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As a place to park some cash, sure. But if I were running Disney there would be no character deal and I would need some kind of proprietary technology license that keeps certain AI…

> However! that doesnt affect the colour. That has been something I've wondered about since seeing frame comparisons of (probably) telecine'ed prints of The Matrix vs. the myriad h…

This all seemed very clever until I read the bio and learned that the author works for Microsoft -- the last company that has any business being flip about security. Bro needs to S…

Maybe a curl Patreon for would-be H1 contributors? Just need to figure out a donation amount that is trivial for legitimate security researchers, but too rich for spammers.

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I imagine the selection seems random because these are films that WB has the most favorable contracts for -- So there is no need for them to track number of streams so they can sen…

The article never hints at a business or regulatory angle. The author repeatedly has no answer for the sudden (and often long-term) closures. After the first anecdote about the cou…

I have long considered the relationship of OD&D to historical medievalism as equivalent to the vaporwave genre vs. music actually produced in the 80's.

Yes, the wife could be trying to set herself up to claim that she was mislead/mistaken about the substance she was "supplementing" her husband's diet with. Creepy story no matter h…

Initially I was inclined to disagree ("these things should always fail safe") however with more and more stuff being pushed into the kernel it's hard to say that you're wrong or ex…

When this decision was made for MS-DOS (and it may not have even been made then, but simply brought in from 86-DOS which may have cargo-culted it from CP/M-80) it is very unlikely …

It was the 80's equivalent of green text messages vs. blue text messages.

The most disturbing thing about this is that the lottery couldn't seem to confirm if it happened or not.

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Stating the thesis then (repeatedly) re-stating it with a (very) slightly different wording was a red flag. Professional journalists don't write like that, but AI and schoolkids tr…

> the new Microsoft Teams and its incoming-call notification sound I absolutely have this issue and would love to know more about any suspected causes.

Agreed, OP has seen too many movies. Other suspicious things (some of which suggest a longer-brewing confrontation): - The "hint of a Russian accent" that Zac supposedly put on (bu…

No surprise, since it's how U.S. military spending has worked for our entire lives. Military: "We need $x to build something so secret we can't tell you what it is." Lawmaker: "Add…

Thinking back on all the breaking changes I've dealt with since 2010: 32-bit Linux distros discontinued, SMB incompatible between Windows versions (and samba versions) without twea…

I'm moving to netim.com which is another French registrar. They run their own email and seem to have a good reputation.

Free version of TextWrangler was the sweet spot, for me. BBEdit is more than I need for day-to-day and seems comparatively slow. Not an "upgrade" I wanted.

Because router vendors need some kind of "secret sauce" in order to keep selling routers, otherwise the whole thing becomes a commodity you can buy from anywhere. This is also why …

Sort of like moving your smelly dumpster in front of your classy restaurant to increase the dumpster's reputation.

There are probably some important Apple patents that would have been good candidates for this use case.

That was my first thought. Shut down voluntarily in 2019 for no particular reason after 22 years? Mysteriously back and even better? Doesn't pass the smell test. The page talks a b…