ntauthority

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by ntauthority 7d ago
i like how this is a side effect of a bunch of assorted changes in a commit and PR solely described as "Fix path resolving" making it hard for anyone running Gitea to even know this is a security fix
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by ntauthority 22d ago
warioware shows it can be fun though but i'd indeed not like to see that applied to safety-critical tasks
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by ntauthority 3mo ago
for newer Windows versions, Microsoft also offers a PE-like customizable image for validation purposes explicitly: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...
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by ntauthority 1y ago
> because this policy only applies for non-security bugfixes, and almost all patches these days claim to just be security fixes, including the one which introduced this bug There's numerous feature flags that seem to just be &#x27
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by ntauthority 3y ago
The reserved memory would show up as 'dedicated' memory. Shared is just the amount of host memory that can be assigned to graphics resources, which usually equals the system memory or some amount derived from it. If the full amoun
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Notably so, I believe Trillian was a paid product and Meebo was actually treated like a real tech startup. Interesting, indeed, how much the sentiment has shifted over the course of 10-15 years...
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Qualcomm actually started offering LTS (long-term support) BSP (board support packages) to device manufacturers for a fee. This is why some vendors like Samsung and Microsoft started providing updates for phones with older SoCs for longer t
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Many fiber ISPs here in Europe seem to share the backend infrastructure between DSL and FTTH subscribers and that sadly also involves PPPoE encapsulation.
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by ntauthority 3y ago
I actually switched away from a UDM after finding out that I could only hit 500 Mbit/s uplink (out of ~930) due to a PPPoE performance bug as there's no hardware offloading and the old Cortex-A57 cores (in a SoC from a vendor no
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by ntauthority 3y ago
FYI: OpenWRT is just Linux and will run fine on x86 hardware as well.
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by ntauthority 3y ago
> I don't have much choice - it's not like there would be five competing apps serving the same purpose (connecting to the people and communities on Facebook). The same legislation that is requiring Apple to allow sideloading al
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by ntauthority 3y ago
It was introduced in Vista, deprecated for external use a bit later but the servicing system is still a heavy user of it.
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Titanfall did work this way on the EA launcher. There was a tool that it'd run on first launch to decompress the compressed audio files.
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Unless it supports the transactional filesystem API, Windows Update won't even work in the first place. ReFS boot in fact is affected by the same issue at this time.
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by ntauthority 3y ago
On Windows, I can enumerate a directory that accidentally got millions of files perfectly fine without the system itself breaking and with results being returned incrementally. On Linux/ext4, it takes an eternity for an enumeration to
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Fun thing is that laptop OEMs exposing useful 'value-added functionality' (like custom fan control) via pre-defined WMI ACPI callouts is actually the sensible choice to make. I've seen laptop OEMs that rely on a custom kern
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by ntauthority 3y ago
I was personally somewhat hoping the boot-time portion in this article somehow hijacked a UEFI runtime services[1] function called by the OS to draw to the frame buffer set up by the firmware, since this has some provisions for the OS being
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by ntauthority 3y ago
Quite a lot of recent console FPS games just let you plug in a USB mouse/keyboard and you get matched with PC players (or other console users who use the same input method) instead. CoD has supported this since their 2019 release, for
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by ntauthority 4y ago
> talk to a driver (who usually acts annoyed on behalf of the whole bus that you are holding up) It is still an interesting cultural observation that here in NL, even people who manually buy a ticket at the driver while struggling using
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Germany solved that issue by making owning any device capable of receiving internet broadcasts part of the eligibility criteria. By that point they could just as well make it part of general tax budgets...
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by ntauthority 4y ago
> But they'll have no control over what notifications from web pages you've put on your home screen show. They own the browser. They can theoretically maintain a list of bad origins just as much as they can block an app from th
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by ntauthority 4y ago
There's a lot of CVE submissions lately that seem badly sourced and derived from 'disagreements' at best. Another recent example is https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2405... which i
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by ntauthority 4y ago
For me, running the iOS 16.3 developer beta seems to have been what made my iPhone 'unique' among the ones tested on that site.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Adding my own n=1 anecdote here - a member contributing to an open source project I'm involved in, who had a few repositories on GH with extensions to that project but no other notable 'negative' activity, had gotten a perman
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by ntauthority 4y ago
This mentality is a common one I see when people comment on Windows: people setting an override that isn't actually the intended override to 'fix' an issue without root cause analysis by disabling a component, then complainin
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Using an issue reported (in a Linux compatibility layer, even!) with few to little root cause analysis as evidence a 'networking stack is bonkers' is a bit exaggerated - IPv6 in itself is also a bit wacky, and I've had simila
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by ntauthority 4y ago
Ah, the Winamp approach to versioning.
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by ntauthority 4y ago
> but from what I read the ACPI tables are in bad shape/incomplete. "Good enough for Windows, ship it.". It is a bit more nuanced than this. Qualcomm ships a giant custom (mandatory, most the platform will not even work wi
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by ntauthority 4y ago
It does, under the accessibility options. 'Contrast themes' allow fairly fine-grained customization, still, and a lot of legacy values that have been there since Windows 95 are still supported otherwise to some extent albeit somet
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by ntauthority 4y ago
This would be fine if not for even the canonical C/C++ compiler on GNU/Linux having issues building older versions of itself without patches, let alone other applications. As with older Windows binaries on newer Windows versions

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