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Re:WebUSB Extension for Firefox on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:58AM (#47835298)
WebUSB is so great.

I can ship a cross-platform application that accesses a hardware device without having to deal with all the platform specifics, and with decent sandboxing of my driver.

I think one way to make it more "secure" against unwitting users would be to only support WebUSB for devices that have a WebUSB descriptor - would allow "origin" checking.

For me PulseView unfortunately has been very buggy and I never really got it to work (neither with an old Saleae 8, a new Saleae Pro 16, or an FX2 clone) well and without constant crashes.

I tried on Linux & mac, but never could get it to run well. I'd be super curious to chat with someone who had a different experience on what you've been doing differently from me!

I love the idea of Sigrok, so would love to get it to work (well) for me

SD cards are flash memory.
Couple of things I learned from helping some blind people:

- All used iPhones (Check out https://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/ )

- Disable passcode if he's okay with it

- Enable VoiceOver (Settings -> Accessibility) and learn how to enable/disable it (triple-tap the side button. Might be difficult for elderly) - Apple video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDm7GiKra28

- Having a learning partner really helps the blind person. Try to learn to use a phone blind with him, it will allow you to help debug his (most definitely occuring) issues

- Watch some videos on how blind people use the iPhone, lots of tips there. For example Molly Burke, or even simple ones like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVjLXIaBC4

- For elderly, an iPad is really nice. Especially as dexterity gets worse it's easier to use blindly. Also usability between iPhone and iPad is almost the same, so easy transition between both (i.e. on the go)

- For movies, check out Greta. It plays the AD in parallel with a movie via the iPhone - so they can watch movies together with the family, without everyone listening to AD https://www.gretaundstarks.de/starks/GretaAndStarks

And bring lots of patience :)

What is really amazing is how fast people tend to improve: VoiceOver lets you adjust the speech speed etcpp, and so it "grows" with you

Re:Getting JTAG on the iPhone 15 [video] on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:14PM (#37730862)
I'm stacksmashing, yup!
Re:Getting JTAG on the iPhone 15 [video] on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:29AM (#37726263)
Author here - happy to answer any questions :)
Re:Bus Pirate 5 Firmware on Sunday September 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#37633160)
I've used bus pirates years back and always under Linux or macOS. Not sure what you are referring to.
Re:Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:28AM (#35257896)
The Game Boy ROM is so much fun to dump in various ways. For example you can clock glitch it by just by scraping a contact with a jumper wire: https://youtu.be/64FgfhfvJ4s?t=154
Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key on Monday February 27, 2023 @05:33AM (#34954887)
It seems like the YouTube algorithm started randomly recommending it to a lot of people (before it landed on HN)
Re:Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video] on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#26763565)
Thank you! I made those in Keynote, exported as video, and then basically freeze-framed each slide to align it with the voice-over.
Re:Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video] on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#26763552)
That's great, thank you! I had a ton of fun on that one.
Re:Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video] on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:48PM (#26763392)
It could perform it, but as the other comment has outlined it would be very slow (and not very secure)!
Re:Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video] on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:35PM (#26762729)
This is my video, happy to answer any questions
Re:BladeRF 2.0 micro on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:41AM (#18582256)
Unfortunately the software support for the BladeRF 2.0 micro is not yet very mature - the official installation instructions do not work (don't install udev rules etc).

I would recommend waiting a couple of months and see how the ecosystem develops.

Re:GitHub down on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:19AM (#16124381)
We centralized a decentralized version control system.
I believe these watches used to be known under the Withings brand which got bought by Nokia. Very nice design (Max Bill inspired I guess).
Re:Face ID beaten by mask on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:11AM (#15685659)
I feel like this demo is not really good. A video where a (real) face is learned in and then the mask is used to unlock would be good, this could just show that the mask is learned into FaceID.
Re:Adafruit's Read-Only Raspberry Pi on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @04:00PM (#15395634)
Actually, from an embedded perspective, almost all SD cards do not guarantee that they don't corrupt when you kill power during a write. This is because of the internal workings of SD cards and completely unrelated to shoddy engineering/programming.
This is absolutely not a lab condition. You can very easily extract a fingerprint from a glass or so, as was done e.g. with Wolfgang Schaeuble, a German politician
Re:Amazon Echo Show on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:09AM (#14300680)
FireOS is based on Android which definitely runs on x86
(I know there is DMIPS/mW, but looking for a direct power consumption comparison)
Is there a power consumption comparison?
Re:Introducing Surface Laptop on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:20PM (#14248373)
Afaik quite some of the major apps were leaving it in the last years (Sketch comes to mind), but might just be my filter bubble.. Would be interesting to hear from some Mac OS devs
This is a perfect guide on how to not respond to the release of a security researcher.

Also, for context, here is the original article from the security researcher: https://scotthelme.co.uk/nomx-the-worlds-most-secure-communi...

Re:Donations received in 2016: 8506€ on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:10PM (#13177556)
You can find who is committing code etc on their Github projects: https://github.com/GPGTools

And the GPGTools website is registered to Lukas Pitschl: https://twitter.com/lukele

They are not really hiding anything I think. Also GPGTools uses GnuPG etcpp.. Don't really see an infringement (if GPG is protected in the first place)

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