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by p_l 4d ago
For (1) - ACPI is how the kernel knows what addresses maps where. And when a driver claims the same address space, it knows there's a conflict
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by p_l 5d ago
I am not saying it's one movie, though my understanding it would be only 506.a.1.a because there's no redistribution. I am saying that a) the hacking attack is still considered large scale b) offense against CFAA is heavier than a
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by p_l 5d ago
Yes, there is legally - even in USA where MPAA & RIAA got widest reach, CFAA is still way more serious law to breach, even at scale
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by p_l 5d ago
O_DIRECT is niche use case (originally called rather unkind words when it got copied from Irix to Linux). Page cache duplication has been greatly lowered in last decade
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by p_l 6d ago
Another part was pretty vicious infighting between PDP-10 (already sorta on thin ice from start due to fuckup that was PDP-6) and PDP-11/VAX teams, and VAX team won it pretty decisively - if in part through consolidation efforts. EDIT:
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by p_l 7d ago
There were options for migrating from PDP-11, not PDP-10. PDP-11 was a 16bit byte-addressable minicomputer that was extended to 22 bit physical addresses through MMU. VAX took PDP-11 and extended it into 32bit flat addressable paged system.
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by p_l 7d ago
honestly it's why I am not updating from Fold 5... the stylus is the part that truly differentiated it
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by p_l 7d ago
One thing many people don't understand is that IP was not that common of a protocol in intranets for a long time, too Plus just how much SMTP sucked compared to other systems and only got enough kludges barnacled onto it in semi-transp
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by p_l 7d ago
It was one of multiple successors to PDP-10 that tried to capitalize on existing user base after Digital decided to utterly cancel all 36bit work in favour of VAX (legends claim the last prototype ended up in millpond). Some started even ea
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by p_l 8d ago
I am from a place where CompuServe was just something you read about the way you read travelogues or otherwise reports from far away country, unfortunately. I encountered data about System Concepts due to being interested in PDP-10 history
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by p_l 8d ago
Exchange is funny because it's X.400 native internally, even if recently they dropped external X.400 support
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by p_l 8d ago
More like 3 years, and in a very niche network that was not generally deployed in companies looking for email outside of certain niches.
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by p_l 8d ago
AFAIK SC-40 were all made for CompuServe, and effectively by CompuServe
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by p_l 11d ago
The first time I was in Silicon Valley, the most surprising thing was that equivalent of blue laws was every day with how early everything closed. Still makes me wonder how anyone gets anything done, OTOH it explains how door dash, uber, et
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by p_l 12d ago
They actually bought entire ThinkPad R&D as well, and have been subcontracted manufacturer for some time before that. So Thinkpads are still designed in ex-IBM Lenovo Japan
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by p_l 13d ago
Popular claim by IBM PR, but the issue was that OS2fW component (which reused locally-installed Windows 3.x) had binary patches it applied to windows core component to turn it from DPMI host (which owns 32bit pagetable etc.) into DPMI cl
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by p_l 14d ago
Now i am awaiting Gemini 3.11 "For Workgroups" to be released early December...
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by p_l 14d ago
It was huge problem for Git adoption, that's why I mentioned GitHub EDIT: GitHub had probably the first UX where I actually liked what I got, compared to various earlier git based ones, or the horrible CVS and SVN ones where clicki
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by p_l 15d ago
As someone who was a mercurial fanboy too, critical element was that Github happpened for git while mercurial had nothing comparable - and before anyone points at bitbucket, it fucking sucked in UX
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by p_l 16d ago
Honestly? I could theoretically maintain my output, yes. Practically nope, not because I can't do the work without AI, as much as because of burnout - both from technical (Ansible, Python - neither are a thing I like using) and social
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by p_l 17d ago
Member states will veto it because it will shift power from national governments directly into a separately voted parliament, changing the current approach of "EP is where we can drop someone if they lose national election as a reward
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by p_l 17d ago
Baseway, and various other industrial control systems that also ran on VMS and related, tended to either use DEC-suggested (DECnet) protocols or implemented custom Ethernet-layer ones
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by p_l 17d ago
Several Google apps do not work for me in Chrome (Maps, Earth) but work perfectly fine in Firefox... :D
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by p_l 17d ago
Was it perhaps DEC Baseway[1] system? It would arguably qualify as a form of DCS, with central VAX servers and running high level software, PDP-11 "shop floor" computers, which in turn talked with PLCs and related devices. And add
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by p_l 17d ago
Unfortunately every attempt at reforming it is blocked with "but my sovereignty!" - as EC and Council of Ministers are very much controlled and steered by member nations' governments . Not to mention it makes for perfect sca
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by p_l 18d ago
input handling that does not explode under Proton would be one thing...
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by p_l 19d ago
Depends on a country, not many try to get the backdoor through international trade (effort), and even then local law might make it problematic
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by p_l 20d ago
Just remember it will more likely be the version from Dune Encyclopedia, not Herbert's sons' prequels
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by p_l 24d ago
MEPs in many countries do not actually have immunity. However, the bigger issue is that european parliament is treated in many countries as essentially dumping ground between national elections.
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by p_l 27d ago
Part of the problem is that the API you're supposed to provide externally depends on git packs which you might have to reconstruct on the fly from such a system.

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