You shouldn't be really scared until all devices follow the pattern of the iPhone (and maybe new flagship Android phones too, I'm not in that camp). New iPhones are expensive, more than $1000. Yet most people who get…
was this before mmap(2)?
If DRAM gets the ability to modify itself (computations), it doesn't eliminate the cache layer between the CPU and DRAM. For the CPU to see updated DRAM values it has to bring in the DRAM to cache. Now, if that's a…
L take. RAM is too slow for self-modifying code to be anywhere but F tier. This isn't 6502 land.
Basically, the NX bit prevents CPU behavior (speculative fetches) that had a hand in Spectre-type vulnerabilities. That's surprising because that's not its purpose. This is for ARM CPUs.
I recall joystick PEEKs being fine as long as you used port 2. Port 1 was muxed with the keyboard port and would type characters (2's and left arrows from what I remember).
Without copyright, artist B could perform artist A's original work without penalty. If artist B is better at astroturfing social media than A (maybe because they pay a firm to do it) , then B makes money and A does not.
It's fine. IPv4 addresses might get too expensive at some point, encouraging their deprecation. Or it's entirely possible having the option of IPv6 prevents IPv4 addresses from getting prohibitvely costly. Either way,…
Me. If I develop an OS and release it for free public use, I've provided a public good.
Firefox displays .json files decently if you ever need something in a pinch.
ASCII was created in the 1960s. That's around the time when the industry wasn't really sure if all files were just going to be a stream of bytes that were completely up to programs to interpret, or if it was the OS's…
Do you have a data cap? The cable provider near me charges you $10 for every 50GB over 1.25TB monthly. A while ago they offered an "unlimited" plan without that cap at a higher monthly rate. I've never heard of a fiber…
Get off the short bus twin. CPU backdoors do no good unless there is cooperation with network driver code or the CPU itself has full operating system with a full network stack. Intel's ME comes really close to that, but…
- If you can buy sugar on SNAP you can just make Kool-Aid, with 2 or 3 cups of sugar per gallon instead of one. Or you can get the powered tea and make super sweet tea. Maybe it's slightly healthier. - At my local…
> If you got a call tomorrow that your child had taken his or her life because bullies had posted abusive content about them online This doesn't happen without clear signs beforehand. Competent parents pay attention to…
Any publicly accessible protocol, such as Ethernet (wired and wireless) can only do so much to prevent DoS/DDoS on a given open multiple access medium. You can certainly bake in fairness, congestion control, etc. in the…
Reticulum uses attached LoRa devices, via USB for example if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't directly run on the LoRa devices. PC not really required. 512MB of RAM and enough Linux to get Python will run Reticulum, on…
> What part of these services have been designed to be inherently addictive do you have a hard time understanding? None whatsoever. Parents that allow/enable their children to access such things when they are clearly in…
Here's a better fix: If a parent continuously allows their child to go to a known unsafe place, they are negligent and should no longer be a parent. The exception is if the operator of said unsafe place specifically…
The price of food/groceries has doubled over the last few years. The price of new cars is also much higher than it has been. All money I used to allocate to eating out in restuarants now goes to groceries. My next car…
Most activity on Facebook is via phone. I bet Facebook would prefer to get rid of the website entirely; the age of adding Facebook like buttons and comment sections to websites is long past. I can't think of anything…
I report the fraud to my card company. The card company reverses the charges and purses action against the fraudster if possible. The card company then tells me that because contracts made over the phone are null and…
vi should be a kernel-level system call, tunable with sysctls. For agentic management.
From the "Apple II (original)" Wikipedia article: "The original retail price of the computer with 4 KiB of RAM was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,900 in 2025)[21] and with the maximum 48 KiB of RAM, it was US$2,638…
I don't think it's you. Over its course the Internet and Web took over just about all communications, including culturally anchoring things like TV, radio, and newspapers. The takeover accelerated with the rise of…
You shouldn't be really scared until all devices follow the pattern of the iPhone (and maybe new flagship Android phones too, I'm not in that camp). New iPhones are expensive, more than $1000. Yet most people who get…
was this before mmap(2)?
If DRAM gets the ability to modify itself (computations), it doesn't eliminate the cache layer between the CPU and DRAM. For the CPU to see updated DRAM values it has to bring in the DRAM to cache. Now, if that's a…
L take. RAM is too slow for self-modifying code to be anywhere but F tier. This isn't 6502 land.
Basically, the NX bit prevents CPU behavior (speculative fetches) that had a hand in Spectre-type vulnerabilities. That's surprising because that's not its purpose. This is for ARM CPUs.
I recall joystick PEEKs being fine as long as you used port 2. Port 1 was muxed with the keyboard port and would type characters (2's and left arrows from what I remember).
Without copyright, artist B could perform artist A's original work without penalty. If artist B is better at astroturfing social media than A (maybe because they pay a firm to do it) , then B makes money and A does not.
It's fine. IPv4 addresses might get too expensive at some point, encouraging their deprecation. Or it's entirely possible having the option of IPv6 prevents IPv4 addresses from getting prohibitvely costly. Either way,…
Me. If I develop an OS and release it for free public use, I've provided a public good.
Firefox displays .json files decently if you ever need something in a pinch.
ASCII was created in the 1960s. That's around the time when the industry wasn't really sure if all files were just going to be a stream of bytes that were completely up to programs to interpret, or if it was the OS's…
Do you have a data cap? The cable provider near me charges you $10 for every 50GB over 1.25TB monthly. A while ago they offered an "unlimited" plan without that cap at a higher monthly rate. I've never heard of a fiber…
Get off the short bus twin. CPU backdoors do no good unless there is cooperation with network driver code or the CPU itself has full operating system with a full network stack. Intel's ME comes really close to that, but…
- If you can buy sugar on SNAP you can just make Kool-Aid, with 2 or 3 cups of sugar per gallon instead of one. Or you can get the powered tea and make super sweet tea. Maybe it's slightly healthier. - At my local…
> If you got a call tomorrow that your child had taken his or her life because bullies had posted abusive content about them online This doesn't happen without clear signs beforehand. Competent parents pay attention to…
Any publicly accessible protocol, such as Ethernet (wired and wireless) can only do so much to prevent DoS/DDoS on a given open multiple access medium. You can certainly bake in fairness, congestion control, etc. in the…
Reticulum uses attached LoRa devices, via USB for example if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't directly run on the LoRa devices. PC not really required. 512MB of RAM and enough Linux to get Python will run Reticulum, on…
> What part of these services have been designed to be inherently addictive do you have a hard time understanding? None whatsoever. Parents that allow/enable their children to access such things when they are clearly in…
Here's a better fix: If a parent continuously allows their child to go to a known unsafe place, they are negligent and should no longer be a parent. The exception is if the operator of said unsafe place specifically…
The price of food/groceries has doubled over the last few years. The price of new cars is also much higher than it has been. All money I used to allocate to eating out in restuarants now goes to groceries. My next car…
Most activity on Facebook is via phone. I bet Facebook would prefer to get rid of the website entirely; the age of adding Facebook like buttons and comment sections to websites is long past. I can't think of anything…
I report the fraud to my card company. The card company reverses the charges and purses action against the fraudster if possible. The card company then tells me that because contracts made over the phone are null and…
vi should be a kernel-level system call, tunable with sysctls. For agentic management.
From the "Apple II (original)" Wikipedia article: "The original retail price of the computer with 4 KiB of RAM was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,900 in 2025)[21] and with the maximum 48 KiB of RAM, it was US$2,638…
I don't think it's you. Over its course the Internet and Web took over just about all communications, including culturally anchoring things like TV, radio, and newspapers. The takeover accelerated with the rise of…