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by heywire 9y ago
Nice work. This makes me miss the days of Winamp visualization plugins.
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by heywire 9y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning GOGS. Somehow I hadn't heard of this before. It looks perfect for my local private repos.
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by heywire 9y ago
Seconding the C720, mine runs Arch Linux just fine on 2GB. I only have to be careful not to open too many browser tabs.
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by heywire 9y ago
It can also be helpful if you have a mountpoint that normally points at a remote machine (backup machine, etc), but that remote machine is unavailable for some reason. It keeps your backups from going into the mountpoint itself instead of t
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by heywire 9y ago
Revenge on IRS phone scammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzedMdx6QG4
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by heywire 9y ago
I think the problem with trying to rekindle this for the current generation of kids is that computers are simply way more advanced now than they were for us. We didn't have a pocket-supercomputer with a touch interface, realistic games
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by heywire 9y ago
I had a similar experience in the US in the 80's. Logo and BASIC on an Apple IIe.
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by heywire 9y ago
Urxvt seems to be a popular choice among i3 users. I'd recommend checking Reddit (r/unixporn) for some example screenshots showing various configurations common to i3 users.
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by heywire 9y ago
Funny that you mentioned Clipper. It's a language that you don't hear about a lot anymore, but it was the first language I learned as a kid (my Dad built point of sale and inventory applications in it for local companies as side w
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by heywire 9y ago
I've always wondered the legality of doing things like this. Have there been cases where someone was taken to court (in the US) for reversing an API from a mobile app or website? Assuming no malicious action or intent of course. Could
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>Try and do a restore every now and then from the HDDs. Not only do I do that, but I also occasionally pull down some files from Crashplan just to make sure everything is backing up and working as expected.
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by heywire 9y ago
Main home "server" is an Ubuntu system with a couple 2TB HDDs. It runs various services for IoT type stuff, has a few samba shares, houses my private git repositories, backups from Raspberry Pi security cameras, etc. It is backed
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by heywire 9y ago
I just wanted to say that I love these type of postmortem stories. Thanks for sharing!
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by heywire 9y ago
I have the Fitbit Blaze and I really like the vibrating alarm. I have it set a few minutes before my phone alarm. It always wakes me up so I have time to pick up my phone and kill the alarm before it wakes my wife. I also find I'm l
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by heywire 9y ago
Ah, good to know. Not sure where I got the idea that it was basically an "I live somewhere without those patents" checkbox.
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I'm sure there are, but I would put it in the same bucket as the MP3 decoding libraries that have been included in Linux distros behind a checkbox for ages. If you tried to ship a product in the US based on this, I would expect to spen
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by heywire 9y ago
Some more information (I posted this yesterday but it didn't get much traction). I'm personally really happy about this project, because something about proprietary technology being used for general radio broadcasts rubs me the wr
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Decoding and Listening to HD Radio (NRSC-5) with an rtl-sdr(rtl-sdr.com)
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by heywire 9y ago
Sorry, I was trying to convey that Kmart had the upgraded card terminals, which should mean point-to-point encryption of all cardholder data (including mag-stripe), but couldn't figure out a way to fit that into a headline in a way tha
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Credit card breach at Kmart despite using chip and PIN technology(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by heywire 9y ago
Alternatively, they might have received their item file from a system which bungled the encoding. Source: POS system developer
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by heywire 9y ago
Are you saying that you know of systems which use the tag 57 (track 2 equivalent data) to read an EMV chip and process the transaction manually? I'd be surprised if most banks would even approve those transactions (no CVV/CVV2, et
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by heywire 9y ago
A quick look at the chrome dev tools will point to a us.json which has what you're looking for.
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by heywire 9y ago
Something to keep in mind is that Apple/Android Pay support both MSD (magnetic stripe data) and EMV contactless modes, which can result in different timings. EMV contactless also drops significant portions of the EMV contact requiremen
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Unfortunately when you need the chip in the card to sign the transaction details before sending to the bank, validate the response from the bank, and all of the steps in between, it takes a lot of time. There is a ton of work going into mak
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by heywire 9y ago
Domain credentials, an understanding of the IP or hostname scheme and a simple batch file could distribute something like this pretty easily, provided the proper controls aren't in place.
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Amex is probably the company I'd trust the most to handle the situation. I've never been let down by their customer service.
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Definitely if you used a debit card, since it could take a couple days to get any fraudulent charges reversed. Probably less important if you used a credit card, since you'll not have to pay for those charges and they'll just send
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by heywire 9y ago
In the past there have been a mix of "off-the-shelf" memory scrapers as well as custom written targeted malware. Generally they'll get inside the network and push out an exe/dll to all of the POS machines from some compr
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by heywire 9y ago
In the industry I am in (mostly grocery, convenience, some specialty retail), most have moved to at least POSReady 7, and some are looking at Windows 10, though there are other concerns with PCI compliance there. Most of the large retailers

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