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by wolrah 4mo ago
Two reasons come to mind for me: 1. It's very common, especially in certain ecosystems like Python, for the system to depend on old versions of things in such a way that updating to modern versions will break your entire system, while
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by wolrah 4mo ago
That's why the article says "verify, not validate". Send an email, have a process for them to confirm they received it. If the user gets the email and completes the validation, the email is valid. If they fucked up, they do
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by wolrah 4mo ago
> in the end the Find My beacons have to resolve down to some common identifier otherwise the "an unknown device has been following you for 2 hours" warning would not work. Not really, this is actually pretty easy. If such a d
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by wolrah 4mo ago
> Flipper Zero (without extra hardware) doesn't do 2.4 GHz for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (or 5GHz Wi-Fi). Flipper Zero has Bluetooth built in, that's how the phone app works. I don't know how much control the apps have over it, b
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by wolrah 4mo ago
> A part of me cries a little when I see so much beautiful land and trees cut down and these lifeless panels taking up so much space. Where are you seeing healthy forests or other "beautiful land" being destroyed for solar farm
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by wolrah 5mo ago
This is Mac OS 9, which is pre-hackintosh. The term "hackintosh" refers to running x86 versions of Mac OS X on non-Mac x86 systems, where OS 9 was exclusive to PowerPC.
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by wolrah 5mo ago
I agree, but it's also a rather distinct device so if it were being intentionally confiscated by TSA as some of the upstream posters claim it'd be really easy for them to identify. If it were policy in any way, even the most basi
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by wolrah 5mo ago
Likewise, I've flown more in the last year than in the decade prior and every single leg my Flipper has been in the side pocket of my backpack. Never once has it received even a second look from the TSA, including also DEF CON.
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by wolrah 5mo ago
> You end up with an Assembly program that doesn't have any UB, because Assembly doesn't have UB. I guess that's true if you think of assembly as a more readable form of machine code, but from a practical sense I'd ar
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by wolrah 5mo ago
Exactly my thought. APRS is nice but I'm just not interested in buying another otherwise analog-only radio. I know a lot of the popular digital modes are hard due to proprietary components but I'd be a lot more interested in som
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by wolrah 5mo ago
> The real question is did the operator arbitrarily and knowingly increase the level of complexity or is it appropriate for the task. There's one major reason to have higher expectations for autonomous systems (of all kinds, not jus
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by wolrah 5mo ago
This exploit is delivered through the charging cable to the wall box. These wall boxes are sometimes intentionally located in public spaces with the intent of allowing public charging, and Tesla has features specifically for that use case,
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by wolrah 5mo ago
Can't speak for the project members or main users, but as an alternative OS nerd who actually used BeOS R5 on a 300 MHz Pentium II in-period I see Haiku as having two different "purposes" depending on version. The x86-32 vers
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by wolrah 5mo ago
You don't get kicked out of trusted roots for non-compliance, you get kicked out for continuing to knowingly issue non-compliant certs, failing to revoke non-compliant certs in a timely fashion once discovered, etc. Pausing issuance im
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by wolrah 5mo ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, you have access to the entire desktop but some of it is off-screen at any given time, with the displayed area following the mouse? This is a feature that some graphical desktops used to have back whe
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by wolrah 5mo ago
Most developed jurisdictions require commercial kitchens (and commercial spaces in general) to have fire suppression systems, not necessarily fire sprinklers. Water sprinklers are a common choice for fire suppression in many spaces becau
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by wolrah 5mo ago
> I sometimes wonder about the people who must clean messy public restrooms. All of the gross, none of the "but it's for the sake of a cute human that I love". I worked "maintenance" at a local outlet mall back i
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by wolrah 6mo ago
> At some point you have to trust vendors. I don't know exactly how AWS guarantees eleven nines of durability on S3. But I sure hope that they do. Trust is earned, it's built on reputations at the individual, corporate, and ind
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by wolrah 6mo ago
> No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spa
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by wolrah 6mo ago
> I rent physical servers from them that have been previously rented to other customers. At some point hard drives fail. The comparison in this case is to Hetzner's VPS offerings, which are probably less powerful than the average &q
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by wolrah 6mo ago
No, the Windows firewall in its default configuration does not restrict outbound connections in any way. Any application can make any outbound connection it wants. If an application attempts to listen for incoming connections from externa
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by wolrah 6mo ago
Not exactly the same situation, but RustDesk has recently been removed from the official WinGet community repository because their automated scans have been blocking updates since v1.4.2 in September 2025. https://github.com&#x2F
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by wolrah 6mo ago
> This may be an age or geography thing, but Weather.com/Retro looks a lot more like the weather channels I remember than either of your two links. That'll be a memory thing then, because unsurprisingly there are some serious W
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by wolrah 6mo ago
4) Don't use a stack of plugins, if you must use any keep them as dumb as possible and stick to those with a longstanding reputation. A basic instance, set to auto-update, installed on a shared webhost where OS/web server updates
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by wolrah 6mo ago
Were the real things ever available outside of America? Either way, thanks to the wonders of open source here's a fork that works for other parts of the world: https://mwood77.github.io/ws4kp-international/
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by wolrah 6mo ago
This appears to be a fairly low effort simulation of a WeatherStar 4000, but it's been done much better by someone else here: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ Also for those of us like me who grew up with a cable pro
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by wolrah 7mo ago
Exactly. In the field of accident analysis and prevention the "swiss cheese model"[1] is very popular for this reason. It acknowledges that every layer of the system will have holes, and that ideally every layer when stacked up
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> the crazy ports of naughty things to naughty hardware (Netscape Navigator on Nintendo 64, oh my, how naughty you were, SGI!) I remember in my youth when I first discovered Linux, soon after discovering that it ran on all sorts of archi
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> Probably the best thing is a CB radio. Let them talk to any other kids in town but no chance of weirdness. No chance of weirdness? On CB? Have you used a CB?!? I had a CB in my car for a while and the majority of the talk I ever hear
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by wolrah 7mo ago
I have as far as I'm aware the cheapest 800v car on sale in the US (Hyundai Ioniq 5) and in the right weather conditions a 20-80% charge is legitimately 10 minutes. The weather conditions do unfortunately matter. Travelling during the

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