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Yeah, it's the same for garage door openers today. I took the OP simply to be saying that physical access of some type needs to be available (ie. to stop anyone initiating a pairing). Some cars require the key to be physically insert
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Pressing a button on the opener is physical contact. That's the entire idea that the OP was trying to relay, that you need some physical way to prove that you're eligible to pair. Not that the key itself had to be hard-wired for
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1y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like the problem was MITM. The issue is initiating a pairing request, you can't allow just any key to request it, that allows bad actors to pair a key with your car. While I worry that it
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1y ago
That allows the conversation to proceed in secret from listeners, but it provides no authentication to ensure that only legitimate parties are involved. The reason for physical contact is to "prove" that you are legitimately in c
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Japan's Chip Breakthrough: The Secret Plan to Win the Chip Race
(youtube.com)
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Startup wants to use the Earth as a battery
(technologyreview.com)
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You can replace the xdg-open command (or whichever command is used on your linux system) with your own. Just program it to fire over the url to a waiting socket on your windows box, and have it automatically open there. The details are pr
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This has happened before. Non-technical or junior people developed and deployed applications, emboldened by the relative ease of Microsoft Access and Excel. There were all kinds of limitations, scaling problems, and maintenance nightmares
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'tis the patient plot on either side, where time doth weave its cunning, deep and wide.
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He's no doubt a talented young man as well. Google Gemini would be much less helpful in many other people's hands; kudos to him. That said, at some point the people so dismissive about the capabilities of current AI systems, wil
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They mention in the article that some people don't want to install the full Plakar backup software just to read and write ptar archives; so a dedicated open-source tool is offered for download as of yesterday: https://plakar
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> gather them all up and send them to another planet... Has been tried before, they started with telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and advertising account executives
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Scientists Measured a Brain-Bending Version of Time That Shouldn't Exist
(popularmechanics.com)
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> reliant upon PAM for authentication and don't support shadow passwords PAM supports a shadow password file as its default configuration. Did you mean something else?
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Godfather of AI has a new plan to keep us safe from it
(vox.com)
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make --help Will give you the command line options. And GNU make has decent documentation online for everything else: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.htm...
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Not OP, but I would say the answer is the same as it would be if you substitute the LLM with a live human person who has memorized a section of a book and can recall it perfectly when asked.
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> possible for DNSSEC if people who want to solve the problem But for several decades, DNSSEC proponents have been complaining about the vocal detractors, rather than actually addressing the problems that have been identified. That'
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Thanks for the recommendation! I was just about to reread "Soul Of A New Machine", but will try Showstopper instead, since it sounds to be the same genre.
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Why do you think that this indicates a problem in identifying zombies? The pause may have simply been the reason that someone became aware there was even a problem. The zombie might have persisted, if it hadn't been paused.
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That's brilliant. Thanks for the link.
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Consumers willing to engage in any specific tech, enough to trigger network effects.
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It's worth blocking shorts alone, they're the worst culprit. Letting kids still access long form videos.
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Meta's AI Boss Says He's Done with LLMs [video]
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Indeed. More people need to grow their own vegetables. AI may undermine our ability for high level abstract thought, but industrial agriculture already represents an existential threat, should it be interrupted for any reason.
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Well, that's an embarrassing mistake. Thanks.
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Hi, Same Tom Howard from osnews.com ??
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China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order
(scmp.com)
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https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-riscv.html
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https://milkv.io/duo Gives you something to play around with, very inexpensively. But really, virtual machines may be preferable; at least to get started.
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