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by rft 3y ago
> Isn't something special about HN? I think so. One of the core advantages of HN, imo, is the absence of any of the common monetization models. The site itself and the moderation are run by a company making money in another field. O
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by rft 3y ago
For external drives, I would seriously consider using SSDs. Unless you use them exclusively as cold backups and handle them carefully and seldom, I would be far too worried about accidental drops. I have killed some external HDDs this way,
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by rft 3y ago
Yeah, that was one of the parts I have no chance of solving. I assume back in the day and/or for Americans this would have been just as commonly used as ha or a, which I still vaguely remembered the definitions of. Can someone comment
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by rft 3y ago
It can be fun to figure out how to contact your “acquaintances” the first time this happens. You can't really email them, can you? I had it when someone (or likely his partner) with the same (somewhat uncommon!) firstname.lastname@gmai
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by rft 3y ago
> It's an amazing feeling when your OS isn't insisting left and right on behavior you don't want. Yepp, I get this confirmed every so often when I need to boot/install Windows. I will not deny Linux has issues, but so
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by rft 3y ago
Yepp, I have some IKEA buttons and they are just Zigbee devices. They also sell lamps etc., mostly Zigbee based from what I remember. For the Germans (maybe other countries as well): The Lidl smart home things are nearly all Zigbee based. S
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by rft 3y ago
> https://github.com/make-all/tuya-local Just a small warning: make sure to check whether your device needs to be added to the Tuya cloud to get a local API key. I was only able to get "my" lamp working lo
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by rft 3y ago
Yeah, I agree that this is what SHOULD happen. But I am far too cynical at this point to believe it WILL happen. In our current system I see two ways to try to make this reality: 1) economic factors and 2) regulation. 1) will not happen, be
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by rft 3y ago
In a year you need to subscribe to the 14.99€/month tier to remove all ads, the 9.99€ tier will show you "a low number of highly relevant ads to provide you with information on how to more optimally use our^Wyour device and suppor
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by rft 3y ago
> all smart home devices had to go through a hub I fully agree, this is the reason I mostly buy Zigbee devices for my smart home. The problem with this rule is that there is already a device on the market that complies with it on paper,
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by rft 3y ago
Parallel discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188614
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by rft 3y ago
> 1. IIUC PE executables are Windows executables. So a Linux system that targets UEFI ends up writing a PE executable to the EFI System Partition? Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Yes, but it is not exactly a classic Windows desktop app
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by rft 3y ago
> WPA2 is susceptible to offline-dictionary attack and the cost is quite low (less than $10), especially with cloud computing. I agree that offline attacks are a threat to WPA2, but do you have a cost breakdown/source/? for tha
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by rft 3y ago
About 2 years ago I had a similarly bad cable connection. I could push nearly 500mbit/s UDP through it, as advertised, but HTTPS downloads and TCP streams would only reach about 80mbit/s each. I could run multiple of them in paral
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by rft 3y ago
tl;dr: This setup worries me a bit, maybe talk it over with someone qualified in this, e.g. electrician, off-grid electrics expert. At 4000W you are looking at around 300A on the 12V side. This requires chunky copper and clamps. Keep in min
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by rft 3y ago
> proprietary MML that only old fuddy duddies like me would remember. Security through obscurity helps only until someone gets curious/determined. I have a personal anecdote for that. During university I was involved in pentesting a
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by rft 3y ago
I have a similar setup (*.home.domain.com DNS auth with LE -> service1.home.domain.com etc.) for my personal, but externally reachable domain, and I get the same results. I went the wildcard route just due to a bit of paranoia, nice to s
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by rft 3y ago
If you are up for some hardware tinkering, you might be able to modify an existing KVM switch to add remote control. I had a KVM switch with a wired button (place KVM out of the way, put small button on your desk). The button was connected
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by rft 3y ago
Yes, very few roles offer 100% WFH here, but if you only need to show up once a week tops in your office, you can tolerate a longer commute. So it might not make the most rural areas that much more attractive, but it widens the area around
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by rft 3y ago
I get the sentiment "I don't need it", but I do not understand the lack of consideration when you are landlord. The whole Corona WFH rush has demonstrated that digital infrastructure is an asset. If you have decent internet,
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by rft 3y ago
> Germany and other countries could bring life back to rural areas if it mandated employers allow 100% WFH whoever possible as that would get a lot of people moving back to their hometown closer to their family especially if their family
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by rft 3y ago
A related tidbit of trivia: some highways around the world are intended as emergency airfields. It doesn't mean you can just stop traffic and land, you need to prepare the area, e.g. remove dividers, but it can be done relatively fast
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by rft 3y ago
Just figured it out. If you select "Adjust Difficulty" and increase the max gadget size (number of instructions that can fall at once) you change their order with these keys. P.S. thank you for nerd sniping me with this game, I lo
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by rft 3y ago
Yepp, we once spent about 1.5 hours in a meeting walking the org chart of such a company to figure out which 4 emails to 4 people (plus copious amounts of CCs just to add to the "urgency" and inbox bloat) I had to write to unblock
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by rft 3y ago
I have been in the process of being migrated from Postbank to Deutsche Bank since about a year now (no, not a typo). They occasionally send letters, emails, pop-ups etc. that at some weekend they will do a migration. There is always some on
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by rft 3y ago
Thanks for the link, I will give it a proper read first thing tomorrow morning. From my very quick skim your attack is far more advanced than what I did. It was enough to just set some registers via the debugger and single step an instructi
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by rft 3y ago
Without going into details, we can make the extracted binary hard to analyze via, e.g., obfuscation or other methods. You are correct, just using a decryption key in ROM without other countermeasures does not provide much security as it can
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by rft 3y ago
Very good guess! Thank you for this comment, this makes tracking the problem down much easier.
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by rft 3y ago
Just for clarification, the TFA is about the nRF51 which can be attacked via a debugger only. No glitching or other hardware was needed. Your link is a different attack on the newer nRF52 series which no longer has the same weakness in its
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by rft 3y ago
Yeah, that is the blog post about the newer nRF52 series. From what we were told, Nordic updated the silicon to counter the fault attack we were using. Retesting with newer devices is on our todo list. Some more links, also in the blog post

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