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by LeonM 4y ago
For those interested in the history of such software, I can recommend "The Billion Dollar code" on Netflix. It's the story about the team behind TerraVision, a predecessor of Google Maps. Though the story is not depicted comp
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by LeonM 4y ago
> Fake live broadcasts eg. Elon video from 2021, classic 'give us crypto we give you back 2x'. Ugh, those are the worst. I like space and rocketry, I enjoy watching space related content, so naturally, the algorithm recommends
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by LeonM 4y ago
Internet standards are not created by a single organization or person (well, not anymore). Everybody can help design the standards. I'm greatly simplifying, but roughly it goes like this: 1. Someone proposes a change. 2. If there is en
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by LeonM 4y ago
Stripe is fairly straight to set up if you sell products in the US and only accept cards. For selling a SaaS worldwide, Stripe quickly becomes just as much of a nightmare. Taxes, billing, chargebacks, subscriptions, web hooks, different pay
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by LeonM 4y ago
The attack in the article is a relay attack, not a replay attack. One letter difference. Every keyless/wireless car key already uses a challenge-response scheme, just like you described, to prevent replay attacks. However, that wil
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by LeonM 4y ago
> It could just only deactivate the car if the car is stationary. Right, stop once for a traffic jam, car loses sync with keyfob, and you'll become a stationary target on a highway. Better swap out those batteries in your keyfob re
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by LeonM 4y ago
None of the keyless start systems do this, on purpose. Because this may lead to very dangerous situations. Imagine your engine shutting off on the highway, and your steering wheel locks, just because the car briefly looses response from the
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by LeonM 4y ago
So the encryption is not solving it then. But I may need to add to my original post: - Relay attacks can theoretically be solved with high precision clocks, but will affect price and reliability in a negative way This obviously depends a bi
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by LeonM 4y ago
These kinds of "sensation" vulnerabilities have been making great headlines every for the past 15 years. However, there is nothing new about this. - Relay attacks are nothing new, and not unique to Tesla. - Every contactless unloc
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by LeonM 4y ago
Story time! I used to drink my coffee with sugar. Next to the coffee machine at my office there was this big box of sugar sticks, I took one with every cup. One day, we ran out of sugar sticks, the box was empty. I asked around in the offic
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by LeonM 4y ago
In the Netherlands we have a class of vehicles intended for people with a disability that would prevents them from being allowed to drive a 'real' car. These are very small 2-seater cars, limited to 45km/h. Ironically, one of
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by LeonM 4y ago
This is what I love about HN. Somebody quotes an almost 30 year old readme file, and the person mentioned in the readme chips in to tell the full story. Thank you Sam!
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by LeonM 4y ago
> so why didn't you return it? Mostly because I had more important things to do at the time. Though not perfect, the computer does work, it does get the job done. And also, I wouldn't know which other brand/model to get. I
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by LeonM 4y ago
> Don't use Grub or any bootloader if you can avoid it. I haven't used Grub in 10 years. Load Linux directly as an EFI executable via the EFISTUB approach. I run Windows dual boot, since I need (native) Windows for certain work
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by LeonM 4y ago
> A bad dock can introduce a lot of problems. That's why I bought the $400 official Lenovo dock. Unfortunately, I can't do my daily work without the dock. (at least not without having to introduce numerous dongles and USB hubs,
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by LeonM 4y ago
Based on all the comments on HN about how great Thinkpads are supposed to be with Linux, I bought an X1-Extreme some time ago. From my experience, Linux support for Lenovo devices is terrible. ACPI, power management, and UEFI are consistent
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by LeonM 4y ago
> This guy crashed a plane for profit. So did the Discovery channel. The only difference is that they had asked the FAA permission to do so. This guy crashed a plane for profit without permission . This may have just been stupidity, not
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by LeonM 5y ago
Oh my, that is excessive! I don't recall ever hearing such system in my country, so I expect this is a US-only thing (I'm from Europe). I don't think this kind of system would even be legal in my country, nor would it be soci
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by LeonM 5y ago
> with a HSTS-like directive hosted in DNS. I think you are talking about MTA-STS (rfc8461) [0]. It is currently being adopted by the larger email services (Google, Microsoft). MTA-STS is not 'hosted' in DNS, but published via
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by LeonM 5y ago
You are right, didn't think of that
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DNT is not the solution though. DNT status is not readable by JS (by design), so DNT cannot be implemented in the client. So all tracking calls are still made over the network. It is then up to the server processing those calls to drop them
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by LeonM 5y ago
Could be worse. I live in a city that has a centralised heating infrastructure (every building gets a hot water connection), and my apartment came equipped with a heat exchanger that connects to said heating system. I have to _lease_ this h
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by LeonM 5y ago
This is a good tip. I had a friend who's home IP address was listed in a different country from where he actually was. This often tripped anti fraud detections if he used the same account on his phone (other IP address) and his home PC
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by LeonM 5y ago
Can't help to notice that all of [european_country]'s first unicorns are payment service providers. Scalapay (it), Adyen (nl), now Payhawk. And probably a few more that I'm missing here.
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by LeonM 5y ago
Depends on which field of engineering you are in, but going more towards R&D usually involves less hand work and more brain work. Same for technical consulting.
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by LeonM 5y ago
My answer here _used_ to be the Ubiquity Edgerouter-X series, but unfortunately Ubiquity has killed that line of products and they don't seem to be in the prosumer grade affordable router market anymore. I still enjoy my little Edgerou
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by LeonM 5y ago
Unfortunately, no mention of any new Dex mode improvements. Dex mode is the desktop mode of Samsung phones. Connect it to a monitor via USB-C and you'll have a full desktop experience. Samsung has been improving Dex mode steadily since
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by LeonM 5y ago
After reading a lot of praise on Thinkpads on HN, especially by Linux users, I decided to but a Lenovo X1-Extreme (gen 1) for work. Specs basically maxed out. Here is my experience with the X1E: # Business use & warranty: For business u
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by LeonM 5y ago
This is why for EVs most CAs also do phone validation. For stuff like Verified Mark Certificates (which is used for BIMI), it goes much further than that. VMCs are like EVs on steroids. HN crowd can sometimes react very hostile towards havi
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by LeonM 5y ago
The JWT is famous for costing over 10b USD to develop. AFAIK it's the most expensive object ever to be launched into space. I don't think universities should (or could) spend that kind of money on research equipment.

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