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by techrat 5y ago
TLDR: You're not using era appropriate examples. I told you to get off my lawn.
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by techrat 5y ago
Power7+ came out in 2012 which was the first gen of Power CPUs to include AES acceleration. [1] The most powerful Power Macs with non Intel CPUs were discontinued in 2006. (G5, released 2003.) [2] Your laptop from 2014 was already running a
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by techrat 5y ago
> Is modern encryption a challenge to those old machines? Ooooooh yeah. It's got some serious overhead on single core systems several-hundred-megahertz systems without the instructions that are used to accelerate encryption these da
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by techrat 5y ago
netsplit.de has classed Freenode as historic. Freenode's own Webchat client blocks all users, you're unable to use SASL authentication within the webclient: Closing link: [You must use TLS/SSL and authenticate via SASL to con
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Freenode Is Dead. (Again.)(netsplit.de)
18 points by techrat 5y ago|2 comments
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by techrat 5y ago
Likely Winnuke, Teardrop or Land, those were the three most commonly used types of DoS exploits used against Win 3.x and Win95 users at the time.
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by techrat 5y ago
Rich people don't go to jail.
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by techrat 5y ago
Diminishing returns as the numbers of scale increase. The growth might seem impressive when you do percentages of a very small number, but it's still a very small number overall.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Also, with a jailbreak, I own my data. Also with a jailbreak, other people own your data too. A jailbreak is an exploit. A hammer can be used to drive in a nail (jailbreak) or it can be used to smash windows (malware.) Same tool in the
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by techrat 5y ago
A temporary cert only able to be created on another Apple system is not what I would say is an 'allowing' of running third party apps. It is a kludge designed to make the process as unpleasant as possible but just so enough that
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by techrat 5y ago
> Around that time iOS was still pretty limited in what you could do I'd argue it still is. I can't install a third party web browser that doesn't use WebKit. I can't select alternative default apps to most apps bundl
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by techrat 5y ago
It's software that triggers the sleep state, not the hardware. Sounds more or less like you were using the desktop OS version for a server device.
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by techrat 5y ago
A 1TB SSD is about 1/3rd the cost of 64GB Ram. I think we'll do just fine.
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by techrat 5y ago
Buy a 40 Watt Inscandescent light bulb and put it in a lamp next to your current laptop. Turn it on every time you put the laptop to sleep. Same difference.
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by techrat 5y ago
Sounds like a user misconfiguration issue to me. I've never had an issue keeping a device from going to sleep when it's... actively doing something... like running services.
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by techrat 5y ago
And a completely different one from what you quoted. 1) On Youtube, you can opt out of ads for your own videos. 2) If you get enough traffic to where you can add the ads, you don't lose access/ownership of the video on your accoun
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by techrat 5y ago
> > > Android basically invented that. > > Prior art. > Watch me dance. Okay.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Last time I looked, it was really hard to install anything other than ChromeOS on Chromebook hardware. Look again. Switching to Developer Mode and hitting Ctrl-L at the boot up screen allows you to boot from USB or SD Card. >And, wh
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by techrat 5y ago
>...and are totally motivated to go back to linux. Windows 10 was what broke me and got me to using Linux full time. Before that, I barely knew how to even just get my way through debian to resume a disconnected screen session. Now I pr
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by techrat 5y ago
(Nearly?) All ChromeOS devices use CoreBoot. You really can't get much more open than that. Android is open source and if you don't buy a locked down device from a carrier, the bootloader is unlockable and the system easily rootab
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by techrat 5y ago
Oh. All of that lovely stuff still happens today. Brand new Windows 10 installation, suddenly my mouse and keyboard drop. Had to unplug the hub, replug it back in. Mouse and keyboard still not working. Plugged the hub into another USB port.
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by techrat 5y ago
The game is far, far too much of a niche style game for it to even be all that popular, IMHO. I'm not quite sure what the Dev here expected to happen. It's also Early Access and it's fair to say that unless a game has broad a
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by techrat 5y ago
3:2 screen, windows key, fingerprint reader, non touchbar row, no gap in keyboard above the left and right arrow keys, much wider filet below the touchpad, no "Macbook" text below the screen, no speaker grilles to the left and rig
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by techrat 5y ago
If you were confused by the Framework Laptop and thought it was an Apple Product... and I mean this sincerely... Get your eyes checked.
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News Sites Including Huffington Post, Vox, Newsweek, Riddled with Pornography(nationalfile.com)
19 points by techrat 5y ago|0 comments
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by techrat 5y ago
Wouldn't matter. Grindr requires GPS. On a 'properly secure' smartphone, you enable location access to use Grindr... or you don't use Grindr. The user remains the insecure link in the chain here regardless of how 'p
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by techrat 5y ago
>I don’t know what the difference is between “modern” weed and the grown-in-the-ditch North Carolina weed I smoked in my youth. Several differences. You know if the street stuff was an indica, sativa or hybrid? Some people react much, mu
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by techrat 5y ago
> Hopefully it is just hidden and not deleted. Hidden. Even when you request for them to remove stuff. Had domain, stuff got archived, asked for them to remove it, added robots.txt. Domain lapsed. Someone else picked it up. their robots.
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by techrat 5y ago
You'd probably be better off signing up for an Oracle Always-Free tier as there's no billing information stored should anything run into costs. But as the name implies, it's always free, so your performance, bandwidth and spa
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by techrat 5y ago
No. The people they employ pay the payroll taxes out of their salary. No company pays payroll taxes for their employees.

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