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> The executives, including the cybersecurity company’s chief security officer, sold through so-called 10b5-1 plans, which are meant to remove any potential to benefit from knowledge of material nonpublic information.

Nothing interesting to see here. Move along.

Microsoft has routinely changed the display driver model, breaking backward compatibility. They've also barred print drivers.

And if you used a hashing algorithm, RC4 or the like, what fun that would be when binaries were updated!

Working link for those not logged in:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1e73p...

Certain backend systems run on mainframes, yes. But the airline's website? No (only the booking portion interacts with a mainframe via API calls). Identity management system? No. Etc.

NT was never a true microkernel. Most drivers are loaded into the kernel. Display drivers being a huge pain point, subsequently rolled back to user space in 2000, and printer drivers being the next pain point, but primarily with security -- hence moving to a Microsoft-supplied universal print driver, finally in Windows 11.

I'm not sure what kind of response this is, but it's unproductive and doesn't address anything I've said.

Yes, there are such things to manage risk, such as insurance. Open source maintainers aren't protected from legal scrutiny or civil suits simply because the software is open source.

Given the amount of false information spreading like wildfire on social media, one would think they would want to protect themselves as much as possible when releasing tooling such as this.

> You sound as if the only answer that would satisfy you is "we'll turn back the clock".

There are methods to manage risk that don't involve turning back the clock. The open source creators /and/ shady companies have responsibility for the tooling they release, just like any other company has responsibility for any potential harm, be it to the environment, infrastructure, or the public that they create.

There are levels of security, or more like levels of risk one can take on. For the home environment, I'd agree that for most wildcards aren't much of a risk. For an SMB, LE with individual certs may be ok. For a multinational bank or similar, yes absolutely HSM on an airgapped CA seems like a better approach.

So it's opt-out instead of opt-in, where the damage could have already occurred? How does your team take responsibility for other's legal costs, etc.?

> You probably treat text like it is not the real person until confirmed in other ways.

I would appreciate if the question could be answered instead of avoided and misdirected.

> can clone anyone's voice with just a 15-second audio prompt!

How do you deal with the ethics of duplicating someone's voice where it can be misused and/or abused, potentially leading to serious legal, financial, or social consequences for the individual's voice that has been reproduced?

Middle school is hot garbage, like the author says. But in terms of the Supreme Court case, it is the correct call. Schools have (I forget the legal term) some rights of parents while the kid is on campus/in school which is appropriate. But outside of that, it's up to the kid's parents.

And I don't know the answer to this, but could the bullied kid's parents sue the influencer's parents for the activity of their child for emotional trauma or the like? Or do there need to be 'actual damages'?

Wildcard certs are generally discouraged in secure environments due to a single cert being compromised can lead to a variety of compromised services -- or an attacker adding their own subdomain and 'valid' service.

If you think EAs are simple calendar monkeys, that's a bit out of touch.

And Outlook has done this for a couple of years, now. No AI required.

....Forgotten? These headlines are pure clickbait and the "journalist" or "editor" should be ashamed. The game shipped 700,000 [0] units in the 90s! It got awards! 5 stars! Come on...

Even in this very damned article:

> one of the most popular sci-fi flight games on the planet

The only tragedy would be if Mark wasn't paid a decent amount for his appearance on the game. This game was awesome, if not just for it's use of FMV alone. WC:IV was awesome not only for it's FMV, but DVD (or 4 or 5 CDs...).

My ass is forgotten. WC:III? Hell no, not forgotten, not tragic.

I can't wait until we get an article in 5 years with the title "Revisiting Terraria, Relogic's forgotten first and only game".

Go to a doctor, many different conditions can cause memory issues. HN makes for poor medical advice.

Thanks for the Monday morning laugh. They should have used this method of communication in WWII instead of those signal lights! /s

And someone posted the other day that there was no way humans would be creating new works anymore because of AI...

> meaningful work over here.

What do you consider 'meaningful work'? That can range the gamut of writing an app that helps cure orphans of cancer to working for Google and watching your code end up on killedbygoogle.com.

Is there something else outside of work that is attractive about where you live, or something outside of work locally that would fill time as a hobby, volunteering, <insert something else>?

(I find little meaning in the work I do, it'll all be trashed in a couple of years; nature does the trick, instead)

This is what Intel's proposed X86S [0] is designed for.

> X86S is a legacy-reduced-OS ISA that removes outdated execution modes and operating system ISA.

> The presence of the X86S ISA is enumerated by a single, main CPUID feature LEGACY_REDUCED_ISA in CPUID 7.1.ECX[2] which implies all the ISA removals described in this document. A new, 64-bit “start-up” interprocessor interrupt (SIPI) has a separate CPUID feature flag.

[0] https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/776648 [pdf warning]

The accompanying Ars Technica article - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/animals-use-physics-...

Related:

Level Editing - Duke Nukem - ADG Mod 12 [0]. It has expanded info about the tile sets, how items in tiles inherit the background from neighboring tiles, mod editor (from the 1990s, still in use today), etc. Interestingly enough, there is no background tile layer!

[0] https://youtu.be/Pd6WoL-G_48

Developers and regex on email is always a terrible idea. So many fail to understand what the RFC allows (virtually anything). Can't tell you how often websites will reject an email address with a two-character localpart :-(

It added in the 'privacy preserving feature' that did not exist before, automatically enabled.

> Firefox now supports the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API, which provides an alternative to user tracking for ad attribution. This experiment is only enabled via origin trial and can be disabled in the new Website Advertising Preferences section in the Privacy and Security settings.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

This is the page users saw when they updated to 128. No mention of this setting.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/whatsnew/?oldver...

Can you explain how the backend works? Will it block Apple's 'hide my email' feature from functioning with valid @icloud.com addresses, or similar 'valid' domains with potentially disposable email addresses?

> D. the main problem with ads is that they stimulate more unnecessary consumption

Yes! If our culture(s) weren't so damned full of pure consumerism, forgetting the first 'R' in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, we'd potentially be living in a healthier ecosystem.

And honestly, having gone from living with a hoarder to living with a tad more than essentials where I can see the damned floor in my house, it's such a f-ing relief.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330 [131 comments, 8 hours ago]

Office is probably the largest consumer-facing application to use COM today. It's honestly a great technology -- which came from the Cairo project.

No, I can't see what difference it would make in the long run unless you're jumping from vendor to vendor until you run out of cellular carries to jump to.

> Shared iPad security in iPadOS

> [...] User data is partitioned into separate directories, each in their own data protection domains and protected by both UNIX permissions and sandboxing.

POSIX users are quite important.