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by cesarb 2y ago
> If you had all APs adjust their power based on the other networks in range, then you could dynamically reduce power output to reduce congestion. Reducing power also reduces the range. It would be very annoying if my neighbor putting a
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The same way any standard network switch is (they internally keep a mapping of IP to MAC address of connected devices based of ARP packets, which incidentally blocks certain types of address spoofing, but nobody calls a network switch
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by cesarb 2y ago
Keep in mind that, unlike cabled Ethernet, WiFi is a shared medium. Faster transfers also means your device uses less airtime for the same transfer speed. This is especially relevant in dense urban areas, where it's not unusual to see
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I think dropping the 3.3v and -12v connections is a valid choice, More than just a valid choice, in the long run even 5V is going to be dropped. Intel's ATX12VO standard has only 12V coming from the power supply, all other voltage
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by cesarb 2y ago
What the parent poster was talking about was not the old hardware IDE interface, but the emulation of the IDE interface within the SATA controller, which exists for compatibility with very old operating systems which understand the old IDE
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by cesarb 2y ago
> the DMCA counternotice process requires the person filing the counternotice to provide their full name and address so they can be served if the rightsholder decides to sue them. It's even worse than that: the DMCA counternotice al
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Why is it that exiting at the end of main() requires a system call? Wouldn't a `ret` instruction go "back" to somplace where the OS itself will do cleanup work? The only way for execution to cross the barrier between &qu
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I don't mind having more DLLs if stuff just works. The counterpart is when a remotely exploitable security issue is found in that DLL, as has happened with zlib in the past and log4j more recently; then you have to chase down and
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by cesarb 2y ago
> If I had to place a bet on whether the files on my desktop will outlive the files on my Google Drive, I wouldn't take it. I have files on my desktop which have lived on it (and its predecessors) for longer than Google Drive existe
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by cesarb 2y ago
> the point we started getting high-DPI displays everywhere was about the same time we decided to throw away rich icons and detail in UIs in favour of abstract line art and white-on-white windows. I might have an alternative explanation.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Blocked for 2 hits in 20 minutes on a light protocol like rss? I might be getting old, but 500KB in a single response doesn't feel "light" to me.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> they will do their best to either recover your money or return you whole. And if they don't, the courts can force them to do it and give you some extra money for the trouble.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The data lines weren't used for charging until fairly recently. Several proprietary protocols (like Quick Charge) used the data lines to negotiate the power and voltage, then USB Battery Charging standardized a way to indicate bei
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by cesarb 2y ago
I'm assuming you're talking about the newer USB-C laptop chargers, instead of the old traditional "barrel plug" laptop chargers. The main reason a data connection of some kind is necessary, is because it allows for unive
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I have a cable here that I use to charge my laptop with 65W PD but it doesn't make a data connection. Does it do some black magic? The magic is that USB-C has not one, but _several_ mostly independent "data" connection w
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by cesarb 2y ago
> It's part of Java/Jakarta EE. If it's part of J2EE, it's in practice "part of Java" since the JDK comes with the J2EE packages built-in... That is, it came with the J2EE packages built-in, until Java 11 de
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by cesarb 2y ago
> If I lose my only front door key, I can't get into my house. You can pay a locksmith to pick (and rekey) the door lock. You can even break down the door and replace it later. None of that is an option with passkeys.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Brazil already has many nuclear reactors that are in some sense "totally based on Brazilian technology" and has for decades. I only knew of the three commercial reactors, the third of them under construction for something lik
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Who do the authorities go after if there's no owner or server? A "decentralized social media platform" implies the exact opposite of "there's no owner or server": there are many owners (in the extreme, eac
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by cesarb 2y ago
> From its very first version HDMI features CEC That depends on whether or not you consider single-link DVI-D as the "very first version" of HDMI.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The best argument in favor of the incoming administration’s proposal is simply that crypto is a different kind of asset, not money itself but like money in some ways. If you “sell” your money, say to buy a car, the government does not
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I mean, first registers are anyway saved on the stack when calling a function No, they aren't. For registers defined in the calling convention as "callee-saved", they don't have to be saved on the stack before calli
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by cesarb 2y ago
The simplest example of a compiler optimization enabled by UB would be the following: int my_function() { int x = 1; another_function(); return x; } The compiler can optimize that to: int my_function() { another
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by cesarb 2y ago
> If my dev tooling was taken away, the saas products I depend on shut down, slack replaced by email, keyboard with phone, etc. would I eventually adapt to such a situation? As others have noted, plenty of us have developed on computers
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by cesarb 2y ago
> And when your phone dies??? You use the same procedure you used to register that phone, to register a new one. > This rules out access from a desktop doesn't it? Using the phone for 2FA means you are accessing from a desktop, a
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by cesarb 2y ago
Here in Brazil, many banks require the use of an invasive "security" browser plugin to access your bank account through the browser, and that plugin obviously exists only for desktop browsers. And it's also not uncommon to re
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Whilst this is true, it looks like OpenWRT fixed the hash truncation but not the command injection. They did fix both AFAIK, the command injection fix is https://github.com/openwrt/asu/commit/deadda8097d4
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by cesarb 2y ago
> How does this work for FTTH? I know nothing about fibre optic networks. I had the impression that each subscriber has their own wavelength, or rather a range of wavelengths that captures their bandwidth, and that does not overlap with
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Hooking up optimizers to simulation work is far from new. But that's being called "AI" now It that being called "AI" just now, or has it been called "AI" since the beginning? A lot of the optimization
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by cesarb 2y ago
> What if they just don't respond. How does it get banned. We had a very recent example of how that can work here in Brazil. Like the USA, we have hundreds of independent ISPs, and no national firewall. Twitter tried the "just

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