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That’d at least make sense, this is a (literal) black box. Seriously, my monitor takes long enough to wake that it’s at the boot loader screen by the time it’s ready.
I found a post on Reddit claiming it’s a RAM thing, and I should enable XMP to avoid it. But I’ve already got XMP enabled so I need to poke around it again.
And also disable the 5 second delay in the bootloader, not like I’m ever using that fallback option.
❯ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 14.565s (firmware) + 5.778s (loader) + 2.920s (kernel) + 3.307s (initrd) + 3.972s (userspace) = 30.544s
graphical.target reached after 3.926s in userspace.
You’re letting me down firmware!
Yeah, the Python equivalent would be something like this.
try:
config = get_config()
catch:
sys.exit(1)
It’s possible to handle these things, but if you explicitly don’t then you’ll discover them at runtime.
I’m still annoyed that “OPAQUE” never seemed to catch on. Uses a username/password combo as normal, but never actually sends the password to the server, only a proof of knowledge. Even if the server is hacked and the DB leaked the attackers can’t actually recover anything resembling a password from it, since the server simply never possesses it.
Passkeys are superior (No password at all), if only the UX around them was better.
They’ve released at least one screenshot, but since they mostly use it for internal testing, and they very rarely ever release those builds, there’s not much to go on.
So builds they didn’t intend to release provide the best insight.
Now I’ve only ever used the English releases, but I know before Vista that this simply wasn’t a thing. Each language release was a separate build, handled separately by different teams. So there was never a mixing of languages or loading strings at runtime, they were hardcoded into the binaries that shipped on disk.
The actual term for it is “Pseudolocalization”, might throw up a hit
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.
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.
They actually did, Flash is still around (now called Animate), and can export to a HTML+JS bundle you can include on your own website.
Problem is nobody uses their own websites these days, and you can’t upload stuff like that to Twitter/Facebook/YouTube.
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.
You can turn the feature off entirely, or just not talk to people who post them? It’s not something like tiktok where you get pushed a bunch of random videos, it’s stuff that people you know are sending you.
There are countries that actually collect and recycle.
And we do that in Australia, we just don’t have the capacity to process all the waste (Between 85%-90% of plastic waste goes to landfill instead), and even then the recyclability of plastic is vastly overstated.
It’s a much better idea to just prevent the plastic waste being produced in the first place.
He stores all his footage in full quality instead of just storing his final edited videos in a compressed format.
That’s the right way to do it, you want to avoid generation loss as much as possible.
Most likely an hardware issue, ZFS has seen similar types of corruption with certain drives under normal operation.
So it’s just straight UCS-2, and the software does enforce that, pretty much the opposite of “WTF-16”.
Edit: Pretty sure “modern” (XP+ I think) Windows actually does enforce UTF-16 validity in the system, but there’s always legacy stuff from the NT4/2K era that might turn up.