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by wolrah 2y ago
> They are the brains of a ton of cars on the market, like all Ford cars. Used for complex calculations like automatic transmissions. I would seriously doubt that QNX or anything like it resembling a "real OS" is running on the
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by wolrah 2y ago
That would only work if the car has also not seen any further valid messages since the one that was blocked, so I'm not seeing how this technique could be useful for anything other than preventing someone walking away from their car fr
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by wolrah 2y ago
> The problem is most cars remotes are one-way comms, and the car remote has no concept of time. > Given those constraints, there is no fix possible. There are in fact multiple "fixes" which have been widely implemented in d
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by wolrah 2y ago
> As a personal note, I know I’m a bit of an exception for operating multiple IP addresses, but I need the flexibility to send packets with any of my source addresses through any of my ISPs. That’s critical for me, and if an ISP filters
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by wolrah 2y ago
> True, but if there's a communication bug between UX and back-end teams, that can escalate into a false sense of security and then an exploit. How so? The backend ALWAYS validates. No communication necessary, whether or not the f
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by wolrah 2y ago
> The iMac is basically the same as the M4 iPad Pro, and the iPad Pro doesn't have a chin. Cooling seems like it might be a factor here. The iMac's display is probably going to be run at a brighter (and thus hotter) setting AN
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Wish they had a community version I could play with, but understand they would be worried about cannibalising their already small market. They may not have a choice either. IBM still owns OS/2. ArcaOS, like eComStation before it
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Can anyone explain why something like this is necessary on a Macbook, but when I use my airpods with my iPhone I seem to get high quality audio and microphone usage at the same time? Are you sure? How often does your phone have the mi
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Allow me to introduce a whole new suite of bugs that occur when feature A exists but feature B doesn't. Yeah, but are those bugs security bugs? Memory safety bugs are a big focus because they're the most common kind of bugs
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Also, what frequencies is this antenna designed for; it seems like 5g can run on lots of spectrum; is this mmWave gear or lower? The article says it's for the "sub-6" 5G bands, a.k.a. normal cellular frequencies, not mmW
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by wolrah 2y ago
How many people care about setting up secure connectivity to an internal server but are unable to either disable this behavior or configure their own internal DNS service? My internal DNS names are served from my router and I'd imagi
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by wolrah 2y ago
Is there any technical reason why the hearing aids don't just support A2DP like every other Bluetooth headset on the face of the earth or is this just a case of the vendors being the worst kinds of garbage and intentionally not support
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by wolrah 2y ago
To paraphrase, "ZFS is the worst filesystem, except for all those other filesystems that have been tried from time to time." It's far from perfect, but it has no peers. I spent many years stubbornly using btrfs and lost data
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by wolrah 2y ago
> there are also cheap active adapters utilising the CEC CSC0101A "The CEC CSC0101A is an integral micro-controller for converting PS/2 interface signal to USB applications" That's the other way around, for which adap
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by wolrah 2y ago
> It goes the other way too. An Ubuntu Update could put the Windows bootloader on the deny list. I don't think this is generally true. Since most computers don't ship with Ubuntu's CA directly trusted their signed compone
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by wolrah 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts. IMO it's analogous to SSL/TLS, which for the longest time was something you had to pay extra for at multiple levels. You had to get a dedicated IP for your service instead of being able to use shared hosting
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by wolrah 2y ago
> I still feel that if they did the right testing, they shouldn’t be blamed for everything. This update crashed 100% of the Windows systems it got installed on, which means either their testing did not involve actually loading it on real
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by wolrah 2y ago
Glad to see this amazing project getting resurfaced, presumably as a result of the author's article on the new RP chip. Previous discussion: Apr. 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761952 Nov. 2021: https:&#
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Do you live in a universe where micro-USB cables are not available, or something? There's gonna be something or other that needs micro-USB for the next decade, so just buy a few and move on. They're not expensive. I live in a
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by wolrah 2y ago
Are you aware of any information out there about what mod exactly contained the exploit and where it came from? I'm of course quite curious about how said mod ended up on this person's computer in the first place. As I'm sur
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by wolrah 2y ago
> 90 days isn't really an industry standard. It's what Google unilaterally decided upon when they chose to staff up Project Zero Every published vulnerability disclosure policy I've found in a quick look around has a 90 or
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Author says Rust wouldn't solve the crowd strike outage but then literally admits that it would have prevented it? If a person who got claymored by a Takata airbag in a car crash had taken a different route the crash wouldn't
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Other than visual changes, what new functionality does Windows 11 actually have that Windows XP didn't have? XP->Vista alone brought a bunch of huge changes that massively improved security (UAC), capability (64 bit desktops),
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Qubes is great but no desktop GPU supports virtualization. Intel 12th-gen and newer iGPUs do, and AFAIK it can be unlocked on certain Arc cards as well but details are fuzzy.
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by wolrah 2y ago
> The problem with unhitching at speed follows naturally from the problem with close following: the moment you unhitch, you are now following too closely behind another train, and you cannot stop in time if something bad happens to it. I
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Genuine question, but would you notice the difference playing a game running a good software emulator or a FPGA hardware emulation? If you are playing on a CRT, definitely. FPGA hardware emulation is sufficiently accurate that those w
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by wolrah 2y ago
> The wourld used to be full of sliding phones with dedicated keyboards, but for some reason every manufacturer is content making the same glass rectangle. "[S]ome reason" is actually a lot of reasons, all of which are pretty e
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by wolrah 2y ago
> There is a charity run homeless shelter in the town where they were camping on public grounds. That "charity" is a religious organization which requires all residents to abide by strict "Christian values" including
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Meaning that you're not going to have people drive off while still plugged in This is not possible. > or not plugging in properly This is not really a problem. > or having otherwise damaged plugs, etc. This is a real issue
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by wolrah 2y ago
Not to mention that these kinds of systems tend to be very particular about alignment. The amount of effort saved in not plugging in a cable would be very easy to use up if the vehicle has to be precisely parked for it to work. Also let&#x

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