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en.wikipedia.org 4mo ago

Lucona

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cdm.link 5mo ago

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency

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databreaches.net 9mo ago

Months After Being Notified, Vendor Is Still Exposing Confidential Court Records

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github.com 11mo ago

Can't disable copilot code reviews

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www.steinberg.net 1y ago

Tell HN: Steinberg shut down their eLicenser service, breaking older software

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garethdennis.medium.com 2y ago

The not-so-glamourous origins of standard track gauge (2021)

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zach-ennenga.medium.com 2y ago

Please Destroy My Face: Reverse Engineering Scorched Earth’s MTN File Format

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lapcatsoftware.com 2y ago

macOS 0day: App Management

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twitter.com 3y ago

Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English

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tedium.co 3y ago

Why Canada Had to Ban 1.5-Liter Glass Soda Bottles in 1979

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duckduckgo.com 3y ago

DuckDuckGo Was Down

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github.com 3y ago

Results and analysis of post-SIGGRAPH Covid poll 2022

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twitter.com 3y ago

Archive.org rescued 430k tracks of music from mp3.com (1997-2003)

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twitter.com 4y ago

Bugcrowd is woefully unprepared for accepting reports of cryptographic issues

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twitter.com 4y ago

GitHub does not let you report more than two abusive accounts at a time

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lists.qt-project.org 4y ago

Leaving The Qt Company

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devblogs.microsoft.com 4y ago

What Is a SM_SLOWMACHINE?

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twitter.com 4y ago

Photoshop blocks opening banknote images

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this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com 4y ago

This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete

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www.qualys.com 5y ago

21Nails: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Exim

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Google Play bans video app for .ass support due to Sexual Content policy

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It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately

Anecdotally, this seems to be the case on the majority of websites where I have to use such 2FA codes.

Facebook is not a universal tool that is used the same way in every country in the world. As a start, there are more Facebook users in Canada both in absolute numbers and percentage of population than in Belarus. Internet censorship also doesn't help.

The countries that would need this the most are usually also the countries where it is the hardest to reach their population from the outside.

The last significant DOSBox update (ignoring 0.74-3 which was not significant) must be over 10 years ago by now. In that time, forks like DOSBox-X have made tremendous progress in compatibility and accuracy. The original DOSBox is essentially frozen in time at this point, with many things not being emulated correctly.

While the timing with the copy.fail patches mentioned by a few comments here seems suspicious indeed, I have seen this repeating over the last few weeks: packages.ubuntu.com was hardly reachable on some days, causing apt-get to take forever to update the system. They have been struggling hard recently, it seems. Best of luck to the people having to deal with this mess on a holiday!

YMMV but I primarily have a touch screen on my laptop so that I can see how my software breaks when people try to use it with a touch screen.

Specifically, it means that more information is required to complete the task (e.g. requesting the filename for saving a file). If the action is literally about opening that dialog (e.g. something like "Show Properties"), the ellipsis is not needed.

I've had this exact problem for years. My IP addresses have been used for 15+ years for sending e-mail, they are spam-free, but Microsoft keeps blocking them. Every two months or so I have to ask them to unblock the IP again, then I can send mails to Outlook again, until they just random decide to block me again. It's an absolute clown show.

AI uBlock Blacklist 5 months ago

The server is and has been clean the whole time. I don't even run WordPress or anything similar on that server that would be a common hacking target. If it was hacked, I'm pretty sure Google Safe Browsing would be the first to flag the site, not some random PiHole list.

AI uBlock Blacklist 5 months ago

Yuuup. My personal website has been inaccessible to a few friends, they thought my server was down. It turned out they had some blocklist (not related to AI) installed on their PiHole, and for whatever reason my website was on that list. It is, in fact, to this day, because my request to unblock it went completely unanswered. I still don't know why the website is on the list.

Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful additions to it up until Windows 10 or so - for example being able to handle LF (in addition to CRLF) line endings. But yeah, everything added in Windows 11 is just pure bloat.

To be fair, this grip indicator only (and still) exists when the window has a status bar. It's part of the Windows status bar design, not of the window design. Of course, many more applications used to have status bars than they do now, so that's why you see it less often.

Backing up Spotify 7 months ago

This, a thousand times this. I have gone back to collecting CDs because it's often the only remaining way (short of pircay) to get original masters of many artists. Even lossless download stores like Qobuz don't have them.

Note that his was the VST2 era. VST3 was commercial license or GPL 3, which was an improvement, but only slightly, because it excluded open-source software released under the GPL 2, and also MIT/BSD/whatever-licensed software couldn't use it (without effectively turning the whole software into GPL-licensed software).

Corral.BAS 10 months ago

Entire BASIC interpreters were shipped in the very size-constrained ROMs of almost all home computers of the 80s. There was no luxury of parser generators. It's absolutely simple enough that you can write the lexer and parser yourself.