jeroenhd

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by jeroenhd 3d ago
I would feel the same way if these people weren't installing a permanent surveillance camera. I don't think it's fair to cry harassment if you're getting filmed setting up the harassment machine. If anything, Americans a
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
> FortiClient VPN and SmartVPN have 4,134,648 cumulative Google Play installs between them, while Google reports more than 3 billion active Android devices. A very strange way to reason about killing an API instead of fixing the VPN issu
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
That seems like a good trick to me if you want to prevent people from installing spyware without any obvious signs. You can almost hide the warnings (there's one small notification in the bottom of the notification tray you can't
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
It's technically possible but very unlikely. Running TTS continuously is a big battery drain and slows down the rest of the phone while you're using it. Google has a live TTS service for hearing impaired which I've run for a
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
Some are friends with politicians
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
No need for more regulation, is there? A company used its infrastructure to orchestrate a cyber attack. Arrest the people running the company.
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by jeroenhd 4d ago
If you make money trying to resell Google's free services and data, this is a disaster. As a regular user, it's a minor annoyance.
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
These days with cryptenroll and friends, using the TPM is hardly an issue anymore. LVM and swapfiles both work well if you just create one large "everything but EFI" encrypted volume. You'd need to keep secure boot on, prefer
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
Swapfiles on BTRFS seem to work great if you allocate them early (with the command linked in your article) and put them in a different subvolume than the rest of your system. BTRFS in general seems more I/O constrained than ext4 or xfs
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
Windows also does a neat trick Linux lacks: automatically adding more swap, up to a limit. Systems with loads of RAM barely lose any storage to swap, but once they do get hit, they can get many gigabytes of swap space without user interacti
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
What reason would your professor have to have you take it down, at least past your due date? One could claim copyright on the project itself if you shared the files, or if you kept the original framework a course might provide, but the work
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
There's quite a difference between stealing a loaf of bread and making a career out of fraud to pay your way through college. Of course, this type of fraud is legal for the one doing the work, so even on that front the comparison doesn
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
Your link is explaining an addendum on the link OP posted. My guess is that OP got their account flagged as being a minor and posted the link in either surprise or (understandable) outrage after finding out that Claude has been asking peopl
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
The usual read on cybersecurity determines how bad an issue is using (something akin to) impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Being able to freeze a computer from the browser is a plain availability risk. It's not ex
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
Pixel 9 Pro with Brave, it just sort of freezes for a second or two before I can close the tab using the normal brave button. Wonder what made the difference. I must've disabled some shady JS attack surface at some point.
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
You could probably make a pretty believable virus page with this. First you freeze the screen, forcing the user to force reboot. Then, when the system boots again and reopens the website (at least Safari does), you go full-screen and show a
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by jeroenhd 5d ago
"May 18, 2026" is right there next to the title. Nothing changed.
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by jeroenhd 6d ago
println!() already works, who needs more than that? Kidding aside, VS Code has excellent debugging support already. Unless you need to share your Rust code base with a legacy C/C++ code base, I don't think VS is the best environme
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by jeroenhd 6d ago
I don't think "European children will look at the map and feel less significant" is a carefully neutral observation. It's an assumption that European children feel superiority because their country is slightly bigger. If
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by jeroenhd 7d ago
And you can still sell your work, even without copyright.
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by jeroenhd 7d ago
> With no copyright whatsoever, there would be a well-organized company with a better marketing department selling their version of your work, taking all the profit, and making it impossible to actually sell it yourself. That's exac
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by jeroenhd 7d ago
> don't bother to make it even possible to counter claim in that way and trigger that side of the law It's not their responsibility. For that part of the law, you need to get your lawyer involved. And your lawyer will probably
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by jeroenhd 7d ago
> What's to stop other people making and selling digital copies the moment it's published? What's stopping people from doing that now? The moment you sell something of any interest, you can be sure to find a copy of it fre
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by jeroenhd 8d ago
Strict mode has always been broken for me. Firefox replaces some of Google's tracking scripts with no-ops but that usually breaks Google's reCAPTCHA on my end. I have to disable tracking protection to make reCAPTCHA sites work. I
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
The G'zOne made headlines being the first water resistant phone and it had a replaceable battery from the very start. The Fujitsu F-02D was another good example, with a fully-featured touch UI while still boasting something other than
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
Sure, there are loads of easy solutions to this problem. Putting everything behind Cloudflare is the most common one, Anubis and its competitors are another. I could also block all data centers, countries with loads of CGNAT + botnets like
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
Waterproof phones with replaceable batteries existed, but they used more rubber and other tricks to pull it off. This had the advantage of making it a lot easier to close the phone again and still keep the water resistant properties. Having
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
All carriers I've tried in my country have even disabled MMS entirely. They're not running RCS servers either, though, everyone is on WhatsApp anyway. In theory carriers could increase the max resolution for MMS now that 3G is ess
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
RCS is an extension of SMS and has quite literally been "SMS but more capable" from the start. The protocol on the wire looks a lot like MMS over LTE. Registration and communication mostly happens over SIP and RTP like in the late
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by jeroenhd 9d ago
Regular users store the cookie and do the challenge once. Bots do it over and over again throwing out the cookies so they're not rate-limited. Extreme configurations with high difficulty do make for a frustrating experience on very old

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