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Reventlov··on European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security
No, because obviously it's not about numbers but about politics.
Reventlov··on Calendar
Is it just me, or can't you close the big pop-in welcome info box on firefox ?
Reventlov··on It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
also you can use https://github.com/krtab/agnos if you don't have any api access
Reventlov··on Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
My experience with a mac mini in a small R&D team has been a nightmare : the OS sucks so much for anything that is not a single user (at a time) on the machine, coming from the Systemd/Linux world

What was your experience ?

Reventlov··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
>131 rue de Créqui, 69006 Lyon 6

Yeah, that's a postal box to host compagnies.

Reventlov··on FSE meets the FBI
Actually, what does being blocked by half the fediverse has to do with fact checking ? Nothing, but that's the angle the author of this story chose.
Reventlov··on FSE meets the FBI
>I'd like to also thank fediblock for never fact-checking anything ever, giving the false impression that things that FSE has never permitted were allowed.

Proceeds to link to a website whose source code is hosted by kiwifarms. If you are blocked, that's because most of us don't want to interact with the "free speech" crowd, that's pretty much it.

Reventlov··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
François was born in Buenos Aires, how is that the first american pope ?
Reventlov··on Giving Software Away for Free
« I haven't seen GitHub break a working URL that they have hosted in the 17+ years since they first launched »

laughs in tornado cash

Reventlov··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
And that's why we need to stop being dependent on the US: everything in there is described in terms of « market share », and not in terms of usefulness, ethics, or independence.
Reventlov··on Electronics Teardown: Stelo Continuous Glucose Monitor (2024)
I've seen stock-outs on free freestyles, following “influencer” videos on tiktok. That's a problem.
Reventlov··on Show HN: Hackyournews.com v2
>Lobste.rs

>Mastodon web app requires JavaScript or native apps for access

Now that's hilarious (that's a link to https://chaos.social/@hexa/114009069746212598 )

Reventlov··on Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon
It's not clear what it's about. I suspect some crypto bullshit.
Reventlov··on When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
I had the problem on APU4C4, iirc. You install openwrt on it, everything is working fine, then, you reboot and you get nothing on the serial port.

You unplug/plug it, cold boot it, and then it works again.

Reventlov··on Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses
Step 1: Don't use CloudFlare MITM as a service

Step 2: Don't get blocked because you're not a streaming pirate service

Really, I see no downside to this court decision.

Reventlov··on PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc
Because nixos.wiki was the primary source, until very recently. Then, wiki.nixos.org was introduced, and mass edits were made (without the owner of nixos.wiki being ok with that) trying to redirect people from nixos.wiki to wiki.nixos.org, and now both co-exist.

Reminds me a bit the archlinux.fr vs wiki.archlinux.org fr wiki situation from 10 years ago.

Reventlov··on Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker
so, basically, beamforming but for sound ?
Reventlov··on Emmanuel Macron on the Arrest of Pavel Durov
This is France, stop expecting the legal system to work like in the US. Dude was arrested on a /sunday/, and we have a thing called violation of the secrecy of the investigation (yeah, often, it's not respected, but still).

He is presumed innocent, and if there is a trial, it will be public.

Reventlov··on Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint
Phones can also transmit beacons. The same as laptops, actually, some of them constantly broadcast BLE beacons.

The signature is based on physical layer characteristics, according to the linked paper : « They result in two measurable metrics in BLE and WiFi transmissions: Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) and I/Q imperfections, specifically: I/Q offset and I/Q imbalance. ».

Yes, you would probably need SDR to do this tracking, but SDR are generally not this expensive.

Reventlov··on Surprising gender biases in GPT
What is this paper ? The tested sentences are full of errors…
Reventlov··on StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops
> this looks ace, so a serious question: is it widely used?

I know some french cloud provider that uses it, and… I'm not sure they're happy with it. Issues with YAQL, a lot of weird bugs. They mentioned Temporal looking much cleaner.

Reventlov··on NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
It is true. The original post writes about reproducing the minimal iso, which contains probably around 1% of the packages in nixpkgs. The remaining packages are not tested regarding binary reproducibility, or, at least, not in a systematic manner, which means regressions may happen regularly (which is exactly what happened with the .iso, see the previous announcement from 2021: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-unstable-s-iso-minimal-x... .)
Reventlov··on NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
Yeah, that represent maybe 1% of the packages in nixpkgs (only the installation iso).
Reventlov··on NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
For those wondering : it should be remembered that the reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is only a reproducibility of the sources: if the sources change, one is warned, but it is not a question of the reproducibility of the binaries (which can change at each build). This binary reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is indeed not really tested, at least not systematically.

Guix, Archlinux, Debian do the binary reproducibility better than Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs.

Sources :

- https://r13y.com/ ( Nix* )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht... ( Debian )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.ht... ( Archlinux )

- https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-... (Guix, might be a bit slow to load, here is some cached copy https://archive.is/lTuPk )

Reventlov··on Starlink Direct to Cell
What about nb-iot ? Isn't it a part of LTE(-M) and the 5G set of standards ?

They do mention « eNodeB » on the page, so, that's LTE.

Reventlov··on Show HN: Speech Meter – Improve Your English Pronunciation
To be fair, between french from different regions, people will pronounce those differently or not, and not pronounce it the same way…
Reventlov··on Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
As a non native speaker, it does sound a bit like Michael Jackson imo…
Reventlov··on OpenTF repository is now public
Commit messages like "more", "rollback", "missed that" are not really what you expect from such an organization, so, yeah, that should've been squashed with a descriptive and useful commit message. My repos look like this but… I'm not a professional developer.
Reventlov··on TunnelCrack flaws can expose VPN tunnel traffic
I saw many reactions whose content was, in essence, "this attack has been known for a long time". At the same time, I see a number of VPN vendors confirming that they are vulnerable, at least in part ( https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/tunnelcrack_vpn/ ), and the paper was accepted at usenix, and so far no one has been able to show me a source pointing out that this vulnerability was already known…
Reventlov··on Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey
So, I understand the appeal of having something use pens to plot such things but… If I were to just use a regular printer to print those things (art, drawings, …), would the result be really different ? I have no pen plotter nor printer, so… I don't really understand what would be the main differences…
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