justinclift

Any idea if these "permit ready" plans cost money for people to get vs being free?

If they cost money then it sounds like there's a potential incentive there for people to create a marketplace for them.

Sounds like free camera hardware is available in that jurisdiction if people move fast enough. ;)

> The best I've done is to modify a potted chip by very careful thermal imaging to figure out where the part was that blocked the feature I wanted to unlock (market segmentation) and then drill through the case to a depth just higher than the chip.

Sounds like a good approach when you only have a single (or just a few) of the devices so you need to be careful.

With hardware wallets (aka substantial incentive), then the attackers could order a bunch of them for sacrificial zero-ing in the exact places to drill with a CNC/microscope/etc.

> But if he's a poor young man in a desperately poor country, then I didn't get scammed even if he lied to me about specific details. I just helped someone.

Alternatively, you just paid someone so they can continue scamming others. :(

Unfortunately, while the other scenarios are only _possible_, the alternative view above _actually happened_.

Thanks. I was looking for it in combination with "Silicon Graphics" as I didn't know it's its own thing. ;)

Looking around for info about there, I'm seeing very few mentions of it.

This seems to be one of the few: https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=11400

The Spaceballs piece about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k

While you're somewhat right, my expectation is that the scammer just switched up their script to be something more spontaneous and suited to their mark.

And it worked.

This seems to be it: https://peow.studio/shop/products/stages-of-rot

> I recently struck up a friendship a Nigerian scammer.

...

> I've chosen to send him a trivial (for me) amount of money [...]

Uh oh.

Sounds like you've found your next project to spin up... :)

> what do you use black paper for?

Just for something different, nothing too special about it. :)

Wouldn't "dark mode" be the equivalent of using black paper? :)

It does exist btw, I've used it before myself.

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Maybe even a new "Shade as a Service" business model. ;)

Also, they signal that AI was definitely involved in the process, which can mean the writing itself is generated garbage.

> If you look at casualty rates from some of the early Greek warfare during the hoplite era, it's also surprisingly low.

Didn't Genghis Khan wipe out entire cities? Like, every person inside, kind of thing. Women/children/etc included.

More info, for anyone interested in the above:

* https://alvdansen.github.io/animating-on-twos/

* https://github.com/alvdansen/animating-on-twos

* https://huggingface.co/alvdansen/h3-keyframe-animation

## Quick Start

An (apparently, as I haven't tried it) ready-to-go ComfyUI graph for the above. In theory you should be able to drop these into ComfyUI and have it work:

https://huggingface.co/alvdansen/h3-keyframe-animation#quick...

Most places I've worked in the last few years don't have logs greater than 12 months, and some even only retain logs for 1-3 months. Apart from specific 7+ year legally mandated systems for things like financial records.

Heh, sounds like it'd be along the same lines as the SCO Unix kerfuffle back in the day.

> Our logs confirm

You retain all logs back through to (at least) March 2023?

That link seems to be a blank page unless you remove the `/amp/` fragment on the end of it.

And after reading the page, it would probably be better on The Onion as satire if it wasn't real. o_O

Sounds like the budget for the police could be better used for improving their water supply. :)

Yeah, they closed and locked that issue about an hour ago. :(

Looks like the GitHub repo added some minimal attribution a few days ago: https://github.com/google/artemis/commit/371aa6df56880643da5...

They've also closed the reporting issue, and pro-actively locked it without any kind of explanation or apology: https://github.com/google/artemis/issues/40#issuecomment-568...

That they didn't even bother to apologise or explain their actions seems pretty shitty. :(

Awesome, thanks. :)

Thanks. I skimmed the video as it was late at night, and didn't notice it. I'd better take a proper look at the video. :)

> Are you not reading the thread where people with direct experience with these specific backends are noting the WSDLs either are not accessible or don’t match the actual services?

Correct, yes I haven't.

Other members of staff where I'm working are from Java backgrounds, and have described (in detail) WSDL/XSD (when things are accurate) in positive terms as I put above.

And yeah, I'm presently dealing with vendor specs/docs that don't match what's actually sent over the wire, and it's a huge pain in the arse. And the vendor doesn't give a shit, as like you allude to they're in the telco business so the lock in aspect you mention is correct to. :(

Is that a guess, or do you know for sure? :)

> That seems like a Go problem.

Yeah, fully agree. I was super surprised to find the SOAP support is practically non-existing too, as Go is really strong in lots of other areas. :(

That being said, SOAP's stronghold is clearly the Java ecosystem. Wonder if it's as popular in any other non-java-ecosystem based languages?