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No, it can do whatever it wants. Just don't leak resources!

Don't worry. Once IT Security discovers that they miss their trusty endpoint security products on your Mac, they'll add it and you'll be in the same ballpark as the Windows machine…

"USB data blocker" on AliExpress yields you very small adapters that enable you to run USB-PD, but block the data lines.

I tried to read this, and what the tool works, but this is so much text with little context. Looks like AI fluff. It sounds pretty straight-forward, so this should be a single page…

Interfaces are persistent in Windows, that's why they get assigned such silly names as "LAN interface (42)". If the mapping between the logical and physical interfaces changes, tha…

The trick about documentation is depth, not prose. You need context and understanding to write documentation "like in the old days". No amount of LLM trickery will free you from th…

It's sad to see Xtensa go. Their architecture was a clean design, a treat to read the assembly code. I get it, RISC-V comes without licensing costs, but that's one of the few posit…

Well, salt may be less volume than brine. But the demand for table salt is pretty limited. Thus: Why pay for its disposal when you can discharge brine for free?

Great! Brings a bit more dynamic into the market. So far, I'm happy with DxO, but I also don't need to manage a library. I don't know, does Resolve have lens corrections for 100+ l…

I think it's more people being fascinated by this curious architectural detail. I imagine it's fascinating to people who are not exposed to the intricate details of computer archit…

Does anybody else's fingers also tingle like this is written by an AI? The formatting is strangely inconsistent, highlighting only some numbers and some variables in fixed-width fo…

All of this works much worse on macOS: Scaling sucks, as it's integer-upscaled rendering + fractional downscaling in a shader. Windows can't span screens either. On Windows, the wi…

If people make extraordinary claims, I expect extraordinary proofs… Also, there is nothing complex in a C compiler. As students we built these things as toy projects at uni, withou…

Completely agreed. I sit in dismay, remembering the Microsoft I frowned upon back in the days as a Linux/FreeBSD user. But at least their software was accessible via keyboard and t…

> Also, ML is now really good to translate between European languages As somebody who has to regularly bear "German" machine-translated UIs and manuals that originate in English, I…

Something to hack, but I don't see how to easily type braces and parentheses. Looks like a non-starter to me because for me, I hack by writing in languages that require parentheses…

The problem is not only the DAW support, but the support of low-latency audio interfaces in Linux. Audio interface makers rarely create a Linux driver, and a low-latency setup on L…

Thing is: That's your preference and nobody should force you to use these indicators. Even on Windows, the tray icons are usually mostly hidden away. I find them highly useful on m…

Well, it's a bold hypothesis that a household washing machine should sterilise clothes. It's a machine to reduce the load of microorganisms to a manageable level and to remove dirt…

I think the article misses the point: It's not about how complex the data structures are, it's about the result, in all its details. Comparing different RAW converters (Lightroom, …

If it's not a user-space, but a driver issue, I found powercfg /sleepstudy pretty helpful to determine why a W11 machine didn't enter or exited sleep too often, after the fact. On …

The question is: Who is the beneficiary of the app sandbox? Is it you, the user, because no malicious processes can taper with your apps? Or is it the corporations, because they pr…

Yup, which is why a project that is serious about compilation time splits off type-independent parts into .cpp files that can be compiled separately, improving the speed of compila…

NTFS is slow, especially when you operate on a lot of tiny files (nobody in the Windows world would do that, you'd always put your tiny data blobs into a bigger container file, e.g…

Well, I consider software liability a good thing. Question is how to achieve this goal. Of course it's sad when a bureaucracy answers this with the only means a bureaucracy has: A …