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There is information that leaks through the power line as well, and the author of this paper also has a paper on how to exfiltrate through the power line at a much slower rate https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04014
Re:SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:39PM (#50249759)
Personally, I just finished up a project with one to poll outdoor and indoor weather sensors and notify the household over discord when it's warm enough outside to probably need air conditioning, when it's cooled off enough to probably not need AC, when the AC goes on, and when the AC goes off. It also parses and displays and notifies information from the National Weather Service when there are relevant alerts in my area.
Or Meta could not break the law. It's just that easy.
Commissioning art like this is at most a few hundred dollars. As was posted elsewhere, there are lots of young artists that need to pad out their portfolios, as well as artists in places where the cost of living is significantly cheaper. This isn't a multi-thousand-dollar thing that only the 1% could afford.
Re:Ubuntu Currently Suffering from Sustained DDoS Attack on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:26PM (#50011689)
A DDoS like this, probably ransom. A group asking for x thousand or million dollars or they take you offline for a while. Another possibility is someone upset over Ubuntu's direction and is trying to "convince" them to do certain actions. Sadly, people are petty and greedy.
The US, we ration too. We just do it in the most cruel way possible where the working poor doesn't get access to health care, because they can't afford it, and just lives with preventable and easily treated conditions until they die sooner and more miserably.
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:40PM (#48387995)
About the only one I can think of is connectivity in electronically noisy situations. It's a lot easier to find gigabit sfp modules for linking with fiber than it is to find 100 mbit modules.
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:25PM (#48386921)
Better connectivity. The Nucleo 144 only has 100mbit ethernet, as far as I can tell, but the new ESP chip has gigabit, along with wireless.
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:21PM (#48386857)
Theoretically, yeah. Though at 320Mhz, with only 2.4ghz wireless, even with two cores, I doubt it's going to get anywhere near the throughput to fill the gigabit connection.
Redis started off as Free Software, but was switched to a source available license in version 7.4. The community promptly forked to Valkey, which is still under the BSD license. Since then, Redis shifted to AGPL 3, with contributor agreements, to try to ensure that they're the only ones who can attempt to commercialize Redis.
The BSD license made forking Valkey easier because it ensures that everyone has equal footing. The GPL, especially with contributor license agreements and the like, makes it much more easy for a single party to control the direction of the product. For another example of this happening, look at MongoDB. It started out under the AGPL, but was rugpulled to a non-free license.
The BSD license is why we have Valkey and not a purely closed-source Redis. It would have been much easier to perform the rugpull if Redis had initially been GPLed.
The valve's jammed, so they can't really pump things in or out.
Re:Startup founder behind San Francisco pro-billionaire rally on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:40PM (#46939767)
I was one of the dozen or so who photographed this event. The breakdown was about a third there for the march, a third there for counterprotesting, and a third there documenting the event.
Yes. Offline is how a lot of rootkits are analyzed after the admin notices peculiar behavior. There are a lot of other tells that could be run online to find this rootkit though, most notably, its behavior with ftrace. Disabling ftrace, and then running a program that uses ftrace would tell right away that something's wrong.
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:43PM (#45903155)
Do you say the same about someone who has a picture of their spouse next to their computer?
It also helps the developers of apps that Apple can't or won't approve. Apps like ICEBlock could still work just fine using alternative app stores that have backbone.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:08PM (#44034249)
I used Linux as my daily driver for years, before finally switching back to Windows, and then to the Mac. I got tired of things like wine breaking on apps, I got tired of the half-assed replacements for software available on Windows, like GIMP compared to Photoshop. I got tired of the ugly desktop that inevitably occurs once you start needing to mix QT and GTK based apps. Linux is not a panacea.
Re:Redis is open source again on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:46PM (#43861787)
A copyleft license like the AGPL didn't stop MongoDB from rugpulling. I'd argue that the AGPL, and the copyright assignment that tends to go with it, makes it easier to rugpull because forking entities would be at an extreme disadvantage in keeping the lights on compared to the closed-sourcing company. A non-copyleft license, on the other hand, makes it much easier for a forking company to cover all the same niches as the original company, making a rugpull that much more difficult.
The bread was found in the oven of one of the bakeries[1]. It wouldn't be in the oven if the bread was from the day before.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230406-arculata-the-bre...

Demographics are used pretty heavily in market research, etc. This could be used both in targeting ads to specific people, and also in providing aggregate data to business and marketing partners -- being able to say they have approximately x 18-24s is valuable to pitching partnerships, etc.
It's grandstanding. He knows it doesn't have a chance in hell in passing, but chose to write this bill with the sole purpose of currying favor. It'll die in committee and that'll be the end of it.
A 5.1 isn't going to do much damage in socal, especially where it was epicentered. Probably the worst is going to be knocked over liquor bottles at the supermarket. Awkward timing, but not a disaster.
The apps are the ecosystem. If people can't run the programs they need to actually do things with their computers, then all the technical benefits in the world are useless. It was the biggest problem 20 years ago with Linux, and is the biggest problem now.
Apps still work horribly in Linux. Gimp still pales to Photoshop, Lightroom's still better than Darktable, etc. Same goes for video, audio, etc.
Or more to the point, with how much of twitter is owned by the Saudi government?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-hol...

Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:00AM (#35464705)
Linux distros have had plenty of interesting things hidden in them over the years.

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-2.3/source...

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