'twas a sad day when N-gate went quiet.

I'm wondering if Android is vulnerable, since it is based on Linux?

Microsoft has patented that approach!

And yet somehow, Windows 11 remains a steaming pile of incoherent garbage.

The only person fixing bugs at Microsoft is Raymond Chen and he's still patching windows 3.11

I should check to see if SimCity runs on Windows 11.

This is only because people disable telemetry and online accounts.

And in the end Microsoft removes the start button because their telemetry said that nobody clicks it[0] :)

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/why-microsoft-murder...

The only way to not make it garbage is do those thing.

it is indeed the users fault windows 11 is dogshit. facepalm

Both are true, it is a single point of failure and a single point of convenience.

What always puzzles me about this stuff and critical infrastructure like nuclear powerplants, is why is an internal network connected to the public Internet at all?

If you have to connect it to the Internet, then why is it talking to unknown devices?

someone else ;-)

Thank you - the tracker they use weighs in at 60 milligrams, incredibly light.

Pretty much everything that talks http has this Brotli library linked in. A quick file search on a Windows dev box showed:

- git

- Sublime text

- VS studio

- CUDA

- .NET

- inkscape

- AzureTools

There's also a Windows version:

https://github.com/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK

A semi related: a patch for those with multiple cards. You can unlock around 20% increased card to card speed on consumer GPUs using this library:

https://github.com/aikitoria/open-gpu-kernel-modules

The hardware supports it, but then Nvidia disabled it if the driver detects cheaper cards. This bypasses the NVidia slowdown.

Indeed, I already posted it earlier but this definitely deserves a top level comment.

Three bits of trust now - the number 4: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certi...

The "8 bit" part comes from how, of their 8 private keys discovered to be extremely weak, all fit the pattern of a random 8 bit number. The highest of the group was 237 and the lowest was 4.