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by pimterry 1y ago
All of them now require some kind of 2FA, everywhere. This is due to a legal requirement on all EEA payment providers that they require 2FA for almost everything since 2020, including accessing your account on their website: https:/&#
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by pimterry 1y ago
Fundamentally Oxbridge entry has never been based on academic results directly as you're implying. You needed near-perfect grades to be considered, but the vast majority of people applying with those grades fail the interviews regardl
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by pimterry 1y ago
> For frida to work you need to root the device, which is impossible on ever more models There's plenty of physical devices where it is possible, and Google publish official emulator images with root access for every Android version
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by pimterry 1y ago
It's not really going to be directly affected by that change I would expect. Most reverse engineering is on rooted devices & emulators anyway, which are already outside the bounds of those kinds of Google restrictions. For the (les
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by pimterry 1y ago
Oh awesome, this is using my Frida scripts! These: https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinn... . Nice project, great to see the scripts doing good work in the wild. If you needed any extra additions
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by pimterry 1y ago
Does anybody know if something similar exists for Node.js? I'd love to be able to integrate BPF into some of my Node projects with the same kind of approach.
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by pimterry 1y ago
Personally I've started migrating to vanilla-extract ( https://vanilla-extract.style/ ): syntactically & conceptually similar to SC, relatively easy migration and lots of the same advantages, but entirely precompiled
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by pimterry 1y ago
This attack is pretty bad, but as shown by the tiny ROI for the attacker mentioned in this article (about $500 so far: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/61fbc095-f19b-479d-a0... ) this really isn't quite
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by pimterry 1y ago
That's not what that article says - it says they didn't completely cut off service to the entire ICC. The headline is confusing, but the quotes are pretty clear: > A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with
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by pimterry 1y ago
> Hell, you can host actual frontier models (e.g. Claude 4) on AWS Bedrock in the EU, so "in the EU" (from a hosting perspective) cannot be Mistral's USP. I've seen zero cases so far where "physically present &am
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by pimterry 1y ago
I suggested exactly that (for the closely related Deprecation header) to Requests a few years ago, they feel it's the application's responsibility, discussion here: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues&
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by pimterry 1y ago
If you pull out to view the full history, you'll see it's a constant series of huge spikes (e.g. in late 2024 the site more than tripled in size over about a week) each followed by a slow trend downwards, then another huge spike u
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by pimterry 1y ago
I think Play Integrity is the fundamental issue here, and needs to go. That's the crux of the issue. Allowing apps to say "we only run on Google's officially certified unmodified Android devices" and tightly restricting
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by pimterry 1y ago
For generic consumer products, sure, but for dev & technical power user tools the audience is big enough that these arguments doesn't hold water. Stack Overflow's latest survey shows nearly 30% of professional devs using Ubunt
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by pimterry 1y ago
Being able to rewrite existing working code sufficient to copyright-launder it isn't the same as being able to write it from scratch, unfortunately, especially since LLMs seem to be allowed to ignore quite a bit of copyright law with c
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by pimterry 1y ago
It's just _ridiculously_ useful having every single device you own work with the same charger. It's not the end of the world, but not even having to think about chargers has been a gamechanger.
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by pimterry 1y ago
Yes, this is possible, and not dissimilar to proposals making progress elsewhere, notably in the EU: https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/d... . There's a bunch of other "digital wallet&q
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Meshtastic: Open-source off-grid decentralized mesh networking(meshtastic.org)
2 points by pimterry 1y ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 1y ago
> In a way we just need MQTT servers, a client with reliable push notifications and a manual key exchange mechanism. That would be really hard for govs to target. Go even further: Meshtastic ( https://meshtastic.org/ ). P2
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We Need a European Sovereign Tech Fund(github.blog)
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by pimterry 1y ago
Cloudflare have some new bot verification proposals designed to fix this, with cryptographic proofs that the user-agent is who they say they are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth/ .
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by pimterry 1y ago
The company doesn't actually keep your card details at all (at least, all reputable companies). They take the details to the payment processor at first purchase, but they then get swapped for a token which can be used to process transa
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by pimterry 1y ago
Revolut along with quite a few other modern EU banks let you manage recurring billing directly - in Revolut I can pick any transaction in the app, click "Block future payments" and that vendor won't be able to bill my card ag
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Introducing OpenCLI(patriksvensson.se)
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by pimterry 1y ago
How do those regulations work? Is it that anybody providing DNS in any way must block resolution of these addresses, or is it that anybody acting as an ISP must block resolution on their default DNS service? The latter seems more likely - i
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by pimterry 1y ago
There's nothing here suggesting that 'protective' will block torrent sites or similar - AFAICT it's exclusively for recognized malicious/phishing/etc sites, like Google's safe browsing list. It specificall
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MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin(robertheaton.com)
56 points by pimterry 1y ago|11 comments
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by pimterry 1y ago
Building a business that earns $250k/year isn't just a fixed income though - you get the money, but _you also now own a business_. In effect you've earned a $250k income _and_ ~$1 million dollar asset you can sell later (one
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by pimterry 1y ago
> If done through third parties directly the scammers will not make unsubscribing easy and it will not be as easy to find out where you are subscribing. This is fairly quickly resolved though - if anything close to 1% of customers compla
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by pimterry 2y ago
> Surely if a lack of open phone OS and feature access was the problem, we’d see a rich ecosystem of integrations that exist on Android devices that are just impossible to achieve on iOS right? ...yes, and that's exactly what has ha

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