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charonn0··on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
I would call it authoritative.
charonn0··on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
https://www.fema.gov/node/fema-only-giving-hawaii-wildfire-s...
charonn0··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
My guess is that it would enable unlocking higher performance regimes in lower-end cards. But I have nothing to back that up with.
charonn0··on Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns
> So it has created a pot to gather up the overspill: an endowment, consisting of investments and cash. This is held and managed not by the Wikimedia Foundation, but by the Tides Foundation, a non-profit charity which funnels money to social justice causes and campaigns.

Is the Wikipedia endowment money used for Tides Foundation grants, etc? Or is the Tides Foundation just the fiscal sponsor?

This would seem to be a material detail.

charonn0··on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
It's perfectly legal to threaten to do something that's perfectly legal.
charonn0··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
64-bit Windows can't use 16-bit executables. 32-bit Windows can.
charonn0··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
> you're generally pretty lucky if you can get something from the XP-era or older to work out of the box.

That's actually pretty good. XP was released over 20 years ago.

charonn0··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Is it a 16-bit executable?
charonn0··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Breaking backwards compatibility was one of the biggest customer criticisms of Windows Vista.
charonn0··on Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
All modern web browsers descend directly or indirectly from Netscape.
charonn0··on This code smells of desperation
I'm not nearly expert enough to judge, but to me it smells like heavy wizardry.
charonn0··on Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
Is this just a tweet or something? Or am I missing the associated article?
charonn0··on Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year
By longstanding convention. Ctrl-F is the conventional in-page search combo, while a dedicated search field is the conventional website search engine.
charonn0··on White House Publishes National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan [pdf]
Scanning the ToC when this caught my eye:

> Strategic Objective 3.3: Shift Liability for Insecure Software Products and Services

There's very little information, but it's clear the administration is looking at developing a legal regulatory framework for software security flaws.

charonn0··on Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables
N.B.: "Portable Executable" or "PE" is also the name of the Windows executable format.
charonn0··on How will ATSC 3.0 transform TV advertising?
> The arrival of ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV—and its ability to combine broadcast with IP—has the potential to transform TV commercials from one-way mass-market blasts to two-way personalized interactive experiences.

Why would anyone want this? Why would anyone purchase a television with this ability?

charonn0··on ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution
The novelty is wearing off.
charonn0··on Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better
I only swear in commit messages. Am I doing it wrong?
charonn0··on To unlock drink verification can (2013)
The XBox's Kinect camera, which was introduced around the time this was written.
charonn0··on French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
In the USA at least, it's the executive that executes laws. Judges interpret them.
charonn0··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Or, reddit has been getting free mobile app development for all these years.
charonn0··on Federal Zoning Bill Would Preempt Local Parking Mandates
No it doesn't.
charonn0··on Federal Zoning Bill Would Preempt Local Parking Mandates
This seems like it would violate the 10th amendment.
charonn0··on Twenty-five years of curl
> Curl claims that it supports so many protocols but I do not see many examples where they are in action, for instance, how to use ssh protocol to perform transfer between two machines? Where can I find such examples?

SSH file transfers use either SCP:// or SFTP:// urls, not SSH:// urls.

>> curl sftp://public.example.com/file.txt

charonn0··on SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
I find it interesting that they can "agree" to "pay a penalty" to make criminal charges go away.
charonn0··on We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files
I don't know anything about DNA files, but I wonder how gzip (deflate) would fare if one of the non-default compression strategies were used.

e.g. the RLE strategy is good for data with many compressible patterns, while the filtered or Huffman-only strategies are good for data with few compressible patterns.

The default strategy is a balance between the two extremes, which isn't tuned for a specific kind of input.

charonn0··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
For example, to protect impressionable children from exposure to it. Same as the stated rationale for the porn law.
charonn0··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
I'm asking whether you only apply this logic to things you disapprove of.
charonn0··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
Why would porn sites?
charonn0··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
Would you feel this way if it were church attendance instead of porn?
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