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yonatan8070

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And I'd like to request 5 billion dollars be transferred to my account
Re:Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:15PM (#50329310)
> we don't have to miserly conserve every single bit and cycle.

Have you seen the memory prices recently? I'd say this attitude is what got us to a point where just loading up the OS takes 2-4GB.

Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:48PM (#50317776)
I'm just imagining some poor person getting a call about 100,000$ that's been transferred to their account without any idea how or why.
Re:The case of the 9 bit AES key on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:34AM (#50313756)
On Linux you can just read from /dev/random, do other OSes not provide this?

What drives developers to reinvent these wheels? It's both more effort and worse.

Re:The case of the 9 bit AES key on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:19AM (#50313681)
> Because very few 'end user' people know how to use en/decryption

That's the point, rather than PDF viewers implementing this, it should be an OS-wide UX, so that you could click any encrypted file and have a unified password prompt, regardless of whether it's a PDF, PNG, DOCX, etc.

And the same goes the other way, rather than having your PDF viewer implement the encryption UX, you should just have an "Encrypt with password" entry in your file manager's context menu.

My apologies. Thanks for the correction
Exactly, I do this all the time for doing out-of-office demos with our company's robots.

I just set up my phone's hotspot to be the same SSID and password as the network the robots already know from the office, and I'll have the robots, a couple phones, and a laptop connected in 10 seconds.

Exactly, I've been to public places where the Wi-Fi password is on the wall and the router's admin password is "admin".
TIL rouge means red in French

Either way, I mean rouge in the sense of an AP that uses the same SSID and password as the AP of a coffee shop or office to have devices automatically connect to it without their users noticing.

Even a simple rouge AP is enough to become a MITM for this.
Not refusing requests doesn't mean they are zero-alignment. They could still have preferences for or against things that you might not agree with.
Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:18PM (#50169617)
SSH keys are great, and you should absolutely use them

But you should also just listen to the big warning that says "IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!"

Re:OpenBSD 8.0 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:46AM (#50162233)
Yes, all the way up to 6.19 in fact!
Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:00PM (#50154844)
How is that different from putting an app in a chroot jail or container?
Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:59PM (#50154821)
The kernel doesn't follow conventional semver practices, meaning that the major number incrementing has no effect beyong the minor number got too large. So there's nothing inherently different in a 7.X release from a 6.X release.

Either way, an LTS appears to be released ~every 6th version, 6.18 is the newest LTS, so after that there's 6.19, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 maybe LTS?

kernel.org has a nice FAQ about this topic.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Or just sending it a tiny zip bomb, or even just some sh*t right out of /dev/random
Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:30PM (#50124205)
> Traditional Judaism has this really weird (to me, a goy) emphasis on finding loopholes in rules.

As an atheist Jew, it's weird to me as well...

> stay "indoors" on, I think it was, the Shabbat

Can't say I'm familiar with that one. What I'm generally familiar with is that you're not allowed to "work" on Shabbat, and the definition of work is extremely broad. For example, lighting a fire is considered work, turning a light switch on creates a tiny spark between the contacts, that counts as fire, so it's work.

This extends to pretty much every electrical device, so for those who observe Shabbat, using a computer or phone, turning the AC on or off, is all disallowed.

As a result there are many workarounds as you've described, timers, non-Jews (though you can't ask directly! You can say "it's hot in here", but not "Please turn the AC on"), fridges without a light bulb inside, and more.

> they do this with all things, from a young age.

Religious families do, to varying degrees. But I've met plenty of extremely talented programmers and hackers who do not follow any of the Jewish law.

Edit: Just noticed your username, I also want to say I really like your projects on YouTube!

Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:12PM (#50123930)
Israel is not just one homogeneous people, there are some orthodox jews who study biblical texts, treat women as birthing machines, and (personal opinion) contribute little to our society.

Yes, orthodox jews are a significant part of the population (~1.4 million in 2025 [1]), and I wouldn't go there looking for modern ideas like women's rights, but go a couple km in any direction and you'd find completely different people, living modern lives just like in the rest of the western world. Schools, research universities (Tel Aviv University, Waitzmann Institue of Science, Technion), tech companies, startups, makerspaces, and many more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:13PM (#50123067)
The air tank has a feature called "only making like 10 of them... probably" which will significantly reduce the potential damage that could be caused.

Or, if I'm making up stuff as I go along, you can't crash, the car can just auto-takeoff to dodge whatever you were about to hit.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:05PM (#50122955)
If you go on the website that version is listed as "Invite only"
Re:MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026) on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:43PM (#50120763)
My grandma nearly fell for one of those. Luckily her card refused it for one reason or another, but we could have easily not known about it for months of paying for Office for no reason.
Re:MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026) on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:26AM (#50119596)
Or just have the interface autoscale itself like context menus on W10, if you trigger one with your mouse, it has compact mouse padding, if you trigger it with touch, it has bigger touch padding.
I think that applies too, laptops usually use the same connectors for the Wi-Fi antennas, so you shouldn't have an issue just using something off the shelf that matches the frequency you want
I wonder if you could just blast them with ever changing content to burn their summarization tokens on BS.

Though they probably use the cheapest possible models they can so the damage from their dumb business model would be limited

Wow, these are coming out faster than I can keep up with them
The antennas usually included on ESP32 boards are for 2.4GHz, which is the range the ESP32 hardware is tuned for anyway. But if you do want a different antenna, just get a board with a modular antenna, like some of the Xiao boards from Seeed Studio
https://espargos.net/espsdr/

According to this TX is also possible on the ESP32-series chips, though they haven't published exactly how (I assume due they don't want to wake the FCC). But yeah the ESP32 is fairly limited in a lot of ways due to the limited processing power and IO bandwidth to stream data out of it

https://espargos.net/espsdr/

ESP-SDR is based on this work, and supports the C5 and a bunch more

More like "turn a locked-down single-purpose SDR into a general-purpose SDR"

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