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by mkup 6mo ago
Pure hosts file solution won't cut it for several reasons: 1) certain domains (the most offensive privacy infringers) are whitelisted by Microsoft's DNSAPI.DLL to always bypass hosts file lookup (DNSAPI.DLL is a place where hosts
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by mkup 6mo ago
Shameless plug: My products (FlashBoot and Emergency Boot Kit) can filter all types of potentially unwanted traffic from your Windows PC to Microsoft cloud: namely, Telemetry, Windows Updates, OneDrive, builtin advertisements, tracking of y
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by mkup 7mo ago
I also bring in the old paint from Vista. I never liked the new ribbon-based design from later version of Windows.
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by mkup 10mo ago
Shameless plug: I've developed and maintain a couple of tools to control Windows 10/11 updates, telemetry and other potentially unwanted network traffic: FlashBoot and Emergency Boot Kit. Using these tools you can make Windows 10&
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by mkup 10mo ago
Microsoft has dropped 16-bit application support via builtin emulator (NTVDM) from 64-bit builds of Windows, whether it happens to be Windows 10 or earlier version of Windows, depends on user (in my case, it was Windows Vista). However, you
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by mkup 10mo ago
I can reset my advertisement profile by creating a new account on ChatGPT, for Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) this is not the case.
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Malicious-Looking URL Creation Service(schneier.com)
1 points by mkup 1y ago|0 comments
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by mkup 1y ago
I maintain a software to aid in installation of Windows 7 to new PCs (FlashBoot Pro): https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ . Recently there was a reduction in sales. You are welcome.
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by mkup 1y ago
Could you please provide more info on this topic, e.g. a link? I intended to buy EV code signing certificate as a sole proprietor to fix long-standing problem with my software when Windows Defender pops up every time I release a new version
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by mkup 2y ago
This remind me of when everybody and his dog was shoehorning blockchain into everything. Blockchain-based pet platforms, pet owners earning tokens for participating in community, pet care services fueled by smart contracts, and the like.
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by mkup 2y ago
NASM has an option (-Ox) to specify how many passes it should take trying to optimize near jumps for short jumps. I usually specify -O9.
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by mkup 2y ago
I still want sshd updated by my OS package manager. Statically linked spiped, which is out of scope of my OS package manager, is just a second line of defense.
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by mkup 2y ago
My idea of getting one step ahead of similar backdoors is to wrap sshd traffic into a spiped tunnel. Spiped is compiled from source and linked statically (last stable version from 2021).
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by mkup 2y ago
There's no Win 9x phase in Win XP setup, of course. :) There's optional DOS phase, then text-mode phase (running NT kernel under the hood, but UI is in VGA text mode), and then finally GUI phase of the setup.
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by mkup 2y ago
Problem 5 has a simpler geometric solution, it's enough to plot circle of radius sqrt(2) on the Oab plane and a few lines b=-a, b=-a+1, b=-a+2, b=-a-1, b=-a-2 to observe the intersections. The rest of the lines are too far from this ci
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by mkup 3y ago
Did Mozilla really came from Godzilla? I've always thought it was short form of 'Mosaic killa' (Mosaic killer). Original code of NSCA Mosaic was licensed by Microsoft Corp from Spyglass, Inc. (and so become a part of first ve
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by mkup 3y ago
Does GDI/non-GDI distinction really matter if the only job for GDI is to blit already rendered framebuffer after Skia library (up-to-date part of browser) to the hardware? I.e. when GDI is actually not exposed to the fonts and vector g
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by mkup 3y ago
So today we have Google accounts suspended by corporate bots (on the grounds mostly based on output of /dev/urandom), and I wonder (looking at the sales pitch of these ideas in 1997): are we NUI yet? And if yes, can we have our GU
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by mkup 3y ago
An interesting compilation of buzzwords of that time. Ultimately, almost none of them stuck to the walls. I wonder if today's AI hype will look the same in 27 years?
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by mkup 3y ago
Stop claiming that I'm spreading FUD and show me at least one Linux app which was compiled to the binary code in 1996 and exactly that binary code still runs under modern Linux desktop environment and has similar visual style to the re
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by mkup 3y ago
I've switched away from FastSpring in 2021, when they outsourced their payouts to Hyperwallet (for me this change meant double currency exchange USD -> EUR -> USD with associated double exchange fees). It looks like FastSpring ro
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by mkup 3y ago
Yes, it would allow to create pipes between 16-bit NTVDM processes and native 64-bit processes.
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by mkup 3y ago
Much of the Windows compatibility is "just" stable API for Windows controls, GUI event handling loops, 3D graphics and sound (DirectX). Linux has stable API for files and sockets (POSIX), but that's all.
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by mkup 3y ago
Just nitpicking: Latin script from Roman times lacked W and U, among other things.
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by mkup 3y ago
There's one thing I can't understand in this story: if that's lawful interception, why Hetzner and Linode bothered to set up MitM interception with different LE certificate and key, rather than extract the TLS private key dir
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by mkup 3y ago
The difference between modern days and days of DOS isn't in C/C++ compiler, it's in virtual memory and address space isolation and privilege isolation. So it's not a job of a C/C++ compiler to enforce protection fro
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by mkup 3y ago
I'm on Migadu for 1.5 years (few domains, about a half-dozen mailboxes). I've chosen them for the lowest price. No complaints so far.
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by mkup 3y ago
Run Intel MEInfo utility, check if it reports "Alt Disable Mode" or anything like that. Article for some context: https://web.archive.org/web/20170828150536/http://blog.ptsec...
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by mkup 3y ago
Actually any RAID is beta in btrfs, but configurations with one storage device (e.g. firmware of Turris Omnia) do quite well on prod.
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by mkup 3y ago
I still use Windows 7 + Firefox + third-party personal firewall (to control network activity on per-process level). Despite FUD from Microsoft trolls, I have not had any malware in the last 10 years. If the last two versions of their OS are

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