ValdikSS

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by ValdikSS 7d ago
There used to be a large site called keygenmusic.org, but it's closed now. There's a dump of all of its tracks on web archive: https://archive.org/details/key-gen-music-music-pack-2020-03...
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by ValdikSS 11d ago
I use XMPP almost exclusively for the last 10 years and don't see any major issues, not with the protocol, not with the clients. Everything is pretty reliable and works fine.
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by ValdikSS 11d ago
>What for? To prevent head-of-line blocking.
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by ValdikSS 11d ago
XMPP was not designed for human chat only, and XMPP foundation promotes it as an IoT communication protocol, like MQTT. Thanks to Daniel, the author of this post, we now have communication profiles which the IM-oriented servers and clients
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
The same applies to Russian banks. Russian banks have switched to internal Ministry of Digital Development CA which is not trusted in common browsers. https://crt.sh/?id=22899279066 (Revoked: privilegeWithdrawn)
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
>Firstly, an out-of-band upload is ridiculous It is a bit, true, but the alternatives are worse. XEP-0231 (Bits of Binary) Base64-encoded data inside the text message is more ridiculous idea. Direct P2P connections, which were widely use
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
XMPP also supports push notifications using Android and iOS infrastructure. But it also works with persistent connections, and the client notifies server when the app is not in foreground, for server to push only important data (such as dir
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
Everybody has switched to OMEMO. It's the same encryption standard which Signal uses. It supports multiple devices and encrypted group chats as well.
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
>If you tell people "on Android you should use this app, on iOS use that app" - you lose regular people fast. People don't use single browser and single email client, why IM should be different? It's a deficiency when
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
XMPP has brilliant session management, it reconnects more seamlessly than many other protocols on mobile. It literally reconnects (rejoins the same session within different TCP connection, not replaces it with a new session). >Also sendi
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by ValdikSS 12d ago
The talk about steps it took to hack into Nvidia CMP 170HX cards to unlock the performance and use all 64 GB soldered RAM instead of stock 8/10 GB.
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(conf talk) Liberating the A100 beast inside Nvidia's CMP 170HX e-waste(talks.mrmcd.net)
2 points by ValdikSS 12d ago|1 comments
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by ValdikSS 13d ago
It has been reported to Google (as a security bug) and to GrapheneOS as a comment in one of the very similar VPN leak issue on github. GrapheneOS has deleted my comment, probably because they assumed it was AI-generated or something, I&#x27
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by ValdikSS 13d ago
Actually yes, why not? All the professional documentation has glossary in it, btw.
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by ValdikSS 14d ago
Android has a way to bind the socket to the interface: Network.bindSocket, this is a setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE) wrapper with access control. The access to it is controlled by the VPN application. Some applications could be allowed to conne
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by ValdikSS 16d ago
Do you have flea markets in DE? I'm pretty sure 10 kg of cables could be sold for more than €100 in a single day. Is it not common in DE?
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by ValdikSS 17d ago
Oh no, I wasn't, and that's definitely not my comfort zone. I mess with the printers and printing stack due to anger, not because I like it. It's bugs on bugs, with bugs chasing bugs! So little developers, so complex stack wi
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by ValdikSS 17d ago
PDF is very, very complicated standard which can't be handled properly on tiny MCUs with reasonable performance and spec conformance: - 4 font formats - 9 image formats - blending with transparency - different colorsp
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by ValdikSS 17d ago
>penguin would shrink the result to fit its screen. >I declared A5 and Letter paper, media type stationery, and an output bin called face-up. You can (and should!) define exact dimensions of your screen in `media-size-supported`. It w
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by ValdikSS 17d ago
I wrote an 'unlocking exploit' as a kernel module some years ago, and obfuscated it with a bit of self-modifying code. It could not make it work reliable. No matter which barries I set, I could not understand why is it not reliabl
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by ValdikSS 20d ago
>MIT and source out on GitHub is the easiest way to build trust. You will find that some people simply "steal" your work in this arrangement, but much like with movie piracy I don't think they ever intended to compensate y
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by ValdikSS 20d ago
>A long time ago, I didn’t mind huge tech companies getting rich partially via open source, now I do. Is the concern that anybody will be earning money on your software (just that), or that you won't get any money, or that they will
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
? Even Steam Deck has a custom APU made specifically for it. Call it "customized" if you don't like "custom".
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
Well yes, I agree, but the option is there.
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
With a charging input + 3.5mm dongle? https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sfa5566c711b14a4aa...
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
Desktop computers work because Intel and AMD provide support to their chips to Windows and Linux, because these chips are used for desktop and servers, and these OS are what their customers use. Mobile chips are not used for desktop and ser
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
>but standard enough that people by binned playstation 5 motherboards to use as computers That doesn't mean that all the features are enabled right from the factory, or that the compatibility with already existing features is lost.
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
iPhone is top-of-the-line as well, because they control the whole software and the whole hardware (starting from basically all the chips). That's very rare in the industry. There are just a bunch of companies which afford to do the sam
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
The headphone jack is inside USB-C connector. You can use USB-C-to-3.5mm passive (!) cable to connect your 3.5mm headphones, or you can buy 3.5mm headphones with USB-C audio connection. There's no additional DAC involved, the analog au
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by ValdikSS 22d ago
GrapheneOS is like a veteran and war zone expert: for them, not only the external environment is considered extremely hostile that you should leave your house only wearing an armor and with bodyguards, but also the internal environment is

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