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by mrb 3y ago
I feel you. The lack of knowledge among American tradespeople is infuriating. As soon as you deviate slightly from the brands of furnaces they have been installing for decades, they don't know anything.
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by mrb 3y ago
My favorite configuration is just LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and unsetting all other LC_* variables and unsetting LANG as well. That way you have full UTF-8 support, except ls(1) will sort the files as I want with uppercase coming before lowercas
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by mrb 3y ago
To do that you would have to define a custom locale in /usr/share/i18n/locales and define a custom LC_COLLATE section. See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.5.html You can read
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by mrb 3y ago
But this awk code was not committed in the clear so it was not possible to review. It was hidden in a binary file, compressed and encrypted.
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by mrb 3y ago
In general, in electronics, when a firmware is involved and communicates with a higher-level software, it's almost always better to make the firmware as simple as possible, as dumb as possible, because the firmware is more difficult an
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by mrb 3y ago
The author tried essentially the same thing as what you suggest. He booted into recoveryOS (a separate partition) then from there tried to delete files from the main system partition. But rm failed with the same error "No space left on
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by mrb 3y ago
You forget the web browser standards had to be extended to add support for a lot of that stuff I mentioned: - built-in support of USB webcam (for video conferencing) - WebGL for video games - XMLHTTPRequest to support active pages (email, c
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by mrb 3y ago
Opposite viewpoint: browsers are for much more than "browsing". It's been 10-20 years that browsers have become the only app many people ever use, on a computer. So they already almost do everything: video conferencing, insta
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by mrb 3y ago
Multiple buildings have collapsed. There will be many fatalities: https://twitter.com/Huberton/status/1775320722115539349 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1775325642386481216
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by mrb 3y ago
I believe you are correct, that sshd does not link to liblzma.so on the BSD systems.
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by mrb 3y ago
But what are you suggesting exactly? The code fragment you quoted was awk code. Awk is a generic programming language. Any programming language can be written to be complex and unreadable.
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by mrb 3y ago
I hope the NetBSD devs included the latest version 5.6.1 of "xz" as it has some new interesting features.
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by mrb 3y ago
To be clear: the build system did not use the code fragment you quoted. This complex awk code is a later stage of the backdoor.
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by mrb 3y ago
Stuxnet wasn't similar to this xz backdoor. The Stuxnet creators researched (or acquired) four Windows zero-days, a relatively short-term endeavor. Whereas the xz backdoor was a long-term 2.5 years operation to slowly gain trust from L
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by mrb 3y ago
Have you forgotten about the Snowden leaks exposing the surveillance on Americans by the American govt?
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by mrb 3y ago
Dated June 2022. Good find!
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by mrb 3y ago
Brand new anon HN account created 17 minutes ago to defend China? Hmm, suspicious :-)
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by mrb 3y ago
I agree, probably a coincidence. Just wanted to point out we can, actually, find the username online.
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by mrb 3y ago
I would presume it's a state actor. Generally in the blackhat world, attackers have very precise targets. They want to attack this company or this group of individuals. But someone who backdoors such a core piece of open source infrast
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by mrb 3y ago
Actually the "jiat0218" user part in his email address jiat0218@gmail.com has a bunch of matches on Taiwanese sites: https://char.tw/blog/post/24397301 https://forum.babyhome.com.tw/topic
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by mrb 3y ago
Actually the 7713 too (non-P, dual socket compatible) can be found for less than the 7C13, around $1500-1800: https://www.newegg.com/p/2HE-001Y-000A5 https://www.ebay.com/itm/185284314106 https:&
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by mrb 3y ago
The article states the 7C13, priced in the $1900-2000 range, seems to be a low-cost version of the more common retail 7713P, priced officially around $5000 about 2-3 years ago. But the thing is the 7713P itself is such an old processor that
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by mrb 3y ago
By "real" on-chain transaction I mean "actual" on-chain transaction, ie. a transaction recorded on the blockchain. When people buy or sell bitcoins on exchanges, nothing is recorded on the blockchain. Instead, an exchang
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by mrb 3y ago
You repeat another popular misconception. Buys/sells on exchanges do NOT show up as on-chain transactions. The data I'm showing is real on-chain transactions. It's pretty exhausting to have to re-explain this ad-nauseam. But
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by mrb 3y ago
I just verified the data: 2019 averaged 331k transactions/day, while 2023 averaged 418k transactions/day, a +26% increase. Like I said, you made a mistake reading the chart!
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by mrb 3y ago
I honestly think you don't know how to read the chart. Click on 30-day average. Then observe how the transactions volume in the last 12 months is clearly higher than any preceding 12-month period.
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by mrb 3y ago
No. Wash trading on exchanges does not translate to on-chain or lighting transactions.
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by mrb 3y ago
A fluctuation in the last 80 days means nothing. Zoom out to 15 years.
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by mrb 3y ago
And yet usage stats point the other way. The number of daily transactions, and the lightning network capacity are steadily increasing year after year. https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/n-transactions htt
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by mrb 3y ago
Re: ordering food by cellphone: paulg probably means doordash but via texts or calls navigating a tree of choices, as opposed to in an app/browser. Hence his vocabulary choice of "cellphone" not "smartphone". You co

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