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Fokamul··on Apple HomeKit – The Long Con
You don't own iPhone, Apple owns it. You only lease it for one-time payment.

Easy to check if you own any device, flash your own OS/firmware into it. ;-)

Fokamul··on I'm leaving Ruby Central
OT: DHH speaks true, not everything, but mostly yes. London is a hellhole, same like other big cities for example in Germany. (In my country (CZ), Germany is called new middle east, lol)

And as a bonus, you don't have any rights to self-defence, you cannot own a gun, in UK you cannot even use dumb pepperspray for defense, ridiculous. Great to live in country, where your only option for self-defense is to lay on the ground and die or be raped, while you wait for police.

All these lefties do is to destroy, they don't want to discuss anything.

Fokamul··on State of AI-assisted software development
2026, year of cybersecurity. Baby, let's goo :D
Fokamul··on Download responsibly
Lol, bad rep? Interesting, in my country everybody is using it to download movies :D Even more so now, after this botched streaming war. (EU)
Fokamul··on Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
Is there pizza index tracker for Calcutta?

And this madlad posts this at Friday.

GG HF, SOC people :D

Fokamul··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Who cares? Salesforce, as any other corporate are outsourcing to Indian kids, they don't give a...

Only people who can really change something are cybersecurity people, /"pentesters". They should, as any other responsible pentesters holding 0days for big corps, stop reporting them to the companies, instead sell to on grey market to 3rd party. Completely legal, for you it's more money and who cares what they do with it.

True whitehats are cucks, change my mind.

Fokamul··on iPhone dumbphone
Too bad iPhone is a dumbphone fromt the get go :D
Fokamul··on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
ADD is an old term -> ADHD. Nvm.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge someone for ADHD.

Because I have it, untreated. And I couldn't even finish university because of it. I'm unable to do certain things, like at all, I'm nearly physically ill when doing these things. Hard to explain it, to someone without these problems :)

Luckily enough, it's not that important here / Idc about money, career etc.

Fokamul··on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
I'm curious, why are not these people hit with C&D from Apple?

And other great projects, like Corellium (Actual iOS VM, not that crap Apple makes) are hit hard with lawsuits etc.

(You know, great project for these people who is still RE iOS for 0days and report them to Apple, which is behind me long time ago, reporting 0days for peanuts, yeah right :) )

Fokamul··on A bug saved the company
Do you own anything Apple, because few bucks for app is nothing, if you just spend several hundreds bucks for monitor stand or RAM. :)
Fokamul··on A bug saved the company
And of course you're on MacOS, where very users are used to shelling $$$ for otherwise free apps on other OSes. Well, good for you :)
Fokamul··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Ok, let's say you own an iPhone. Please try install alternative OS on your iPhone, if you succeed, you own your phone.
Fokamul··on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
Citation from blog: > The fact you hold a prior art in your hand, doesn’t mean much. The patent will still prevent you from importing/selling etc of the “infringing” stuff.

Could you please explain this to me? Let's say, they (Chinese) patent some complex part of my open-hw 3D printer, how this prevents me from importing parts of my 3D printer from other countries? Let's say from China. Company, which originally patent trolled me, must sue me first, no? And they care about patents? Since when?

Fokamul··on Vibe code is legacy code
Which country?

But I'm guessing there are lawsuits incomming with GDPR/US equivalent fines.

Fokamul··on PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles
Well, UA drones are already blasting music. So why not :)
Fokamul··on PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles
Yes, or real rap or something. HC metal or something.

Weird, or maybe website author sorted it by song's popularity?

Fokamul··on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
Yes, but it does make sense.

Eg. old people without smartphones or someone just turning their TV on, seeing big letter "Tsunami evacuate" with map and other information. You instantly know the most important information and you can act on it.

Fokamul··on I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
By any chance, does anyone know what streaming services use? Like Boosteroid or GeforceNow.

Because GeforceNow has best streaming quality in the business and Boosteroid have various problems like stuttering etc.

Fokamul··on Software Development at 800 Words per Minute
Big respect to you, I cannot imagine being functional without sight. Pretty interesting post.

"I use my computer during natural pauses in the conversation or presentation."

Casually dropping that everyone is speaking so slow. That you must use the time between sentences for something meaningful, pretty funny. :-)

Fokamul··on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs
Guys, if you're not already in Cyber security, this is your time to get into it.

2026 will be ridiculous fun to do bug hunting. As you know, in VIBE coding, S stands for security.

Fokamul··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
AI hi guys, pretty great AI article about this AI Peltier AI cooling AI tech. Really looking AI forward for another AI Samsung new AI devices.

Best regards,

AI

Ps.: AI

Fokamul··on Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
Make server with images banned.

Only text.

Profit?

Fokamul··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
>That means filing your taxes just means going to Turbo tax and it importing your W2’s automatically

Whoa interesting, so everyone is using 3rd party company service, is it paid service or free, I've checked their website and cannot understand if it's free or not for this basic level you've mentioned.

In my country, if this was a thing, that you must pay some company to file your taxes, it would probably cause public meltdown and end of any current government :)

Here, basic level taxes are done by your employer for you, by law, for free. Because actually they don't do taxes, but they only report amount of tax advances, social security, healthcare paid by your employer, to state, (all 3 is required by law to be paid and you or your employer have big legal problems if not). And also variables for tax deduction and then "something like IRS" will just send you tax return into your account.

And for any other cases(if you have more sources of income, eg.: salary + self-employed / rent) you must do taxes yourself, website for helping you to file taxes, is managed by state agency, for free.

Or you pay some money to "tax specialist" to file your taxes for you and liability to file it right goes after them (something like accountant, but hired only for this one task)

Fokamul··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
Yes, top of the list, it shows :)

Latops and desktops, it's a mix here. Older people had mainly desktops in the past. That's my experience, at least.

Banking, yeah mainly phones because of ridiculous forced banking apps from corporate masters, like everywhere else? (certain bank even lost a lot of customers because of that)

Taxes, if you are just an employee, taxes are done by your employer for you, by law. (I presume it's a post-communism BS, so people doesn't pay attention how much taxes we pay.)

If you have other types of income, you do it yourself, you have app/website to click through it, easy. Not automatic though. Self-employed IT pay less taxes than normal employees :D and overall lower-income people pay bigger taxes by percentage, what a great country :D

We call your country Holland, great country imho, If I would thinking about moving, that's top option for me.

Only thing that keeps me here are best gun laws in EU (I have Glock, AR15 clone, Bren3 ordered), you can conceal carry nearly everywhere, you can even use gun for self-defense, sadly very low criminality here :)

Hell, I can even legally carry katana, not kidding.

Linux is used only by IT people, friends cannot switch because they play MP games with invasive Anticheat running on kernel.

Personally, I'm only switching people to Linux if they cannot afford new PC because of Win11 upgrade. Zorin OS usually.

Fokamul··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
> At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here

Interesting, could you tell me which part of US you are from?

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My 2 cents, small country, mid-Europe, more or less in the middle of list of GDP / AIC per capita in EU.

Nearly everyone has some sort of PC or laptops for personal use.

Now it's changing, kids(~5-13yrs old) are using phones and tablets for school, Tiktok, Ytube, games. And only minority of kids is using PCs.

After they reach certain age, they've switched to PC games, at least in the past. Let's see what will happen now.

Gamers use primarily PC (Windows, because forced BS Anticheats), consoles are minority.

Probably because big tradition of piracy here, for long time it was legal to download anything. Even after forced change from EU, it's somewhat grey area and you can torrent anything, without VPN and nobody will care. But regarding pirating games, it changed years ago, with Steam of course. Like everywhere else.

Still it's funny that we have same price or sometimes even higher than US and our median salary is ~5x lower than US. :-) Here we call it "specific market", meaning "everybody buys it and everybody's stupid".

Only prosecuted cases I know, it was people uploading movies (usually local production) and they've made money from it.

In case of Germany and their automation of spamming letters from lawyers with ransom for €1k because someone on your internet torrented something. That's totally ridiculous from our point of view and it would spawn huge public backlash. I think that even lawyers torrents here :D

Fokamul··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Mark my word guys, 2026 will be year of cybersecurity.

Vibe coders let's gooo.

Fokamul··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
As a fun project, why not. But this is just another problem which can be solved by radio bought from aliexpress.

No wait, let's reinvent the wheel again :)

In case of war or something, internet is down, decentralized Bluetooth messaging app is your last problem.

IRL you will be using unencrypted radio, yes doesn't make sense. But already proven in the UA war.

Try using encrypted radio on the frontline and you will get suicide drones or artillery shell on your position, pretty quickly ;-)

Fokamul··on Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
That's your problem, or your company or your country.

Here in EU, if not stated in your work agreement, it's pretty common people work full time job and also as a self-employed contractor for other companies.

So when I'm finished with my work, HO of course, I just work on my "contractor" projects.

Honestly, I wouldn't sign a full time contract banning me from other work.

And if you have enough customers, you just drop full time job. And just pay social security and health insurance, which you must pay by law anyway.

And specially in my country, it's even more ridiculous that as self-employed you pay lower taxes than full time employees, which truth to be told are ridiculously high. Nearly 40% of your salary.

Fokamul··on I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
Yes, def. possible. But right now in UA's regions where drones are used the most, there are so many used fiber-optic cables laying on the fields, that you have basically zero chance to cut them all, because you would be cutting already discarded ones.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wcMZWRJL_m4

Fokamul··on Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
So you are using container app and your biggest problem with it is, that it's doing exactly as advertised -> containers :D
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