st_goliath

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DNSCrypt(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by st_goliath 4d ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 4d ago
There is no such thing as an "X11 clipboard" that something can be written to. As the poster goes on to allude, X11 has a concept of a "selection" (a primary and a secondary one). It goes roughly like this: when you sele
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x86 Evolution for Segmentation and Paging(inbox.sourceware.org)
6 points by st_goliath 9d ago|0 comments
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by st_goliath 9d ago
> Can you translate the American for me? I'd say "wide variance in the level of kindness" is a rather British way to describe some of the opinions that have been voiced.
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by st_goliath 17d ago
> And that’s the story of how I upgraded my flat’s front door experience from depending on 0 cloud services to 5 cloud services. Up next: How many cloud services does it take to turn on the lights? Here's a hint: https://
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by st_goliath 22d ago
You might be interested in GNU poke[1][2], a hex-editor type program that can actually parse and visualize the structure of binary data (using a DSL for describing formats). [1] https://jemarch.net/poke [2] https:/&#x
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Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by st_goliath 23d ago|0 comments
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Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1(lists.x.org)
139 points by st_goliath 27d ago|142 comments
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by st_goliath 28d ago
> "intrepid ibex" ... edgy skull on the desktop wallpaper Ah, that would be 8.10 with the coffee stain wallpaper :-P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_screenshot.png
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by st_goliath 28d ago
Given the context and your reference to Quake, I assume by "the older days" you mean the 90s, and specifically PCs and early Windows? If you weren't previously aware of "The Old New Thing" blog, Raymond Chen has bee
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by st_goliath 29d ago
A function call causes the return address to be pushed onto the stack, thus accessing the stack below the adjusted stack pointer address. On compiler generated x86 code, the base pointer register will quickly follow when entering the targ
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by st_goliath 1mo ago
The year is 2036, when dialed up to maximum space saving, the latest generation of smart phones now turn camera pictures to a textual description and later when you want to view them, re-generate them on the fly using a text2image model. No
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by st_goliath 1mo ago
> I think you didn't understand what I was trying to say. They don't do this sort of thing... oh wait, they do. But we are still wrong to judge their character by their own actions , because... evil French people made them do
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by st_goliath 1mo ago
You may have heard about a little thing called MP3? Basically, Fraunhofer in Germany filed for (software) patents in the US. They made sure to wait some time for MP3 to become a thing before they started going after people and collect royal
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by st_goliath 1mo ago
The confusion with Plan 9 is probably part of the reason this jumped onto the front page. Besides that name clash, it apparently competes with another terminal emulator that was creatively named "vt100". Scrolling over the page
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The Framebuffer People: I Cloned Every OS on r/osdev and Found Five Real Ones(seuros.com)
4 points by st_goliath 2mo ago|4 comments
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
Up next: nuclear data center Zeppelins in the cloud! Innovative new air cooling: instead of using lots of tiny fans to move air through the servers, we simply use 2 big fans to move the servers through the air! And while we're at it, w
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
> I wasn’t particularly worried about parsing CSV files. That’s a solved problem. > Detecting primitive types is easy. String. Number. Boolean. Date. ... the rabbit said confidently, staring down the oncoming lawn mower. > I honest
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
If you have a few hours to kill, the Youtube Channel "Another Boring Topic" has a multi part series on the "rise and fall of the IBM PC". The comparatively short Part 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
> ...on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen. Fedora with XFCE here, but last I checked on Windows, it worked exactly the same over there: With a Chinese IME installed, tap shift to switch input language, shift+hyphen pr
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
While I know about the DSKY, I keep wondering if they were the first ones, i.e. inventing that way of entering data into a computer and others copied it later on, or if it was a already a more widespread and known pattern and the AGC copied
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
I guess very few around here remember the minor fuzz about this from a few years ago? The Linux Kernel Project became their own CNA (CVE Numbering Authority). A CVE is now slapped onto practically every bug fix that is back ported to a stab
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The Zilog Z80 has turned 50(goliath32.com)
289 points by st_goliath 2mo ago|120 comments
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea,
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
> But we all know that is not the typical scenario. Back in the day, you could read a stories on Slashdot practically every other week that usually went something like this: Company/institution does something stupid, somebody finds
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
Well, the angle is kind of important here. The company gets their name in the news, they have a reasonable explanation why they were scraping around, and we end up with a story about innovative tech company whiz-kids who made a funny disc
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
Yep. I remember a similar story as GP described from a friend back in 2008. The site he was working on that wasn't linked to yet was suddenly indexed after he checked out what it looked like in the fancy new "Chrome" browser
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
> The next hard drive was an order of magnitude larger than the old one, and so on. Ah yes, the good old "old PC" folder that you would find on pretty much every Windows PC that used to have another "old PC" folder in
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by st_goliath 2mo ago
On the 'help' page, the Cray-like machine from the film Sneakers is listed under "Honourable mentions": https://www.starringthecomputer.com/help.html From the site: > The following films do not appear
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Thomas Salme(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by st_goliath 3mo ago|0 comments

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