Posts by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
(DIR) Post #ATS9NrV1dkb7LqUTEu by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-09T22:30:23Z
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@itnewsbot Wild, as it appears that *even some officially-EOL models* have received a firmware update hard-disabling third-party ink cartridges.
(DIR) Post #ATVQXAsZEmtKl2PMmG by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-11T12:26:42Z
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@arstechnica The legendary chaos continues.From 2019, ARS: "We are 91 days into the year, and so far, Google is racking up an unprecedented body count. If we just take the official shutdown dates that have already occurred in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days."
(DIR) Post #ATXKcb6SxA5E8621RY by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-12T10:29:54Z
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@arstechnica As commented: "Well damn. Another story about a) people being scum, b) misuse of technology by said people, c) major companies only getting worried when deep-pocketed people get involved and d) the usual game of pass-the-liability-parcel.Checks calendarYeah, thought so. Another day ending in a 'y'."
(DIR) Post #ATY78zzClon0Mw9REO by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-12T19:33:31Z
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@arstechnica Well, can those funds be returned, then? As they apparently were not used.
(DIR) Post #ATonFSWLndBLKPohP6 by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-20T20:40:58Z
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@hn100 If by "address" you mean an IP-address and TCP-port combination, then the answer is "when they do not share a remote address". ie: a TCP connection is identified by the four-way combination of local-IP-address, local-TCP-port, remote-IP-address, remote-TCP-port.
(DIR) Post #ATqT8I8yNCZILm6g8u by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-21T16:05:05Z
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@TedUnderwood ...for at least *some* definition of "productive"...?
(DIR) Post #ATu9zrcrxdJvIFCLZY by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-23T10:48:19Z
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@mjg59 That's spectacularly "special" program logic, and not in a good way.
(DIR) Post #ATuAaCooe0ZNRj7CUK by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-23T10:54:58Z
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@mjg59 Another superbly daft bit in there too re the earlier model"The M365 scooters that Bird originally deployed did have numeric serial numbers, but they were 6 characters of type code followed by a / followed by the actual serial number - the number of type codes was very constrained and atoi() would terminate at the / so this was still not a large keyspace"...to put it mildly!
(DIR) Post #AU5GoS6WD8vKU9aG6S by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-03-28T19:27:21Z
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@hn50 Or, indeed, much else, it seems.
(DIR) Post #AURGi1xJCPbnRjhFrM by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-04-08T10:08:44Z
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@mjg59 Sheesh.Coming soon: LSL - Linux Subsystem for Linux.
(DIR) Post #AUXgUVuan0Ru3YOvJ2 by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-04-11T12:26:59Z
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@hn50 LOL@"whether to ... accept changes".
(DIR) Post #AUkC4OuiqUMkCi3myG by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-04-17T12:48:09Z
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Quote from the FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers:"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."
(DIR) Post #AV6Ye9ANLPcGG3wyqO by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-04-28T08:14:13Z
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@hn100 Ah, yes, 'The Literature'.Knuth's "Sorting and Searching" volume is a huge tour-de-force, very illuminating.
(DIR) Post #AVJX9yktugKcNmZ4gy by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-05-04T14:28:48Z
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@dick_turpin Damn straight.
(DIR) Post #AVW7UIeE4mmcgMEweu by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-05-10T16:10:31Z
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@mjg59 In adfition:The “Create a recovery drive” functionality is not supported in the updates released on or after May 9, 2023, and cannot be used to restore devices with revocation enabled. We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.
(DIR) Post #AVutwedtELAOqZ9V8i by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-05-22T15:08:12Z
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@itnewsbot "Micron chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra was part of a delegation of business leaders who attended the G7 summit. He dined with US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Citi chief Jane Fraser on Saturday night"How to needlessly attract unwanted attention!
(DIR) Post #AW1Tm5BOyXVFH1qS8G by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-05-25T17:59:19Z
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A C compiler in 512 bytes:https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html"Hashes are perhaps the holy-grail of computer-science. With a good hash, we can just side-step all the hard problems by trading them for an even harder problem (hash collisions), and then we just ignore that harder problem. Brilliant. (sticks fingers in ears)"
(DIR) Post #AW5iDoSQvfMNV3lgFU by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-05-27T20:19:00Z
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@kingu BOOSH.
(DIR) Post #AWL6cH25B89UEQwwng by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-06-04T06:32:55Z
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@vees I've found that the 2017 Surface Air plus the optional Surface keyboard/cover is *almost* that, for me. The only problem is that the glossy screen is too reflective when outdoors in Summer.
(DIR) Post #AYFzOqa3PPDcNzw0ae by shelldozer@oldbytes.space
2023-07-31T09:47:50Z
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@chris @pglpm @pluralistic @aral @strypey @hisham_hm @aperezdc Shame they didn't use the term "Open Internet" instead of "Free Internet". The latter is often misinterpreted by those outside tech policy circles.