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Fokamul··on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
Library wifi and burner laptop?

1. Any serious IT person knows you don't need burner laptop with VM

2. Doxxed himself to said company in the same paragraph, nice.

Fan fiction or really bad opsec.

Also, anyone who drives for any food app in any country, knows it sucks.

Fokamul··on Tunnl.gg
Why not just buy trial or cheap VM? Are devs that lazy now? Or is this aimed on vibe "devs"? :D
Fokamul··on Tunnl.gg
...", Russian FSB manager, 2025
Fokamul··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
If AI bubble bursts -> global market crash. Ehm, with what you will be scalping, with bottle caps fallout money? :D
Fokamul··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
"Coding is done", Adam Wolff, Anthropic
Fokamul··on Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
Hmm, do you realize, that even if you have 1B probes everywhere. You're still bound by speed of light communication speed, right?

It's faster than probe speed in this age, yeah. But still not enough, if we're talking distances to other specific planets, stars, etc.

Two possible ways to solve this, humans will become immortal or speed of light bypass method will be discovered.

Fokamul··on A $1k AWS mistake
The lesson: Don't use AWS
Fokamul··on The Death of Arduino?
Oh my god, we are forbidden from reverse engineering Arduino SW. That's it, forbidden, we cannot literally do it, because some C-suit buffoon said so.

See, open their SW in Ghidra or IDA and see for yourself, big pop-up and blank PE decompilation.

"By Qualcomm CEO buffoon, you cannot reverse engineer my software, muhahaha."

Qualcomm should sell this idea, VMProtect and others will go broke over night.

Fokamul··on GitHub partial outage
Not Sharepoint? What a bummer.
Fokamul··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
I hope they will do that, yes really.

Because this will mean major shift to open-source and community solution, where creators will be paid directly by their viewers.

I have NO problem, what so ever, to pay content creators directly.

But I have HUGE problem to pay big corpos. It's ridiculous that we pay for Netflix same price as US people and for you it's cheaper than coffee and for us, if you compare median-salary, it's 5-10x MORE expensive. (cancelled every streaming platform year before as all of my friends, cloud seedbox here we go) And I don't even wanna mention Netflix's agenda they want to push (eg.: Witcher)

That's why piracy is so frequent here in small country in EU :) Also it's legal or in grey-area, because nobody enforce it or copyright companies are unable to enforce it if you don't make money from sharing. (yes, you don't even need to use VPN with torrents)

Fokamul··on You will own nothing and be (un)happy
If you don't own it, then pirating it isn't a crime.
Fokamul··on Laptops with Stickers
-> bad OPSEC ;-)
Fokamul··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
BT standard wasn't even that bad, from security stand-point, the worst thing is implementation and maybe only SW implementation.

Televisions(eg.: LG) where you're unable to turn BT off. With that knowledge, you can buy cheap device which is normally used for development and analyzing of BT communication.

And with that device, you can spam any TV around you with fake BT connection requests, TV is basically unusable during this time and best thing, this cannot be blocked :D

(only way to turn BT off on LG TV is with you getting root and downloading homebrew app, which of course degrade the use of your TV remote, because it uses BT)

Fokamul··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
I dev my private fork of browser fingerprinting bypass and I can tell, this is like 1% of what commercial tracking companies use for fingerprinting.

Unless they tackle all the hidden things, all artifacts, canvas rendering and many more.

These companies will be actually happy after this change, because even users with ublock and other plugins, will think they're not tracked. Yeah, nope.

And it's not that hard to see how they fingerprint your browser, reverse any JS tracking script yourself and see.

Fokamul··on Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
Phone bombers are still a thing ;-)
Fokamul··on Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files
In perfect world, Microsoft would help to create this tool.

Nope, they don't have time for this. Too much work om security through obscurity, making crap SW which eats RAM like hamburgers and disabling local accounts...

Fokamul··on Hello-World iOS App in Assembly
It's likely in future, you won't need app store approval process. I hope that EU will nuke Apple with some huge fines.

And there will be corporate tax per each EU country, it's ridiculous corporates are raking huge money here and paying basically nothing on taxes, well only in Ireland and they're having party.

Anyway, asm is great if you are using iOS emulator and need to do something and since you have root there, well :) (not apple meme simulator)

Fokamul··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
More locked device, more difficult obfuscation -> more motivation for certain people to break it and share it with everybody.

There is no way, you can plug all holes, iPhone couldn't do it with their golden cage and they spend ridiculous amount of money so their phone cannot be rooted, but you still have rooted iphone.

Fokamul··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Easy ownership test. Try flash custom firmware on your phone. ;-)

You can't? THEN YOU DON'T OWN YOUR PHONE.

Simple as that.

Fokamul··on Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers
Hmm, meanwhile you have whole gaming platforms like Steam, where they basically make huge profit from gambling in games like Counter-strike and others. And hmm whose playing those games?
Fokamul··on HP SitePrint
It's cloud based, yep :D
Fokamul··on HP SitePrint
...printing is cloud based and subscription only...

Edit: (I was joking and it's really cloud based, omfg)

Fokamul··on HP SitePrint
HP lol, yeah sure. I wouldn't touch anything HP with 100m long pole.

I imagine soon they could implement something like this...

"Robot error, you've reached wear & tear limit on your left wheel: 1 mile. Please buy a new wheel from HP shop, Price: $2999"

"Robot error, looks like your new wheel is not compatible with your old right wheel. Please buy a new right wheel..."

"Robot error, you've reached recharge limit of 50 cycles, on your internal robot battery..."

Fokamul··on JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool
Would be cool, if you could upload the scene into image gen. model and it would create picture for you but with hard defined objects from the scene.

You know, for us people who can't draw a ... nothing :)

(I still support creative people though)

Fokamul··on Zed is now available on Windows
Neovim > everything else.

Bye

Fokamul··on Zed is now available on Windows
Bro, with this mentality, you won't get far in Apple universe.

Embrace your wallet will be owned by Apple. Then you can continue.

Sorry, but people buying Apple products are different bread :D

Fokamul··on F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
Aka outsourcing work to third world countries has come back to bite us ;-)
Fokamul··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Wait what? In UK you don't have Qualified Certificate tied to person, which can be used to sign documents, communicate with banks etc. No way.
Fokamul··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
1. If you're opening URLs in your browser in your OS? You will get hacked eventually. It only depends on how valuable target you are, to be targeted with Chrome/Firefox 0day.

2. If it's Russian name -> always think BS or malware, easy as that.

3. Linkedin was and still is the best tool for phishing/spear-phishing, malware spreading. Mind-boggling it is still used, even by IT pros.

Fokamul··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Bro, I'm not autistic, but 99% events in this game would trigger me even more than in your game.

Eg.: party near my desk (near my office, even in my office) I will personally cancel their "party", or message each of their bosses etc.

I think, the best thing you can do is to don't care about anybody, "I'm (we're) here to work, if you're not here to work then GTFO".

"Let's have camera's on"...ehm no thanks ;-) etc.

I'm still polite though, I would say highly polite, but if anyone behaves like an idiot, then they will have a problem with me.

Is really being autistic, meaning you take shit from other people all the time? I'm not sure.

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