He can still defend his employee, right?
My understanding is that LPL is not still practicing (he says he's retired, to focus on security work), but I'd guess he knows someone, if McNally didn't already have his own lawyer.
Readit NewsJonathonW commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Did Cyrix cease to exist or is this someone using their x86 license?
EDIT: That's exactly what it is! They are a joint venture with VIA which acquired most of Cyrix in 1999:
And Cyrix MediaGX (which remained with National Semiconductor after the VIA acquisition) became Geode which was eventually sold to AMD.
JonathonW commented on PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin newsroom.paypal-corp.com/... · Posted by u/DocFeind
Nice of them to cause confusion to make phoning easier. No, corp.paypal.com/news or PayPal.com/corp/newsroom etc weren’t a good idea. I’d love to hear how decisions like this get made.
This approach (using a separate domain for content that isn't part of their service itself) has security advantages-- for example, this way a compromise of their news site CMS can't expose users' PayPal session tokens.
It's decently common for websites to do this-- this is the same reason why Github Pages is hosted at github.io rather than github.com, and why static blobs are at githubusercontent.com. Those have a somewhat different threat model than PayPal's news site (hopefully PayPal isn't letting any random person add news stories...), but the premise is the same: if the thing does not need authentication tokens for the main service, make it so that it's impossible for it to get them.
(You could get some of the same effect by scoping your cookies to a specific subdomain rather than allowing them to apply to all subdomains, but (1) that's not always how you want to structure your site, and (2) it's really easy to mess up and inadvertently scope a cookie too broadly (or for the browser to misbehave and send to subdomains anyways, which was the default behavior of one very prominent browser for a really long time). Using a different domain entirely sidesteps all of this completely.)
JonathonW commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx
JonathonW commented on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK docs.flightsimulator.com/... · Posted by u/breve
I am not sure I am following. The game runs on windows, why not compile the add-in code directly for the single target?
Is it for future proofing it in case MS wants to release the game in a different platform that is not windows ?
Because the game already also runs on Xbox and, given MS's recent gaming strategy (which is putting less emphasis on Xbox exclusives), could conceivably come to Playstation or maybe even Switch 2 in the future.
On the Windows side of things, there's also a push towards ARM hardware (with current Snapdragon-based hardware actually performing pretty well). Not sure if Flight Simulator is currently ARM-native, but having the ability to go ARM-native is probably desirable at least as a long-term goal.
JonathonW commented on Alternative Layout System alternativelayoutsystem.c... · Posted by u/smartmic
No. Both Torah scrolls and ancient Greco-Roman papyrus scrolls are written sideways, in columns of a consistent width. The rollers are held in the hands.
Modern fantasy depictions of vertical scrolls leave an erroneous impression that the book proceeds in a downward direction, in addition to the cliché use of 'see above' to prefer to anything previously in the text. Hypertext media and text editors further support this misunderstanding by applying continuous scrolling to a document. This confusion is quite new, perhaps as recent as the 1980s.
Scrolls written in a single column and "scrolled" vertically (like a modern text editor or web browser) weren't completely unheard of, particularly for liturgical or legal documents. See http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/viewFile/9191/4607
But, yeah, the horizontal format would've been more common.
JonathonW commented on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits airpass.tiagoalves.me/... · Posted by u/herbertl
Looking around briefly, you can replace it with this:
`networksetup -setairportpower en0 on && [... set MAC ...] && networksetup -setairportpower en0 off`
I think it's pretty safe to assume that modern Macs will always have en0 as the WiFi adapter, but if you wanted, you could use `networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder` to find the associated device.
Modern Macs do not always have en0 as the WiFi adapter (it's en1 on current iMacs and on the Mac Studio; en0 is the ethernet jack).
But you're unlikely to be taking one of the machines that has built-in ethernet to the airport or coffeeshop.
"Back to the Future: The Ride" was also an Omnimax dome system, but with moving platforms instead of seats. It was installed in 3 locations, with 2 screens at each, so a total of 6 screens.
I'm not sure if any later similar rides used a similar system, (for example Disney's Soarin') or if they are new enough to be digital from the start.
Soarin’ (in California and Florida, at least) originally used IMAX film projectors and OMNIMAX-style dome screens; it was updated to digital at around the same time as the ride film changed to the current “Soarin’ around the World” in 2016 (plus or minus a year; I think the digital conversion might’ve been a bit earlier in California)
JonathonW commented on Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts github.com/dse/old-timey-... · Posted by u/dsevil
Based on the first link, it seems as though zero and upper-case "O" are very similar. (My eyes cannot discern a difference, but I admit that my eyes are not top-notch.)
In Old Timey Mono, lowercase "L" and the number "1" are also very similar.
Old Timey Code fixes both of these-- it has a slashed zero and redraws the number 1 to be distinct (angles the top serif).
JonathonW commented on Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils altusintel.com/public-yyc... · Posted by u/donnachangstein
This reads like AI spew, and it's also not news (the post announcing this initiative [1] is from March).
[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-ox...