TimeSquirrel

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

If every time an OS had to delete something it had to fill the space with zeros or garbage data multiple times just to make extra sure it's gone, we'd all be trashing our flash chips very fast, and performance would be heavily degraded. There really isn't a way around this.

The solution to keep private files private is to put them into an encrypted container of some sort where you control the keys.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?

I don't know, but the amount of USB drives I've seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉

I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

supporting the terrorist Hamas organization.

Is this something you're gonna back up and show us is actually happening, or just a random brain fart? And before you reply, all Palestinians != Hamas.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally just learned about it now. After 42 years of ignorance.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Wonder what the reason was for so much being in raw assembly when C existed. A basic library/API would be one of the first things I'd tackle in an OS. Move on to a higher level as soon as you're able.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That'd make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Sorry. Wife's Christmas present. She wanted to surprise me. Gotta make do.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I say it like "pwn". As in, if I'm sitting here chown-ing your shit, you're pretty much pwned.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell did they do, take a shit on his frosted flakes?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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Warning: trigger activated, loading and playing long lost childhood memory:

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