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And the site seems to tend to detect mullvad's wireguard as 'openvpn' while mullvad's openvpn is undetected by it. Perhaps that's what the parent is referring to.

That's more to rent them for 2 years than it would be to buy the gpus outright, it seems. I guess adding on the cost of all the supporting hardware might exceed it though.

I think ELF should absolutely be mentioned in the title.

Well, no, it's still not.

Why not just rip the DVDs to files and watch them whenever from wherever. DVDs are cumbersome and dated.

Perhaps an interesting note is that Apple should have added this particular model to the obsolete page when they updated it on 5 December 2023 [1] and 2 January 2024 [2] (as both were more than 7 years past the 27 October 2016 discontinuation date), but they forgot to add it until yesterday. They also never had it on the 'vintage' list at any point, as they have with other macs; instead it went straight from not listed to 'obsolete'.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231206074005/https://support.a...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240107224531/https://support.a...

I've done this several years ago, with no issues, though I haven't tried any time recently.

It's insane to me how such an obviously questionable/unbelievable statement can make its way into an official BBC article without even a word of explanation or elaboration.

How is that relevant?

Title is wrong, as 'it' doesn't 'think'.

> Especially in laptops, a lot of hardware / firmware issues are simply "solved" by baking a fix into the pre-installed Windows version. It's a solution for 99% of users, so why bother spending time looking into the root cause?

I've never really seen a single example of this. Could you provide some?

For me they always seem to be sorted by vote count. Nevertheless, here is the link: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/396697

Maybe you missed the answer above it?

joke post?

I wonder when they added that, I remember wanting it and it not existing when they first rolled out the chapters feature around 2020.

I thought loopback could pass an application's audio back to itself even in 2017, maybe I'm misremembering

So to clarify, this still leverages the fixed function hardware video encoders present alongside many GPUs from eg. Intel/NVIDIA/AMD, and would not (for example) be possible to use on just a GPU itself (without said encoding hardware)?

Personally speaking I've never purchased/owned/used a cell phone and yet I feel I have more familiarity with the underlying technologies than probably 95% of cell phone users today.

I don't believe whether or not someone has adopted a given technology has any kind of clear correlation to their understanding of it or ability to use it were they to elect to. I know plenty of people who are up to date with the latest fads and yet dumb as rocks.

I think the kid will be just fine.

I don't think many people actually like discord, they just feel compelled to use it because their friends use it

What are they stealing?

I like it, it just works and everything in it makes sense. Very refreshing compared to a lot of the things we have today.

It would be a mis-use of the act.

> One caveat: I hate non-TOTP MFA. It's either proprietary lock-in or less secure.

Agreed. A particular pain point for me is Apple's proprietary (or SMS-based, even worse) iCloud 2FA, it's just awful. I would use TOTP/HOTP for it in a heartbeat if given the option.

Interesting, I had never tried middle clicking the refresh button

Fair, but for me I remember it being intuitive as it was the first thing that came to mind when wanting to combine two windows into one by dragging the tabs in a convenient manner, or to conveniently rearrange groups of tabs

I'm surprised people are surprised by this feature, it's been around for ages. Other sometimes useful features are 'duplicate tab', 'close all other tabs', 'close tabs to right', etc.

I for one am shocked

>this makes your machine once and always pwned.

Well, no, it doesn't, but that's besides the point.

These specific image decoding bugs are indeed a bit of a nothingburger in terms of the implications they give rise to. There's just no reason to overwrite the boot logo graphic and leverage these exploits if another (simpler) method of achieving the same end result exists, and often it does.

For example, many systems to this day are shipped in a configuration such that you can disable write protections for certain ranges (or all) of the SPI EEPROM on which the firmware resides simply by changing some NVRAM variables (typically the variables correspond to (often hidden) 'BIOS settings' in common firmwares such as those from AMI or Phoenix), after which you can write contents of your choosing (eg. using Intel FPT) to the chip which will promptly be executed without any checks upon the next restart. This is by design, not even abusing any exploit or flaw in the software (of which there are plenty). If you want you can try it out on some of your own systems, for instance dump the firmware, extract (for example) the AMI setup menu form and simply run it through something like LongSoft's IFRExtractor[1] to locate the regions and offsets of said NVRAM variables, then try writing to them. It is true that the NVRAM regions for these settings (and others) are sometimes write protected or locked in such a way that you can't overwrite them after the firmware has started another program (eg. your bootloader), but often there are even ways around that. It's clear that firmware security is not always much of a concern for a surprising number of vendors currently shipping consumer computer systems / motherboards today.

[1]: https://github.com/LongSoft/IFRExtractor-RS

Desktop firefox -- also terrible

> - You have to have a phone number to sign up for any type of account. (Hasn’t discouraged any toxicity either.)

It turns out that this is pretty much the case everywhere these days, doesn't seem to be exclusive to a particular country.