octagons

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by octagons 4mo ago
I’ve only seen vague suggestions of what is actually being gated through this verification. Is there a more definitive explanation of what will require the verification? Either way, the moment I encounter this, I’ll be canceling. It’s a com
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by octagons 5mo ago
Mehdi is such a wonderful educator! I wish I’d had him as a professor for whatever topic he’d be interested in teaching.
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by octagons 6mo ago
ImHex++. I also can’t help but shill for 010 Editor, a commercial alternative that one might describe as a little less opinionated.
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by octagons 6mo ago
I developed a font with a similar resolution that was not nearly as legible for my Pi Zero with an e-ink screen many years ago. It allowed for similar tooling such as the flipper zero and esp32 marauder projects. I should fire that project
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by octagons 6mo ago
I’m not a software engineer. Most of my work these days focuses on microcontroller exploitation. I have 15 years of professional experience as a security consultant/contractor.
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by octagons 6mo ago
I mean this genuinely and in good faith in case you didn’t already know it: the term for “non-blank, non-comment…” in programming is usually “Significant Lines Of Code” or SLOC.
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by octagons 6mo ago
I think the author’s intent is well-placed, but it does feel a bit sad that this subject is blog-worthy. I’ve spent a lifetime teaching myself programming, computers, and engineering. I have no formal education in these disciplines and find
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by octagons 6mo ago
Terry Pratchett wrote an excellent metaphor for this concept: https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots...
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by octagons 6mo ago
> Don't be scared. Fuck around a bit. Damn good advice.
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by octagons 6mo ago
They’re still in step 2 of their general game plan: embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by octagons 6mo ago
I’ve had a good experience running Arch Linux on my “gaming” PC in the living room. It helps that I’m very comfortable with Linux internals, but I’d say I have no issues or issues that can be fixed with 2-3 clicks about 95% of the time. My
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by octagons 7mo ago
Are there any generally available microcontrollers with this block inside? “Open source” has a very different meaning when it comes to silicon.
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by octagons 7mo ago
This is the general premise behind Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” and I highly recommend you read it if this is something that interests you.
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by octagons 7mo ago
Oddly, “7070” seems to always return a Database Error for me. Other numbers work fine.
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by octagons 8mo ago
Is there evidence that shows a trend in increased violent crime committed using 3D-printed weapons? I’ve certainly seen projects and models demonstrating the ability to create firearms with the help of a 3D printer, but I’m not aware of any
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by octagons 11mo ago
The wording and tone of the emails sent to Adguard reads just like phishing emails with a hint of political SMS spam. Glad to see the people behind there thinking critically and acting rationally despite such language.
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by octagons 11mo ago
I’ve been running an Incus cluster of 3 fairly beefy servers for about a year now. It’s my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting to setup a new virtualized environment. One of my favorite features is how you can tag different cluster memb
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by octagons 11mo ago
Yes, it can do both. The image server will build for both options if possible, so you have to specify “—vm” on the command line creating the domain.
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by octagons 1y ago
SS7 strikes again!
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by octagons 1y ago
In my experience, anyone running Wayland is very much used to some number of applications that depend on Xwayland. Does Zathura + MuPDF not work with it? Either way, if you want to show off a project, just do so…
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by octagons 1y ago
FYI - the inclusion of UWB (specifically the FiRa consortium secure ranging standard) was not part of the CCC Digital Key specification until v4.0.0, which only left its draft state very recently, at least in terms of automotive security st
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by octagons 1y ago
Toyota moves more slowly than many other brands because of their company culture/philosophy. To your point about BEVs, Toyota started producing BEV batteries at their plant in North Carolina this year: https://www.toyota.com
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Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)(toyotatimes.jp)
135 points by octagons 1y ago|110 comments
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by octagons 1y ago
Wow, this is overall great advice. I am much later in my career than the audience I assume this is intended for, but I have struggled to mentor junior colleagues on many of the major bullet points here so succinctly. This should be recommen
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by octagons 1y ago
I was a little disappointed to discover there was only 1 degree of separation between “Benito Mussolini” and “Bread”. For context: https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model
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by octagons 1y ago
That’s unfortunate. I believed Anthropic was playing the long game and betting on a smaller but more technically proficient userbase. I guess I’ll be canceling my subscription largely out of principal. I doubt any open-source models are cap
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by octagons 1y ago
I share this sentiment - I often get the sense that they struggle to prioritize their development efforts appropriately. It baffles me that they don’t offer a way of creating my own JetBrains IDE from the pile of features available across t
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by octagons 1y ago
I’ve always used huginn[0] for these types of tasks, though the learning curve/implementation is a bit cumbersome for more trivial tasks like the proposed scenario. [0] https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame(portswigger.net)
17 points by octagons 1y ago|2 comments
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by octagons 1y ago
Check out Smallstep’s step-ca server [0]. It still requires some work, but it allows you to run your own CA and ACME server. I have nothing against just hosting records off of a subdomain and using LE as mentioned, but I personally find it

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