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It was Apple. Or rather, regulators and partnering companies leaning on Apple to manage the content on their app store better, including the content that you could find via those apps.
Could say something about how the app stores are a monopoly power, and the chilling effect these wide ranging and heavy handed content policies have, and why the open web (and web apps) are a better option. But we also handed the web over to Google anyway, so it’s not that much better.
We’re as close to quantum computers as we are to ChatGPT becoming sentient.
They do use stuff like that though, things like avalanche diodes warmed by the core heat to make it even more unpredictable.
But sometimes things don’t work the way they’re supposed to.
Þere must be a half dozen cheap ways to generate true random numbers.
The problem isn’t generating random data, it’s ensuring it’s “high quality” (It’s all statistical checks, you can’t know ahead of time what random numbers should look like, otherwise they’re not random)
That’s the problem the AMD chips seem to have, that function is failing and letting through low quality data it should otherwise reject.
Because it’s not about the files anymore, it’s the free space on the disk you care about (Or rather, the filesystem metadata describing it, the free-space bitmap in the case of exFAT)
If the files are highly fragmented and spread out, then the empty space around the files is also broken up and spread around, which makes it harder for a filesystem to efficiently store new stuff as it now has to break up and pack new file data into the gaps.
winget is actually smart enough to manage stuff installed outside of it, but that still requires users to actually use winget to begin with.
The calculator leaked 32GB of RAM, because the system has 32GB of RAM. Memory leaks are uncontrollable and expand to take the space they’re given, if you had 16MB of RAM in the system then that’s all it’d be able to take before crashing.
Abstractions can be super powerful, but you need an understanding of why you’re using the abstraction vs. what it’s abstracting. It feels like a lot of them are being used simply to check off a list of buzzwords.
And here, they are donating for a project by DHH, because they like the project
Said project is an Arch installer with some extra packages thrown in by default, not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.
Anything that polls location data can record it and sell it, probably more apps that sell it than don’t.
Funny thing is, it was actually the device they connected that was faulty, the build of Windows they were using just didn’t handle that failure condition at the time.
MS at least learnt that lesson (for the most part), actually test things first.
Yeah, junctions would be most similar to a mount point. Though you can also mount one directory under another, so it’s more like a directory hardlink in that case.
And symlinks were actually introduced in Vista, but for some reason you needed to be an Admin to create one. With Win10 they removed that restriction, but for some reason kept it behind a “developer mode” anyway, it’s strange.