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Loss32 subsystem for Linux (L32SL) would be just a (possibly chrooted or containerised) GNU-like userland, wouldn't it?
Say, if Loss32 were based on the most minimal Ubuntu, to get L32SL, one would just apt install the "ubuntu-minimal" package, and run a bash in a terminal (which itself could be a Win32 program, to keep with the theme). Then one could just apt install other stuff, like perl and gcc as needed.
I found it really strange that GitHub announced self-hosted runner pricing soon after Atlassian did the same. And the wording is so similar too: "We're bringing you an upgrade and improved experience."
It's like they talked to each other (or shared the same consultants) - nothing that can be easily proven, of course.
I bet Atlassian was like: "Yes! GitHub is doing this too! We're vindicated!". And after GitHub backpedaled: "Well, crap, now we're the only bad guys."
Not necessarily. It's more akin to "as much as the market will bear" (but more like "as much as we can get away with"). There's not enough pushback for them to care. They could send out a sex toy and tell customers to suck on it in order to activate Windows, and there will be a lot of moaning (of both kinds), but people will still use Windows. Try to regulate what MS can get away with and there will be even more moaning.
The way I understand the GPL "freedom", is that it's not freedom for you, it's freedom for the software itself. The software cannot be chained and locked in a proprietary basement - not by you, not by anyone. They could just as well call it "emancipated software" to drive the point home.
The BSD and MIT people seem to say "yeah, whatever, if you lock it in your basement, you just make more work for yourselves, so good luck with that".
Sending password in the clear by email is worse than sending a password reset link.
The clear password is a very good indicator that they store passwords in the clear in their database too. Such sites usually send you the password again if you say you forgot it.
Make your email your bastion - with a strong, distinct password and 2FA, and password set/reset links aren't that bad. Not as good as PKI Client Certificates or Passkeys (when implemented correctly), but still.
Is there a medical or psychological term for this? I read it as ArduinOS several times, for sever days. And now I went back in the browser, from the comments section, and it says AnduinOS without reloading the page. I could bet real money that it said ArduinOS and it just changed (even though it had no way it could have done that). Mandela Effect seems to fit somewhat, but this wasn't a memory. This was me reading the same thing wrong consistently, and I'm not usually known to be dyslexic.
I'm curious now. Did anyone quantify those properties that you list for the Model M? That would make the comparison a bit more scientific than "Oh, how I loved Model M and hate these modern keyboards." It should probably one of the first steps in the "lot of work" that the article says needs to be done.
You say: "If you use simple code, and the STL"
I think I see the problem. It's that "if". You're relying on humans. Put that into mandatory tooling and then we may have a fair comparison.
Using the car analogy, it's like this: a car that checks the blind spots for you vs an older car where "if you check your blind spots religiously" everything should be fine. But as long as there's space for slipups, there will be slipups.
It's been a while since I've used it, but the one thing that Skype did that nobody else did as far as I could tell was being able to call Freephone (0800, 1-800, whatever the local Freephone equivalent is) from anywhere in the world for free without getting a phone number from that country.
Is customer support available only in the USA via toll-free 877 number and you're in the UK with no plans of setting foot in the US? Call then with Skype. Can't do that with Teams or WhatsApp.
But I guess as long as everyone moves towards a webchat customer service experience we're all good, right?
Just a quick mention that although they removed their GitHub repository, they still have links to it on their website. Look for the "Legacy Player Developer" buttons :) Even their blog post proudly announcing the release of the code is still up and not retracted. I'm not sure people talked to one another before taking all the actions in the chain of events.
The problem with SQL is that it's human-writeable text that can be concatenated on a whim. Solution: replace with binary protocol. Well... at least disallow direct coding of it - use builders.
Reasoning: if you want to keep humans away and let the computers build the safe commands, you make it really hard for humans to write it directly. Humans get to use a builder with that has safety built-in.
For example: Nobody is writing machine code. Nobody is really writing asm either. We use compilers. Make builders for SQL and Regex, and disallow direct string writing (the binary protocol is the sledgehammer that helps with this), and now the coders have to find a different way to introduce vulns without realising.
It may actually be that simple.
Learning and then using that information to make things is fine - even if you learn it by violating copyright law, as it's not easy to prove that you read books and articles and watched films against the terms and conditions (I'll refer to improperly sourced material again below).
It's when you start disseminating that learned content verbatim to others against the original terms and conditions where you'll be in the wrong. If you quote your sources in newly produced original material, even those accessed against terms and conditions, you're probably in the clear though.
Let's go to the level where the LLM sits: you produce content based on the things learned as described above, but for an employer, who then takes that and makes money. They may even give you new material to study in order to perform your new material creation duties. That's still fine, isn't it? Even if the material was sourced against the author's terms and conditions (and even if the obtainer is caught and sentenced).
Now, being the money maker that he is, your boss replaces you with a much more efficient tool: the LLM.
By my reasoning, as long as the LLM doesn't reproduce the original material verbatim, everybody is fine (except the now-starving content creators that have been obsoleted).
The LLM owner may be much easier to prosecute for improperly sourcing training material against terms and conditions than the general population though - until we all get pocket LLMs and proceed to apply the copier machine principle at high speed.
As the Renault Twingo ad says: "We live in modern times". Things will get very interesting soon.
That someone isn't forced to do this maintenance work. They choose to do it. And it's not affecting the general product in any negative way. It's not debt. It's legacy, which is a related but different paradigm.
When all willing maintainers go away, then of course it's a good candidate for removal if it breaks or gets in the way. Even without maintainers though, if nothing breaks or gets in the way, it's perfectly fine to have it zombie along.
Back up a little there:
Participating banks distribute the e-rupee (e₹-R), in the same denominations available as notes and coins
What do you mean by "denominations" when it comes to digital currency? Does that mean that if I go to a shop they may not have enough change to give me because they don't have the requisite digital coins? The idea of "change" itself would arise from my lack of exact digital coinage as well.
I should start a website like that for a short period, but you know, hide my tracks much better. Redeem vouchers with his own account? A newbie mistake.
Disclaimer: your honour, I made this comment hypothetically. If I were to actually go into cybercrime, I wouldn't brag to anybody, much less a public forum on the Internet, surely.
I'm guessing that their "senior" Laravel "developer" didn't bother himself with junior-level stuff such as "syntax" and "preventing SQL injections", and "concerned themselves with the bigger picture"
I'm channelling some anecdotes I got from a friend who is conducting hiring interviews and so far has rejected all the "senior" developers that came his way, with one of them saying more or less what I said in the first paragraph.
Well... The core is still RISC, and it's all about modules added to it. The instruction sets of each module may also be relatively reduced in size. Maybe we need a new term: Modular Instruction Set Computer - MISC.
Intel keeps adding instructions to the main instruction set (but pretends to be modular by giving each addition a new label), because backwards compatibility. ARM is just pick and mix - make it as reduced or as complex as you fell like. I think RISC-V adopts this philosophy too.
One could think of this as having a lot more coprocessors than just a math one.
The part that's new to me is "talking to some companies". Sounds like the complainant, or even Broadcom itself, isn't in the loop about LTS.
There should be a policy prominently displayed (like an asterisk and a footnote) that says "we can go to 6 if enough people sign up", as this exchange seems to indicate the policy isn't clearly indicated.
I'm not a Samsung fan, but I got a Samsung phone now after Google kept making the call volume go really low after a while on their phones and their suggestion was to clean the ear grid - done it, no effect.. Dudes, what?
Samsung also flipped a flag in an update and made my Dream View stop working (just another Samsung thing to do), but while annoying, I can live with it.
One of the customers of the tiny ISP I was working for had been murdered. My phone appeared in the call logs, so I was cordially invited to the police station to ask me about my whereabouts. They asked if I had had a call with the victim, but I totally forgot I did, and I said no. That prompted them to call me in again (somehow they didn't know about the call the first time, so I got to walk home across town only to be asked to walk back), and be accused of lying. Then it dawned on me that about half a year before I received one call from the victim about his Internet access. We never met in person. And when I mentioned that to the cop he appeared surprised that it was so long ago.
I'm guessing they were experts in murder investigation if it took me two trips to the station for them to find out those crucial details.
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