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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Trojan is any malware that pretends to be a legit program. It does not need to have backdoor or info stealing capability even though most malware (trojan or not) today does. For example, pre-Internet trojans might just invisibly install themselves along the actual program they were bundled with and then nuke the system on a certain date. Antivirus companies would even advance the date on their systems in hopes of detecting these and being the first to develop a patch.

    But since this program is not malicious, it just straight up hogs system resources and/or crashes it due to a mistake, it cannot be considered malware and therefore not a trojan.

    Certain Intel processors from around 2000 would crash everything when loading the 4 bytes F0 0F C7 C8 into a specific register. Would you consider this a backdoor because it allows any program to crash the system? I wouldn’t say so, crashing Windows 98 was probably not too hard anyway…








  • In second-world countries like mine, we didn’t skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:

    • Betamax VHS
    • MiniDisc USB flash storage, SD cards
    • iTunes YouTube and pirated MP3s
    • HD DVD Blu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for most
    • Game consoles PC because it’s cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)

    If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we’re no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.


  • It’s worth doing even if your country did, or if it is predicted to fail the threshold, as all signatures count towards the total goal of 1,000,000. However, seven countries also need to pass their threshold and only two (Germany, France) did so your support is most valuable if you’re from Denmark, Benelux, Italy, Spain, Slovenia or Sweden. Some percentage of the votes will be invalidated in the verification process so it’s better to aim for 125% of the threshold.



  • Well, dojít also means “come to” as in “understand” or “deduce”, besides the usual meaning of “finish walking”. However, dojetí is the gerund-like form of either the verb dojet (“come to”/“arrive” but not on foot but by a land vehicle; though dojezd or příjezd is used more often) or way more commonly the verb dojmout se (“get moved [emotionally]”).

    The most accurate translation of the song title would be “[I Am] Afraid To Get Emotional” but “Resisting Being Moved/Touched”, close to what Google came up with, is the best if syllable count needs to be preserved.