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For Windows users looking to save space, there's Compactor[1] that uses the NTFS built-in compression opportunistically for only those files that benefit from it. It is not a dedup…

No ISO? No numpad? Also we're doing preorders for preorders now?

Average Ubisoft game experience on Steam.

Considering how bad the Windows Phone ecosystem was, the smartphones were not much better...

> After two years your battery will be almost unusable After two years increasingly complex web apps will have made your hardware obsolete. Batteries can be swapped, bad web develo…

We did Tailscale-like SSH reverse tunnels at scale first in 2013 and the main issue has always been that there are no good libraries. Bash scripting around the OpenSSH binaries is …

> C7 and its 2.5A max current If 250 W (in the absolute worst case, a 100 V .jp grid) is not enough for travel purposes, I have no idea what will satisfy your requirements.

When I was in high school my German teacher taught us to tip by default by rounding up and paying with exact change. Is that still a thing when everyone is paying with card?

The best tool has just a single button that has already been pressed for you. The mechanical action is there just for satisfaction.

This feels like I am violating something that is sacred. The last time I felt the same was when I accidentally found a Japanese Youtube channel that had tons of clips of konbini st…

CVE 10.0 if you happen to use one specific functionality in the library. Non-CVE if you do not, and because it's an old bug, you cannot just downgrade to get a non-red result from …

GPU driver packages are already a huge collection of workarounds for bad game engine coding. An Nvidia employee once told me that one of the easiest ways to squeeze out a few extra…

Only in EU because of the Accessibility Act[1]. Copywrong holders are allowed to disable screen readers elsewhere because that allows them to sell more audiobooks. You will apparen…

Nineties called and they want their shitty export grade computing back. Anyone still remember OpenBSD?

Look, we're always telling our bosses to stop micromanaging us. UB is just the compiler telling us to stop micromanaging it!

Turns out intelligence gathering is pretty boring routine work, not Bond-esque spy stuff or stakeouts in camo nets and face paint.

So... because of risk of retaliatory litigation I have to sit on vuln reports for one month while black hats are free to roam.

If you grew up in a junkyard, getting adjusted to the social norms of a bazaar might feel like your way of life is being threatened.

> There are no other choices. Fail safe noisily and implement a cooldown period.

Most online merchants redirect me to my bank's web page when I enter my Visa credit card number. In theory it should be possible to have a card number that by itself is useless and…

Removing code paths that the programmer has explicitly laid out in the source code should be made a hard compile error unless the operation has been tagged with an attribute (anyon…

Without AI, both writing and reading code are bottlenecks. How many times have you reviewed your old code and been appalled at the terrible quality? You personally created slop; it…

Those ATtiny85 boards that plug directly into a USB port are great if you need 1 to 5 GPIOs and/or a HID interface. At 2 dollars apiece or so it's worth having a few around.

When my mom remarried, her new husband started to manipulate her and isolate her from other relatives, trying to turn everyone against each other. The last time I met her, I was ba…

The author argues that writing code cannot be a bottleneck because work always fills up the allotted time. Developer teams should instead focus on doing less and writing better spe…