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by ale42 8mo ago
Once the chips are there in a EU datacenter, no geopolitical change can bring them away. And that already makes some difference.
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by ale42 8mo ago
We use self-hosted Mattermost (team version, i.e. without limits but no enterprise features like LDAP). Fine for a small team (around 40 active users here) where you can script account actions via the API, probably not fine when users becom
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by ale42 8mo ago
Article says: New York’s budget bill S.9005 buries similar requirements in Part C, sweeping in CNC mills and anything capable of “subtractive manufacturing.” So CNCs might be part of it. But I didn't check the actual bill t
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by ale42 8mo ago
Interesting, there are apparently working plugins for both Signal and Whatsapp! Both appear to work as secondary devices. What would really be great is to have the possibility of using Pidgin as primary device...
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by ale42 8mo ago
> Anything that can be done in a terminal can be scripted and automated Sure, next time I'll need to quickly edit a configuration file I'll setup a complete CI/CD pipeline to run vim (or nano, or whatever) inside it.
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by ale42 8mo ago
Sure, but unfortunately most people are now using iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal, Facebook messenger, and so on, and Pidgin can't connect to any of them AFAIK.
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by ale42 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure it should be possible if one really wants to do it. Think of a high-power IR flash and a high-res camera synchronized with the flash, with fixed focus on where the VIN would be passing. If the flash pulse is short but s
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by ale42 8mo ago
> The plate is pretty trivial to fake though. Sure it is, but people can't realistically think to randomize their plate numbers to avoid tracking... IANAL but is it probably a criminal offense to do so.
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by ale42 8mo ago
Signal is not Swiss, though, although I'd like they to be ;-)
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by ale42 8mo ago
Indeed, I just understood the same when reading it again... I answered too quickly
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by ale42 8mo ago
That probably depends on what is being displayed... at some point I had sounds of USB connect/disconnect (possibly from the Windows 7 era).
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by ale42 8mo ago
There's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says: cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix of custom and found .gif
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by ale42 8mo ago
It has already been done... albeit on short distances. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910263 (2017 IIRC). This said I wouldn't expect it to work miles away as an analog phone would.
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by ale42 8mo ago
The official definition of SHOULD per RFC2119: 3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full impl
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by ale42 8mo ago
I guess they've seen a Signal icon in the photo. Of course the interception is done locally on the phone (so it's basically "man-in-the-client" rather than a "man-in-the-middle"), therefore the Signal protocol
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by ale42 8mo ago
You mean... I can just uninstall the Appx package and notepad.exe will revert to the old edit box? That would be great
107.
by ale42 8mo ago
For what it matters, Windows Server 2025 still has the edit field in a wrapper.
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by ale42 8mo ago
It's not just Let's Encrypt, right? CT is a requirement for all Certificate Authorities nowadays. You can just look at the certificate of www.google.com and see that it has been published to two CT logs (Google's and Sectigo&
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by ale42 8mo ago
Some more tests on this old page: https://murdoch.is/projects/currency/ (2004)
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by ale42 8mo ago
Actually I tried to use it just for fun on some vouchers, but it didn't work on the copy machines I tried. They just happily photocopied the vouchers.
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by ale42 8mo ago
Is this something the FAT driver is Linux can do?
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by ale42 8mo ago
I remember an icon editor (or something similar) for Windows 3.1, it was a shareware where you could enter a code to remove the nag screen. No crack was necessary, I basically managed to enter valid registration codes by just typing random
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by ale42 8mo ago
This makes me think of the historical hxxp://simtel.net/ domain (now web spam, whence the hxxp), see e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20010602231157/http://www.simtel... . The first time se
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by ale42 8mo ago
EHLO! You're definitely not alone on this RFC path ;-)
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by ale42 9mo ago
Switzerland created a digital ID platform (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407657 ), that has been open sourced, and that would allow people to prove for example their age without revealing any other personal
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by ale42 9mo ago
Never tried those, but speaking about flicker, some LED lamps flicker not because of the mains frequency (50/60 Hz depending on where you live) but because of their internal switching power supplies.
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by ale42 9mo ago
> IR emission is not a "feature", it's a bug. If you look at energy efficiency, it totally is. But the whole point in the discussion is that IR _might_ (according to the paper) have biological relevance.
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by ale42 9mo ago
How is "full spectrum" defined in this case? Visible spectrum is not the subject of the paper, as they care about infrared.
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by ale42 9mo ago
Cryptographical superiority aside, Signal doesn't collect personal data, unlike Whatsapp. For me that's the main reason to use it. The UX is good enough, although some points can for sure be improved.
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by ale42 9mo ago
If it's intentional, the only thing I can think of is access from corporate networks where SSL-intercepting proxies are absolutely common.

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