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nerdile··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Ok claude, now format that in a way humans can read
nerdile··on Java 27: What's New?
> tests showed that for environments with one CPU (or fewer)

Article seems AI generated. Is there an official announcement we could be discussing instead?

nerdile··on Surprise, pay $1000
B2B is just businesses fighting over the value chain.

Blacksmith can send as many invoices as they want.

If the other business doesn't think it's worth the cost after the free trial, they don't have to pay the invoices.

nerdile··on Why I collect DLES
I don't understand this
nerdile··on I want to live like Costco people
Passports are fine, and the facilities for getting them are nicer.
nerdile··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
TIL that Backblaze has a desktop app. Seems this is specific to Windows and does not impact anyone using it as just a storage backend for backups through something like rclone.
nerdile··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
It is different when you have a billion customers, all with different setups. At that scale, you notice real defects through product telemetry, support ticket volume, or trusted channels. You receive a high volume of bug reports that are due to user confusion, misconfiguration, or misbehavior of other software on the device - where solving an issue for one customer doesn't result in improvements for the other billion. Triage, filtering, and winnowing are necessary here.
nerdile··on History of AT&T Long Lines
The original article is better: https://personal.garrettfuller.org/blog/2018/01/19/att-long-...
nerdile··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
Using the same CLI, which shows all the alternative "protectors".
nerdile··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
? This may be one of those "90% of the audience doesn't care and is increasingly less likely to buy from either vendor the more they fight in public" situations
nerdile··on When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
To change it per user, set it in the user's hive instead of in the local machine hive (e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
nerdile··on Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application
Since this is a Windows C++ app, why not use MUI? It solves this exact problem, and since it's a standard part of the platform, there's broad tooling support for it.
nerdile··on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
Native US English speaker here, and this is the first time I have ever heard of this. TIL
nerdile··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
Reneging on an offer means revoking it after it has been accepted, and that's poor form.

Turning down an offer puts you into a small category of "people we would hire if we had the chance" and the recruiters or hiring managers will follow up with you for some set period of time just in case something changes on your side. They already have decided you would be a good fit, after all.

nerdile··on Pitfalls of Safe Rust
Title is slightly misleading but the content is good. It's the "Safe Rust" in the title that's weird to me. These apply to Rust altogether, you don't avoid them by writing unsafe Rust code. They also aren't unique to Rust.

A less baity title might be "Rust pitfalls: Runtime correctness beyond memory safety."

nerdile··on Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
Agreed.

Bschmidt###... who hurt you? Why is this your life?

nerdile··on It is as if you were on your phone
why?
nerdile··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
The software license terms for Word and all the other desktop apps does not include such a clause, no. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/useterms

The Microsoft Services Agreement applies to your use of their online services, like OneDrive and SharePoint, as you say, and there's an explicit consent in the app and a giant off switch there. They employ dark patterns to push you strongly to use their online services, but it's still optional.

It should be readily obvious that choosing to use online sharing or storage features or submit reviews require the data you enter to be sent, shared, or stored thusly...

nerdile··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
I don't have to grant Word a license to what I type in it. This is a highly unusual clause that other software doesn't have.

When software has to "phone home" to deliver the functionality you requested, then two things happen: One, a number of privacy regulations kick in, and they need to get you to agree to send your data to them. Two, they now get to move your data out of your control. I mean, you trust them today, so here's hoping they don't ever get hacked or hire someone untrustworthy?

It's sad when even to use the basic features of a web browser, you need to agree to send them your data. It's not fundamentally necessary to send your data to Mozilla or their partners in order to load and render a website. It's a dark pattern to obtain consent to collect your data "when it's necessary", and then rewrite your app to make it necessary.

nerdile··on Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365
Agreed. Very disappointed that Thunderbird went the direction they did.
nerdile··on Gambling on papal conclaves
He might be seen as presumptuous for already having a pope name and get sunk in the Vatican politics.
nerdile··on Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
Summary: The UK has some Online Safety Act, any websites that let users interact with other users has to police illegal content on its site and must implement strong age verification checks. The law applies to any site that targets UK citizens or has a substantial number of UK users, where "substantial number" is not defined.

I'm going to guess this forum is UK-based just based on all the blimey's. Also the forum seems to have been locked from new users for some time, so it was already in its sunset era.

The admin could just make it read only except to users who manually reach out somehow to verify their age, but at the same time, what an oppressive law for small UK forums. Maybe that's the point.

nerdile··on Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
This reflects on the individuals choosing to create and proliferate such misleading or hyperbolic framing more than it does on the world that we all live in. In meatspace we usually reject these ideas and ignore the people pushing them.
nerdile··on My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
Amen. I don't understand the problem here. Do something real instead of playing on your phone. (Says me while I play on my phone.)
nerdile··on Why is my CPU usage always 100%?
As a former Windows OS engineer, based on the short statement here, my assumption would be that your programs are IO-bound, not CPU-bound, and that the next step would be to gather data (using a profiler) to investigate the bottlenecks. This is something any Win32 developer should learn how to do.

Although I can understand how "Please provide data to demonstrate that this is an OS scheduling issue since app bottlenecks are much more likely in our experience" could come across as "denying and gaslighting" to less experienced engineers and layfolk

nerdile··on I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners
That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not.

Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

nerdile··on Show HN: OwlEars – Raw feedback, straight from your customers' minds
"Unfortunately, it was later removed from the app stores."

Sure sign of a trustworthy middleware author

nerdile··on HAM radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
Glad to see someone else had the same reaction I did. There's no need to shout.
nerdile··on What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
Fiber can help with that.
nerdile··on Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits
The "5-7%" improvement is in terms of build time, but no mention is made of any potential performance impact to users at runtime.
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