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We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.
They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.
@tjw On the day Opteron was supposed to tape out, a colleague discovered a logic bug. After some analysis, we figured out we could fix it by disconnecting a wire from one gate and attaching it to another. But running through or design flow would take days, and the ripple effect of changing connectivity could cause more problems. So I loaded the chip mask into VIM and modified the polygons directly, then we taped it out.
Don’t remember for sure, but I don’t think we told management 🙂
OK, OK, ok, story time.
Way back when (early 90s), when Omni was consulting for McCaw Cellular (or AT&T Wireless, not sure which it was at the time), we were working on apps for NeXTSTEP for sales, customer care, and such for cell phones, nation wide. We'd occasionally get a crash reports and I don't even remember how those got back to us back in the day before automated collection and reporting, but eventually we were able to reproduce it.
Back then NeXT was using gcc as the system compiler and it turns out that the `new[]` C++ operator would allocate room for the stuff you asked for, plus an extra word at the front of the block, where it would store the count (and then give you the shifted address). Except at some point that changed because it was silly and that redundant count was removed. Except that *also* `delete[]` still took the pointer given and loaded the word *before* it to load the count (and then did nothing with it). Given enough hours, you'd eventually have `delete[]` looking off into a previous unallocated page get a stern talking to from the MMU.
Having discovered this, and not having a way to patch the compiler or system libraries, I instead wrote a perl script to process the assembly output of the compiler, find instances of this and fix them, hand verifying each fix was correct while the hack was needed, and every compiled file went through this until we got new tools that fixed the problem for real.
Duct tape and bailing wire, y'all.
Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has failed to patch four vulnerabilities in its UEFI firmware.
The vulnerabilities can allow attackers to take over the System Management Mode (SMM), a highly privileged section of the CPU
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
BEWARE of common sense as it's what usually stops/prevent the brain to think the point over again, that's what makes the brain so lazy... Beware. Keep thinking and do not despair.
Maybe your hope/goal won't be attained during your lifetime yet human history is long (as you shown in another post).
That's why on top of your goals, what's of uttermost importance is transmission.
Best regards.
The working class is is not homogeneous. Don't paint us all with the same brush. It's deeply insulting. It's also factually incorrect.
Spreading misinformation is counter-productive. So are classist insults.
You can never convince anybody of anything if you start by insulting them.
As my grandma used to say, "You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar."
Just a suggestion.
They're not all mercenaries. A substantial portion of the grassroots fascist movement here is made up of misguided volunteers. They're not getting paid. In fact, it costs them.
But that's not the working class. That's just the working class fools. We're not all fools. If you want to condemn the fools, be specific. Also take note of their growing disillusionment with the Trump regime. It's only just begun.
Even fools resent being lied to. They were, and they're waking up to it. We should encourage them. Try starting with the things we agree with them. They're against foreign wars. We're against foreign wars. We're against being lied to. So are they. They hate the elites. We hate the elites. And so forth.
Don't just write them off because we disagree with them about Trump, or race, or whatever. He's screwed them over, too. That means we have common enemies. We choose our friends but history chooses our allies. We need allies. Everyone needs allies. Even them.
Yes, enemies can bury the hatchet and fight side by side. Consider for example the fight at Itter Castle:
sorry, it's the use of -capital-that makes it capitalism. And that involves using a bunch of accumulated money/resources to buy the means of production in order to produce at scale.
Unlike mercantile systems of trade…where competition can help keep exchanges fairish,
producing at scale is mostly done with the intent to maximize PROFIT (gain above and beyond fair value- so exploitative by nature) and to decrease the number of competitiors.
misanthropy is cynicism, and cynicism is acceptance. so no
Capitalism is working as intended. That's why rejecting it and forming communities that help each other scares them so badly, because once you do that you realise just how much of a drain on humanity the rich are.
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