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badocr

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    Comment #48676509

    It does support "modern gaming" yes, but like the sibling comment mentions, at least Riot's anti-cheat demands Windows 10 22H2 (the last iteration of Win10) as a minimum. There are…

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    Comment #47691282

    My theory is that Le Roux was just financing the (two?) TrueCrypt developers.

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    Comment #47220538

    I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it: > Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more. > The da…

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    Comment #47179433

    > (But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel construction or tip from a TLA.) For sure you were/are not alone in this…

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    Comment #46601757

    It's not later than 2001 since the dude closed the site on "Sunday 25th November 2001 ". I used to frequent it all the time back in 2000~2001 since it was the only SP review site s…

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    Comment #45969549

    I recall reading about TCP/IP-powered Internet multiplayer DOS Quake in TECHINFO.TXT that shipped with the retail version of the game, and I quote: Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP -------…

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    Comment #45969354

    Yes, Doom with multi-monitors! There's (at least) one video on Youtube showing it in action with 3 monitors plus a fourth one with the map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NQQ7bP…

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    Comment #43621013

    It's a functionality of banking apps. Yes, transfers are done either via a QR code or via one or more "Pix Keys", that the person/bussiness authorizes in their baking app. These ke…

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    Comment #42000299

    Why is this flagged but the thread titled "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris" with 1041 comments isn't? What am I missing?

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    Comment #37353901

    > Anyone remembering this Russian guy arrested straight from plane when he landed in USA going to make a talk to defcon ? I had to look it up, but it's Dmitry Sklyarov [1], who wor…

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    Comment #36564821

    https://ttm.sh/BR4.jpg

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    Comment #36382299

    Maybe it's Notch. It'd make sense to me.

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    Comment #34277047

    Jeffry Picower estate settled for a US$7.2 billion sum circa 2010 according to Wikipedia. This Picower character seems to have had a shady fortune history, he also was found dead a…

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    Comment #32964341

    Uh, as far as I recall, the 6000 never reached retail shelves.

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    Comment #32868300

    > "his Kung Fu is strong." Was this a reference to Mitnick's phone calls to Tsutomo?

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    Comment #32845012

    Was already familiar with the story from her YT video[1] about it, which goes into way more details and less conference fluff. But the real gem in this talk seems to be the Q&A tha…

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    Comment #32582400

    Reminder that Denuvo is not an anti-cheat, it's DRM.

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    Comment #32144538

    I'm on Windows as well. Just get rid of the 'best' argument for '--ytdl-format'. Also, 'bestaudio' is mostly only known as a keyword for Youtube videos.

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    Comment #32142629

    Eric S. Raymond commented on that commit, congratulating wm4.

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    Comment #32142573

    It's the reddit effect. As reddit's popularity keep increasing for the past 5 years or so, HN links posted on the platform get that much more attention. Specially true for indians,…

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    Comment #32142353

    > Sometimes all you need is a list of flags and a brief description of what they do [...] $ mpv --list- Pipe to a grep-like program for keywords.

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    Comment #32142285

    > mpv --no-video --vo=null --ytdl-format='bestaudio/best' 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to' With --ytdl-format='bestaudio' there's no need to disable the video track o…

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    Comment #31443027

    "Climate Change" was one of the topics discussed at "Rio Summit" in 92 [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit

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    Comment #28822184

    I remember some ~20 years ago, only going thru their HOWTO was very revealing about the system innards and I remember having a blast. I never went trough a real LFS install because…