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You can still find applications written for Windows 3.1 in the latest builds of Windows 11. Something regarding database drivers if I recall correctly.

Now imagine if you could get rid of all that legacy crap to make it work in the first place. Microsoft CAN’T do that, because the entire premise of Windows is backwards compatability.

Apple? They don’t care. Killing 32bit apps? Just make an announcement saying that in 2 major macOS releases, macOS won’t be able to run 32 bit apps. It cuts down bloat, and it cuts down on the potential attack surfaces for malicious actors.

Obviously just about everyone would agree that Windows 1 -> 7 was progress. I don’t think you’ll find too many people who’ll say the same about Windows 7 -> 11.

Just adopt the JetBrains model? Each consecutive year of uninterrupted subscription gets you a discount, up to a point.

> while their products plateau with little innovation to show

Seen the battery life figures on yesterday’s iPhones? And ARM revolution was just 5 years ago.

I would hardly call it “little innovation to show”.

> Assuming Apple itself doesn't bypass Little Snitch, I don't even think Apple is doing the level of telemetry Microsoft does.

Apple doesn’t do all that much telemetry even if all the telemetry settings are enabled. Because you’re not a product to them. Which is probably why they didn’t even play in the AI race.

Windows 11 is probably the reason why Apple are going to launch a low-cost MacBook. Not that $999 isn’t already cheap, but if they release a $699 version...

The title is not “Do the simplest thing POSSIBLE”. It’s do the “Simplest thing that could POSSIBLY work”.

There’s a HUGE difference between the simplest thing possible, and the simplest thing that could possibly work.

The simplest thing that could possibly work conveniently lets you forget about the scale. The simplest thing possible does not.

> How is being able to put a down paymenent on a house or being able to send your kids to collage debt-free not life changing?

Because neither of those are going to change your daily life that much? It simplifies a thing or two, but neither of those things are life-changing.

Depends on where in the world you are. I wouldn't call $250k life-changing-money anywhere developed.

It's "I can probably stop worrying about money for a while" kind of money, not "life-changing" money. Not a whole lot you can buy for $250k. After taxes, that probably doesn't even buy a house.

unless they are .com, nobody cares.

bool IsPrivateIp(uint32_t x) {

  return (x >> 24) == 10                   /* 10.0.0.0/8  */

         || (x & 0xfff00000) == 0xac100000 /* 172.16.0.0/12  */

         || (x & 0xffff0000) == 0xc0a80000 /* 192.168.0.0/16  */;

}

the code doesn't consider 127.0.0.0/8 as "private". I'm curious about 10.0.0.0/8 though.*

_nobody_ would waste a botnet of 9 million unique IPs like this.

can't spoof the source IP in TCP communication, as the handshake cannot happen.

With UDP you can send whatever, but obviously you won't be able to receive the response.

Multi-site centralized management if you don't want to use Ubiquiti's cloud. UI has an entire lineup of non-Cloud gateways.

This is also for setups without an Ubiquiti gateway. Like a setup with just UI switches or APs.

Nothing in the Ubiquiti ecosystem requires you to use the cloud. Even fully air-gapped setups are supported.

That article is nonsense, even if it's up to the implementation, not ISA.

Apple's M4 Max owns AMDs top consumer CPU (Ryzen 9 9900X3D) in both, single and multi-core workloads, while consuming a fraction of power that the AMD chip does.

The year-on-year performance improvements on Apple's ARM chips are just insane. If it really was so simple, then why haven't Intel and AMD pulled their heads out of their asses in the last 5 years and re-designed their cores from the ground up?

No. It will take 10 years for everyone to update their router configuration/software to treat the new “formely-reserved” addresses as global unicast. There’s no point in doing that whatsoever. That effort would be spent much better by adopting IPv6.

x86 is the WORST modern architecture if performance-per-watt is considered. And extra power consumption means extra heat.

The only reason why I even still have an x86 PC is to play videogames. For all other purposes I’ve got ARM machines.

FWIW I love the 1911-style grip safety. It’s a shame that more guns don’t have that.

Secure Boot does nothing whatsoever to prevent that. Disk Encryption has got nothing to do with Secure Boot.

> Requiring TLS on an inter-LAN connection is mostly useless, and impossible if no Internet gateway is available.

what do you mean?

> Requiring TLS on an inter-LAN connection is mostly useless

there are many ways to intercept inter-LAN traffic, and:

> and impossible if no Internet gateway is available.

DNS validation? Run your own CA and trust it in your intranet?

Shame that IP address certificates can’t be done via the DNS challenge, but I completely understand why.

Doesn’t matter. Our species survived. Individual casualties don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

We survived industrial revolution, we’ll survive AI.

> Meanwhile this site disappears a 1500 comment thread about the Marines being used to crush incredibly peaceful resistance to the unconstitutional regime's White Supremacy. US citizens are being violently kidnapped, and for what?

That topic is not intellectually interesting. I don’t really come here for politics, and I’d like to believe that neither do most HN readers.

Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

If SIM Swap doesn’t work, you can always attack SS7. There’s also nothing you can do about that.

So stop using your phone number as an authentication factor. It’s trivial to pwn for any actor determined-enough.

Good luck shutting down the LLM running on my MacBook.

The Pandora’s Box is open. It’s over.

I guess for a restaurant it basically always makes sense to accept offline payments. I wasn’t aware that they might not be able to process card payments when I ordered.

I don’t typically carry any cash on me, and, well, if their terminals go down before I’ve closed my tab, they assume all of the risk anyway.

Maybe today, when the line between a Credit and a Debit card has gotten significantly blurrier (except in the US).

I definitely remember making an _offline_ payment with an AMEX card at a restaurant in the UK some 10 years ago.

Also, most airlines that take payments on board also run the terminals in offline mode.

There must be some mapping of BIN codes and whether to allow an offline transaction.

> I prefer to die a vegetable at 80 than die from a nuclear blast at 40. All those years can be spent existing happily

Eh, I’m the exact opposite. I don’t want to spend a single day as a vegetable.

> is the worst job in the world

Is it though? You either succeed, or nothing is ever your problem again.