[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 26 points 11 months ago

DOCSIS (AKA internet service over coaxial cable) deals in some number of bonded channels, meaning portions of the total available bandwidth on the wire. They asymmetrically allocate channels to download speeds to overcome the limitations of the older copper wire technology. 100Mbps symmetrical is beyond what most of their existing "Broadband" infrastructure can support in rural and underserved areas, so they complained about it being unreasonable. 100Mbps symmetrical is certainly possible over DOCSIS, but speeds are only as fast as the weakest link... And there are a helluva lot of weak links outside of high population density areas.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

Microsoft’s blog adds caveats, such as that Excel avoids the conversion by saving the data as text, which means the data may not work for calculations later. There’s also a known issue where you can’t disable the conversions when running macros.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

The HPV vaccine. Saved you a click.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 39 points 1 year ago

To be clear, I definitely agree that this is a bad idea.

However, one of the hardest things about making autonomous cars work is avoiding traffic and pedestrians. If air traffic control can be managed such that these avoid other aircraft (and things like buildings and cell towers, obviously) I could actually see this as easier to get the software working.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 37 points 1 year ago

Maybe apps will finally feel free to bundle LAME instead of forcing you to download it externally!

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Permanent zero-cost activation that survives reinstalls

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 27 points 1 year ago

KMS requires phoning back to MS periodically to keep the license activated. It's still "permanent" because there's no limit on duration (as of now at least).

HWID activation registers a hardware ID in MS servers to permanently license it. That means no renewal, just forever activation that survives reinstalls.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

This is the real blow. Truly the end of an era.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

Fix is to address a critical CVE:

Specific handling of an attacker-controlled VP8 media stream could lead to a heap buffer overflow in the content process. We are aware of this issue being exploited in other products in the wild.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 23 points 1 year ago

Creating a driver requires a deep understanding of some pretty low-level pieces of Linux. If you're new to Linux, you should probably start with some "new to Linux" tutorials and get an understanding of some basic command line usage. Work your way up to being able to follow a guide on compiling the Linux kernel (without any of your own modifications). After that, you can seek out guides on creating a driver.

As a second note, fingerprint drivers are categorically difficult to work with, so this would really be jumping in on the deepest of deep ends. You can do it! But it will take a LOT of self-education.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 41 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I think you're unlikely to find anything besides the ones made by the big companies: Google, Apple, Samsung, and Garmin are the ones I know. They each have agreements with the banks and credit card companies to handle the secure exchange of data required for the touch payment system. In fact, there are still some issues resulting from a lack of cooperation (such as Citi Bank not working with Garmin Pay because they can't be bothered to set up the relationship). I imagine an open source software would be unable to get the banks to pay attention to them to establish a partnership, or would otherwise be declined because the financial institutions wouldn't trust them.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Bookmarking this. I have such high hopes for this! I recently went searching for my new git GUI, looking for something free, cross-platform, and simple. Basically what I found is the only one I like is GitKraken, which is not free (I have private projects, which GitKraken paywalls).

If this ends up anything like how these screenshots look, this will be my new client! Do you have a Patreon or other donation mechanism?

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Given what I've read about BG3 allowing anyone with at least one level of Wizard learning any spell for which they have slots, and how 5e in general handles spell slots for multiclass casters, I'm thinking to make a Wizard 1/Sorcerer X character, and using the ability to learn from scrolls to remove the limited spell pool weakness from the sorcerer. But then I was thinking - are they Wizard spells if I learn them that way? And if so, will they use INT for attack rolls and save DCs?

I don't have a save file with a high level character that I can just respec to try it out, so I'd appreciate if someone could try it out or just share if they already know the answer. Thanks!

EDIT: Looks like BG3 maintains separate spellbooks, which makes it clear which spells are which and therefore which ability is used. I confirmed that as a Wizard 1/Sorcerer 3 I could learn a level 2 spell from a scroll, which confirms that a Wizard 1/Sorcerer 11 could focus on learning offensive spells with Sorcerer levels, and utility/defensive spells from scrolls.

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