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by anilakar 8y ago
My guess is that this is related to yesterday's Es'hail 2 launch, as the satellite spacecraft was built by Mitsubishi.
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by anilakar 8y ago
I've been looking for a new Android phone for a while now, and my primary selection criterion has become NFC because advanced account protection uses U2F over it. It's frustrating when otherwise decent products are unusable due to
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by anilakar 8y ago
Is it extendable to multidimensional preferences or does it require that whatever is being shared is quantizable with a single variable?
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by anilakar 8y ago
It would be fun to run good old 45 baud RTTY over a WebRTC audio channel.
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by anilakar 8y ago
One of my favorite pastime activities: googling for certain unsecured automation systems and messing around with them. They can be found with zero false positive rate thanks to an obvious misspelling on the login page. There's no need
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by anilakar 8y ago
>Again, I suspect you are criticizing LuaJIT. Nope, plain old Lua 5.1 which is still the newest one can get on many platforms. You're stuck with what you have, not what was released yesterday. >The actual Lua documentation has ne
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by anilakar 8y ago
Like I pointed in another post: Welcome to the real world, where 5.1 is still the latest available release on many platforms.
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by anilakar 8y ago
>These are quite unfair arguments against Lua, especially since that you seem to be using it for low level networking code and on embedded systems, which are not really Lua's strong points. Why is Lua an oft-recommended programming
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by anilakar 8y ago
>easy to code for (syntactical quirks aside, I'm talking from a "cognitive load" standpoint) That's not a fair comparison. A large chunk of the cognitive load comes from the awkward syntax and other design decisions
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by anilakar 8y ago
On modern embedded hardware, Python is a better alternative in practically every case. If size and computing power are an issue, either investing in better hardware or spending time writing C yields better results.
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by anilakar 8y ago
C and Rust solve exactly the same problems as any other programming language in the embedded context: they try to interface with real world. Whether they're compiled or not rarely matters, when software updates are done by reflashing t
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by anilakar 8y ago
Stay away from Lua and use Python, Go, Node, Rust or even C in new projects. This is going to be a lengthy rant for a comment; apologies in advance. Having written a ton of networking code in Lua I can tell it has a lot of design defects th
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by anilakar 8y ago
While I was working as an assistant researcher three years ago, my contract also considered all research-derived knowledge uni property. In this case, pretty much anything tangentially related to HTTP performance enhancements would have bee
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by anilakar 8y ago
>the lower receiver is the "gun" portion that is serialized. AFAIK this a problem only under American legislation where the firearm is legally defined by one part, which in AR-15's case happens to be that lower receiver. H
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by anilakar 8y ago
3D-printed guns are not a problem that needs solving. They're mostly dangerous to the user. I'm more worried about companies trying to shut down legit spare part manufacturing & repair (think Apple but in another context).
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by anilakar 8y ago
EU resident here. It's routine to make employees sign non-compete agreements even when they're known to be unenforceable. The employer is free to sue, but it's generally understood that only managerial level people would end
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by anilakar 8y ago
This is exactly the kind of abuse that GDPR is designed to curtail.
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by anilakar 8y ago
How do you enroll a new U2F key to all the websites at once?
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by anilakar 8y ago
Now I've only got one problem remaining: how do I upgrade my old U2F-capable NEO on all the websites? Do I have to keep it with me ad infinitum? I cannot really destroy it either, as I cannot be 100 % sure I've remembered to enrol
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by anilakar 8y ago
Suggestion: stay away from them. Opening the browser and typing in a URL followed by a short code is way faster than getting all participants to download a QR code reader.
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by anilakar 8y ago
There are situations where an open mic is useful, such as conference calls and high-intensity multiplayer FPS and MOBA games. Initiating such a group call shoud be as explicit as possible, however.
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by anilakar 8y ago
Deleting whole deprecated features is even better. Often it's an indication of a modular architecture and proper upgrade path when an old, unused piece of code has been superseded without breaking any major parts of the whole system.
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by anilakar 8y ago
The real reason is to prevent hooking up two dumb Type-A host side power supplies, as I pointed out in another post. A properly implemented Type-C device will not draw high currents without power negotiation. (I'm looking at you, Ninte
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by anilakar 8y ago
Is it possible to use the Bluetooth dongle with a desktop computer without a cable? Having to carry both on your keyring kind of defeats the purpose, because even Google's own guidelines tell you to store one in a safe place and keep t
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by anilakar 8y ago
These devices don't have a real-time clock, so TOTP is out of the question. A Yubikey by itself is incapable of doing TOTP, too – it just acts as a hardware authenticator for the actual password generator. HOTP/counter mode doesn&
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by anilakar 8y ago
Any adapter that has a USB-C receptacle is prohibited by the standard. This limitation exists to prevent hooking up two USB-A hosts with a USB-C cable.
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by anilakar 8y ago
Mostly because there are fewer Americans using international units of measurement than there are non-Americans having to deal with the imperial system.
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by anilakar 8y ago
Just the existence of the project is important as it validates the openness of the FIDO/U2F standard and ecosystem.
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by anilakar 8y ago
Yet another asyncio tutorial that shows you to run a few sleep tasks concurrently. Can we finally get one that shows how to do real stuff such like socket programming, wrapping non-async-compatible libraries and separating cpu-intensive b
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by anilakar 8y ago
A TPM chip is also easy to use with libsimple-tpm-pk11. Not a perfect solution but at least the private key cannot be stolen and misused without direct access to the computer.

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