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by varenc 2y ago
AirTags and an iPhone 11 or newer should exactly solve this for you. Lets you locate AirTags to within a foot. Rather than using Bluetooth connection strength, it uses Ultra Wideband for precision location. This works on time-flight using t
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by varenc 2y ago
That's a bit of an oversimplification. Access Points coordinate communication to ensure clients take turns, and Wi-Fi avoid collisions by having clients listen for an idle channel before transmitting and exponentially backing off if it
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by varenc 2y ago
Agreed. I believe this means just means that the entire contents of your ssh session is available in /tmp/framer.txt. But as long as credentials aren't part of your STDIN/STDOUT, then they shouldn't be leaked. Your
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by varenc 2y ago
> It pains me to see it, but they show more long-term thinking that many of the Western governments… Absolutely agree, and it pains me as well. Besides long-term thinking, they can also just impose sweeping new rules to address certain p
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by varenc 2y ago
If Xi Jinping died suddenly, it’d cause serious instability. His centralization of power erased clear succession plans, so top CCP factions would likely fight for control. Markets would also freak out. Long-term? Either a return to pre-Xi m
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by varenc 2y ago
This whole thing is reminding me of the outrage over Apple and Google's privacy preserving 'Exposure Notification System' system from the Covid years. It defies intuition that they can alert you to exposure without also trac
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by varenc 2y ago
An iOS "local VPN" could definitely block all traffic to Apple IP ranges. But it lacks the ability to associate traffic with the originating process/framework. Like if, for example, I wanted to only allow iMessage to talk to
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by varenc 2y ago
Does this include protecting someone from suicide? How would are organization protect them from that without infringing on the whistleblower's liberty?
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by varenc 2y ago
It's true! But the whole point of Markdown is that its completely readable as plaintext as well. And many other well known URIs use the .txt extension. It's not my thing but I think keeping it .txt for simplicity and parity makes
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by varenc 2y ago
yes of course. If you go to https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ you can see the websocket to `wss://push.lightstreamer.com/lightstreamer` being opened and the stream of events. That provides a stream of
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by varenc 2y ago
I’m going to cite this web port whenever someone claims LLMs are no better than stackoverflow copy pasta.
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by varenc 2y ago
If you're worried about mass internet scans, I can see the downsides. But if you're worried about a targeted attacker scanning just your organization’s IP ranges, this seems like it would hinder them quite a bit.
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by varenc 2y ago
Using `/.well-known/llms.txt` was the first thought that came to my mind as well. There's a long list of other special well-known URIs using it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI#List_of_well-
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by varenc 2y ago
If you could disable the public key rotation on the AirTag, presumably you could greatly extend its battery life at the cost of your own privacy. When your battery gets low, Apple warns that "privacy protection is temporarily adjusted
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by varenc 2y ago
Nextdns is awesome and I highly recommend it. That said, DNS level ad blocking is pretty limited but it often is enough for journalism sites like this one. You also get privacy benefits since it's quite good at blocking trackers and
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by varenc 2y ago
My iOS ad blocker seems to block it all since I see none
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by varenc 2y ago
HTTPS certificates should do exactly this.
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by varenc 2y ago
You can turn off password checking on `sudo` completely. Shamefully, I have done this in some limited contexts.
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by varenc 2y ago
Could runaway Kessler syndrome in LEO would launch enough debris that some would reach MEO? Though out there the density of debris might not be high enough to pose much risk. The article glossing over this made me a bit dubious of the whole
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by varenc 2y ago
I believe that it’s not literally hardwired in the sense that powering up the camera also powers up the camera LED, and instead this relies on logic in the hopefully un-flashable camera+LED firmware. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. You ne
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by varenc 2y ago
++ to `fd` It’s absolutely my preferred `find` replacement. Its CLI interface just clicks for me and I can quickly express my desires. Quite unlike `find`. `fd` is one of the first packages I install on a new system.
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by varenc 2y ago
I interpreted the GP comment very differently. I took it to just mean that “we” as “humanity as a whole” have constructed the no privacy world we inhabit. Which seems quite true. I don’t get any sense of casting blame on individuals for lac
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by varenc 2y ago
You’re also giving Google feedback when you click a search result link. Presumably that should be a huge signal for measuring search quality. Heck, Google even promoted the `ping`[0] anchor attribute feature so they can log what link you cl
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by varenc 2y ago
TCP has built in checksums that prevent most data corruption. I believe this is why it’s not part of HTTP, because TCP should already be doing this for you. I’m guessing that for your very large file download you had an unusually high numbe
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by varenc 2y ago
The APIs to implement traffic policies on a per-app basis just don’t exist on iOS. You can create a VPN connection and have an app manage all network traffic that way, but you can’t associate traffic with specific apps since this would run
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by varenc 2y ago
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-i... Zero Trust just means you stop inherently trusting your private network and verify every user/device/request regardless. If you opt in
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by varenc 2y ago
I just tried to signup for a new Hamina account... and I've failed after spending 15 minutes on it. It seems they have a bug in the last step of the signup process that makes the final "continue" button always be disabled.
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by varenc 2y ago
By a stricter definition, a pedestrian is one who travels by foot. Of course, they are walking, but they’re traveling via their car, so by some interpretations you wouldn’t call them a pedestrian. You could call them a “motorist” or a “st
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by varenc 2y ago
Great question! Could just be Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS like someone mentioned. Essentially the landing arms know their position very precisely and they measure the tiny errors in GPS data, and send that correction data live to the rock
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by varenc 2y ago
> Create a new email address for every service we sign up for? Yes! Just get a domain and have every email it go to you. Mine is something like “@super-secure-no-viruses.email”

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