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Not long ago I remember coming across some discussions about upgrading SChannel (the actual TLS component in Windows) in older versions using OpenSSL or other TLS libraries, but ca…

Author here. Surprised to suddenly find my project from 2021 on Hacker News! If you want to learn more about NTFS internals and my crate, check out the talk I gave at FOSDEM 2022: …

FWIW, I recently implemented a safe Rust crate around the Windows variant of intrusive linked lists [1] and spoke about it at EuroRust [2]. I did it only for compatibility and woul…

I have worked on a Windows-compatible kernel. Not at Microsoft, but within the ReactOS Project. And I can affirm that even after 15 years of low-level development, nowadays mostly …

> Only if you want to be trendchasing rather than letting backwards compatibility take care of itself... > I'm a native Win32 developer, have been one for a few decades, and know q…

From the original post: "numbers seem to be mangled independently from the compression mode, which makes the issue hard to avoid"

I've been using Win32DiskImager since the first Raspberry Pi. Never found a reason to change. Usbimager looks nice in comparison to the bloated Balena Etcher, but otherwise very si…

We didn't do it just for the eye candy, but also for threads, offline messages, and user identification. I wrote down our reasons for moving from IRC to a self-hosted Mattermost he…

No. The project has no legal entity in the US.

ReactOS dev here. As of today, compatibility is primarily hampered by the fact that many applications don't run under Windows XP anymore. We don't want to change the entire OS targ…

This implementation of doubly linked lists is not even exclusive to Unix-based operating systems, but also known as struct LIST_ENTRY under Windows/ReactOS and heavily used for ker…

The complexity of OpenID Connect or even just SAML is exactly why I developed RosLogin for the ReactOS infrastructure: https://github.com/reactos/web/tree/master/www/www.reactos.o.…