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>This is what everyone misunderstands. The Developer ID code signing program is not analogous to web certs. The usage of these certs is entirely different. If a web cert gets revok…

I don't think so, even if it was only stored that way the government will still have (name, dob, hospital) info for most citizens saved in some db/list making it easy to recreate t…

Actual twitter post: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/... "Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process.…

The article that started most of the discussion listed the first publicly seen patches at middle of november from Microsoft, and one would assume that a bug that could cause major …

Why? They are already running their own unsigned DLL injected code that can do anything they want. Even if the OS wouldn't allow it to launch an unsigned .exe, any malware can just…

It's really easy nowadays (if you have the right hardware), you can directly install the official combo update and then it usually only requires one extra reboot to update the grap…

Yeah amazon cloud drive is pretty popular on /r/DataHoarder/, quite a few people have 10TB+ on it, some even a lot more. Personally I have close to 7TB of backups and personal vide…

I love BetterTouchTool, especially since it allows setting everything on a per application basis. I use it to have the same keyboard shortcuts for navigating tabs in everything, li…

They also called it a "recoupable application fee" so it sounds like they might reduce their 30% cut until the fee is earned back. So as long as a game sells even reasonably well t…

For laptops I agree, lots of pain, but for desktops I've never had any major issues with the last 3 Intel+Nvidia PCs I've had over the years, always worked really well. For me the …

Should be possible with DLL injection or function hooking since I would guess they just check the USB id and then use the normal mic access functions so you would only have to inte…

Onedrive also has a ton of other issues like not allowing various characters in filenames: # % * : ? / \ | " As well as a maximum file size of 10GB and maximum total path length of…

No it's limited to promotional and referral credit from what I've read in their TOS.

I guess it might help with security of certain thins like full disk encryption. I think there are already devices used by law enforcement or hackers that that can steal disk encypt…

Didn't that already happen with the samsung lawsuit?

I think it's ment in the sense that power users are by far the most likely people to disable telemetry or "Send usage data to help improve this software" functions, if such a setti…

There are a lot of i3's with ECC support, even some Pentiums, Celerons and Atoms have ECC support. I see them used often in cheap NAS builds, seems just that specific one in your l…

I'm really curious about building a virtual memory palace for VR. Seems there would be many possibilities to make memorizing more effective. Some common techniques like following a…

Usenet is perfect for that since binary newsgroups for piracy have gotten really popular over the last few years. You can basically use it as a reasonably reliable key-value store …

To get reliable and free storage, photo hosting is usually the easiest way. Flickr offers 1TB, picasa/g+ offers unlimited storage with some hidden quoats. Everything that allows lo…

> But it's there as a nuclear option if needed. But only for bigger sites I would assume. Everthing going through the servers of the site seems to have a huge potential for ad frau…

Office 365 for $100/year is the 5 license pack, that gives you 5 accounts with each 10TB onedrive storage + desktop office licenses + all the office online stuff. You can get the 5…

Here's a nice explanation of how ZFS does triple parity raid with reed-solomon: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/zfs_doxygenation/html/da/dc... http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/zfs…

I would also recommend Microsoft Onedrive/office 365 to anyone looking for really cheap only storage. For roughly $6 a month you can get 5 accounts with 10TB each. A one year Offic…

I think you can just extract the OEM Windows key from Windows, download a clean retail .iso of the same version and activate it with the OEM key. I'm pretty sure that worked with W…