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The old-fashioned way, build your own kernel with the driver included.

Incorrect. See also: NetWare, Stoned.

Was quality even an issue at 480i?

Yes - VHS had limited luma bandwidth that was about 50% of broadcast TV, and extremely limited chroma bandwidth (the equivalent of about 40 pixels per line). There's a reason laserdisc existed.

Spot on...as I recall, you really couldn't tell the difference between VHS and Betamax unless you had a studio-grade CRT. Well...that's probably unfair...you could tell an difference, but not an enormous difference. It wasn't like going from 480i->1080p; not even to 720i. On our old analog TV there wasn't remotely enough 'wow' to justify the price difference and other limits, so dad took back the BM player and got a VHS.


Interesting, but disingenuous

The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "

From the Techcrunch article:

    “Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every inbox in every spam folder in every mail log, and zero, nothing, zilch,” Donenfeld said.
I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanation


Yesterday I couldn't get a download link for the Windows install media creation tool for a solid hour due to errors at their CDN(?). I have a friend in IT who tells me "degraded availability" across their many services is a daily thing.

The solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.


well, there was this, a while back: "experiencing a critical and recurring email delivery issue affecting recipients at outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, and msn.com"

"Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlook...

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044


Microslop at its best.


What a distasteful response. People are not `dumping on` microsoft. What kind of PR is this?


Absolutely braindead take to spend 10 years absolutely shitting on your end users and then getting mad when something happens and no one gives you the benefit of the doubt. Bro needs to read the room


So. Does this methodology mean someone can surreptitiously boot up a Linux VM running Wireguard in your browser and be inside your firewall via chrome.sockets API?


No? It's still a web page. And the chrome socket API was deprecated and removed for everyone except ChromeOS users in certain cases. The closest you can get is installing a Chrome extension that exposes sockets, but if someone is able to do that, they don't need the browser for help.

Moreover, you don't even need Linux and Wireguard. WebRTC accomplishes p2p encrypted traffic without libraries.


You don’t need a VM. Do what Netbird does. Compile wireguard-go to WASM and you’re g2g

https://docs.netbird.io/about-netbird/browser-client-archite...


You run old operating system in browser as a gateway.


The genesis of the Fourteenth Amenedment was to deny citizenship to any circumventing said jurisdiction, as the Confederate states had done. As illegal aliens have all done. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, especially considering SCOTUS previously ruled American Indians were not under the jurisdiction of The United States after the Fourteenth was ratified, requiring Congress to enact a law granting them citizenship.

DACA is another example, The Obama Administration could not get legislation passed to grant citizenship to those individuals, so drafted an Executive Order to not enforce the law (as he had previously sworn an Oath to do, I might add). And now many of those individuals are facing deportation.


Sources on the first paragraph? I can’t tell what you’re even trying at say.

DACA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...) was an exec order specifically because those individuals were brought over (as children, with no agency over their fate) after they were born, not before, so of course they weren’t citizens via the 14th. You’re correct that It wasn’t a law passed by Congress, but it’s irrelevant. I’m not sure what you’re saying, talking anything about DACA in this context is irrelevant.


14th Amendment: 'wherein they reside', residency is a legal state indicating an immigration process per the law has been followed.

And though your point about not having agency is significant, the law and the Constitution says DACA recipients should have been deported. We allowed a rogue President to override that.


Also with Swallwell becoming aware the FBI had him under investigation. And he and Bondi are buds.


Who?


Random news article I pulled up: "FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly seeking to release files related to the Democratic lawmaker's previous association with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative."


Why would Bondi have ties to this drama?


Apparently there is a tight connection between Bondi and Eric Swallwell.


Seeing as you don't know how his name is spelt, and you haven't provided a source for your claim/rumor, I will disregard your clamment.


It's fine if you ignore supply chain attacks on npm packages.


The lede everyone is burying: "Every EmDash site has x402 support built in — charge for access to content"


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