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by Syonyk 4y ago
You can - trackers are absolutely a thing, and historically tended to be used a lot. Back when solar was $10/W. Adding even $5/W for tracker structure and equipment was far cheaper than additional solar panels. Now, with panels
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The tech industry has "eaten its young." By this, I mean that it has systematically destroyed the source of people who grow up with the passion to learn tech at the deep levels that make for the people the tech industry likes to h
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It should run you about $0.75/W to install them and hook them in for a grid tie system, maybe a hair more. Interestingly, that's the same for roof mount (with rapid shutdown) or ground mount (without rapid shutdown). Costs vary
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I wouldn’t rule out a nation state “practice” attack though. I would... Backbone routers scattered across the country suddenly go dark, nobody has any idea what happened, and logs are missing? Sure, you can pin that on nation-states
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I very much appreciate it - as I said, it was something I'd missed in my dorking around with Tor. No idea why it was down earlier, unless it was just loaded - I haven't changed anything on the server related to Tor in a while. It
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I think it's fixed now. The meta onion-location line is now pointing to the specific page, not the base website, and Whonix does the redirect to the proper page now. I'd missed that in testing - I went to the root domain, and it
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I am writing to a somewhat technical audience on my blog... but, yes, I don't care if my devices can't play some online WebGL game if the tradeoff is far better security in general. Also, since you can turn it off for specific dom
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Read about Blastdoor. I have. Mostly in the context of how this grandiose sandboxing scheme was just bypassed. Again.
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> I can imagine companies mandating that users traveling to certain areas of the world must have LM MDM-force-enabled on their phones at all times instead of taking a burner phone. That only solves a few of the possible issues a conten
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That seems to be how one of the exploits from a year or two ago worked. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... It exploited an archaic Xerox format parser to make its own virtual machine,
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by Syonyk 4y ago
This would be another good reason for "lots of random people to use it," certainly - same as Tor.
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You know, I don't think I tested specific pages when I put the Tor meta support in. That's a fairly recent addition I was messing around with. It's a '<meta http-equiv="onion-location"' tag, and it poi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Supply chain issues are killing everyone. You want to build a product? Great, here's the list of what you can't get this week. It's different from last week, next week will be different too. Good luck! Parts that used to
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If he'd "just" run a marketplace for illegal everythings, you might be able to make an argument. When it crosses into "casually ordering multiple murders he believed happened," then, no, I'm sorry, you'r
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Pulled two solar panels off one of my arrays, because a few of them have hot junction boxes from bad connections. Replaced those with spares and got the array back fully online (one of them has been bypassed for arc fault warnings that, di
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The claim is that if you opt out, it's disabled, yes. However, I object, fundamentally, to the entire concept of using my device to check my content for your legal requirements. If I store content on your server, yes, absolutely, you
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If you go over on bandwidth, you do get billed for it. I assume the CC requirement is mostly anti-fraud. Easy(ish) to create thousands of Google accounts and abuse the free tier, harder when you can start correlating credit card numbers.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
No, there's an "Always Free" tier, at least with GCE. https://cloud.google.com/free For a ZNC bouncer, an e2 micro instance is the right option. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gc
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If you're in the habit of worrying about persistent malware on your device, "regular restarts" are one of the best things you can do. Much of the low interaction malware is only persistent in memory, so a reboot will clear it
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Yes, but if an attacker has physical access and unlimited time, you've probably lost anyway. What this seems to be focused on are the "remote zero-click/one-click" vulnerabilities we've seen, in which either a messa
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> Lockdown Mode basically cripples the phone, feature-wise. It's not quite to the point where I'd (even hyperbolically) say "why don't you just get an old dumb phone instead", but still... The problem is that p
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by Syonyk 4y ago
An IRC bouncer will fit nicely in the "Free tier" EC2 or GCE instances, with gobs of room to spare (even the 1GB bandwidth tier is plenty for a month of IRC bouncer use). I ran one in there for a long while until I moved back to
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Only 1000? Must be a breakfast salad! The "Real Men of Genius" advertising series from the late 90s touched on this very well with their "Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that one would be in more legal hot water for having checked as a matter of policy and having missed a high quality fake ID or something, than for not having checked at all. I know an awful lot of gun owners, and I
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> You should take a few steps to make sure the buyer is legit. Ask to see a concealed carry permit or FOID card. I've known people who buy and sell quite a few guns, and even though there was no legal requirement for them to do so
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That was the 1980s Group C cars. Turns out, it's fairly straightforward to build a car that rather radically exceeds the physical limits of the driver. I would love to watch the autonomous version of that, though, with "no restric
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> Is it even possible to have effective conversations about these topics online at all? Yes. Just not at scale, and not in a way that prioritizes ad revenue via "engagement" at all cost. Prioritizing longer form, in depth co
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Full title: Deadbolt Locks Offer False Sense of Security… … when they are not installed properly. Mythbusters inadvertently demonstrated the problems of the "short" screws that come with most strike plates in one of their epis
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I have no idea. The problem is that I think a lot would watch it, go "Yeah, that was bad, but I can think of a simple tweak that will make it amazing!" and then go deploy with "one quick tweak" and discover that, no, it&
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I don't quite know how so many people in the tech industry seem so entirely disconnected from the rest of humanity, but this seems to be firmly in the "Just because we can, we should!" category that doesn't really sit we

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