CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@anderseknert Plot twist: it's always the same code - the code is static

@petergleick ...also: massively subsidize trains and other public transports, too.

@foone that was the whole shtick of the HX DOS Extender.

The DOS stub could start it, and in turn that extender supports enough Win32 API to allow some limited software to run.

And I think I vaguely remember some other software doing crazy stuff with their DOS stubs.

@mcc @mntmn @cwebber ...
It's not gone. I suspect there might be even more people with the know how than back in the days.
It's just that thier numbers haven't grown as fast as, e.g., the number of people who nowadays know only Python or other high-lvl languages, and would never dare to learn anything lower-lvl and would be abandonning computing back in the days.
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@mcc @mntmn @cwebber speaking of expanding to more users and of assembler:

An argument I've heard is that: in the past high level compiled languages have replaced assembler, and LLMs are the next step.

Well, assembler -- and assembler-adjacent stuff like C's SIMD intrinsics -- are still relied upon (think finely optimised low-lvl libraries in some fields like gaming, video codecs, and number crunching in scientific data analysis).
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@Dss @cyberspice @lackthereof @wwahammy
Cyberspice mentions "Just swap them out" about "tire *valve*" (e.g. buy a new set of valves with better security in the firmware).

Regarding swapping the 4 wheels: given some countries do this twice a year (mar/oct) to adapt to weather conditions, an evil ploy to track some car with tire IDs will answer back with a position staying permanently in the cellar for 6 months.

And again, if you're afraid of cars getting tracked, there are bigger targets.

@lackthereof @wwahammy ...
I am merely pointing out that cars are trackable by design and such blunders just save money on needing to add a good camera (and bit more CPU for plate number recognition) to a tracker design.

(and a Flipper zero is a bit more discrete that a Pi5 + good camera pointed at a street)

@lackthereof @wwahammy on the other hand these 50m are absolutely dwarfed by the range at which cars broadcast some other of their IDs electromagnetically.
Specially in the "couple of hundreds nanometers" range of the EM spectrum.
Like number plates.

Note: I am not saying that car manufacturers don't need to follow best practices on each electronic gizmo they add.
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