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by aftbit 2y ago
What do you call the "Overton window" of illegal behavior? e.g. In the US, you can pretty reliably speed at up to 10 mph over the legal speed limit without actually getting stopped or arrested. Similarly, you can probably get away
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by aftbit 2y ago
One anecdote from this article that shocked me was that French labor can kidnap their management as part of a strike action? That would get you thrown in jail here in the US, unless you happened to be a cop, in which case you can kidnap any
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by aftbit 2y ago
They can use at least everything available up to the end of the first HTTP request: * IP path selected & latency * TCP TTL, window settings & extensions * TLS ClientHello: extensions, ciphers, hash algos, etc * HTTP/2 settings
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by aftbit 2y ago
Well of course not, because if they did so then: 1. Fraudsters would be able to game/bypass them more easily 2. Customers would be able to hold them accountable more easily It is not in Cloudflare's best interest to explain their
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by aftbit 2y ago
I tried this but somehow my sensor got stuck at 500 ppm and never recovered. My Airgradient devices have not yet suffered from this problem.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Just to add to what others have said, the last time I rooted an Android phone (Pixel 6), I had to run: fastboot flashing unlock_critical So it seems that at least in some contexts, "unlock" can refer to the bootloader (se
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by aftbit 2y ago
I dropped VSCode when I found out that the remote editing and language server extensions were both proprietary. Back to vim and sorry I strayed.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm always mildly annoyed that "Unlocked" can mean three different things with phones: * Able to be used on any carrier (i.e. no SIM lock) * Able to be rooted/jailbroken (i.e. no bootloader root of trust lock) * Able to
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by aftbit 2y ago
See also "The Good Place" which is an absolute sleeper of a TV show.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I don't have an iPhone so I'm not 100% sure, but one of my friends who has two phones and two Flippers uses it from time to time. It seems trackable within a pretty short range but I don't really understand the value.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I built one of these for myself around the time it was announced. Even then, EMV was on the way, and you needed to do a little dance where you put a disabled card into the reader three times to force it to fall back to magstripe, then
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by aftbit 2y ago
Is it possible to emulate EMV cards? I have not had any luck with that, and most people are unwilling to talk about it as the usual use cases are pretty black hat (carding etc). I just want to use my Flipper (or some other hardware) to make
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by aftbit 2y ago
So far I have not been able to emulate the keys on either of my cars, a 2001 Ford Ranger and a 2019 Subaru Outback. I think the Ranger is probably possible, but I haven't figured it out yet.
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by aftbit 2y ago
There is no single authoritative database, but it works kinda like MAC addresses, in that the microchip prefix tells the system who made the chip, which tells them which database to look you up in. You should be able to get the shelter to u
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by aftbit 2y ago
The only "real" thing I did with it was use it as an IR blaster and debug tool to remote control my window fan. Once I figured out the IR protocol, I replaced it with a $10 gizmo from Aliexpress that has an ESP32 hooked up to an I
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by aftbit 2y ago
>Why is it everywhere I go management is always doing shady stuff. Well here's a cynical take on this - management is playing the business game at a higher level than you. "Shady stuff" is the natural outcome of profit mot
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by aftbit 2y ago
Or perhaps they _are_ sharing notes about tor users with each other, as part of a global club of intelligence agencies (a sort of new world order) who would rather not be overthrown. How are we to know?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Well I don't agree on (1) or (2). I think they are at least attempting to degrade the capabilities of Hezbollah, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the US and others. I don't really want to get into the depths of A
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wow there is so much vitriol both in this post and in the comments here. I understand that there are many ethical and practical problems with generative AI, but when did we stop being hopeful and start seeing the darkest side of everything?
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by aftbit 2y ago
I see the slashed zero on the right, but I cannot find a way to get that out of the Google font display. Perhaps the slashed zero is actually a different font?
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by aftbit 2y ago
I found it amusing that the end user license agreement is available only as a PDF on Box. That's not exactly the most accessible format but I got it downloaded. It appears to be a relatively straightforward license, prohibiting commerc
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by aftbit 2y ago
Well high pressure to deliver is sort of a poor culture isn't it? I agree we should be forgiving of others mistakes, but I also think we ought to strive to develop better solutions that lead to fewer bugs at any given velocity.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Buy one share of their stock, then call investor relations and ask them why a hobbyist was able to fix the LED bug that their support claimed didn't exist while their whole expensive engineering team was not.
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by aftbit 2y ago
>A light bulb went off in my head. Yes, these chunks of data in the flash chip were pictures! But not in the conventional sense. They were describing the various LED animations. Each set of 16 bytes is an animation frame written to the 1
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by aftbit 2y ago
Great writeup, with very handy links!
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by aftbit 2y ago
So much was done with mechanical systems back in the day, because they were better understood and comparatively cheaper than corresponding electrics. I wonder if the engineers who designed teletypes or artillery range computers could learn
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by aftbit 2y ago
Not to judge too much, but that sounds more like the outcome of a crappy relationship rather than a universal experience. Not exactly related, but ... I will admit, I'm occasionally mind-boggled by family court. Male rape victims have
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by aftbit 2y ago
>Clause 11.3.2. The developers must also delete all installed copies of commercial Qt tools and Qt libraries. Qt customer can keep some developer licenses to continue the support of their End Customers. Bug fixing is OK. Adding new featu
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by aftbit 2y ago
I think you'd have more problems with battery range than with navigation in that specific case, although certainly a cheap, reliable navigation system that works in GPS denied environments would be a huge boon for Ukraine right now. Pe
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by aftbit 2y ago
Are there still any telephone reference desks left in the world? I would love to call up a human who could answer any question in full sentences with a set of references. Perhaps there is still an opportunity for such things in today's

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