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KindOne··on Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
You can buy a LTSC license for a single computer.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

KindOne··on Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use
Please see these Reddit posts:

(Apr 2018) - https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8ffcg3/oracle_is_...

(Sep 2019) - https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

KindOne··on ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
The author of this app made a post on Reddit a few days ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p...

The program is opensource.

https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

KindOne··on ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
The program is open sourced.

https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p...

The author also created a popular app for Reddit called Apollo.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/787rtu/introducing_a...

KindOne··on Delphi 11 Alexandria
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489516 - "RAD Studio 11 Alexandria" - 11 days ago

KindOne··on Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in prison
I guess AT&T makes about $106 USD for every locked phone they sell?

$201,497,430.94 (USD) / 1,900,033 (phones) = $106.049 (USD per phone)

I used the numbers from this link:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fraudster-sentenced-prison-lo...

KindOne··on Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
They seem to only offer 20Mbps - 500Mbps.

https://www.edpnet.be/nl/thuis/internet.html

https://www.edpnet.be/nl/business/internet.html

KindOne··on McDonald’s unreliable ice cream machines reportedly under FTC investigation
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623 - October 2020 - "I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API" - (Orders ice cream at every McDonalds to see if the machines are broken)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774 - April 2021 - "Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28386567 - 1 day ago - "The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines"

KindOne··on 8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)
Some people posted a few companies in this post from April 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776344

If you want to read the entire thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775768 "Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison" - April 2018

KindOne··on Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
Thanks.
KindOne··on Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
What exactly do you search for? I've tried looking but I have no idea what to search for.
KindOne··on Turning satellite imagery into wall art
Here is a direct link if you want to search stuff on a map.

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

The datasets you pick from can be a bit confusing unless you click the (!) icon next to the names to figure out what they are.

I have mostly used it for looking at old reconnaissance satellite images from the 70's and 80's. I posted some directions here and a image from a satellite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006367

KindOne··on Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
Some stuff is not documented, /launches is one of them.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

The launches page is in this section:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

KindOne··on Apple 2001
Related post from 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791 "The Case of the Top Secret iPod"

KindOne··on Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
You could always download the card games from early versions of Windows.
KindOne··on Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
Never heard of firefly. I've looked into it and I might get one with 8GB RAM. Thanks.
KindOne··on Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
>onboard NAND.

I disagree. Having onboard NAND seems like a disadvantage, for like when it goes bad from all the usage.

Should have one M.2 slot.

KindOne··on Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
OP is "Senior Director Of Marketing" according to Linkedin.

He posts a lot on HN and Reddit in Backblaze posts.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/author/yev/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevpusin/

KindOne··on Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/what-is-ntf-da442a7d2728

KindOne··on Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
Context: https://www.allencheng.com/the-paypal-wars-summary-pdf/
KindOne··on How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
If you don't want to read the twitter thread, you can read this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227175 (2019)

https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/

KindOne··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
Discussion on reddit (post by the developer):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/k62yr6/...

KindOne··on Ghidra 9.2
Previous discussion when it was announced back in 2019, with 400+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273

KindOne··on United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden
This might provide some context on the non-disclosure agreements:

https://gizmodo.com/the-cia-has-to-approve-every-script-for-...

"The Americans was created by Joe Weisberg, a former CIA agent. And since he knows all kinds of stuff that the CIA would like to keep secret, they've reserved the right to censor anything they don't like on the show."

KindOne··on Windows XP source code has leaked
https://github.com/reactos/reactos#contributing--

" Legal notice: If you have seen proprietary Microsoft Windows source code (including but not limited to the leaked Windows NT 3.5, NT 4, 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel), your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation. "

KindOne··on Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (2016)
Post from 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11462308 (24 comments)

KindOne··on Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
This has been posted on /r/sysadmin on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i7yh5d/cve2020147...

Twitter post explaining it:

https://twitter.com/RyanLNewington/status/129344415164462694...

Blog post explaining it:

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-1472-zerologon-vulnera...

POC:

https://infinitelogins.com/2020/09/15/abusing-cve-2020-1472-...

KindOne··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
No children and no family accounts. Every account I own is only used by me.
KindOne··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
How and why does your kids devices have access to your credit card info?
KindOne··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
>Several months ago there was an incident where the parent discovered over $2500 in credit card charges mostly due to in game purchases.

This sounds more of a parenting issue. How and why did the kids have access to the credit card info?

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