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I liked that The Handmaids Tale in German is der Report der Magd.
I'd love to know more about the GPRS side of things, how their NOCs were connected to carriers, etc.
Without that ability, anyone can plug in to your phone and write whatever they want to the internal flash and your phone will be none the wiser.
I'm pretty sure FinTS/HBCI is a mostly only used here in Germany sadly. Which is a shame because all this "OpenBanking" stuff requires registering/paying/certificates etc.
Ping foo on my machine results in foo.local being successfully pinged. Your mileage may vary.
> would potentially use mDNS if you have a ping that does such a thing
It's not a feature of ping, it's a feature of the name resolution setup on your machine (nsswitch and/or resolved on Linux).
> Rather, most routers add DHCP hostname requests to the local DNS routes
What do you mean?
Actually mDNS does exactly what they said just fine. You’re confusing it with the ability of a DHCP server to make updates in DNS on behalf of clients. There is more than one way to skin the cat. Both achieve the same affect, just differently.
> nor do they necessarily ever consider your local DNS server.
Hardcoded DNS servers are just as equally a thing with IPv4.
IIRC the page is loaded server side, javascript executed, and then essentially a screenshot taken, and some markup to show where the links and buttons are.
We're obviously talking about Linux, not "Unix", and based on the whole conversation you should know that. Thanks for your input.
> If ChromeOS and Android
One is traditionally used on a laptop/desktop, one on a phone, not sure why you're conflating the two.
And the point is, if you are "just using a web browser", desktop linux has done this for decades. And Chrome OS is definitely a desktop linux distro, why do you not consider it to be one?
Which is Linux.
That's great that you think that, maybe delta_p_delta_x had a different takeaway. Why do you believe your opinion about what the cornerstone of the article is to be fact?
> If there’s one thing I can’t stand in IT, it’s people who think their personal preferences (or opinions) are equivalent to impartial facts.
Then you have Microsoft Office/Plug-Ins/plugin-guid, whereby Plug-Ins is user writable
> What if an app provides COM services and needs to write that to a centralized location that is enumerated to discover available COM services?
If it is providing services it can write, if it enumerates it can read. You can also have multiple levels, like HKLM (machine) and HKLU (the user).
> What if your app happens to be a god-awful HP Print Center app with it's own print drivers and a Windows Service, where it needs to write to a central location that is enumerated for device drivers and Windows Services?
May God help you. No, but you would have, again like above, a central location you could write to. Up to the Admin if Joe can write to this location or only privileged processes.
It's just, a lot of this was not enforced, only partially (from the windows side when it looks for things), so for everyone else, it's a free for all.
The biggest disadvantage on the Linux side is that something like Group Policy is ridiculously difficult, because every app has it's own location and DSL, and sometimes you have one, central, config file, and sometimes the app is considerate with something like override.d.