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by zxcvgm 9y ago
I have not seen any sources which explicitly state that FaceID doesn't work the same way as TouchID does, but perhaps it's the lack of specific details in the iOS Security Guide [0] that might have led to this assumption? In fact,
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by zxcvgm 10y ago
From the photos it looks like the display panel is driven by a Raspberry Pi. Adafruit makes it relatively straightforward to build the hardware part [1], now all that's left is the software that processes the audio and displays the vis
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by zxcvgm 10y ago
A few months ago, I came across a similar project: OneRNG [1]. The device is open-source and one of their goals is to be verifiable by someone who buys the device. There was an article on LWN about this too [2]. [1] http://onerng
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by zxcvgm 10y ago
Actually wayyy before WhatsApp announced [0] that they were going to share data with Facebook, Facebook had already started suggesting me to add friends. These are people whom I have no mutual friends with, but after more suggestions popp
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by zxcvgm 10y ago
Nice! I initially wanted to build a similar device using just an ATtiny85 that speaks USB using USBtiny [1] or V-USB [2]. It would be low-cost but also not secure. Using a crypto processor like the ATECC508A is obviously a saner choice. [1]
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by zxcvgm 11y ago
Print out your key on paper, label it descriptively and store it in a safe place (like in a safe), using something like Paperkey. [0] http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/
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by zxcvgm 11y ago
i hope the author is not going to use this panel as-is because it send everything in clear. i would keep the front panel but retrofit a microcontroller in there to encrypt keypresses before it is sent.
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
maybe they wanted to avoid people talking about how they managed to use less gold in the watches. http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/03/apple-gold/
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
Is there a process in place to handle such people? Do they get asked to leave (shortly after being hired), or are they moved to a role which doesn't require programming?
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
i quite like the interactive timeline component [1] at vis.js. it's zoomable, scrollable, highly customizable and even editable. [1] http://visjs.org/timeline_examples.html
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
I thought this slide deck would cover the improvements introduced by Project Volta [1] in Lollipop. They introduced a JobScheduler API that developers can use to perform the batching that he described, as well as the Battery Historian for b
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
I heard of a HTML5-based alternative some time ago called the "ugoira HTML5 zip player". It uses a ZIP file of PNG/JPG files and renders the animation using JavaScript onto a <canvas>. There's a detailed slide deck
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
Coming from iOS, one thing that I didn't really like about Android was how clumsy the decryption process was. The process is detailed here [1] and it involves the framework being put in a special mode that only handles password entry.
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
If you found this article familiar, that's because the same article was posted here 3 days ago. Previous link: http://seldo.com/weblog/2014/08/26/you_suck_at_technical_int... Previous discussion: h
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
How is this different from https://stackedit.io ? It's also Javascript-based, syncs with Dropbox & Google Drive.
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
A related hack: using the Pi to transmit at 433.92 MHz with minimal hardware [1]. This frequency is commonly used for remote controlled wall outlets and such. [1] http://www.skagmo.com/page.php?p=projects/22_pihat
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by zxcvgm 12y ago
I had that same question some time ago. I found that Google uses Python bindings[1] for fontforge, but it had that dependency on fontforge. So I opted for a Python-based solution called fonttools[2] instead, and it works pretty well. It com
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
Letting the car automatically phone home to the manufacturer worries me. Collecting anonymous stats about the car's health and battery condition will help them design better vehicles and firmware in future, so that's okay. But isn
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
I have not yet had the chance to try it out but the acrylamid static blog generator written in Python ships with its own JS search [0] using compressed suffix trees. It's probably inspired by Sphinx, the Python doc generator, which has
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
The details of exploits used in jailbreaks have typically been released [0] or reverse-engineered [1], so open-source or not, Apple will typically fix them in the subsequent release. [0] http://conference.hitb.org/hitbseccon
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
When two dynamic magstripe products appear on the front page of HN, I just had to find out how it works. Protean provided a link on the front page FAQ but unfortunately that link doesn't work, so here's the working how-it-works en
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
This is handy for quick prototyping, but it seems that you can't solder on the parts and have to use "conductive double-sided tape or silver epoxy adhesive" instead. To etch a PCB, the typical process is to (1) print a photo
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
Why would anyone use this when startssl.com issues free certs that are not only limited to OSS projects? See https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free?hn for a walkthrough.
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
This may not be obvious to some people (like my boss), but code reviews alone is insufficient; having a good technical design early on is more important. I've sat through several "code reviews" and they're always conduct
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
Interesting. I used to download and unpack zip files manually from the gnuwin32 SF project until I found mingw-get[1] which downloads and installs packages from the MinGW32 and MSYS projects. Problem with that was it lacked packages like cu
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
For crypto applications there isn't a strong enough financial incentive to design an ASIC specifically to do that. Maybe a GPU-based solution like oclHashcat[1] can be extended to do that. [1] http://hashcat.net/
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
That kinda sounds like iTwin http://www.itwin.com/ It comes in a pair with 2 USB ends and can be mated together to share a key.
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
The ATtiny series do not have USB capability, which is why they are cheaper. The underlying bitbang implementation comes from V-USB [1], which is commonly used to add USB capability in software. Another implementation which may be of intere
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
On a similar note, the Raspberry Pi can be turned into a FM transmitter without additional hardware [0]. I remembered seeing another hack for a higher frequency that required a filter to be attached to the GPIO but I can't find the lin
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by zxcvgm 13y ago
actually Chrome already has native support for GreaseMonkey scripts since a while ago [1]. You can just install scripts directly from http://userscripts.org . [1] http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-m

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