Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
For the past few days, I have been trying to find a library that would allow me to write programs with a GUI in C++. My requirements were pretty straightforward: Only Windows support required Commercial use allowed Easy styling, including dark mode The result should be a single .exe file with no or minimal dependencies […]
Canada ‘sleepwalking’ into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society. Only 10 per cent of transactions in Canada today are done using cash, according to Carlos Castiblanco, an economist with the group Option Consommateurs. “There […]
Bitmovin (YC S15) is hiring video solution architects in the US
Back to careers Locations: United States Departments: Solutions Location: United States (remote)Core skills: Hands on programming, Streaming Media (OTT) Engineering, Technical Discovery and Solutions Selling, Solutions Engineering Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands and managed service providers. Our solution suite consists of Live and VOD […]
Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024
Daring Fireball: European Commission Launches Investigation Against Microsoft for Integrating Teams With Office: My read on this is that the EC’s stance is that its designated gatekeeping companies — all of which happen, by sheer coincidence I’m repeatedly told, to be from the US or Asia — should be forbidden from evolving their platforms to stay on top. That […]
A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing
LuggageLosers.com – Live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing Based on live data updated hourly, by @levelsio and part of Airline List How it works? My robot scours social media platforms 24/7 for people talking about their lost luggage […]
How to Get Root Access to Your Sleep Number Bed
Table of Contents Motivation Pre-Requisites Gaining Root Access Creating a Local Network Control and Monitoring Server Adding rc.d Scripts to the /real.root Partition Stored on Disk (Outside the chroot) Useful Commands Next Steps Appendix: Original U-Boot Env Variables on My Hub Footnotes Disclaimer: Following this guide will require modifying internal files on your Sleep Number […]
Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
The popular open source project, ‘ip’ recently had its GitHub repository archived, or made “read-only” by its developer. Fedor Indutny, due to a CVE report filed against his project, started getting hounded by people on the internet bringing the vulnerability to his attention. Unfortunately, Indutny’s case isn’t isolated. In recent times, open-source developers have been met with an uptick […]
Show HN: Drop-In SQS Replacement Based on SQLite
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Below MI – IBM I for Hackers
Below MI – IBM i for Hackers IBM i is a vertically integrated system, where the vendor has full control over both hardware and software from the operating system to the CPU. The tight control over the platform allowed IBM to create a completely abstract development environment, so applications can become truly independent from the […]
The weirdest QNX bug I’ve ever encountered
30 May 2021 The weirdest bug I’ve ever encountered I am responsible for the reliability of the firmware updates on our devices and this work never gets boring. The thing about firmware updates is that by definition, every bug is caused by the updater because before installing the affected version, the bug was not present. […]