exikyut

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1. 541.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   Ooooh, burst response as opposed to flat-out super tight hot loops. That honestly makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
2. 542.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   This is, naturally, awesome. If I put my backseat driving hat on :D my next steps would be to a) Wait for things to take off, iron out the initial kinks, and become quietly successful, then talk to the city at a few levels higher to showcas
3. 543.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   IMHO I think it's very good that you don't seem overly eager to just get it sold all at once, because I can't help but cautiously suspect that a lot of buyers would say all the right things then either just let it rot, or go
4. 544.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   Sadly the Australia section redirects to ebay.co.au as opposed to .com.au, welp. Noticed this about a year or so ago, maybe more. Set and forget APIs that just work are kind of cool... maybe that's the moral of the story there lol
5. 545.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   This is great, except it's showing me listings for laptops with 8GB of SSD storage and 935GB of RAM. A flag button may be the most useful practical reaction to this problem. That way you can outsource the problem of faulty reports - an
6. 546.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   > BEAM is not fast > It is however really really low latency I've been interested in Erlang for a while, and reading this is intriguing. Taken literally the above makes no sense :) but it also kind of... does, sort of, and I woul
7. 547.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   Oooh, TIL. That's really cool. It's very amusing that as you get to the bottom the "Vulnerable to" starts to disappear :) and yet you can download the bootrom anyway~ hmmmmm :D
8. 548.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   I completely understand. Kudos to you and everyone who got it all working on Android, given its ridiculous fragmentation *before* you even start talking about NFC and reasoning about about device security :) - I'm guessing the chances
9. 549.▲
   by exikyut 5y ago

   Really? I accidentally configured Windows Phone to use ASCII instead of UTF-8 for SMS a while back then the first time I tried to send emoji the phone chucked a wobbly and told me it wouldn't send due to a character set error. Once tha
10. 550.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    Wow, that's really cool. > In January 2020, Visa first showcased the power of “Tap to Phone,” an industry-first solution that transforms current generation Android smartphones and tablets into contactless point of sale terminals. T
11. 551.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    Ah, I see. ashift is definitely 12 (as I noted in my sibling reply)... but TIL about alignment (thanks). Parted says my ZFS partition starts at 8590983168 bytes (after an 8GB swap partition), which divides down by 4K cleanly. Is that what y
12. 552.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    One of the few things in the Debian (yes...) setup guide was emphasizing ashift, I remember explicitly setting it to 12. It's not a laptop, it's a low-end motherboard currently serving as my primary workhorse :) (until I find the
13. 553.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    Oooooh. HackRF + open source DAB modulation stack + <carefully chosen combination of ASCII characters> = OTA... DoS? Jailbreak? Other miscellaneous interestingness? In an age where everything's a computer, FM radio is just just a
14. 554.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    Hmmmm, in a home-use setting I currently have a scenario where a) random seek/many-small-files performance has been really had since day 1, I initially suspected old/low-end hardware (i3, 1600MHz RAM) but given that I can do just
15. 555.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I was wondering how this was done. How on earth was what amounted to a userspace app able to talk to the NFC hardware to the extent necessary to process payments?! Presumably the app received the relevant entitlements to be able to do this.
16. 556.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    What I wish could happen but probably never will: that this takes off sufficiently much that it's commercially viable for Apple to spinoff a personal payments business that lets me yeet small amounts of money directly out of people&#x2
17. 557.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    Unfortunately the major thing stopping me from doing precisely that is that login is fundamentally not straightforward: there's no API for it, so you have to go through the website... which is behind CloudFlare, and thus is effectively
18. 558.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    To me "tap to pay" encodes immediate-term incidentality and proximity. It's three syllables, it rolls off the tongue when you say it, it takes maybe 450ms to speak, and the brain can encode it using similar (or maybe the same
19. 559.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I was wondering about that too. I wonder how much SecureROM extraction pays nowadays? It used to be $200k circa 2015: https://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmedma (Interim while the above URL currently doesn't work: https:/&#
20. 560.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I too would be extremely interested to know this. The sibling comment referring to NFC looks interesting, but I can't help but think there's an extra dimension or two. I thought most bank cards used RFID per se as opposed to full
21. 561.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I'd be really interested to know what to properly call it, but IMHO this is the kind of thing that the market will never solve top-down because the structure of the relationship would never support it. I think an on-the-ground solution
22. 562.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I lost the video a while back, then finally re-found it. Here's a blind person showing how Hacker News sounds over JAWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1r55efei5c&t=386s (Headphone warning: the volume is unfortun
23. 563.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    To answer the immediate question, I had a look and nooope, no <a name="">, not even <a> anywhere, that I could find. However I just (begrudgingly) realized this is somewhere text fragments can shine: https:/&#x2F
24. 564.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I have to admit I read this as " democracy a planned commodity of the future" and promptly imagined some sort of 1984-esque (post-)dystopian universe with... an altogether depressing quantity of tropes taken directly from the p
25. 565.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    [Many unhappily employed engineers] would like to know your location
26. 566.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    On a related note, also try disabling mitigations... if that's actually a relevant thing to do (somewhat out of the loop - maybe they're off by default or maybe the overhead is minimal now, not sure).
27. 567.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    To be pedantic, if I just root a random device, but am very careful in terms of what I adjust... how does that fare?
28. 568.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I wonder why it's faster - specifically *how* it's more efficient. (Admittedly an expansively broad question; summary responses accepted!)
29. 569.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I wonder what `sudo perf top` says it's doing (in terms of heaviest symbols). That would probably be the most useful thing to stick on the end of a pitchfork :P (The command accepts a `-p <pid>` parameter; without that it'll
30. 570.▲
    by exikyut 5y ago

    I can only echo the sole comment under that answer: > Do you have a reference/proof for the first paragraph about agreements? --- IMHO, I find this hard to believe myself. The team(s) in charge of implementing this functionality l