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any details? considering this.

I remember using 98SE on a 256MB PII laptop for a good while. ME was less stable and 2000 was a bit difficult for some games or at least h

The accepted term is "source available". Restrictions on usage type are not commonly accepted as open source by any community that I'm aware of.

There's a crowd-sourced dataset here: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Good thing there’s headscale.

Millions of Windows power users are accustomed to bypassing SmartScreen. A macOS app distributed without a trusted signature will reach a far smaller audience, even of the proporti…

Only the root of the root filesystem is / The point is that any filesystem can be chosen as the OS’s root. The root of all other filesystems - there could be multiple per drive - i…

It's a nice sentiment. The companies with the integrations are the ones that could take it back, but they don't have the incentive to break legal agreements and share with the worl…

DPO = Direct Preference Optimization, for anyone else.

this also clears out deeper OS rootkits if they could not achieve reboot persistence, which is not uncommon.

You seem focused on the labor theory of value, and sidestep completely the entire idea of investors, or the entrepreneurial function they serve. Advocate for higher taxes if you wi…

This raises the lowest rung on the ladder, reduces the set of contracts that adults may consider or consent to, and can eliminate entire jobs and threaten entire sectors such as th…

Liberians seem quite useful, then! I’ve never been to Africa myself.

What’s going to last longer than a mid-00s / early-10s Honda or Toyota?

The sweet spot has been 1996-2007 ish for a while. OBD-II, electronic port fuel injection, decent crash structures and side airbags, often better suspension design, no DI carbon fo…

On some cars you can pull a fuse that goes to the cellular modem, like many Fords at least up to around ‘21-‘23. On others you may need to physically remove the modem if the fuse i…

Between this and vaxry’s ouster from freedesktop because his project’s Discord allowed crude and tasteless speech years ago, I’m wondering how many more projects will fracture or m…

My understanding is this was the official Discord for years until they distanced themselves from it last year. However, I don’t think there’s an official one, or at least not one t…

Had me until the end. I haven’t seen the friction? Let’s Encrypt and web 1.0 still work and domains are cheap. OpenBSD’s httpd is great for this job. You’ll exclude less people if …

Great answer. Denuvo and other heavy anti-piracy tools are also sometimes used for releases on PCs which can seriously impact performance.

BusKill was created for this, USB with a magnetic attachment to a keyring that can be configured to take action on disconnect.

Cool - no worries. Pardon if that sounded like an accusation.

If we are to dehumanize career criminals, there are countless thugs, gangs, despots, governments, and militaries with far fewer scruples and a far worse legacy than the Hell’s Ange…

Modern information access seems to have led to the sinking ship feeling, across many of the most prosperous countries, and so effectively that world wars, deadlier pandemics, and t…

Yep. Could be a big hit to GrapheneOS users. I wonder how Aurora Store will manage.