IIRC, Elite used lookup tables for trigonometric functions on certain target platforms (maybe the NES) because memory wasn’t as much of a constraint as computing performance. It’s a barrel of game compressed into a pint of code.

Use this: https://winutil.christitus.com/

It’s a GUI wrapper for PowerShell commands to customize a Windows install, and has a section where you can remove AppX packages (Copilot and similar). And a lot more. I strongly recommend it.

If you would prefer to use PowerShell…

It does. I’ve been able to uninstall everything from Copilot to Edge on my second PC.

Laughs in Europe. OneDrive is legally required to be a one-click uninstall.

CUPS didn’t work for me as I can’t see an upload option on the web UI.

And you won’t. For the purpose of printing, CUPS is a print server, not a web front-end. It facilitates communication between client devices and downstream printers through a unified open protocol that isn’t manufacturer-dependent.

Printing is implemented through IPP, which is an HTTP-based protocol. You have to add the URL of the printer as it appears on the web UI (e.g. https://print.mydomain.net/printers/PRINTER_NAME) as a printer in the client device’s printer manager. It’s plug-and-play on Linux and Mac, and needs a driver (even if it’s the generic PostScript driver) on Windows.

Now all I need is a way to remotely start a headless session and I can finally nuke X11 off my computer.

Thinking back to the sins I’ve committed in C# as a high schooler… maybe I should start publishing my works. Put some poison in the soup.

.NET is branding that Steve Ballmer came up with, and yes, it was originally meant to be a set of network and internet frameworks. The .NET Framework was an underlying interface that other .NET products would use. It was then superseded by .NET Core, which was later renamed to .NET.

At the same time, I liked .NET’s no-nonsense naming of namespaces. When I see something like System.Threading.Tasks, I can immediately recognise that it’s a namespace that deals with task-based parallelism. Then you have tokio in Rust and I want to stab the person that came up with the name. Same for clap and serde. They mean nothing unless you already know what those packages do.

Sounds like a cryptobro peddling some shitcoin claiming that it’s impossible to get scammed because “code is law” four seconds before the liquidity pool gets drained through a vulnerability in the code.

Oracle sponsors our university to teach their flavour of SQL (Oracle SQL, not MySQL) with their management software rather than any of the competitors, free or otherwise. One of the DBA teachers once told me that there are enough differences between Oracle and other flavours that the knowledge isn’t immediately transferrable, so when students graduate, all they know is Oracle, and they perpetuate the cycle.

This is obviously an unfair anti-competitive practice, but crimes are only illegal if someone enforces the law.

The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain.

The US Copyright Office has declared that it would not grant copyright protection to AI-generated material due to a lack of human authorship, but it is very far from being codified by law, nor does it say anything about the ownership of the material.

I didn’t do that exactly… but when my boss told me to do overtime during end-of-quarter crunch on a Saturday night shift (Sat 22:00 to Sun 10:00, factory jobs are fun), the next person I spoke to was my family doctor. She put me on a two-week compulsory medical leave with full pay and straight up told me to get a new job. Unfortunately I couldn’t help the company meet their quarterly growth targets. The next time I saw my boss, I handed him my resignation papers.

Sure feels nice to live in a country with real labour laws.

I enjoyed the work itself. It was very autism-friendly. Unfortunately some absolute boneheaded decisions by the middle management wankers during the pandemic resulted in a huge backlog of orders, a shortage of parts, and a constant state of short-staffing.

It’s a resolution they’ve arrived after considering the benefits and downsides of that tool. Nukes can be used for efficient large-scale excavation, but people were sane enough to realize why nuking themselves was a horrible idea.

Considering only the benefits and not the risks and drawbacks of anything is not just reckless. It’s zealotry.

All of the alternatives eventually run into the same “Will my banking app work on it?” problem. The absence of a healthy app economy is the one thing that can’t be fixed by throwing software engineers at it, and it is what caused the death of Windows Phone.

As others have said, Tailscale is the most pragmatic solution. It’s a mesh VPN based on Wireguard. It’s implemented in such a way that you don’t need a static IP and don’t need to open any ports on your firewall. The caveat is that you either need to register an account on tailscale.com (it’s free for small-scale use) or set up a self-hosted alternative like Headscale on a VPS. Then you have to install the Tailscale client on each of the hosts you want to access and log into your account.

Tailscale nodes will be accessible using an internal, private address in the 100.64.0.0/10 address space. You can also set up a split DNS that allows you to access your hosts using a DNS name like hostname.your-tailnet-name.ts.net.

Do they accept photographs of my money, or will I have to phone them and jingle some coins at the handset?

"We spent two decades making sure the compiler will never produce memory-unsafe code. It requires a lot of nigh-illegible boilerplate code to even compile and adds massive cognitive load, but the effort will be worth it.

Anyway, here’s a type whose only purpose is to disable all of that shit."

I mean whatever level of access is required to upload an image. That can be access to the web app (with login), access through WebDAV, or access to the underlying OS or filesystem. If you can put a file on Nextcloud, it is sufficient access.

I forgot to mention that the vulnerability can only be exploited if libraw is also compiled with a particular flag that enables the vulnerable feature. That flag is disabled on base Debian. Docker’s service doesn’t test whether the vulnerability is actually present in the image, only that the package version is listed as affected.