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by bigiain 2y ago
> The point of making it open source being that others will run into bugs As I see it, that's part of the OSI's revisionist history they want you to believe. The "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" phrase wa
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by bigiain 2y ago
I still recall back in the day <wavey lines> before the OSI decided to politicise (and perhaps even value-extract) the term "open source", there were still a heaps of people doing groundbreakingly useful coding and giving it
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by bigiain 2y ago
I've just got the wifi board. My initial use case is to see if I can send de-auth attacks to the Ring doorbells overlooking the road/sidewalk in the two new houses just up the street...
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yeah, the Flipper Zero has a "sub 1GHz" transceiver, from memory its a CC1101? It can receive and transmit from about 300MHz to 930MHz (with a few gaps in between). I've used my Flipper to sniff the signals for my wireless co
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yep: "Flipper Zero has a built-in library of signals for common TVs, ACs, projectors, and stereo systems brands. This library is regularly updated with new signals, thanks to the Flipper Zero community's active contributions to th
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by bigiain 2y ago
> If it’s designed properly, That phrase is doing a lot of heave lifting there... (This is only what I've read, but as i understand it many rolling code keys can be broken by recording three button presses while the keyfob is out of
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by bigiain 2y ago
I shall follow you down your personal/Hungarian tangent... There was a guy called Jackie Orszaczky who was a Hungarian jazz/funk musician - bass player, bandleader, and singer - here (in Sydney, Australia) who made some of my most
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by bigiain 2y ago
"There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode high-speed pizza delivery” -― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992
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by bigiain 2y ago
Sadly, as per the article in the submission: "In April, police inspectors at the Indianapolis FedEx distribution center seized a box containing nearly $43,000 in cash. Even though no criminal charges have been filed in connection with
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by bigiain 2y ago
"Handlers were falsely told that two conditions contained a paper marking scent location (human influence). Two conditions contained decoy scents (food/toy) to encourage dog interest in a false location (dog influence). Conditions
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by bigiain 2y ago
What an awesome way of finding companies who suspect their code is insecure, and then having them give you their source code. And _charging_ them for it, presumably to make it an easier sell to CXOs: 'Nah, it's not those free soft
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by bigiain 2y ago
I also did not think of it myself, but had it shown to me by a greybeard after complaining about having messed up in exactly that way, and had to pay extortionate prices for "hands on" by someone at our colo facility...
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by bigiain 2y ago
And hardware marches on while you are trying to get your widget manufactured and shipped. I was at a hardware startup in 2013/14. We had our own board design that was very similar to the RaspberryPi + Arduino that we'd prototyped
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by bigiain 2y ago
I suspect most people who've ever been responsible for colo-ed unix-ish servers have learned to do something like: > ufw reset | at now +5 minutes When doing "dangerous" things like updating firewall rules. I wonder if the
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by bigiain 2y ago
What on earth makes you think people working in porn and porn adjacent industries behave "in a professional context" on LinkedIn, when nobody else seems to?
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by bigiain 2y ago
I use a wifi controlled powerpoint to power up and down a pair of raid1 backup drives. A weekly cronjob on another (always on) machine does some simple tests (md5 checksums of "canary files" on a few machines on the network) then
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The only reasons to turn your hard drives off are to save power, reduce noise, or transport them. One reason some of my drives get powered down 99+% of the time is that its a way to guard against the whole network getting cryptolockere
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by bigiain 2y ago
I dunno. I've seen a _lot_ of business ideas fail, which could have much less expensively failed using PHP and MySQL on shared cPanel hosting than they did using AWS/Azure/GCP. Yeah, that won't scale to a million QPS, or
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by bigiain 2y ago
Not what you're asking for, but I have this from NASA in my bookmarks: "THROUGH-HOLE SOLDERING GENERAL REQUIREMENTS" https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio... This on
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by bigiain 2y ago
> maybe the FDA should do more to prevent dead links Perhaps government departments (and companies) taking advantage of archive.org storing their old docs should be appropriately supporting them?
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by bigiain 2y ago
More flux, and a stash of old lead/tin solder...
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Albeit bought in pre-RoHS times. Yeah. Old high lead content solder is way nicer to solder with than modern stuff.
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by bigiain 2y ago
From that wikipedia page: "The sedimentation rate and thickness of K–Pg clay from three sites suggest rapid extinction, perhaps over a period of less than 10,000 years." I wonder if far in the future the cockroach or perhaps ant-c
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Initially (2021?) one project had a bunch of OSS contributors who wanted to take part, but I felt scared to let go the reins and possibly needlessly suspicious of their praise and enthusiasm. I don't suppose one of them was Jia Ta
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Even if you don't feel like reading the whole article, do yourself a favor and skip down to the video No. Don't. Read the whole damned article. It's _great!_
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'm not sure what the right terminology is, but there are also gliders like this: https://youtu.be/OpemglwS8XA?feature=shared Which are a step up from even the most sophisticated "hang glider", assuming that
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Also, if you are at the point where you need to add a circut for power, you might need to seriously consider cooling, which could potentially be another side quest. There should be an easy/reliable way to channel "waste heat&
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by bigiain 2y ago
> "these instructions should be deleted because branch prediction and speculative execution in recent years have made it so that total cycle count is the same without them" Then a new CPU architecture becomes popular, and spide
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by bigiain 2y ago
Craziest thing about it is, you can get one including the camera for under $10: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006299363624.html
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by bigiain 2y ago
There's a project here proposing to transport 1.75GW across 5000km between Australia and Singapore. The project is reported as costing $30 billion (22.6 billion USD) - but I think that also includes a 12,000 hectare solar farm and a bi

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