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joe_guy··on Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
Can you transfer your new Kindle book purchases to it?
joe_guy··on GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '
> would you like to purchase an Office 365 subscription? No? Okay I'll ask again tomorrow),

Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.

joe_guy··on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
There was also that water level in TMNT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI
joe_guy··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
And auto repeat, sadly.
joe_guy··on Never write your own date parsing library
To that point: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
joe_guy··on Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)
What you're thinking of on the Nintendo switch is a recovery mode. Every (most?) modern systems have something like this. It's a lower level area that allows you to fix issues in the higher level areas, even when that's broken (ie, a failed system update). Your iPhone, android, and smart TV all have this.

That being accessible wasn't the mistake. It was all properly secured. It rejected your commands and everything has to be signed by Nintendo's private key. But Nvidia firmware had a buffer overflow bug inside of it that allowed arbitrary code execution.

More details: https://blog.gistre.epita.fr/posts/victor-emmanuel.provost-2...

Bunny, the person who originally hacked the Xbox also wrote a great book on the subject they've since made free: https://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf

If you enjoyed that book they have written others.

joe_guy··on Making Explainable Minesweeper
You might be thinking of Tametsi. If not, it's a fantastic game to checkout.
joe_guy··on Introducing tmux-rs
tmux runs fine in WSL1/2
joe_guy··on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law
I am not a lawyer and am not behind a PC atm, but didn't Rowan v. USPS determine that the receiver of mail has sole discretion about if the material they received is pornographic or not?

A more limited context of course.

joe_guy··on Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits
I wouldn't assume this is how it works. But it could know your time zone changes and assume departure/arrival times based on it not being able to ping a server, then link this between possible airports based on time zones then possible flights based on the times.

But I suspect the false positives on this would be huge and if you felt so compelled could easily test while at your desk.

joe_guy··on Rise in 'alert fatigue' risks phone users disabling news notifications
This is built into Android. A program like Discord has very granular controls over each type (DM, server event, stage event, etc) of notification as well as controls for each source (You can set a specific users DMs to be priority messages, silenced, show/hide from lock screen, etc).

A program like Uber Eats has a bit less benefit to allowing such controls over what they send you. While they do still break down messages by type, their descriptions are a bit cryptic and after getting an unsolicited notification from it, I ended up disabling all of them.

joe_guy··on GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down
> Newspapers are publishing AI hallucinated news

Is there an example of a reputable (subjective, sure) news source having done this?

joe_guy··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
You're likely seeing the effect of timezones.

It was announced at 11pm and American news companies didn't feel it urgent enough to report before their usual morning weekend staff's shift.

joe_guy··on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
There has recently been a pretty large UI inclusion for midjourney directly inside Discord which has the option of being used instead of the text input.

As is often the case in these sorts of thingsz your milage may vary for the more complex settings.

joe_guy··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Thank you for this information. I'll either switch to a better brand or go straight magnesium.
joe_guy··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Not OP but I've had luck with zinc and magnesium aspartate supplements commonly available on Amazon. I take two caps that each are a net about 500mg an hour before bed, along with 1mg of melatonin.

Been doing this for a lot of years now.

joe_guy··on Should you do a newspaper workout?
(2013)
joe_guy··on Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts
This goes back to what a parent commenter said

> I suspect because nobody can agree on what the new replacement system should look like.

joe_guy··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
2014
joe_guy··on Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, & It All Starts Today
They mention the old question of "Should commercial activity even be allowed online?"

Ironically, not long after, they had a video ad that locked to the viewport as you scrolled. It made the content less than 50% of what you could see.

I did not continue to read.

joe_guy··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
To further your point, what's actively developed now is called "dotnet" instead of the legacy ".net" (now ".net framework")
joe_guy··on Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)
You may also find this very detailed post interesting https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regular-expression-imp...

It's an indepth look at where regex in dotnet was prior to and after version 7.

joe_guy··on A forged Apple employee badge
Do you mind if I ask why you still use typewriters?
joe_guy··on Beware of the Turing tar-pit (2004)
> Keep Alan Kay’s words in mind: “We aim to make simple things simple and complex things possible.” When solving the general problem makes complex things possible, that’s good. But it shouldn’t be at the expense of making simple things simple.

Great quote.

joe_guy··on Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all yours for a price
Perhaps to make a discord bot.
joe_guy··on Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021)
Firefox has had an issue open for years that it's trivial for a website to create invisible tabs.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749835

joe_guy··on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
> The big difference here is the Message app on Android is just a normal app whereas imessage is bundled deep in the OS with tons of private apis

I'm replying to someone who said the important factor is android is open sourced. I pointed out the relevant android program is not open sourced.

joe_guy··on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
I do not believe the android Messages application is open source. I believe AOSP contains something very barebones. It has been a lot of years, am I incorrect?
joe_guy··on Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding
This article reads like an ad.
joe_guy··on California Revealed as Worst US Emitter of Sulfuryl Fluoride
The tldr

> The researchers put 85 percent of California's sulfuryl fluoride emissions to structural fumigation practices to get rid of pests, such as termites. This is done by sealing structure inside an airtight tent and pumping the pesticide inside.

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