All Activity

digging deeper, ICU4C's ures_openDirect() fails, which ICU data is bundled inside DLL.

I think biggest issue is not email itself. Back in day it used to open protocol, it is companies trying lock you into their web apps these days for email access and block imap and pop3 access in name of security or atleast make it hard to access. Also many sites not allowing you to use more than few predefined email providers. I noticed that when switched into my custom email server, many sites says my email address is not allowed please use other provider. I can understand on spam standpoint maybe reduce it a bit but when been working on IT and email servers, most of spam comes from either free gmail or outlook addresses and rarely from new domains. Also big providers mark any email coming from custom email domain as spam even if SPF and DKIM records exists and are valid. It is fight against the windmills. What annoys me even more than requiring email is requiring smartphone app to verify yourself to some sites. Always asked about MFA that why do you need it everywhere, if you passwords are stored on piece of paper and are over 20 characters long. If you device where you logged in to MFA enabled service gets compromised, MFA wont help as they just use login token stolen from browser to access service. I am not saying that MFA is unneeded, in banking for example asking random number from piece of paper makes it harder for random transactions to be made but many people see using constantly internet connected spyware platform as more security option for MFA. I am lucky to be able still use what i have to use without needing smartphone and smartphone apps

Was he german? Usually people don't talk out from other people events unless it was something big like that person death. I am kinda happy people try avoid saying it since I don't want any rumors to be spread around

Well come back, I'm glad you're here! I asked one man who was in contact with you (allegedly), he didn't mention any of these tragic events, I wish you recover and live a long life!

On almost every forum or forum-like website we need an e-mail. Using it we can change passwords almost unrestricted, in rare cases there might be a secondary security question (your pet's name). Some websites now enforce a password change every once in a while. Even some simple discussion boards. The e-mail is assumed to be much more trustworthy than whatever else that is password protected, and access to the e-mail is set in stone. But that is not necessarily true. We can forget the password to it just the same. Increasingly often an e-mail is just a website, and not something tied to my person. Back when Google was still young and brown, I used to juggle a few accounts there to access to some stuff that had "X per user". Over time the site became bloated as it is, and I let those accounts lapse from my memory, and maybe from their cloud. My ISP decided to discontinue its e-mail service in favor to a freemium bloat site. If I had quit my contract with the ISP, I would likely lose access to the e-mail within some period of time. (This didn't happen, but it should be expected.) Even before Baidu came to be, I used a mail server provided as a public service by my city council. It was free of ads, had POP access, simple web UI, and a decent amount of space: 5 to 15 MB. No need for more for plain letters that will be retrieved regularly. But people eventually expected more. And the city repurposed the domain to create some modern app service. They did give us an advance notice. But there are hundreds of internet sites that I can't remember to reassign. Some software or video game support site that I may need once a year. They keep chugging along just fine, until years later they decide it is time to up the security game and reset the password. Like the almighty Discogs. They have some money element to them because, besides ripping metadata, you can also trade records. I can't even recall which of the above options I used for signing up to it 12 years ago. I was without Internet for for about two years. When I returned, I used my old ISP e-mail to reset a whole host of sites. (It was old school and managed by the admins manually.) If one were to hack it, they could do that too. Because it unexpectedly is the "master key". I suspect that the smartphone might become the "master key" in the future. What if that fails or is lost? Or more likely deemed obsolete and unsupported. I have a Gingerbread 2.9 something smartphone, and I can do zero current "apps" on it. And it is younger than WinXP.

The car have drove to the other direction

Seems this cafe is still open after all these years and there are people in here. Well now I am back (ex Mr.Scienceman2000). Why I was few years absent was because I had an accident and got injured pretty badly. Really did not feel like going to forums anymore and instead focused on slowly recovering from getting somewhat up from web with crutches to walk somewhat fine. On the other hand that time gave me time to reflect things on life I was not happy at all with and which felt like they were holding me back. Finally gotten rid of them and now I finally get to live way I want.

Name has been changed.

Welcome to the MSFN!

I have used this forum some years ago but just today I decided to register. I like both new and old technology. I have started using technology when I was very young. Mainly I got even more interested in emulators and other older technology after watching videos from Druaga1 and OSFirstTimer.

Pretty much the title, the start button icon looks bigger when the taskbar is set to m icons. I have two images attached one from startisback, the second from regular windows 10 Here is startisback: Here is regular windows 10:

Yessaaaa, now the simulation of cmpxchg8b is much better, here in ntoskrnl.exe Dietmar .data:004762F2 ; Exported entry 8. ExInterlockedPopEntrySList .data:004762F2 ; Exported entry 36. InterlockedPopEntrySList .data:004762F2 .data:004762F2 ; =============== S U B R O U T I N E ======================================= .data:004762F2 .data:004762F2 .data:004762F2 public ExInterlockedPopEntrySList .data:004762F2 ExInterlockedPopEntrySList proc near ; CODE XREF: sub_40E06D+1DAp .data:004762F2 ; sub_41159B+8Ap ... .data:004762F2 push ebx ; ExInterlockedPopEntrySList .data:004762F3 push ebp .data:004762F4 mov ebp, ecx .data:004762F6 .data:004762F6 loc_4762F6: ; DATA XREF: .text:loc_40A835o .data:004762F6 ; KiDeliverApc+12o .data:004762F6 mov edx, [ebp+4] .data:004762F9 mov eax, [ebp+0] .data:004762FC .data:004762FC loc_4762FC: ; CODE XREF: ExInterlockedPopEntrySList+18j .data:004762FC ; ExInterlockedPopEntrySList+23j .data:004762FC or eax, eax .data:004762FE jz short loc_476317 .data:00476300 lea ecx, [edx-1] .data:00476303 .data:00476303 loc_476303: ; DATA XREF: sub_40A552:loc_40A55Bo .data:00476303 ; .text:loc_40A747o .data:00476303 mov ebx, [eax] .data:00476305 .data:00476305 loc_476305: ; DATA XREF: KiDeliverApc+1Bo .data:00476305 lock cmpxchg [ebp+0], ebx .data:0047630A jnz short loc_4762FC .data:0047630C push eax .data:0047630D mov eax, edx .data:0047630F lock cmpxchg [ebp+4], ecx .data:00476314 pop eax .data:00476315 jnz short loc_4762FC .data:00476317 .data:00476317 loc_476317: ; CODE XREF: ExInterlockedPopEntrySList+Cj .data:00476317 pop ebp .data:00476318 pop ebx .data:00476319 nop .data:0047631A nop .data:0047631B nop .data:0047631C nop .data:0047631D nop .data:0047631E nop .data:0047631F retn .data:0047631F ExInterlockedPopEntrySList endp .data:0047631F .data:0047631F ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Back on topic please!

in europe you are unlikely to find spares for very old cars and they also want to apply more restrictions https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-01-17/is-the-european-union-going-to-ban-repairing-old-vehicles-to-force-the-purchase-of-electric-ones.html#

Back on topic, has anyone else using Thorium noticed it sometimes not loading web fonts? I've noticed it on this forum site which I use a lot - https://forums.digitalspy.com/ It looks fine in 360Chrome and Supermium, but not in Thorium, where it falls back to Times New Roman. The console shows many entries saying "OTS parsing error: Unable to instantiate font face from font data." I assume this is the cause.

@roytam1 On my Asrock z370 k6 board with 8700k cpu all my files without any cmpxchg8b are stable. But this is not the case for the 486 cpu. Strange. I think, it depends only on the simulation of cmpxchg8b in ntoskrnl.exe in the function ExInterlockedPopEntrySList. But I dont have a better idea until now for this simulation of cmpxchg8b there Dietmar

AGREED! I remember telling DOZENS of mobile phone users that were begging for their landline number to be trasnferred to their mobile that they are not thinking through the consequences.

The Industrial Revolution smartphone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

But we have smartphone...

Dark Magic it darks buttons in Visual Studio 2022 Settings Applet.

You could bypass W11's hardware requirements by installing it with Rufus.

My interest in scripts is specifically for security/privacy. So I block all HTTP website scripts in the browser. Almost all links to malwares content are HTTP. But with a simple rule in uBO you can do the same.

Check if you are in this situation: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/04/23/windows-11-24h2-wont-boot-if-the-pc-does-not-support-this-cpu-feature/ to check the CPU you can use CPU-Z which must be started from administrator account: https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

What do you drive? I drive an "Ungoogled Jeep with Chrome rims."

Very true. I only cite Proxomitron's POWER because if people want to STAY on XP, they can NOT do this just with polyfills alone. They will also need a way to do things that Proxomitron and Proxomitron ALONE can do. Two such examples that I required when still on XP + 360Chrome is the ability to "degrade" a CSS Level 4 :not() to a Level 3 :not() and the ability to "defuse" a CSS :where(). https://caniuse.com/?search=%3Anot()%20level%204 https://caniuse.com/?search=%3Awhere And only only ONLY with Proxomitron can you take a javascript section of code that is 150 pages long and rip 50 of those pages completely out and only send 100 pages to the browser. They are ripped out before the browser ever sees them, before uBO ever sees them, before NoScript ever sees them, before uMatrix ever sees them, et cetera. And they don't have to be 50 consecutive "pages", you can rip out page 2, page 12, pages, 20 thru 25, page 56, you name it. You can keep page 75 and the 200 words on page 75, but you can change 10 of those 200 words - before the browser ever sees them, before uBO ever sees them, et cetera.