Jernej Simončič �

That was AMI WinBIOS then. 486 we had at home used it, it looked like this:
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2026-05-21 21:17:33 GMT

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I've been serving a 32 GB HTML file pre-compressed with zstd to 2 MB to some Meta scrapper for the last two weeks.

2026-05-04 19:58:26 GMT

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Not with regular Mastodon (or Glitch-soc) web UI.

2026-04-26 20:30:31 GMT

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Interesting that the results here seem to be the opposite of @npub16ys…sjae's.

2026-04-26 10:25:14 GMT

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jernej__s/116470514411412456
@npub1nrx…m4fy
#note1h08…35f8

2026-04-24 17:48:44 GMT

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I go out to walk the dog and come back to 21 notifications …

2026-04-19 19:31:40 GMT

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mastodon.cloud was my first instance, 9 years ago …

2026-01-29 18:55:05 GMT

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I've had so many weird problems caused by (what turned out to be) failing RAM, that I swore off regular RAM years ago. I've since only been using ECC modules. Luckily most Ryzens support ECC, though not all motherboards have all the lanes connected, so if you go this way in the future, check the specifications first (Asus and ASRock usually support ECC, Gigabyte sometimes doesn't).
(Ryzens that don't support ECC are those that start with even numbers – 4xxx, 6xxx, 8xxx series)
Of course, right now any kind or RAM is too expensive.

2026-01-11 20:10:20 GMT

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There's a second problem with OneDrive: if yo use Office and enable AutoSave, your file is automatically saved to OneDrive – while the old version is kept wherever you had it. I know of at least one case where this resulted in an unfinished file being submitted, because there was no indication that the file that was being worked on was only saved to OneDrive.

2026-01-02 08:16:18 GMT

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With alt-text:
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2025-12-27 20:53:47 GMT

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jernej__s/115793506457095282
@npub1lcc…lcye Too late:
#note17zt…9t42

2025-12-27 20:51:29 GMT

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Just saw this posted on Discord:
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2025-12-20 20:42:36 GMT

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About 25 years ago, I found that the Genius mouse driver wrote to Registry every time you moved the mouse…

2025-12-06 14:07:53 GMT

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I saw this on Discord today:
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2025-11-16 23:17:02 GMT

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What's that 5 HDD cage you have in the Supermicro chassis?

2025-11-14 20:52:13 GMT

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What counts as a valid e-mail address is insane.

2025-11-13 14:42:29 GMT

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RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115541807566927762
@npub1afm…5gp4 Yup, and you also get a new notification sound to turn off from the ↕ menu (it's enabled by default, even if you turned off all other notification sounds).
#note10pv…8u29

2025-11-13 14:36:05 GMT

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If you want single-click to boost back, there's a setting in Preferences → Appearance that moves Quote to the ⋯ menu:
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2025-10-26 09:31:11 GMT

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2025-10-25 19:55:30 GMT

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I saw this linked on Discord:
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2025-10-08 11:55:47 GMT

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A client of mine (that I first notified on September 25th) finally patched after they were nudged by their upstream. Funnily enough, their firewall contractor is still running firmware from 2023 according to your scan :)

2025-09-25 22:54:41 GMT

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Očitno je Microsoft v EU podaljšal podporo za Windows 10: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-will-offer-free-windows-10-security-updates-in-europe/

2025-09-21 16:17:36 GMT

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If there's a link to paywalled story in a toot that interests me, I'll usually post an archive link in reply.

2025-09-16 16:24:15 GMT

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Quotes work for accounts that opted-in (like yours and mine, you can see them in action eg. here: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/115210039369607089).

2025-09-05 12:06:37 GMT

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You're not going far enough – why use assembly, when you could generate machine code directly‽

2025-09-03 07:40:07 GMT

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Reminds me of running Windows Memory Diagnostic on some machine with failing RAM:
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2025-09-02 13:13:38 GMT

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Is this also why you can't add a phone number to a MS account right now (at least in Europe)?

2025-08-31 20:17:39 GMT

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Here's a link that doesn't redirect to Youtube: https://archive.is/a3aBl

2025-08-22 22:38:04 GMT

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Since they're radioactive, shouldn't that symbol be used?
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2025-08-19 12:35:32 GMT

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I refuse to sign any signature pads (whether or not they show what I'm signing), because there's no way to guarantee that my signature won't be transferred elsewhere. Give me either paper or (better) a PDF that I can digitally sign on my own computer, since that signature is the only one that can't be forged (assuming you don't have NSA resources).

2025-08-18 19:55:39 GMT

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I'm most annoyed at the "It's your fault!" error message, because I've seen it on a ton of different sites, where each was different, but they all assumed I was trying to use an app offline, not a website where I followed an external link to. If it was at least "We're having problems loading the site, try again later", but no, it was always "How dare you try using this thing offline"?

2025-08-18 19:35:06 GMT

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It's not just Github, it's basically every websiteapp nowadays. Click a link to a text article, something fails to load off CDN and you're greeted with "You're offline, try again after establishing internet connection" (seriously, they blame you for a fail on their side).

2025-07-29 10:02:45 GMT

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One of many Nanoraptor's wonderful creations.

2025-07-09 16:00:11 GMT

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I *still* don't get what the problem with Clippy was. It was easy to disable, and most users actually liked it; there was just some very vocal minority of IT pros that (still) seems to be horribly offended by it…

2025-07-08 07:14:44 GMT

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I've been running 10 Gb over about 50 m of 20 years old CAT5e for about half a year, and it surprisingly worked (it stopped suddenly, at which point I finally used CAT7 I bought at the same time as the 10G switches; I still run 10G over shorter spans of CAT5e).

2025-05-24 09:30:42 GMT

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So every passenger should be required to read the manual before entering a Tesla then?

2025-04-12 15:00:20 GMT

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Measure yourself in the morning, you'll be a bit taller.

2025-04-10 18:17:58 GMT

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I just tested, and while you can create inetpub folder without elevation, you can't create an inetpub file, so you at least can't prevent the update from installing as a regular user.

2025-04-09 17:11:14 GMT

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At least it looks like the update fails to apply if you create a file named inetpub in root first.

2025-04-06 13:06:52 GMT

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I'm not even sure why Microsoft is insisting on TPM, secure boot and 8th gen Intel/2nd gen Ryzen CPUs – 11 24H2 runs just fine on basically any machine made in the last 15 years (the only real requirement is POPCNT support by CPU, something that's been available since 2009, and which Windows 10 did not need).

2025-04-05 17:33:15 GMT

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x64 version of taviso's loadlibrary?

2025-04-02 17:59:34 GMT

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You mean the policy that's been deprecated?
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2025-03-19 21:53:44 GMT

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Chromium-based browsers broke this support somewhere around version 80 or 90 – they will still happily pick your system's configured background colour, but text will always be black if the site doesn't configure it. Luckily Dark Reader fixed this problem, too.

2025-03-14 17:24:40 GMT

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I disabled the Run dialog at my clients (which is mildly inconvenient for me when using those computers, but better than cleaning up afterwards). I just wish it didn't also disable typing into Explorer's address bar…

2025-02-15 10:14:12 GMT

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Given the possible unbalance, even using the supplied cable probably won't help you in the long run – it likely will prevent the PSU-side connector from heating up, but not the GPU side. I'd keep the chassis open while gaming.

2025-02-10 20:35:30 GMT

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2025-01-16 08:03:33 GMT

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8: 26266467

2025-01-05 22:04:14 GMT

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Oh, I feel that. Years ago I ported [easy-rsa](https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa ) to a batch file, and found so many corner cases…

2024-12-20 18:36:44 GMT

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I've heard that in Hungary (which has a law mandating the kids give up their phones at the start of the school day) it resulted in kids simply having decoy phones they lock up.

2024-12-19 13:25:37 GMT

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You can follow his bsky account through brid.gy: [@mmasnick.bsky.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social ), you'll then see that he did.

2024-12-08 18:16:52 GMT

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Why'd you need a Matrox for quad monitors? I had 4 displays at work since around 2012, when I removed a "Do not remove" plate that was screwed over the on-board graphics card on a HP desktop.
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2024-12-07 18:51:12 GMT

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What exactly is the reason to limit Win11 to 8th gen Intel and 2nd gen AMD? Seems completely arbitrary (especially since Server 2025 only needs a CPU supporting POPCNT, which IIRC has been supported since 1st gen Core i CPUs).

2024-12-05 18:29:33 GMT

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Yes, this is how most (all?) of Europe works.
If your number is +386 1 2345678, and you're calling from the 1 area code in Slovenia, you can call just 2345678; if you're calling from any other area code, you call 012345678, and if you're calling from abroad, you call +38612345678 (replace + with whatever the country you're calling from uses for international dialling, most often that's 00).

2024-12-01 14:02:26 GMT

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My mother's new car has those sensors, and they're constantly signalling to check tyre pressure, even though there's nothing wrong with it, rendering them completely useless.

2024-11-27 16:09:03 GMT

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100 TB of storage (before RAID).
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2024-11-26 17:08:05 GMT

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No backplane, so not that useful (every time a drive dies, you have to mess with cables, which probably means taking the whole thing offline).

2024-11-25 17:41:08 GMT

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Weird, I get the opposite results with [slow](https://eternallybored.org/misc/mandelL.cmd ) [enough](https://eternallybored.org/misc/mandelU.cmd ) batch files:
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2024-11-22 21:28:38 GMT

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You can get a brand new 256 GB NVMe SSD for [18€](https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hdssd&sort=p&xf=252_240%7E4832_3#productlist ).

2024-11-22 21:08:11 GMT

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Brand new 256GB ones shouldn't be much more expensive (and will probably be about the same speed – the NVMe drives pulled from OEM machines are almost all QLC, and *will* drop to 20-30 MB/s write speed once you fill their SLC cache).

2024-10-26 21:07:28 GMT

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I've got a chronic medical condition, but becoming immortal would basically get rid of it…

2024-10-21 06:33:38 GMT

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Why did you connect your monitor to the internet?

2024-10-16 08:53:44 GMT

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For me POST takes longer than Windows startup…

2024-10-09 20:32:51 GMT

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The problem is that you can have completely legal USB-C cable types with different capabilities, from supporting just USB 2.0 and 3 A charging to Thunderbolt5 with 5 A charging, and everything in between. Wikipedia has a handy [table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Cable_types ):
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2024-10-09 19:55:00 GMT

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Instead of 20 different cables with different connectors we now have 20 different cables with the same connector, that often isn't even marked with what it supports. I fail to see how this is an improvement.

2024-10-01 21:57:37 GMT

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I'd still suggest you try to RMA it while you can.

2024-10-01 21:25:31 GMT

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If you've already had issues, the new microcode won't fix your CPU, since it's likely already irreversibly damaged; it'll only stop the issues from getting worse (which may not be a good thing, since it could just result in your CPU failing after the warranty period ends instead of before).

2024-09-09 14:20:57 GMT

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IIRC, @npub1lcc…lcye's using toot.io.

2024-09-04 12:48:58 GMT

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That was dimethylmercury, which is much nastier than plain mercury.

2024-08-27 13:55:26 GMT

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Reminds me of when I made a mingw cross-compiler for Windows Services for Unix :)

2024-08-21 20:57:32 GMT

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Wat? I've been running mail servers for years, and I've never heard of any servers using anything other than 25 for SMTP.
Are you confusing e-mail delivery with submission, which does use different ports (465 and 587)?

2024-06-01 20:44:31 GMT

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…or just get a big enough bed?

2024-06-01 08:02:18 GMT

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Yeah, mine happened before M1, too. I also searched the internet for any solution, and the universal answer was "reformat and reinstall".

2024-05-31 14:13:21 GMT

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A few years ago I was helping somebody get photos off their iMac – the computer would randomly crash, and it turned out to be filesystem corruption which couldn't be fixed; any time you tried accessing one of the corrupted files the OS would crash. Tried fixing the filesystem from recovery environment, and even that failed; there was no way to get those photos off the machine, because too many files were triggering the crash.

2024-03-29 13:00:28 GMT

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You're right. Sadly, it doesn't seem to trigger anything on my Windows.
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2024-03-29 11:30:27 GMT

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Some systems will store whatever data they decode, and antivirus may quarantine that file.
A few years ago you could break the WiFi stack in Windows by connecting to a network named Invoke-Mimikatz – Windows would connect and store the network in its settings, then Windows Defender would notice the bad string and nuke the whole thing. (sadly WiFi network names are limited to 32 bytes, so EICAR doesn't fit).

2024-03-23 13:57:47 GMT

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I've had so many clients where the server was accessed through the toilets…