Posts made by El_Heffe
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RE: Firefox Developers Hate You
@cvi said in Firefox Developers Hate You:
@topspin said in Firefox Developers Hate You:
Firefox could literally be Chrome with a different name and people would still be using Chrome because Google is pushing it.
Yes, having a $120 Billion a year company pushing a product helps a lot.
The arguments are what TFA says: the people complaining are a minority, telemetry shows that ${x} isn't being used, etc. But each time a few people get pissed and switch.
The problem with the "telemetry shows that ${x} isn't being used" argument is that most knowledgeable users turn off the telemetry because they don't want their browser spying on them. So Mozilla's telemetry is not accurate and only represents the usage patterns of people too lazy or stupid to turn off the telemetry.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones nobody starts their title on the backflap!
You're right. I fixed the first panel. Now it's your turn.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
24 hours a day x 7 days a week = 168 hours x .2% = 33 minutes of crashes every week.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Publishing children's books is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Trying to install Windows 10 using a qemu VM on an M1 Mac.
Why do you want to ruin your Mac?
(not a Mac user, but it has be be better than Windows 10)
I mean, it's just a disposable toy VM. It's not like it's replacing the OS.
Digital Cooties.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Trying to install Windows 10 using a qemu VM on an M1 Mac.
Why do you want to ruin your Mac?
(not a Mac user, but it has be be better than Windows 10)
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RE: WTF Bites
@Atazhaia it's funny how even big firms like Microsoft can't hire translators that actually understand what it is they're translating.
Like this gem from NoMachine.
Basically the setting allows you to select a certain display encryption, like H264 or VP8. Yes, it says encryption, not encoding. Probably because the translator neither knows the difference between these two things in German nor in English.
How is that the translator's fault?
If the translator is given a block of text that says "encryption" then that is the word he should translate. If that is the wrong word, well, that's not his fault. The translator is mostly likely NOT an expert on video encoding.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Seen on FarceBork:
Q: What is the highest rank in the popcorn army?
A: Kernel!
A rare photo of the Linux Colonel
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RE: Did Microsoft ever recruit using the image of a door?
@PotatoEngineer said in Did Microsoft ever recruit using the image of a door?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Did Microsoft ever recruit using the image of a door?:
Did you ask Dave?
Dave's not here, man.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
https://i.imgur.com/79NSjI0.jpg
Spoiler Text Here
Bindi Irwin, daughter of Steve Irwin
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RE: WTF Bites
rather than asking for that they're asking for one roundabout way that happens to produce this result, but only as some sort of side-effect
My guess is that by the time of the story, MS developers had already shipped code that faulted in order to to switch to kernel mode.
Raymond's story is almost certainly true, given the fact that the code (using an invalid instruction to cause a switch from V86 to kernel mode) exists in Windows 95.
In his book Unauthorized Windows 95, Andrew Schulman printed a disassembly of some Windows code, showing that it jumps into his computer's BIOS so that it can execute the invalid 0x63 instruction.
Schulman also got a lot of shit from Microsoft because of this book and at one point was banned from Microsoft's Compuserve forums.
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RE: WTF Bites
So, there are numerous places in Windows where the code jumps to an address that contains 0x63, ARPL, which is an invalid instruction in V86 mode. And what better place to find the letter c than in the BIOS copyright string.
Why not just execute the ARPL instruction instead of jumping to a random data location you think should contain that code sequence?
Well, it's not a "random" location. During startup, Windows calls a function called Locate_Byte_In_ROM which finds the address of the 63h byte it needs.
As for why Windows does this, that's a very good question. Unfortunately, the author never addresses that question, but at one point he does compare the ARPL code to the cartoons of Rube Goldberg (i.e., excessively and unnecessarily complicated machinery)
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RE: WTF Bites
An old-timey WTF bite.
ARPL (Adjust Requested Privilege Level)
ARPL is an obscure instruction, opcode 0x63h, that originated in 1985 with the Intel 80386 CPU. It has no practical application in modern operating systems.
The 80386 CPU also introduced something called V86 mode (Virtual-8086). When the CPU is running a protected mode operating system, switching to V86 mode allows the execution of real mode applications that are incapable of running directly in protected mode (e.g., programs written for Microsoft's MS-DOS).
I first learned about ARPL in 1995 when I read a book called "Unauthorized Windows 95" by Andrew Schulman, in which he explored many of the inner workings of Microsoft's latest verion of Windows. In one chapter, he was disassembling some code and discovered something strange. The code jumped to an address located in his computer's BIOS, specifically, the copyright string.
As mentioned above, the opcode for ARPL is 0x63h which also happens to be the ASCII code for the letter "c".
Although Windows 95 ran in protected mode, it made extensive use of V86 mode to allow compatibility with real mode programs and drivers, and Microsoft's programmers discovered an odd quirk of the 80386: the fastest way to switch from V86 mode to protected mode was by executing an invalid instruction.
So, there are numerous places in Windows where the code jumps to an address that contains 0x63h, ARPL, which is an invalid instruction in V86 mode. And what better place to find the letter c than in the BIOS copyright string.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Are you positive your mom doesn't follow your twitter?
Are you positive your father doesn't follow your OnlyFans?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is there a sexual pun in there? Do I need to know Jane to understand the joke?
After an extensive review of her filmography and discography, I came to a conclusion on this. Despite her appearing in a TV show named Loose Women, the joke has to do with only the name of the show. Cruising with Jane McDonald was both a TV show and an album. And there was no official release of a Down Under version, as far as I could see. Plus she was from the UK.
So I deduce that the joke is in "cruising down under", as in sinking with the ship.
Unless she's recently died, in which case the "cruising ... under" might be morbid humor. But I didn't notice any indication of her having died yet.
WHOA. Slow down there. You're over-thinking things.
I just thought the combination of the title plus camera angle of the picture was slightly humorous.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
In a July 21 livestream, Microsoft Program Manager Aria Carley answered Microsoft Tech Community users' questions about the final hardware requirements to upgrade to Windows 11. Although hardware requirements — including but not limited to TPM 2.0 support — aren't enforced for the Windows 11 alpha images available now, Carley confirmed that the "hardware floor" would be real for final versions.
Despite acknowledging that the situation "sucks" for affected users, Carley doubled down on the inflexibility of the hardware floor in response to a later question, saying "group policy will not enable you to get around hardware enforcement for Windows 11. We're still going to block you from upgrading your device... to make sure your devices stay supported and secure."
Unsurprisingly, these answers didn't seem to go over well with the audience — according to Windows Central, the video's top comment read, "A lot of these answers come off as super tone deaf... it's looking like Windows 11 will be another Windows 8."
Other comments speculated that the seemingly unnecessary hardware requirements are a thinly veiled ploy to push new computer sales, with corresponding boosts to Windows license sales.
Unfortunately, we're left to take various blogs' word on what the Microsoft Tech Community users had to say, because Microsoft disabled comments on the video — deleting all existing comments — in response to the negativity.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Jaloopa said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
That's why sane people turn off automatic updates.
: It's cute you think that's an option.
Digital antivaxxers
Nope. Fully vaccinated. I just don't do it automatically. Automatic updates are for suckers.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Nagesh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A sad joke someone posted online!
We specialize in quantity, not quality.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
That's why sane people turn off automatic updates.
: It's cute you think that's an option.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Status: Apparently, "Active Hours" applies only to being unceremoniously rebooted. Windows Update can still fuck your system over during active hours, it just won't bug you to reboot during that time.
That's why sane people turn off automatic updates.
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RE: WTF Bites
My first job as a programmer was on Solaris. Very expensive hardware with very poor performance. And extremely loud fans.
Not sure if you mean cooling devices or annoying people.
I'm pretty sure it's both