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  1. Comment on Cyberweapon manufacturers plot to stay on the right side of US in ~tech

  3. Comment on Reflections on ten years past the Snowden revelations in ~tech

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    On the other hand, there's only so much that can be solved by technology. Quote also from Stephen Farrell:

    On the other hand, there's only so much that can be solved by technology. Quote also from Stephen Farrell:

    Looking back on all the above from a 2023 vantage point, I think that, as a community of Internet engineers, we got a lot right, but that today there's way more that needs to be done to better protect the security and privacy of people who use the Internet. In particular, we (the technical community) haven't done nearly as good a job at countering surveillance capitalism which has exploded in the last decade. In part, that's because many of the problems are outside of the scope of bodies such as the IETF. For example, intrusive back-end sharing of people's data for advertising purposes can't really be mitigated via Internet protocols.

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  4. Comment on Reflections on ten years past the Snowden revelations in ~tech

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    Quote from Bruce Schneier's part:

    Quote from Bruce Schneier's part:

    I don’t think much has changed. The NSA canceled a program here and a program there, and it is now more public about defense. But I don’t think it is any less aggressive about either bulk or targeted surveillance. Certainly its government authorities haven’t been restricted in any way. And surveillance capitalism is still the business model of the Internet.

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  6. Comment on Patching Salt Lake 2002 to run on modern systems in ~comp

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    1. Not enough memory when installing:
      Due to the installer calling a very old Windows function, on systems where you have "too much" RAM (more than 4GiB), it thinks you have a negative amount of physical memory available, which is less than the minimum required 64MB, so the installer will abort.
    2. Crashing to desktop after game launch:
      When the game is checking how much usable video memory you have, it corrupts the program stack due to a bug that is only triggered if you have "too much" (more than what the game devs anticipated) VRAM. The corrupted memory leads to an unrecoverable crash.
    2 votes

  8. Comment on Vice, decayed digital colossus, files for bankruptcy in ~news

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    E.g. Motherboard / their tech section is still good in my opinion.

    E.g. Motherboard / their tech section is still good in my opinion.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race in ~tech

  13. Comment on Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - May 4 in ~news

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    No need to apologize. I just wanted to save everyone else who doesn't know either some time.

    No need to apologize. I just wanted to save everyone else who doesn't know either some time.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - May 4 in ~news

  15. Comment on Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 in ~tech

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    In the past End of Support meant no more security updates. But they made exemptions in the past for particularly severe or widely exploited vulnerabilities.

    In the past End of Support meant no more security updates. But they made exemptions in the past for particularly severe or widely exploited vulnerabilities.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 in ~tech

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    As documented on the Windows 10 Enterprise and Education and Windows 10 Home and Pro lifecycle pages, Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10, and all editions will remain in support with monthly security update releases through that date. Existing LTSC releases will continue to receive updates beyond that date based on their specific lifecycles.

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  18. Comment on Don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen in ~comp

  20. Comment on Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - April 20 in ~news

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    Top Kremlin critic convicted of treason, gets 25 years

    Top Kremlin critic convicted of treason, gets 25 years

    A Russian court on Monday convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 25 years in prison as part of the Kremlin’s relentless crackdown on critics of the invasion.

    The political activist and journalist, who twice survived poisonings he blamed on Russian authorities, has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to President Vladimir Putin and likened the proceedings to the show trials under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

    7 votes