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by johnfernow 1y ago
The Prompt API [0] works in Edge, though it uses the Phi-4-mini model instead of Gemini Nano. [1] Currently it doesn't work in Brave (at least on my machine), and I can't find anything online suggesting whether they plan on suppor
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by johnfernow 1y ago
The Java language specification is open and there are multiple implementations. OpenJDK is the official open-source reference implementation, and many of the alternative implementations pull from upstream, but OpenJ9 is a different JVM impl
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by johnfernow 1y ago
exFAT is widely used but it not being journaled has led to so many thousands (if not more) people losing tons of data, many of which wouldn't have lost so much data had they used a journaled filesystem (or even one with redundant file
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by johnfernow 1y ago
I agree with you. To be fair though, the concept likely seemed more reasonable in 1999. Hardware, browsers, and websites (and their front- and back-end services) were all less complex back then. Also less bloat. Not that things were more se
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by johnfernow 1y ago
I agree with you: they'd rather not. If Google's Android became closed source to the public, but Google gave Samsung and other OEMs the right to modify it (including a hard fork later on if they desired), then I agree with you tha
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by johnfernow 1y ago
Right, but if Google's Android becomes closed source and a well-funded FOSS fork becomes available, that changes the situation. If Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, HONOR, OPPO, etc. all agree to use a new FOSS fork as their base, well Google
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by johnfernow 1y ago
Some fair points. Courts have ruled Congress can make laws concerning foreign residents that would be unconstitutional if applied to domestic residents and citizens. They generally can't deny someone their Constitutional rights once al
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by johnfernow 1y ago
> First Amendment protections are only available for U.S. citizens and to a lesser extent to permanent residents Nowhere in the First Amendment, or anywhere in the Bill of Rights (or later amendments), does it state, or even imply, that
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Having a browser written entirely (or mostly) in a memory safe language. LadyBird is now using some Swift, but most of the code is still C++. The browser, while extremely impressive (and I’m very thankful it exists), has a ways to go before
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Gas car ≠ EV charged by fossil fuels. As of 2018, 94% of the US population lived in an area where charging an EV would emit less than a >50mpg car. In terms of electricity grid regions, an EV has lower emissions than a 50 mpg gasoline ve
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by johnfernow 2y ago
It may have been at one point, but since then it has been decompiled and ported to many platforms: - PS Vita - Emscripten - Nintendo Switch - webOS TV - Android (WIP) - Nintendo Wii - Nintendo 3DS - Nintendo DS - Nintendo Wii U - PlayStatio
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by johnfernow 2y ago
There is no comparable alternative to the Internet Archive though. They've gotten involved in several lawsuits and their future is far from guaranteed. They're an incredibly important organization, but I think it's too import
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Right, archive.org is very useful if you have a URL, but if you're searching for a question that was answered in a forum, and that forum post no longer exists and no longer shows up in search results, then it's effectively undisco
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Sure, but you can't search for the forum pages on archive.org as far as I'm aware (or at least as easily as searching on Autodesk's website or Google/Bing/etc.) For the time being, old forum posts will likely still
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by johnfernow 2y ago
BBC reports "The South Korean military says it will maintain martial law until it is lifted by President Yoon Suk Yeol, despite the nation's parliament voting to block its enforcement, according to the country's national broa
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas currently cost us about 7.1% of global GDP. [1] I imagine if we were willing to spend 2 to 5% of global GDP on fighting climate change, we'd also be cutting those subsidies. So in that scenario w
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by johnfernow 2y ago
What you're saying is correct, but I can't think of many scenarios where it's relevant to human actions in the present, with the exception of freight ships' sulfur emissions. [1] For the most part, burning fossil fuels i
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Right, fossil fuels cause around 8 million deaths a year from air pollution [1], so regardless of climate change it'd be worth making a dent in those numbers. And no, air pollution isn't just a problem in places like India and Chi
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Unfortunately not. Looks like you can set the time (or choose sunrise or sunset), and then you can set it to repeat daily, weekly, or monthly. No option based on inactivity. However, you can set it to shutdown or reboot if it receives an em
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Vulnerabilities of Realtek SD card reader driver(zwclose.github.io)
3 points by johnfernow 2y ago|1 comments
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by johnfernow 2y ago
"The following OEMs equip some of their laptop series with SD card readers manufactured by Realtek: - Dell - HP - Lenovo - MSI The list may be incomplete. Basically, if your laptop or desktop has a card reader managed by RtsPer.sys, ma
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by johnfernow 2y ago
What do you foresee not working in the future? If future versions of Proton break compatibility with older Windows apps, you can use different old versions of Proton for individual games. Steam makes this very easy on Linux, but rarely is i
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by johnfernow 2y ago
We don't have to imagine what Linux gaming would be like without Proton. - CD Projekt Red: released Witcher 2 on Linux, didn't for Witcher 3. - iD Software: released Doom 3 on Linux, didn't for Doom (2016) or Doom Eternal. -
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by johnfernow 2y ago
I'm not sure, outside of my expertise, but I think it might not help. The attack takes place after boot, so maybe at best UEFI secureboot could prevent persistence of the malware, but I don't think it'd even achieve that, as
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Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers(aquasec.com)
168 points by johnfernow 2y ago|48 comments
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by johnfernow 2y ago
From the article: > "Aqua Nautilus researchers aim to shed light on a Linux malware that, over the past 3-4 years, has actively sought more than 20,000 types of misconfigurations in order to target and exploit Linux servers. If you
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by johnfernow 2y ago
It's a Sony patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454?oq=8246454 But yeah the 10th image in the patent literally has > Say "McDonald's" to end commercial with a picture of a man standin
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Looks like Obsidian uses Capacitor for iOS https://forum.obsidian.md/t/what-technology-obsidian-mobile-... https://capacitorjs.com/
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Windows user accounts used to work locally. At some point during Windows 10's life it became a hassle to use a local account on a new computer. Now in Windows 11, short of modifying the ISO or using other unintuitive workarounds (some
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by johnfernow 2y ago
To make it even more confusing, the Xbox One had the mid-generation updates called Xbox One S (slimmer, a few additional features) and the Xbox One X (more powerful.) So from oldest to newest it's - Xbox - Xbox 360 - Xbox One - Xbo

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