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by dlenski 7mo ago
If you're okay with old, battle-tested, cheap (and about 2-3 generations back in terms of performance)… Any ath10k card is great. They support up to 802.11ac, cost about $10 (e.g. amazon.com/dp/B07HDXP9R4), and can run AP in
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by dlenski 7mo ago
This is a great writeup! Perhaps I can put in a plug for the create_ap script which I have been maintaining for many years ( http://github.com/dlenski/create_ap ). It's a shell script that allows you to turn any ol&
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by dlenski 7mo ago
These look very nice indeed, but almost none of their models seem to have built-in WiFi. Even if they cost half as much, they'd be a non-starter for 99% of home users because of this.
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by dlenski 7mo ago
What even constitutes a "US-made" router? Does it have to be assembled in the US? Does it have to have its stock firmware developed in the US? Does the SoC have to be designed by a US company? Made in a US fab ? I very much d
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Canada rejects immigration application due to hallucinations by government's AI(thestar.com)
3 points by dlenski 7mo ago|1 comments
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by dlenski 7mo ago
A biomedical researcher in Canada had her application for permanent residency rejected due to conflicting descriptions of her current job duties and her work experience. Those "current job duties" turn out to have been hallucinate
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> > where the affected users might be surprised or alarmed to learn that it is possible to link these real-world identities. > I feel like it's obvious that ssh public keys publically identifies me, and if I don't want th
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Agreed, this makes sense in principle. But what I found, empirically, is that a substantial number of observable SSH public keys are (re)used in way that allows a likely-unintended and unwanted determination of the owner's identities.
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Do you not understand why this site may not fill visitors with confidence? Apparently you've been spamming HN with links to this thing for the past week. Eesh.
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Uh huh. It also shows me weird gambling ads.
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by dlenski 7mo ago
What is "military-grade" about its encryption?
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by dlenski 7mo ago
SSH is an incredibly versatile and useful tool, but many things about the protocol are poorly designed , including its essentially made-up-as-you-go-along wire formats for authentication negotiation, key exchange, etc. In 2024-2025, I did
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> get mad, think you can do it better yourself, feel the need to prove you can do better, git init, design feature with a scope exactly commensurate to your anger, forgo loved ones and human interaction, finish feature, git commit, see 5
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> Real or Slop? Yeah, this is not rocket science . I got 9 out of 10 correct, spending an average of 27 seconds looking at each one. Let me add that I don't have a degree in computer science, barely read any of the text of any of
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> I know most Americans don't travel, but are you aware that timezones exist and there's an entire world outside the US that also invests in US companies? Not only am I dimly aware of the existence of these not-the-US places,
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Okay, what problem does that solve?
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by dlenski 7mo ago
I'm extremely skeptical about this. 24/7 trading will definitely burn a lot of extra energy in datacenters, make some speculators a little richer, and make a LOT of retail investors nervous… But what actual real-world problem
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> It's the author's own language. > Why did the author use if not important? The headline cannot possibly convey every detail that's in the story. The headlines chosen by the author of the TOI story, and by the auth
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Yes, it seems likely. I assume the author would have noted in his blog post if the Hebrew used in making the threats came across as non-native or non-fluent. Machine translation is really good these days, but I still think there are some
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by dlenski 7mo ago
When someone makes an "offer" to a journalist to rewrite something in a way that the journalist believes to be untrue in exchange for dropping death threats against the journalist … that isn't a "nuance." Certain
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> You just made my point on why it's more nuanced that this author engaged… As the article clearly explains, the author replied ("engaged") without knowing why his interlocutors were interested in the minor details of the
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by dlenski 7mo ago
(A) is extremely plausible. It is well-known that Iron Dome specifically avoided targeting rockets for interception when they not going to land in areas with people or infrastructure. The main reason for this is because the interceptors are
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Yes. Or for making a shot. If you read some of the now-copious reporting about gamblers targeting athletes with death threats, you'll see that they have people screaming at them and threatening them violently both for performing ba
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by dlenski 7mo ago
This doesn't make any sense… If you want to bet on a binary outcome without knowing how much other participants are betting on the 2 possible outcomes, that's a bookie, not a prediction market. The entire rationale for claiming
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> This could, perhaps surprisingly, be one of the first places we directly grapple with this in a legal case someday soon, that the legality of something may be at least partially influenced by the expense of the operation. Well said. I
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by dlenski 8mo ago
Same, also in BC. I agree with everything you write, and in principle I'd prefer just to stay on standard time forever. However for my selfish individual interests: I work with a lot of people in Europe, and this change to permanent
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by dlenski 8mo ago
Yes, I know about Tempest. My point here is that you really can't trust networks, and as they get bigger you should trust them less and less.
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by dlenski 8mo ago
That's frustrating, but why are you so concerned with porting out of VoIP-based carriers?
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by dlenski 8mo ago
> Google Voice is requiring ID verification now Yep, this is a crappy change going forward :-( However, Google Voice does not require ID verification for preexisting accounts, so this has no effect on existing users.
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by dlenski 8mo ago
Huh …? IMSI tracking is a consequence of how baseband devices communicate over-the-air, just as WiFi MAC address tracking is a consequence of how 802.11 devices communicate over-the-air. And it's definitely a vulnerability , because

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