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bvttf

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    Comment #49073305

    You probably can't, they say they're adding it to MDASH, which is (I think) still in a limited preview: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/12/def...

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    Comment #45516012

    loved them complaining about having "only" 16 registers

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    Comment #35980480

    It's mostly the same in my experience. Less Lisp now, which is too bad.

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    Comment #20721868

    Wouldn't this just make a ftp:// url fallthrough to the ftp client in Dolphin/Finder/Explorer/xdg? Like, worst-case ChromeOS loses ftp?

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    Comment #20331575

    http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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    Comment #19231414

    So much software is dual purpose, though. "We need this moving object recognition for, uh, cars. So it knows where a moving person is, so it can avoid them." "Yes, that's a thing w…

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    Comment #16607095

    While I'd also like https as a default, that's not going to prevent this tracking if you still respect the intent of HSTS. If you try https first, and that fails, do you try again …

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    Comment #16215738

    going to go with Burp's devs on this one http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...

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    Comment #14941050

    So in summary, the garbage collection is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can b…

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    Comment #14337242

    A "knock-off" like the dozen or so companies who have been selling weighted blankets for years? Forget six months, you could have one before this campaign ends.

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    Comment #12832887

    Don't believe Debian's lies, xscreensaver just got an update this month.

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    Comment #11811423

    Not only that, the download/announcement page says there are preview rendering bugs in OSX, and a workaround is provided.

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    Comment #11272819

    > thinkpad has removed BIOS whitelist. Wait, what. Link please?

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    Comment #10899342

    > What about Maker Faire, HOPE, DEF CON, etc. OK, as someone who's been to all of these. The team/cooperation part I think he's referring to is that CCC will have a large area dedi…

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    Comment #10322388

    Did they do a control test with that mask and no dead bird? That fucking mask might be enough on its own. /twajs

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    Comment #10129139

    Any attacker above a script kiddie (where they can/want to make money off you) will have someone not as good as Dennis, but with the skill to do what's demonstrated here. It's not …

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    Comment #10129124

    like he says in the next paragraph, yes.

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    Comment #8939492

    Long answer: http://youtu.be/WOcYTqoSQ68 Short answer, iirc the atheros will usually play within the rules, and the free drivers aren't super officially supported so what those cra…

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    Comment #8215989

    I bought a few, the ones I got had a thick clear plastic wrapper that's not in the pictures.

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    Comment #8147774

    but don't hacked particles taste terrible?

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    Comment #7705944

    Sad this isn't an announcement of a new /0day board that serves as a pastebin alternative.

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    Comment #7557277

    Not him, but I don't think the regular lazy evaluation worry about building up a million thunks and GC hell would be as much of a problem as it being awkward to not have things hap…

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    Comment #7508976

    For what it's worth, I have a coinbase account linked to a gmail address in the form firstname.lastname, where both are common names. I'd expect it to be in a dictionary based list…

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    Comment #7470993

    I didn't think Bryan O'Sullivan would be Hack-ing PHP, either.

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    Comment #7446673

    Disagree on your first point, the top comment is often obviously spawning a huge argument that goes nowhere because it touched some hot-button political issue that was a minor part…