> How does a browser enforce CT? The certificate contains signatures from the CT logs. The browser can either accept those signatures or check the CT log itself. This "enforces" CT for the certificate of the site you're ac
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by vanchor3 3y ago
This isn't really an Apple exclusive feature or anything, it's basically the same as self encrypting SSDs.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
If the computer still turns on you can at least get to recovery and use USB-C/Thunderbolt disk sharing.
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by vanchor3 3y ago
> he set up his CDN so that accessing the site from any given country would get served by a server in a neighboring country (meaning that a takedown would involve international cooperation, so it would almost never be worth the effort) I
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by vanchor3 3y ago
I've also found they do very suspicious things in those captcha pages as well, such as sending random requests to unrelated websites (feels like a DDoS at that point). I've been avoiding archive.today links ever since.

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