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Finally establishing the concept of Feiertag on the internet. Come back tomorrow.

receive side uses a per-packet interrupt to finalize a received packet

This has made much faster systems not being able to process packets at line speed. A classic was that standard Gigabit network cards and contemporary CPUs were not able to process VoIP packets (which are tiny) at line speed, while they could easily download files (which are basically MTU-sized packets) at line speed.

This is stupid clickbait title, and the article isn't even very precise. Yes, that whole fritz.box situation is known and bad. But the problem discussed here doesn't nearly apply to every situation. Specifically, the box's builtin resolver (which is still used by default by a lot of things) knows not to forward fritz.box requests to the outside. That is, `dig google.com.fritz.box` and everything else say NXDOMAIN when you're using the builtin DNS.

Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/

Yup, something is strange there. There are 14in x86 laptops that consume 7W or 8W in idle (with the screen turned on but on minimal brightness).

Given the title I really wanted this to be a small and portable graphviz reimplementation...

Reminds me a little of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio... which deliberately crashed an airplane. The fuel contained an additive that was supposed to limit the post-crash fire, but wasn't as effective as hoped for.

I read "Stunning designs in Flash" at first, and it almost made sense.

rsync at it again?

I think my critique is somewhat correct in that you seem to suggest that this change was made to allow for expanding the permissions from one product to all products, which I don't think one can derive from the things we know.

I think I was somewhat wrong in that I may have suggested that you said this was the only reason (which you didn't explicitly) and also in that I dismissed that they factually can use these permissions from other products now, i.e., no matter whether it was intended or not, the permissions set for other products is broader now.

Meta: my answer here is probably also a good example of motivated reasoning because I likely read a bit more into what the author wrote than is factually in the blog post. Oh boy.

[...] though I'm sure they're just beginning to transfer their services to the main google.com domain.

This and the wording across the article imply more than the factual changes. But granted, hooby's comment above is probably more correct than what I wrote.

Upvoted, this looks more correct than what I wrote.

This is a fantastic example of motivated reasoning. This "change" (which apparently isn't even new) can have so many different reasons, some of which are less harmful and some of which are probably worse (privacy-wise) than the one mentioned here. There is no indication that re/mis-using permissions is specifically what they wanted to do here, there is also no example of them doing it right now. Don't get me wrong, there is also no evidence that this isn't the real reason and that they wouldn't do that in the future. But the blog post basically list a single symptom and jumps right to the one conclusion that fits what the author expects.

Or you just update your F-91W to a somewhat smart watch: https://www.sensorwatch.net/

Side note: If you need to say this:

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then you almost certainly have an unintuitive design and know it, but instead of fixing it you just doubled down on it.

Thank you. Someone had to.

I love how they went through all the internal hoops to make this public and consequently put the SECURITY.md in there. Just in case someone finds a vulnerability in GW-Basic after all these years...

"My Name Is Peter Parker, And I've Been Pig-Man Since I Was 15 Years Old."

Finally a way to sort out candidates that's even cheaper than making them implement B-trees.

Okay, I need the last one (the transport map one). Anyone have a source?

If you have hypothetical illustrations of EBITDA in your earnings calls then smuggling in a few coins won't hurt, I guess.

They might not know what 8051s are, but they are still in their cars :D

Where are all the 8051 jokes?

»SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, compared to Theranos again«

Still sad that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328 was closed 2 years ago after being open for 20 years.

It may have been outright illegal though. You're taking money from your future shareholders. This may very easily be seen as securities fraud, because you're basically selling shares in your company despite knowing that it's massively overvalued.

No mention of runtypes which looks pretty similar? https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes

Normal :) Same for the Boeing 787 back in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907654

ZFS, Btrfs, etc. essentially provide that with filesystem snapshots; LVM snapshots probably also works for that. Not sure whether any easy tooling around it exists though.