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by joshumax 9y ago
I don't know if this counts, since your question is rather vague, but I wrote an article a while back about how Torch creates certain vulnerabilities on local systems: https://joshumax.github.io/general/2017/0
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by joshumax 9y ago
Amazon has a major issue with screening against knockoffs and counterfeits, and the severity of the issues surrounding this grows every day. For instance, my friend bought a camera that looked similar to the Arlo, but it contained a telnet
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by joshumax 9y ago
Most domain registrars allow you to add "privacy protection" for a nominal fee, which basically replaces your name under the WHOIS registrant info with theirs instead of yours. While this effectively shields outsiders from discove
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by joshumax 9y ago
Funny you should mention this. The astronomy community actually suffers from "proprietary bloat" in terms of astronomy software and mount firmware. I used to own a certain red-colored high-end mount from a well-known astronomy sof
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by joshumax 9y ago
As a person who has spent well more than $10,000 on his equipment and software setup for astrophotography, I disagree with the blanket "don't" statement. I think the biggest cause of frustration is amateurs starting out wit
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by joshumax 9y ago
I was about to say this. My Debian machine updates software through apt + dpkg, and I installed Skype via the Skype repository. Why would Skype for Linux then choose to bundle its own updater, thereby breaking the integrity a package manage
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by joshumax 9y ago
It should work with Chromium, IIRC, however you'd need to install the Widevine DRM plugin to make it work. It's available in the non-free section of most-distributions, being closed-source and all...
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by joshumax 9y ago
I'll see if I can't send something over in a PR or Issue :) I'll have to make sure it's a clean-room implementation, however, to get around legal issues.
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by joshumax 9y ago
Interestingly enough, me and that very same friend from my prior comment also joked around with this idea. We never implemented it however, after I vaguely remember reading about a POC in some article from an engineering journal...
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by joshumax 9y ago
For those of you interested, there was an app called Chirp by Animal Systems that allowed you to transfer messages and shortcodes of hosted media content over audible frequencies. Despite being rather ear-piercing each time a Chirp was sent
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by joshumax 9y ago
We've been able to run Linux on old iPhones for quite a while now, as can be noted from the defunct iDroid project, which managed to successfully port the Linux kernel and Android userspace to the iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS, and 4 using OpeniB
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by joshumax 9y ago
This is an interesting method of providing a user space VFS later without the need of a kernel driver, like FUSE. However, that said, I wonder if it would still work in cases when a file is memory-mapped (via mmap() and friends) and modifie
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by joshumax 9y ago
I even ripped apart an Echo dot a little while ago, de-soldered the NAND from the device and dumped the FireOS-based ROM to take a peek myself. It is indeed performing audio processing for the wake-up word entirely locally.
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by joshumax 9y ago
Additionally, it is a tremendous help to reduce sexual assault and accidental pregnancy. A fair portion of teenage guys are frightening enough, but the last thing that we need is a bunch of confused horny teens with no safe outlet to expl
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by joshumax 9y ago
We (I) use it a lot in the Amateur Radio and Amateur Radio Astronomy community
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by joshumax 9y ago
Funny, I remember setting up a mitm proxy on a Raspberry Pi for Tinder when I was designing an interactive display of my tinder likes and dislikes. Even used the content-length trick to bypass installing a custom root cert on my phone to de
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Building Wine 3.0 for Android(joshumax.github.io)
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by joshumax 9y ago
I remember having to follow this guide when I needed to flash some cRIOs using some garbage Win32 flasher program with an Acer ICONIA A500 running a barely-functional build of Arch... I hope they've managed to automate this step in the
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by joshumax 9y ago
It took me a bit of reading through the luna-manager sources but it appears to install it to $HOME/.luna/bin
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by joshumax 9y ago
This is the guy who gave me the incentive to buy a SEM off of govt. surplus for my lab. Very nice to see that the ieee is finally writing about his PCB fab setup!
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by joshumax 9y ago
If I'm interpreting you correctly, you can totally sue the FCC for matters like this, and in fact, people are doing just that. [1] 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/state-attorneys-...
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by joshumax 9y ago
That's always why I have a good laugh when someone comes out claiming to be Satoshi when they end their sentences with only a single space after a period. If you wanted to come out as Bitcoin's creator, you'd have used 2 spac
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by joshumax 9y ago
The problem for me is that my kernel appeared to be too "new" for Nessus since they set minimum and maximum version ranges. Oddly enough it never impacted function AFAIK.
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by joshumax 9y ago
I actually had to use this trick several months ago in order to install Nessus on my Debian box. The installer was written in C and it called uname() to check if I was running a "supported kernel version" despite not actuality ins
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by joshumax 9y ago
Interestingly, I had an article featured om HN related to how easy this is to exploit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518356
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by joshumax 9y ago
So I was looking through the sources of nano and I seemed to have discovered a previously-unknown (at least based on a quick search) easter egg. First modify the buffer somehow. It really doesn't matter if you just type in "test&q
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by joshumax 9y ago
It's especially strange why they're calling it a language on their blog when the GitHub readme specifically states that "Pyro is a flexible, scalable deep probabilistic programming library"[1] 1: https://gith
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by joshumax 9y ago
An I the only one who lost the ability to touch type for a moment after reading this article?
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by joshumax 9y ago
I think he's basing it on a price-performance ratio. Phoronix tests show that NVIDIA's closed OpenGL/Vulkan drivers are still ahead of AMD/Mesa's open graphics stack. -- On the bright side the "relative&quo
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by joshumax 9y ago
According to http://xkcd.com/715 the normal curve for people googling their IQ is positioned significantly differently than the actual intelligence curve

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