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I really like the concave analog sticks on that controller. The convex DualShock ones get slippery as hell once the controller is a few years old. The analog face buttons of the DualShock 2 are cool i…

> Minimal Abstract Markup Language Pardon my naming nitpick and lack of commentary on any technical aspect, but I don't think this is a markup language. What is being marked up? HTML is called…

I swapped my dead C2750 (Supermicro A1SAi-2750F) board for my cold-spare C3558 (A2SDi-4C-HLN4F) and was right back running again. I guess if you're talking about an appliance it's a little d…

That was almost certainly the Intel Avoton clock degradation issue. It hit Cisco and lots of other networking vendors too. I lost Supermicro and ASRock boards to the same thing. Soldering on the resis…

Same setup here with a Supermicro Denverton board except in an iStarUSA chassis that I got brand new: https://istarusa.com/product/product-detail/?brand=istarusa&... Tho…

Apologies for trying to guess, but: PayPal freezing SomethingAwful's Katrina fundraiser?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384911

> It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in Rexx mentioned! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx …

Get yourself arrested some time and you'll wish you could remember someone to call lol

I recall the original Windows 95 release shipping with TCP/IP but the protocol having to be manually added in the Network CPL: https://eml.berkeley.edu/wp/win95/isp.html…

> If you dont care about security Microsoft's idea of Security is security from me, not security for me. They use this overloaded language because it's so hard to argue against. It&#x…

If HTTPS were for privacy it would be called HTTPP. Security features tend to make things less Private, like how opening apps on a Mac makes it phone home for OCSP check.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them have like a Crypto AG thing going on and have the capability to use paying customers as exit nodes as a way to launder consent-manufacturing bot bullshit …

This is outdated information. These issues have been solved by various BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals. You do create a new torrent, but you distribute it in a way that to a swarm member is functiona…

> So it's not really hallucinating - it correctly represents "seahorse emoji" internally, but that concept has no corresponding token. Interesting that a lot of humans seem to have t…

QNX 6 was the first non-Microsoft non-Apple OS I ever used, even before Linux, and after trying and failing to pirate OS/2 Warp 4. It came on the Maximum CD with the March 2001 issue of Maximum P…

Some non-Surfaces too. I’m using a Microsoft Surface Pen “Model 1776” a.k.a. “Ver.4” a.k.a “Surface Pen with no clip” with my Framework Laptop 12 folded all the way around into tablet mode.

Ironically Microsoft had exactly this in 1999 with Internet Explorer 5: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application - https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies&#…

Yep, despite the extremely FUD-y variable name, though there's still no way to opt out on iOS or Android: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13174 There…

The privacy tradeoffs are much worse :/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic “Each Tailscale agent in your distributed network streams its logs to a central …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464355

My comparison is more appropriate because the Dock and the Taskbar are both the thing that shows the list of running programs and open windows.

https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/configure-windows-spotl... “Note: This policy is only available for Enterprise SKUs” https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOa5Uvjpwo

> Can you move the menu bar on Mac? Can we not just accept that this is a design decision and move on? Yes, you can put the Dock on any side of the screen, plus you can pin it to the beginning or e…

> after you install Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC Evaluation, you won't be able to use the recovery partition on your PC to go back to your previous version of Windows. I was already sold; yo…

Read the comment again. The quotation mark ends one sentence before the part I'm talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNG-gYjneeA

> and earth has reached its carrying capacity [citation needed]