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by sllabres 9d ago
An Apple airtag probably doesn't but it is apparently possible to send some data at a very low rate (the article in [1] says a few bits per hour) over the find my network [2] [1] https://positive.security/blog/send
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by sllabres 28d ago
People liking this post will probably like this [1] and especially these [2] from the channel. All solved using algorithms and map data. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@colsto [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by sllabres 3mo ago
Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service :-) (4:00). Why was the chain called "Der Wienerschnitzel" and not "Das Wienerschnitzel". It is (was) a proper noun, but why the wrong article
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by sllabres 4mo ago
I very much liked reading his "computer related risks" book (multiple times...) more than 25 years ago and after that the RISKS Digest was one of my weekly "go to" for a very long time.
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by sllabres 4mo ago
So it seems we need something like this [1] for IT infrastructure? ;) [1] https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/
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by sllabres 5mo ago
Or in this case; just click on "map"
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by sllabres 6mo ago
Saying that (hand)writing is irrelevant is a bit of a strawman implying I said writing hexadecimal numbers big-endian on paper matters for coding. The second sentence, weather your customers know if they have been in the same room with a bi
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by sllabres 6mo ago
Not only the System/390. Its also IBM i, AIX, and for many protocols the network byte order. AFAIK the binary data in JPG (1) and Java Class [2] files a re big endian. And if you write down a hexadecimal number as 0x12345678 you are
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by sllabres 6mo ago
Congratulations :-) Very nice shots. It must be a great feeling to see one's own footage in a feature film! How long do you do astrophotography?
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by sllabres 6mo ago
It's always interesting to see how are things build in the Lumafields "Scan of the month". The the most interesting scan from Lumafield I saw was not a Scan of the month, but in "Adam Savage’s Tested: Surprising Flaws in
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by sllabres 7mo ago
Thanks for the clarification
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by sllabres 7mo ago
I'm really sad, even if I never met him personally and only knew him from his talks, his software and of course his blog. I had hoped that after his illness he would be granted some time for personal life and recovery — which makes thi
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by sllabres 7mo ago
Sometimes I miss the times where you had a compact development environment, wit one installer. Your source produced a mostly self contained binary in a reasonable size, you had nice debugging support and quick turnaround times for a compil
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by sllabres 7mo ago
Thanks, didn't knew that and 11% further is quite a increase and not too far from the maximum possible.
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by sllabres 7mo ago
I think this is the furthest true photography [1] with 443 km distance, into the sunrise (corrected from sunset) [1] https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...
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by sllabres 8mo ago
So no #includedir, no LDAP integration, no log_input/output, no PAM integration ...?
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by sllabres 8mo ago
I have seen the topic a bit late, but nevertheless: I have learned 6502 assembler (and assembler) in general with "6502 assembly language programming by Lance A. Leventhal" (1979) [1] and "Apple Machine Language by Don Inman
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by sllabres 8mo ago
From the article: "The consequences for a consumer buying a shady USB cable likely aren’t too bad". I can't second that, but more to the software/driver side. Without my knowledge, I once had a counterfeit cable that cos
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by sllabres 8mo ago
I would say this is the prettiest interface I've seen for explaining seasons, analemma, solstice, ... to someone or experimenting myself. Thanks for the find!
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by sllabres 8mo ago
From the man page: Linux 5.14. Before Linux 6.5, memfd_secret() was disabled by default and only available if the system administrator turned it on using "secretmem.enable=y" kernel parameter. [...] "To prevent potential data
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by sllabres 8mo ago
Yes, they are made with: http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html and https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph Useful site if you are on to perf/eBPF/performance things with many exampl
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by sllabres 9mo ago
Every of the lightning talks itself had about 20 short different topics, And as I wrote these were examples, you didn't expect someone to re-enumerate them here all to refute your statement. You can easily find them yourself. Have loo
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by sllabres 9mo ago
None of these interesting as "technical topic"? (only examples) 51 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon The art of text (rendering) Excuse me, what precise
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by sllabres 9mo ago
My method when such a pop-up occurs: I'll vote with my feet and immediately close the sites windows to reward them (at lest 95% of the time)
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by sllabres 9mo ago
I am not a HIFI/TV aficionado, but the ACR [1] thing was new to me. I hope it is not yet important for me as I never allowed a TV access to my LAN/WLAN. But with smart devices using accessible open WLANs to transmit who knows. [1]
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by sllabres 9mo ago
The sensitivity When I play with phypbox [1] there is a sensitivity in the µT range. From the web page [2] the device build has a 0.1 nT resolution and 50 ppm absolute accuracy. [1] https://phyphox.org/download/ [2] h
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by sllabres 9mo ago
I think, not from the surface, but have a look here [1], where the author referenced from the IIEE article has build a submergible sensor and detected (a know) boat. [1] https://alexmumm.de/pgProtonMagMarine_en.htm
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by sllabres 10mo ago
Space shuttle had five. Four of them operating in a redundant set and the fifth performing non critical task, as descripted in [1]. The fifth is also programmed by a different contractor in a different programming language: #1-4 running th
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by sllabres 10mo ago
I think only the Grand Tour program was possible every 175 years: From Wikipedia [1]: "that an alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune that would occur in the late 1970s would enable a single spacecraft to visit all of the o
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by sllabres 10mo ago
If you are (obviously) interested in the matter you might find one of the Bell Labs articles discussed on HN: "Why Bell Labs Worked" [1] "The Influence of Bell Labs" [2] "Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs&q

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