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by varenc 11mo ago
Talked to a real estate agent recently and she mentioned a similar trend in the bay area. "Luxury homes", $3M+, are hot right now with prices risings. Whereas lower cost non-luxury homes are seeing less growth. It's a weird w
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by varenc 11mo ago
If you're currently renting, and expect to keep renting for a long time, state-wide control does seem in your interests? It might ultimately depress new construction and certainly isn't good for landlords, but makes sense to me a
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by varenc 11mo ago
Webm is better in many ways, but it doesn't give you gif-like behavior I think. As in, you can't just include it in an <img> tag and a get an autoplaying looping video. Though you can simulate it with <video>. Basicall
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by varenc 11mo ago
That's not inconsistent with what I reported. It seems to require it sometimes, but not others, for mysterious reasons. Are you and your colleague both trying at work? Probably on the same IP? Google might attribute less trust to an I
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by varenc 11mo ago
I might be grouchy, but I don't want any ads to be useful. A useful ad is just a successful ad. The endgame of the most successful persuasive ad is mind control. If some ad genuinely convinces me to buy a thing, while I may really be
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by varenc 11mo ago
My personal theory: Youtube ads exist as just a punishment to beat you into paying for premium. As in, while the ads make some money, their primary purpose is to motivate you to pay. And that a subscriber generates meaningful more revenue t
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by varenc 11mo ago
Going to https://gemini.google.com works fine for me when not logged in. It might be doing some sort of reputation check on your browser/IP to decide whether it requires a login or not. edit: sure enough, while using Tor o
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by varenc 11mo ago
Generally agreed! though fun point of info: you can use the .avif format to get something that behaves just like a gif (auto-playing, no sound, no controls) but supports modern features (HDR/transparency channel) and is compressed as w
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by varenc 11mo ago
Strangely this gets caught in an infinite refresh loop for me. I assume it's the result of some JS on that page not liking the new domain it's on.
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by varenc 11mo ago
Their example in the blog post, geekatlas.com, no longer provides an LOC!
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by varenc 11mo ago
yes! I've had the same thought. If you have only one neighbor in range, seems like you could definitely infer their presence and approximate range based on latency. Phones don't keep AWDL active all the time, but every time you sw
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by varenc 11mo ago
In 2020 Google's Project Zero found a zero-click remote RCE in Apple's AWDL implementation. So at least some folks at Google are fully equipped to build a reverse engineered implementation. Discussion on that awhile back: https:&
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by varenc 11mo ago
Just `tcpdump -i awdl0` while Airdrop-ing to a Mac to observe it's still using AWDL. (unless the interface named awdl0 is actually using WiFi Aware...) Another fun thing to do: `ping6 ff02::1%awdl0`. Pings all nearby Apple devices wit
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by varenc 11mo ago
> Longevity can be calculated based upon a simple concept entitled the “power consumption index” (PCI = t x I/C, where t is a constant of 1 hour, I is the current required by the device and C, its battery capacity). So basically c
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by varenc 11mo ago
Related: https://bitcoindeaths.com/
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by varenc 11mo ago
Notably, their name is Alan (or sometimes Alain), which might be where this app gets its name?
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by varenc 11mo ago
Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize you're talking about a music event not a math lecture
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by varenc 11mo ago
side note: It's interesting that the `sc_auth` CLI tool to create the SSH key, is just a bash script! It seems truly ancient, and has comments referencing mac OS Tiger (20+ years old) and non-existent files from old macOS. It calls out
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by varenc 11mo ago
Love the most commit titled 'Release 1.33.4' that's actually just changing a log export file from `kdeconnect-log.txt` to `zorin-connect-log.txt` : https://github.com/ZorinOS/zorin-connect-android/co
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by varenc 11mo ago
It's "WiFi-Aware" which seems like a related standard. I think the difference is it handles the discovery and secure connection part, then once established its like WiFi-Direct. Because of this I think it's unlikely. And
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by varenc 11mo ago
Agreed. Assuming an AWS "NAT Gateway" is the same as a regular NAT? Security is not the purpose of a NAT. It's there to give you more IPs than you have. There's all sorts of NAT hole punching techniques. If you want a fi
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by varenc 11mo ago
I've experienced this unintentionally when I've moved and taken my access point with me. Fresh after moving in, I'll pull out my phone and it'll tell me I'm still at my old house's location, because its using t
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by varenc 11mo ago
AirDrop compatible Quick Share isn't even going over the local network. It create an adhoc device-to-device wireless connection and the files are sent that way. So the two phones don't even need to be on wifi or be on the same net
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by varenc 11mo ago
Bump didn't use direct device-to-device communication. A central server correlated the two bumping phones, based on geolocation and accelerometer data, then swapped the data via the server. At least that's how it worked in the ear
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by varenc 11mo ago
we agree. Just pointing out to the parent commenter that in their scenario the risk hasn't fundamentally changed. Just before the vuln was fixed it was a bit easier.
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by varenc 11mo ago
> Under the new proposal, some “non-risk” cookies won’t trigger pop-ups at all, and users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly. For 'central browser control', what is t
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by varenc 11mo ago
The vulnerability here is that the contact discovery endpoint could be abused to enumerate all WhatsApp users en-masse. It's still quite possible to discover a single or small set of existing WhatsApp users based on their phone number.
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by varenc 11mo ago
I think the challenge is also caring enough to keep paying money to host a site for no clear purpose or gain. And moving hosting providers since guessing hostgator didn't exist back then. Based on the modified times on some assets on
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by varenc 11mo ago
Yea i think the context for my reply got lost. I was responding to someone saying that an LLM powered user-agent (browser) should respect robots.txt. And it wouldn't be clicking the hidden link because it's not crawling.
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by varenc 11mo ago
Love the old internet feel to the site. You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https:/&#

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