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Re:Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:27AM (#46432632)
"reference TVs" exist, they're what movies/tv shows are mastered on, e.g. https://flandersscientific.com/XMP551/
Re:Wayback Machine Homepage is missing from Google results on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:56AM (#39987097)
It shows up on bing, yahoo, and yandex, but not google.
Re:Find My Device on Android on Monday April 08, 2024 @04:20PM (#39973300)
Google maps location sharing works cross-platform on android and iOS
Re:Palworld Has the Highest Player Count on Steam on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:56PM (#39086020)
It's unreal, and it actually runs pretty well. The devs seem to actually know how to use the engine. I've had significantly less stutters in it than in some other recently released AAA unreal games.
Exception Level 2 [1] They're analogous to "protection rings" on x86. Generally, EL0 is usermode, EL1 is kernel mode, EL2 is hypervisor, and EL3 is the "secure monitor"/firmware code, closest analogy I think would be SMM on x86. On top of all of that there's also trustzone with its own EL0 and EL1.

1: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102412/0103/Privileg...

Re:Do, or do not. There is no try on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:09PM (#36464263)
BEGIN TRANSACTION;

... ; Modify DB

... ; Inspect State

ROLLBACK TRANSACTION;

and then switch the rollback to commit when satisfied

It's extremely common in asp.net apps
appending .i to the end of the url will still get you the compact frontend
bootguard keys are oem specific
Not exactly sure how the desktop Linux boot process is structured, but on windows with bitlocker the boot partition isn't encrypted either. UEFI has to be able to load a boot manager somehow, and unless you're going to splice in a DXE driver to your mobo's fw, which has the risk of bricking, to decrypt a partition, then you're always going to need a cleartext partition somewhere.

On windows the default way it's set up when you have a TPM though is that it locks the decryption keys against a hash of all of the code that has run during the boot process.

Re:The return of lazy imports for Python on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:47PM (#34134008)
But you're still getting the perf hit of calling a function and checking if the module is already loaded
Re:PS5 4.03 Kernel Exploit on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:27PM (#33073213)
What makes you say that? It looks like this was definitely used in the chain on that post to me.
There's static ding that'll make turn the sticky/floating elements into normal ones

https://www.staticding.org/

it does put a little overlay telling you how many elements it adjusted, but you can remove that with a couple modified lines in the source.

Re:Hacking the PS4 / PS5 Through the PS2 Emulator on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:17PM (#32860780)
in the first paragraph

> See also Part 2 (to be published),

Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:38AM (#31395388)
ring -1 is canonically the hypervisor, so you could probably count hyper-v or xen or esxi as operating systems
Re:Apple Discontinues macOS Server on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:19PM (#31114688)
thumbs.db hasn't been a thing since XP... Vista+ generates thumbcache_xxx.db within the user's temp folder.
This website does something weird with scrolling and is impossible to use
Re:Peloton – A call for action [pdf] on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:18PM (#30289394)
Don't you mean MAAAN?
Just a theory, but it looks like it could be caused by differences in the tone mapping algorithm used to convert the HDR masters down into an SDR palette.
Re:Windows 2000 Modernization Guide on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:17PM (#29704384)
You can by modifying the security attributes on DWM's theming handle so that it's inaccessible(you could also just force close the handle but that's not reversible).

https://winclassic.boards.net/thread/413/reversibly-enable-d...

Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:17PM (#29261638)
Within the past couple of months they replaced it with a version that only has a daily spend limit.
Re:TPM Sniffing on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:38PM (#29260784)
I thought FIBs usually cost under $500k?
Re:TPM Sniffing on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:34PM (#29260764)
On intel systems at least the "firmware" tpm is really implemented in the PCH. It'd probably still be possible to sniff the i/o lines between the cpu & pch but still way more complex than between the tpm and cpu.
Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:54PM (#28776099)
got banned
Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:52PM (#28766144)
Right click for people with real mice

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