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by vetinari 4y ago
In roubles, for example. Its not like those who are paid in roubles would have any use for any other currency. Everything they need can be paid for in roubles, turtles all the way down. Sure, you won't get iphone, porsche or gucci ware
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> (thus funding their war of aggression) I see this repeated as a matra, in a way of Carthago delenda est. But it is not true. Said warmongering dictators do not need dollars or euros to wage any war. The entire chain of the war machine
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by vetinari 4y ago
FYI, with WSL2 1.0, you can finally enable systemd, so you can run services and cron jobs.
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by vetinari 4y ago
It is easy to find windows app, that is either blurry (basically almost all installers), or is confused by hidpi (take any qt app and you have 1:1 chance it will get it wrong, like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ad0ZkmX ).
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by vetinari 4y ago
They used to be, but not anymore. However, they switched, because even if not pixel perfect, it is good enough. At sizes used by their laptop, most users are not going to notice that it is not pixel perfect. The system they use gets them so
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by vetinari 4y ago
batch files are handled by cmd.exe, not by conhost.exe. Cmd.exe in turn opens default console. Similarly for powershell, python, farmanager and other console-based apps.
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by vetinari 4y ago
and when you launch any random .bat file.
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by vetinari 4y ago
I understand your point, but anyway, no app, no browser should ever think that "it knows better" and attempt to fix what it considers incorrect. It may think that it protects the user, but in reality, it will break what the user c
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by vetinari 4y ago
HERE is currently owned by a consortium of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi. So I guess that's where their traffic info is from.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Which is the correct behavior; if the user wants to configure his computer to DoT/DoH, system resolver is the correct place and Chrome has to respect it. Even if the computer is using 53/udp to the configured local resolver in the
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by vetinari 4y ago
It it still an improvement; you need to DPI the traffic then, which is more demanding than just logging 53/udp queries.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Chrome uses DoT, if you have configured one of the well-known resolvers that do support DoT. Otherwise, it respects your local settings.
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In 11, the terminal app can be set as default console app, so you won't see conhost.exe, ever. That's not possible in 10.
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So you didn't see any nag for iCloud in the System Preferences/System Settings app?
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I've seen this problem pop in randomly; like having three identically configured VMs, two work fine and in third causing trouble. Good luck finding out why.
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Keep in mind that even among the small minority of users who have a hypervisor installed VirtualBox, VmWare and Qemu are a lot more popular than hyper-v. Keep in mind, that these do require Hyper-V nowadays. Especially if your Windows
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by vetinari 4y ago
AFAIK Apple ignores the dhcp 43, 'ANDROID_METERED' option. Or did they change? Curiosly, Microsoft does respect it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol... , though it has to be ma
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by vetinari 4y ago
You are looking for WSUS (Windows Server Update Services). If you have Windows Server somewhere, you can add WSUS role to it and use group policies to point your clients to it for updates. Then, in WSUS console, you set up approvals for upd
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by vetinari 4y ago
"Exotic" network config, like having the default hyper-v adapter present? That one, that windows creates automatically once you enable hyper-v?
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by vetinari 4y ago
The "domain join" is misleading. It does not really join the domain, it just creates local account. Joining domain has to be done manually after installation. (Otherwise, network connection is a logical requirement for for domain
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Neither it discriminates foreign companies. Domestic companies have to follow the same rules.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Shim is there for Secure Boot. Microsoft refused to sign grub (GPL-3), but signed the shim (BSD-2), so shim has its own key store and verifies grub signed by respective distros. If you don't use Secure Boot, UEFI firmware can boot dire
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by vetinari 4y ago
I didn't intend to create another opportunity for jpeg-xl partisanship, but well, it happened. > Yes. One can barely argue AVIF is better than JPEG XL on the Web. One can very persuasively argue that AVIF is better on the web; for
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WEBP and JPEG-XL yes, AVIF no.
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But still no AVIF support, which is supported by Google / Chromium.
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> “the US is doing the same to other countries” > Source? Not even hiding it: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.htm...
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by vetinari 4y ago
Soros is spending serious coin on influencing election in countries other than USA too.
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by vetinari 4y ago
The thread developed into E2EE. Threema was an example how to do it more correctly, and to show what the others are doing wrong, giving an incorrect sense of security when there is none.
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by vetinari 4y ago
I would take that S10 for the experience ;) (I used to hate TouchWiz and other vendor's customizations, but One UI is fantastic).
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> - the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US Exactly opposite. US states generally have larger area, but lower population. Population-wise, California is about the size of Poland and Texas is similar to Ro

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