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Linux oh Linux, you're making me Run windows 7 for a Mastodon client that plays sounds for events, oh why so must this be. Really want to warm up to this land of Linux but I'm thinking more and more, maybe I'll have to settle with Windows 10 forever. Some of you who know me a bit more personally from 2016 might recall when I used to say that. All the time, Windows 10 forever! Oh wow how I never thought the truth of that statement might one day shine through and not for the reasons that we were marketed at the time, mainly that it really would be the last version of Windows. No wit's because Windows 10, in its final form, still uses aprox 300-400 MB less RAM, and while RAM in of itself isn't the problem these days, it's that it spins up a bunch of broker and even more SVCHost (Service control host) processes, just to accomplish what Windows 10 did. And yes, the same could be said For windows 7 to 10: Windows 7 can fit into 500 or less MB of memory, with very few SVCHosts, because at the time, the entire Onecoreification (yes, that's pronounced one-core-eefication) of the OS had not yet happened. That my friends, was all after Windows 8, and I'd say by 8.1 we had doubled the Ram, from that of Windows 7. But you know what? Nobody cared, because not many ran Windows 8.X, so people just accepted Windows 10 with these higher process usages.
Linux? Well the number of services you run are on you, really. If you want 1 GB of Ram, install Mate and it's good. Monday rant over!
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Say hello to @RocketChat a proud sponsor of Matrix Conference 2025 in Strasbourg!

🍴 Swing by their booth right by the food bar for a chat,
🥂 join them co-hosting the welcome party on Wednesday, or
🎤 catch CEO Gabriel Engel on stage sharing his insights.

Thanks Rocket.Chat for sponsoring The Matrix Conference!

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Languages are fun, have mysterious rules called grammar, but their native speakers certainly don't care about all that. In other words, do native speakers of a language speak the language correctly, as textbooks prescribe? (Hint: Definitely not.)

Here's a video to illustrate this. Thanks, Google recommendations. youtube.com/watch?v=nIl_rdTUU1…


16 phrases you can hear native British English speakers say that you were taught were wrong

In this English Lesson with British English Teacher Roy, learn how to sound more like a native British English speaker when you speak English. In this Englis...
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Winter blue tardis reshared this.

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Today is nine years ago since I learned how a single fixed byte write outside a heap buffer in c-ares could be used in a sequence to execute code as root on Chrome OS:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/14…


a single byte write opened a root execution exploit

Thursday, September 22nd 2016. An email popped up in my inbox. Subject: ares_create_query OOB write As one of the maintainers of the c-ares project I'm receiving mails for suspected security problems in c-ares and this was such a one.
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I don't know who of you posted this theory but thanks to you and my colleague who helped me test this, I know for sure no that you can use the sound split feature of your screen reader to send just the sound of your other apps, without the TTS, while screen-sharing on meeting platforms. I tested this with NVDA and Jitsi running inside Chrome. When NVDA is on the left and everything else right, only a faint echo of my TTS could be heard most likely owing to how my headset and the jack of my Thinkpad is wired. This must mean that probably Chrome or Windows take the right channel as the mix in case of doubt and when everything has to be mono, but then I might be wrong on all of that so let's goooo! I'll have to test with other platforms. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
#a11y #Accessibility #blind
in reply to Jiří Eischmann

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AGRO TURBO.EXE SATAN 🇺🇦🇨🇿

haha, good. reminds me of that one time i've been to a prosthetist with my kid. that is the sort of person that makes various medical aid devices. he needed to take measurement of child's feet, with a device that basically resembles a rugged document scanner.

bro rushes in a bit late, apologizes, powers on the computer, has the girl take off her shoes and step on the scanner. as the computer goes through POST our collective eyeballs turn on the screen:

Installing updates: 0%

*awkward silence*
*you can step off the scanner sweetie*

Installing updates: 0%

*apologies*
*small talk*

Installing updates: 0%
Do not turn the computer off.

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This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
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