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by aftbit 2y ago
I'd say anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is just not observant enough. That doesn't mean aliens among us or secret government spy planes, but if you watch the sky long enough, you'll see some odd, hard to explain thing
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by aftbit 2y ago
It defeats the email verification entirely. If that weren't necessary for something, why would the site require it?
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by aftbit 2y ago
On Android, pressing lock 5 times quickly automatically dials 911.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I use cash because it doesn't require batteries, and because my cell phone won't let me use Google Pay, as it's running a custom OS (before that, was rooted) so I'm obviously untrustworthy. I do use a credit card pretty
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by aftbit 2y ago
Woah that's weird. Left shifting either takes 3 cycles or 1 cycle, depending on how you initialize the cycle count register? This patch from the article makes it take 1 cycle instead of 3: - MOV RCX, 1 + MOV ECX
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by aftbit 2y ago
IMO the real advantages of 2FA are threefold: 1. The key is generated by the server, not the client (human), so it cannot be reused like a password. 2. The authentication is temporally bound, so phishing only offers access for ~30 seconds,
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by aftbit 2y ago
I did read the article. I'm skeptical of the claim though. The author was careful to publish specific UAs for the bots, but then provided no extra information of the non-bot UAs. >If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch t
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I would suggest against using a ccTLD unless you have a strong connection to that country. Don't buy .io or .ai because they're trendy. Buy .com or .net or .dev or something else generic, or buy .co.uk if you live in the UK e
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that a caching and rate limiting load balancer (e.g. nginx) could very trivially mitigate. Just add a request limit bucket based on the meta User Agent allowing at most 1 qps or whatever (tune to 20% of your
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by aftbit 2y ago
What ever happened to Secure Scuttlebutt? That seemed like an interesting way to approach this, similar to Nostr perhaps?
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by aftbit 2y ago
>mastodon.art is a safe space instance So don't join them if you don't want to be coddled. Anyone who does wants to engage with a different slice of the fediverse, and why do you care if they don't see you?
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by aftbit 2y ago
>That’s got to be true too. Few of us want to be making manual HTTP calls out to APIs anymore. These days a great SDK, not a great API, is a hallmark, and maybe even a necessity, of a world class development experience. I may be in that
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by aftbit 2y ago
Its the old question, chaos or stability? The bird or the cage? Freedom and justified fear, or stifling safety? Usually the young and disaffected are more on the side of chaos, with more to gain and less to lose, while the old and powerful
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by aftbit 2y ago
Here's some python code that implements what I discussed: def decode_id(id): if id is None: return None return str(uuid.UUID(bytes=base58.b58decode(id))) def encode_id(id): if id is None:
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by aftbit 2y ago
It is just too long. It does not include any illegal characters, but it is ~50% larger than it needs to be.
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by aftbit 2y ago
It's too long. That's the only real problem with it. The same UUID in base58 would be: Xe22UfxT3rxcKJEAfL5373 Which is 22 characters instead of 36.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Not sure why your comment was flagged. I also somewhat regret using base58 UUIDs, but with sufficient DB and app-side helpers, and sufficient discipline to always convert at the edges, it became tolerable. It was the only option I could com
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by aftbit 2y ago
>With the release of UUIDv7 that offers some benefits as ULIDs and are native to Postgres as of December 2024 (see the commit here), it might be better to switch to UUIDv7 in the future if one doesn’t care about URL friendliness. Yes, I
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by aftbit 2y ago
I miss this from my old Motorola Android phones, along with the squeeze feature on IIRC the Nexus. It would definitely be nice to have for me. However I've found that flashlight is still relatively accessible. It's three actions -
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by aftbit 2y ago
Graphene's team takes a fairly hostile view towards feature creep, possibly for very good reasons. They basically only add features that improve security & privacy. Everything else is stock AOSP. My personal hill to die on is that
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's pretty reasonable, although the styling of the landing page makes it look like those are actual command outputs, so I expected them to work.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Not sure why flagged. Link rot is one of the scourges of the internet.
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by aftbit 2y ago
They can though. Dying businesses take time to die. Even if nothing else, they could have decided to shut down _earlier_ so that customers would have more time to deal with the fallout. Or they could have decided to shut down _at the same t
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by aftbit 2y ago
For me, the reason is that Synology is not open source, and additionally because their NASes are overpriced for their size and capabilities. I have a 12 disk NAS that cost me a total of $500 (before drives), with no software licensing fees
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by aftbit 2y ago
Another reason to have a domain for each is to get TLS for each service in a standard way.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Frigate is worth looking at as well if you have RTSP cameras as part of your security solution.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Why even "drop" an explosive? Just fly it straight into the target.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Back in the old days (Phantom 1), it was all IP. The "range extender" box that you could buy for the controller was literally a MIPS box running OpenWRT. I took one apart and used a debug interface to jailbreak it, then connected
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by aftbit 2y ago
I haven't touched this stuff in 5+ years, but I wonder how iNav stacks up on your list? I was about 50% of the way through a 7" FPV build with a GPS receiver based on iNav when COVID hit, and between the supply shortages and gener
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by aftbit 2y ago
Huh, including a little bit of France, TIL.

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