Comment Re:How's the charging infrastructure? (Score 4, Informative) 132
I'm currently Bangalore and we experience multiple powercut a day. That can last from few seconds to few hours.
Comment Slackware not affected (Score 4, Informative) 51
Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.
Facebook's Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs To Metaverse Next Year (bloomberg.com) 71
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms will continue to devote about 20% of its overall costs and expenses to Reality Labs in 2023, despite questions about the business division focused on augmented and virtual reality and the so-called metaverse. From a report: The projection, given by CTO Andrew Bosworth in a blog post Monday, is little changed from the 18% of spending Meta devoted to Reality Labs in the third quarter. Meta stock is down nearly 65% this year, and some have questioned Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's expensive bet on the metaverse which comes as the company has cut other costs, including widespread layoffs. Reality Labs reported a loss from operations of $9.4 billion through the first nine months of the year; Meta's family of apps, by comparison, brought in roughly $32 billion in profit during that same period. A 20% investment in futuristic technologies is a "level of investment we believe makes sense for a company committed to staying at the leading edge of one of the most competitive and innovative industries on earth," Bosworth said. Alternative, non-paywalled source: Axios.
Comment three lines (Score 5, Insightful) 145
Thus spake the master programmer:
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
be maintained."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Submission + - Multiplayer Zork (icculus.org) 1
netfunk writes: I took Zork 1 and made it into a multiplayer game! You can try it yourself by telnetting to multizork.icculus.org with some friends. Telnet seemed appropriate for a game from 1980, at least until I can figure out how to efficiently send everyone a 300 baud modem. A detailed technical explanation about hacking the Z-Machine to make this work is over here and source code is, of course, available. Enjoy, and don't get eaten by a grue!
Comment Re:Who cares about the big bang (Score 1) 109
Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.
Comment dashcam (Score 1) 52
can't wait to watch dashcam crash compilations on youtube
Comment Re:I removed money from corporate pockets today (Score 1) 169
Not to hear them whinge about it. Each used sale takes money away from them in their own whines and words. Because if they could keep you from buying the used copy, they could sell you the new one (If I'm disinterested in spending the money, no, you wouldn't- but they don't see things that way...)...
Comment Re:Search for and Not Found (Score 1) 169
Bingo! Not sharing that you found nothing means you're trying to hide things...
It is a requirement, though not often followed in any endeavor these days, to show your "homework" for a given conclusion or set thereof.
Doesn't matter if you're talking a Law, or a bit of Physics research.
Hiding things or discounting them because they don't provide you conclusive answers is not science, law, or the like- it's merely religion in other clothing.
Comment Re:Irrelevant (Score 1) 169
Ah, this is so cute.
Copyright is an artificial, government backed monopoly on the publication and distribution of a "protected" work .
You are not assured of any money whatsoever. Ever. The LGP edition of Ballistics from Grin, SE proved that out to me. Even if there wasn't the 5-10k units of pirated versions on The Pirate Bay out there, the thing probably wouldn't have been much more sold for Linux.
Not because of the Linux market's "small". I know better. You appear to not.
Not because of the piracy, though that didn't help. I know better. You appear to not.
It was because we couldn't price the thing to what the market, at that time, could willingly bear. People would point to the bargain-bin priced Windows version and ask why they should spend $40 when it's available for $5, with the understanding that it only ran so-so under WINE. Seriously.
People will pay you what they believe it is worth. I know this because I saw some small, but real amounts of money from my participation with the Humble Indie Bundle #2. No DRM. No BS. Pay me what you thought this was worth or donate it all to charity- or somewhere in-between. It's my right and desire to control how it's shipped, copied, etc. within the limits allowed me by law for things, relative to work for hire, etc. that I agree to. But, to say what you said? X-D
Do you have IP, which is to say, creative works protected by Copyright or Patent? I. Do. As a rights holder, I can tell you that the rights are only worth the amount you are legally able to pursue enforcement of the same. Unless you're a big, big corporation, there's some hard limits on your rights there- because you don't have the finances and all to defend the same. Legally speaking, your only position (hint: Morality doesn't even factor into this...) is to not use the works in question. Morally? You should abide by the law so long as it's not wrong/evil. DMCA? Probably wrong/evil. Copyright? You have fair use exemptions, which in many cases people "stealing" it all fall under. And, it's not theft. It's infringing on your right to control publication and distribution. Again...no assurances of money. No assurances of people doing the legally right thing...ever.
Morality? This varies between persons and what faiths and beliefs they hold. I don't hold yours...why should I let you dictate to me that? (Oh, WAIT... I don't
Submission + - Oreo means no going back (androidpolice.com) 1
jbernardo writes: Google is using the boiling frog method to exclude power users and custom ROMS from android.
A new feature in Android 8.0 Oreo, called "Rollback Protection" and included in the "Verified Boot" changes, will prevent a device from booting should it be rolled back to an earlier firmware. The detailed information is here.
As it rejects an image if its "rollback index" is inferior than the one in "tamper evident storage", any attempts to install a previous version of the official, signed ROM will make the device unbootable. Much like iOS (without the rollback grace period) or the extinct Lumias. It is explained in the recommended boot workflow and notes below, together with some other "smart" ideas.
Now, this might seem like a good idea at first, but let's just just imagine this on a PC. It would mean no easy roll back from windows 10 to 7 after a forced installation, and doing that or installing linux would mean a unreasonably complex bootloader unlocking, with all your data wiped. Add safetynet to the mix, and you would also be blocked from watching netflix or accessing your banking sites if you dared to install linux or rollback windows.
To add insult to injury, unlocked devices will stop booting for at least 10 seconds to show some paternalist message on how unlocking is bad for your health — "If the device has a screen and buttons (for example if it's a phone) the warning is to be shown for at least 10 seconds before the boot process continues."
Now, and knowing that most if not all android bootloaders have vulnerabilities/backdoors, how can this be defended, even with the "security/think of the children" approach? This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
A new feature in Android 8.0 Oreo, called "Rollback Protection" and included in the "Verified Boot" changes, will prevent a device from booting should it be rolled back to an earlier firmware. The detailed information is here.
As it rejects an image if its "rollback index" is inferior than the one in "tamper evident storage", any attempts to install a previous version of the official, signed ROM will make the device unbootable. Much like iOS (without the rollback grace period) or the extinct Lumias. It is explained in the recommended boot workflow and notes below, together with some other "smart" ideas.
Now, this might seem like a good idea at first, but let's just just imagine this on a PC. It would mean no easy roll back from windows 10 to 7 after a forced installation, and doing that or installing linux would mean a unreasonably complex bootloader unlocking, with all your data wiped. Add safetynet to the mix, and you would also be blocked from watching netflix or accessing your banking sites if you dared to install linux or rollback windows.
To add insult to injury, unlocked devices will stop booting for at least 10 seconds to show some paternalist message on how unlocking is bad for your health — "If the device has a screen and buttons (for example if it's a phone) the warning is to be shown for at least 10 seconds before the boot process continues."
Now, and knowing that most if not all android bootloaders have vulnerabilities/backdoors, how can this be defended, even with the "security/think of the children" approach? This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
Comment Re:Does Anyone Use That? (Score 1) 474
Linus, is that you?
Comment Re:What a World (Score 1) 167
Heh... Since many know they did this...I question the "quality" of anything that they provide. I don't even bother contemplating paying for their shit. I see if I can find comparable or the actual article published by the school, etc. that did the work. Oftentimes, there's as good or better than at Elsevier.
Comment Hence my new pet name for them... (Score 4, Insightful) 110
Notgear.
Comment Re:Short sight (Score 2) 581
Which makes them quite the Tool.
This doesn't even get into the reality that 70% of all the "computers" are embedded beasties...all those "IoT" processors and the bulk of them are programmed in C or C++. A Node.JS or Python option is available, but neither of those are what you'd call "secure". You might be able to get Go to "go" onto those platforms or Swift- but they're a bit largish and don't really target the small stuff.
The remark about
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