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Maxious

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open data hacker for http://www.lambdacomplex.org and http://lobbylens.info maxious@lambdacomplex.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxious; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxious/sigs/YGkLiX20MnPygNqtb43voyvjf5-Hmrn5Msqt5gfu2G8 ]

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Maxious··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
From the linked security report in that post https://www.netspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/google-fea... it seems like they implemented something similar to https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop (which was also used to test interoperablity

Also `we welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to enable “Contacts Only” mode in the future` doesn't make it sound like Apple actually helped implement this

Maxious··on Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls in Australia
> Emergency call handling tends to expose edge cases that normal calls never hit.

Indeed. It now has been revealed even telcos were not doing real world tests https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/surprise-drill-for-te... and new laws were passed this month that they must make it possible for an independent university to do testing https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2025-10/acma-strengthens-in...

Maxious··on Google Antigravity
Except where they left Windsurf strings in it https://x.com/aidenybai/status/1990910907745218889 https://x.com/ibrahimuzn/status/1990887635661791364/photo/1
Maxious··on Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development
>AI assistant to use: claude, gemini, copilot, cursor-agent, qwen, opencode, *codex*, windsurf, kilocode, auggie, roo, codebuddy, amp, or q

https://github.com/github/spec-kit/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-f...

Maxious··on XSLT RIP
If you view an RSS or Atom feed in chrome today you just get a screen of xml eg. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/feed/

In the golden old days of 2018, browsers at least applied some styling https://evertpot.com/firefox-rss/

You can still manually apply styling using xslt https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/blog/index.xml

Maxious··on AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Most famously Optus is bringing their network operations back on-shore after a mismanaged firewall upgrade was linked to three deaths from customers unable to contact emergency services https://www.itnews.com.au/news/optus-fast-tracks-network-ope...
Maxious··on IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
https://github.com/matter-js/matter.js has a MQTT example for familiarity but the intention is that devices just communicate over UDP
Maxious··on Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
AT&T sold themselves on More Bars https://www.wired.com/2007/08/att-more-bars-i/
Maxious··on Ilya Sustkever's deposition reveals previously unknown details [pdf]
On PDF page 38

> Anthropic reached out to Helen [...] with a proposal to be merged with OpenAI and take over its leadership.

> Q. When was that?

> A. On Saturday.

> Q. Saturday, November 18th?

I don't think that's been publicly hinted at before?

Maxious··on Ground stop at JFK due to staffing
Not the Air Force but forces in direct control of the president like ICE/Secret Service are being paid in advance to ensure their continued service https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1978925656785457247
Maxious··on Affinity Studio now free
It works under wine (including the V3 version) https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux
Maxious··on Affinity Studio now free
https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux is being updated to reflect the v3 but it does work
Maxious··on Affinity Studio now free
There is support for photoshop plugins https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pag...
Maxious··on Affinity Studio now free
There is an on device background remover included for free
Maxious··on HTTPS by default
You can but many vendors have not yet adopted that
Maxious··on Ubiquiti SFP Wizard
Yes, eg. This one runs a ssh server https://www.glbb.jp/en/hardware/gs3/
Maxious··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
Ofcomm hasn't been able to identify the owners of the delaware LLC, that's why they attach a screenshot of the CAPITOL SERVICES, INC website.

Publically available databases suggest 4chan executives include John Cena, Evan Essence and Norton Antivenom.

Maxious··on AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
> In a Linux context I got some GPUs working and I can add some [external] GPU devices. Minis forum when I reached out to them said they don't officially support either via the Thunderbolt compatibility USB 4, USB4 v2 or even the built-in PCIe slot. Yeah, not technically officially supported and it's because of the resource allocation and the BAR space and they need somebody on the BIOS team to understand that to fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvNYpyA1ZGk

There are ways to manage BAR better in linux or with UEFI preboot environments for windows as hobbyists have been doing for ages due to bad BIOS support https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI

Maxious··on StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source
No, it uses a first party Analog Devices IC AD2428 which has the patent licence - A2B was meant to simplify and reduce cost in automative audio https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-articles/innov...
Maxious··on Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD"
eg. "custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS." https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/best-performance-and-fastes...
Maxious··on Windows ML is generally available
ONNX already includes an escape hatch for this, there are official Microsoft maintained Execution Providers https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers/ But vendors like Arm/rockchip/Huawei can also write them https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers/community-ma...
Maxious··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
Arguing with some random developer contracted by European Commission to make example code for mobile devices is not a political solution
Maxious··on Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
yes "Podman v3.0 and later versions introduced a compatible RESTful API that emulates the Docker API. This allows the standard docker-compose command-line tool to interact with a Podman backend instead of a Docker daemon."
Maxious··on Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC
They have lots of illegitimate use that isn't about crashing the cell network like sending out spam https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/9949-sydney-man-arrested-... or allowing people to use in-network free call allowance to instead make voip international calls
Maxious··on A postmortem of three recent issues
Artificial Analysis also monitor LLM provider APIs independently "based on 8 measurements each day at different times" you can see the degradation as opus 4.1 came online https://artificialanalysis.ai/providers/anthropic#end-to-end...
Maxious··on A new experimental Google app for Windows
There was an Enterprise version of the Desktop app that connected to the Google Search Appliance (yellow pizzabox) or Google Mini (blue pizzabox, not Google Home Mini) as well as searching Windows/Mac local/shared drives https://web.archive.org/web/20070302151851/https://desktop.g...
Maxious··on GPT-5-Codex
Yes https://developers.openai.com/codex/cloud/code-review
Maxious··on Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?
You can pickup previously state of the art supercomputers at auction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197277
Maxious··on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
EMV cards can do offline auth
Maxious··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
For those who have forgotten, Microsoft buying npm was basically a community service given npm inc was on the brink of collapsing

https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-ceo-bryan-bogensberger-r...

https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-cofounder-laurie-voss-re...

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