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technohacker , 28 days ago to Technology in Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist

Doesn't that already exist as the Factory Reset Protection (FRP) partition?

technohacker , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

It really lips the whamma's ass

technohacker , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

Unreal Engine is a major example, you get access to a private repo containing the engine's source code but you're bound by an agreement regarding what you can do with it IIRC. Of course anyone is allowed to apply for access though

technohacker , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple Patent Hints At Foldable iPhone With Self-healing Screen

For 2, the issue is most phones have a lock screen overview sorta effect, where the phone can wake up from sleep with movement or gestures. Actions on the lock screen can hence trigger things, like media playback and emergency dialling

technohacker , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Elders [Alex Krokus]

I need a moment to process the fact that Windows 8 was 10 years ago

technohacker , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Elders [Alex Krokus]

Maybe YouTube isn't using hardware acceleration, which browser?

technohacker , 1 month ago to 196 in Rule

It's odd that I can narrow this picture to Bangalore

technohacker , 1 month ago to 196 in squander rule

That list doesn't sound half bad tbh

technohacker , 2 months ago to Technology in Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions

'tis how LLM chatbots work. LLMs by design are autocomplete on steroids, so they can predict what the next word should be in a sequence. If you give it something like:

Here is a conversation between the user and a chatbot. <insert description of chatbot>

<insert chat history here>

User: <insert user message here>

Chatbot:

Then it'll fill in a sentence to best fit that prompt, much like a creative writing exercise

technohacker , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Docker - what use is it?

Containers, the concept that Docker implements, lets app developers give a self-contained environment for distribution. For devs that means consistency in deployments across environments, which in turn means sysadmins can deploy each of these apps as fully isolated units.

With that, you get really clean installs/updates/uninstalls, and your deployments get done with a well-defined, declarative definition file which can also handle multi service dependencies (a la Docker Compose/K8s)

technohacker , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

The firmware has to allow it, so if you've got physical access to the machine that's possible. Remote access root, on the other hand, can't tell the firmware to register new keys as long as it's configured correctly

technohacker , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

Generally yes. For many distros, the kernel signing key is with the distro maintainers and so the package comes with pre-signed kernel images. For distros like Arch and Gentoo, it's the user's responsibility to maintain the signing key and sign each updated kernel

technohacker , 4 months ago to 196 in Standing rule only

Well the taller chairs would be a problem with the higher center of gravity I imagine

technohacker , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab?

I find it funny it didn't point out Active Directory

technohacker , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people’s PCs

LGPL actually, not GPL