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by hwatson 4y ago
It used to be a legal requirement for American cable providers to offer them, but the FCC dropped CableCARD in 2020 considering streaming apps to be a reasonable equivalent ( https://www.techhive.com/article/578820/
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by hwatson 4y ago
fwiw, Xbox One Digital TV Tuners and some RTL-SDRs (with an extra decoder chip) are able to pick up DVB-T2 and are usually £10~20 on eBay. https://tvheadend.org/ can be useful for interfacing with the tuners over USB and e
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by hwatson 4y ago
It’s a shame these have become more commonplace. Northern started issuing them instead of cardboard tickets a few years ago and other TOCs followed along after Network Rail/Cubic finished adding barcode readers to ~all ticket barriers.
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by hwatson 6y ago
I think what you're describing is what the RSGB have been attempting to mitigate through the Beyond Exams schemes, wherein they've gamified different activities you could do on your own or with a club to further your knowledge of
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Researching the Digitime Tech FOTA Backdoors(wuffs.org)
2 points by hwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by hwatson 7y ago
Faster Payments is managed by Pay.UK who contract the infrastructure to VocaLink (which is 93% owned by MasterCard). Pay.UK are currently holding a procurement exercise to find a new operator for Faster Payments http://www.faster
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by hwatson 7y ago
I think this is less of a big deal in London because-- and the article entirely glosses over this prospect-- TfL accept contactless (e.g. contactless-enabled debit/credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay). This means anyone
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Robert.js: JavaScript tools for working with Microsoft Bob data files(github.com)
1 points by hwatson 9y ago|0 comments
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Slack says farewell to the username(api.slack.com)
5 points by hwatson 9y ago|0 comments
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The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANAS and EXTRABACON Exploits(blogs.cisco.com)
83 points by hwatson 10y ago|29 comments
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by hwatson 10y ago
Judo Payments | Angel, London, United Kingdom | Full-time Judo makes buying the things we want faster, simpler and more secure. As Europe’s leading secure in app and mobile first payments platform, we’re riding an unstoppable wave as smartp
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by hwatson 11y ago
Considering that 100Mbit/s is 12.5MByte/s, the speeds you're seeing aren't horribly distant from your "up to" speed. [For reference's sake, 8MByte/s is 64Mbit/s and 9MByte/s is 72Mbit/s
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by hwatson 11y ago
No. Creating the customer will charge the card $0.00 or $1.00 (depends on country/bank) and immediately refund the charge to verify the card itself, the CVC, the address, etc. In most cases, this tiny charge won't be noticed becau
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by hwatson 11y ago
If you attach the card to a customer object[0], you can create one off charges whenever you'd like. Stripe will even update the card's details on the customer if the card is reissued[1]. You can then create charges against the car
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by hwatson 12y ago
You are allowed to keep your FERPA recommendation rights but, as misingnoglic, most universities will not pay much attention to your recommendations if you choose to do so. https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal&#
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by hwatson 12y ago
I wasn't aware of Wells Fargo issuing Chip and PIN cards[0] and I appreciate you pointing that out! The other USA banks that I've looked at (Bank of America[1], for example) issue signature-only cards. These not working in unatten
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by hwatson 12y ago
Square Wallet[0] used to implement something similar to what you're describing. It used your phone's GPS to register you as near/inside a store and merchants selected you based on a photo you provided. It was pulled in May[1]
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by hwatson 12y ago
As an aside, no USA banks issue chip and PIN cards. The EMV-capable cards being rolled out are chip and sign cards. This usually doesn't matter but can cause issues at fully automated tills (the common example being issues when trying
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by hwatson 12y ago
Each message is encrypted individually for each device that will be receiving the message. As a result, unless Apple slip a public key they have control over into the keys reported for the receiver, they cannot read your messages. (This is
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Taking a peek at Xbox One-formatted disks in Windows(withinrafael.com)
6 points by hwatson 12y ago|0 comments
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by hwatson 13y ago
> Digital Ocean, for example, won't give you more than 1 IPv4 address per VPS, which means you need a separate VPS for every side project, if you want to go HTTPS. As long as you're not supporting clients running IE on WinXP or
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by hwatson 13y ago
Wildcard certificates are only valid for the subdomain level directly under it. [1] If I get a wildcard certificate for example.com (the common name is set to *.example.com), foo.bar.example.com will throw an error. [1] https://e
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Humble Deep Silver Bundle(humblebundle.com)
5 points by hwatson 13y ago|0 comments
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by hwatson 13y ago
Chrome's sync service also features client side encryption. [1] [1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en
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Vulnerability in SolusVM WHMCS Module(localhost.re)
3 points by hwatson 13y ago|0 comments
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by hwatson 13y ago
It's not. As https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/ explains, "Facebook Chat should be compatible with every XMPP client, but is not a full XMPP server. It should be thought of as a proxy into the world of Facebook Chat on www.faceboo
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by hwatson 14y ago
Take a look at me.com, for example. Before Apple bought it, it was owned by SnappVille.com. If SSL certificates didn't expire, SnappVille could have continued using their certificates for me.com.
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by hwatson 14y ago
It's P2P on desktop if you forwarded ports or if UPnP works correctly. Skype has documentation on how to check this over here: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA1544/is-my-call-being-rel...
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by hwatson 14y ago
Yep. You'll normally see this happen if you restore an iPhone backup onto another iPhone then try to launch WhatsApp. Login will fail and you'll be asked to type in the SMS received.
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by hwatson 14y ago
or use @free.kindle.com to force (free) delivery over WiFi.

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