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Well, so much for my optimism! I got an email saying Deck is delayed by 2 months, and they expect it will start shipping in February.-Deozaan (November 10, 2021, 06:30 PM)
Guys, update on all this:
I'm still using that web portal neuron for reading my notes....it is now called emanote, and even better.
For writing and editing, I use Obsidian.
emanote is awesome.-superboyac (November 09, 2021, 09:11 PM)
Researchers with the University of Cambridge discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers and many software development environments. At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used. Unicode currently defines more than 143,000 characters across 154 different language scripts (in addition to many non-script character sets, such as emojis).
Specifically, the weakness involves Unicode’s bi-directional or “Bidi” algorithm, which handles displaying text that includes mixed scripts with different display orders, such as Arabic — which is read right to left — and English (left to right).
But computer systems need to have a deterministic way of resolving conflicting directionality in text. Enter the “Bidi override,” which can be used to make left-to-right text read right-to-left, and vice versa.
“In some scenarios, the default ordering set by the Bidi Algorithm may not be sufficient,” the Cambridge researchers wrote. “For these cases, Bidi override control characters enable switching the display ordering of groups of characters.”
Bidi overrides enable even single-script characters to be displayed in an order different from their logical encoding. As the researchers point out, this fact has previously been exploited to disguise the file extensions of malware disseminated via email.
Here’s the problem: Most programming languages let you put these Bidi overrides in comments and strings. This is bad because most programming languages allow comments within which all text — including control characters — is ignored by compilers and interpreters. Also, it’s bad because most programming languages allow string literals that may contain arbitrary characters, including control characters.
“So you can use them in source code that appears innocuous to a human reviewer [that] can actually do something nasty,” said Ross Anderson, a professor of computer security at Cambridge and co-author of the research. “That’s bad news for projects like Linux and Webkit that accept contributions from random people, subject them to manual review, then incorporate them into critical code. This vulnerability is, as far as I know, the first one to affect almost everything.”
The research paper, which dubbed the vulnerability “Trojan Source,” notes that while both comments and strings will have syntax-specific semantics indicating their start and end, these bounds are not respected by Bidi overrides.
Yeah, I've given up on the idea of publishing anything on Google Play. It's just too annoying having to constantly update and configure things to keep up with their ever-changing requirements.
Good luck on the re-approval process!-Deozaan (October 26, 2021, 10:18 PM)
If you don't want a web based catalog, Readerware (not free)-xtabber (October 14, 2021, 06:54 AM)
"Not free" is putting it mildly!-rjbull (October 26, 2021, 04:29 PM)
Mine isn't until Q2 2022-wraith808 (October 25, 2021, 09:53 AM)
Ditto.
But that could be as soon as April, which doesn't seem very far away to me.-Deozaan (October 26, 2021, 03:30 AM)
If you are able to search with google, then why haven't you to get the results and tried them? Then you could report back with any problems you have. You come to us with just a problem statement (and sometimes not that much of one) and then are dissatisfied with what that bare question gets you.mmmm-wraith808 (October 25, 2021, 03:40 PM)
It's a method, but not the only one. Many times we ask to a person who knows more than ours to obtain an answer. Not in mode experiment and obtain then advice.-Contro (October 25, 2021, 03:56 PM)
A 3 second google search reveals this: https://answers.micr...82-999d-5003a2c78ad8-Ath (October 25, 2021, 08:41 AM)
As I was in need of transferring a rather large file (about 400 GByte) from a remote location a problem was encountered. None of the computers I normally use for file transfer is able to cope with such a large file. So, I was tempted to try out croc to transfer the file directly to my workstation.
The remote computer is not a "weakling" by any stretch of imagination (16 GByte RAM, 3 year old Intel Xeon CPU, fast drive), but waiting 7+ hours now for a code to be generated by croc (to actually start the transfer) is rather long. Even when the file is about 400 GByte.
And installing Python on both the remote PC and my workstation just to make Magic WormHole work, seems less than ideal as well.-Shades (October 19, 2021, 10:11 PM)
First off, we want to talk about some support pages. On the new "Ways to install Windows 11" support page, Microsoft mentions installing Windows 11 on a device that does not meet the minimum system requirements. It highlights how you can use a registry hack (and actually provides the registry settings) to bypass the TPM and CPU checks in the Windows 11 Installation Assistant:
This makes it clear that it is, in fact, possible to run Windows 11 on any hardware. Yet, a second support page also explains what might happen if you do so. It explains that it is not recommended, and the device might malfunction. Microsoft also makes it clear that "devices that do not meet these system requirements will no longer be guaranteed to receive updates," So there it is.
Probably a pipe dream...Probably?-Deozaan (September 22, 2021, 08:56 PM)
I;m at Gencon 2021 again this weekend. Let me know if you're here too!-mouser (September 15, 2021, 08:21 PM)
Thanks for bringing Croc to my attention! I've been happily using Woof for a few years for transferring files within my LAN. But this looks like it could be useful as a replacement or supplement to Woof, such as if I need to transfer a file to a remote computer.-Deozaan (September 14, 2021, 11:02 AM)
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with what ProtonMail did. They followed the law. An argument could be made that the law(s) should be changed. But they complied as they were legally required to do. And if the person of interest had been a little more careful about masking his IP address, ProtonMail would not have had anything useful to give to the authorities.
ProtonMail still didn't give the contents of the emails to the authorities, because they can't! And if you have read through their FAQs, etc., they were always very explicit (at least in English) in saying which info could be gleaned and which info was encrypted/protected from outsiders (which includes ProtonMail).-Deozaan (September 09, 2021, 04:24 PM)
This smells like spam to me.My thoughts exactly.-Deozaan (September 02, 2021, 05:29 PM)
