tommieb
Re:A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear
on Saturday April 04, 2026 @06:19PM (#47644105)
Does that cover those who were impacted by Rubella / German measles before birth?
Re:Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)
on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:40AM (#39966860)
Lovely article, that brought back memories!
A wee pedantic bit here, to exit the program, it was the school of thought, to use the following instruction - set the exit code to zero and issue terminate.
mov ah, 4ch mov al, 00h ; Or combine both mov into mov ax, 4c00h int 21h
Re:FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids
on Sunday May 07, 2023 @05:21AM (#35849518)
As a user of hearing aids, profoundly deaf from birth, I am against the philosophy of purchasing hearing aids over the counter, unencumbered from audiology prescription fittings and diagnostics. There is absolutely no come-back on this. Sure, hearing aids have come on in leaps and bounds since the digitization of the chip, and it was not so long ago either, two decades ago there was a switch over from analog to digital, well, in Europe that is. This is just opening up potential lawsuits against hearing aid manufacturers - "I bought this hearing aid from place X for Y dollars and now my hearing has detoriarated, am going to sue for damages", this could be unprecedented and sustained damage to the manufacturer's reputation. Each and everyone who does endevour to purchase over the counter, it does take at least a few weeks for the brain to adapt to the new sounds and could raise false hope "I bought this hearing aid X days ago and not noticing any improvement". Not to mention, that audiologists have spent years to study and how to fit/diagnose/troubleshoot hearing aids based off manufacturers specifications. The human side of getting a skilled opinion from a qualified audiologist on the diagnosis for loss of hearing will be effectively lost. Just no, this is just a recipe for disaster.
Re:Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:11AM (#35839271)
After more than two decades - never knew ip had the --color switch, TIL and thanks! :)
Re:Small Visual Basic
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:22PM (#34302168)
Thanks for the reply, that's a real shame about the project.
Re:Small Visual Basic
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:57AM (#34297666)
Interesting, what was the consensus for the split?
Re:Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are ...
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:58AM (#34115461)
the ol' hunter2 ... haven't seen this irc dialogue in years, thanks for the laughs
Re:Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are ...
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:46AM (#34115405)
What I find concerning is PKDBF was used, even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 quotes PKDBF1 and PKDBF2,and that is recommended to use PKDBF2. Is there any evidence to show that they indeed rolled their own encryption rather than use a de-facto standard AES algorithm? Or is there something that is missing.
Re:Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps...
on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#34031317)
Reminds me of the old days of running this tool - kitchen sink, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/kitchen-android-kitchen-v... those days of cyanogenmod/rolling your own rom based off Gingerbread 2.3.7 and hacking... happy memories :)
Re:Lastpass Security Incident
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @02:23AM (#33813336)
How about https://pwsafe.org/ and their releases on github https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsafe/releases?q=non-windows&expa... ?
Re:Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans compe...
on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:12PM (#32668423)
Why is the media insisting on the vernacular "child porn" in usage and references to articles?
It is child abuse, plain and simple.
Something that is often ignored in favour of the former descriptive wording. Editors need to take note of it.
Re:My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole
on Saturday August 13, 2022 @04:46PM (#32453636)
Been using it for a number of years, worth while and have donated on occasion in support of their work.
Re:File transfers via the parallel port on DOS using LapLink
on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:55PM (#31020777)
LHZ / ARJ archive anyone? :)
Re:Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:14PM (#12679168)
What about bitbucket?
I see references to lab and hub, is bitbucket missing?