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WirelessGigabiton 'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines

Please don't confuse the heat in Death Valley with humid heat. Don't get me wrong, that Death Valley heat will kill you, but as long as you have water and shade you will survive.

I posted about it before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37455817#37459864

> You have to factor in humidity. > Scottsdale airport currently (1:40PM) is 108F (42.222C) w/ 14% humidity, meaning a wet-bulb of 71.11F (21.72778C).

> London tomorrow at noon is 86F (30C) w/ 52% humidity, meaning a wet-bulb of 72.76F (22.6444C).

> London will actually feel nastier.

WirelessGigabiton Reverse engineering a software crack

What is interesting here is that a signed piece of software can pick up an unsigned dll, execute it, and that execution causes a compromise of the system.

WirelessGigabiton Apple's risky bet on CarPlay

Isn't that exactly what VW did? No more GPS. Just use CarPlay.

WirelessGigabiton Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

Dnsmasq is amazing. I spend quite the amount of time learning its config when hacking DD-WRTs.

One thing that always bothered me is how hard it is to set Dnsmasq to do SLAAC but no RDNS.

You see, if you set

    enable-ra

[0], it defaults to using link-local address of the machine as the rDNS server.

You can set another one by setting

    dhcp-option=option6:dns-server,[2001:4860:4860::8844]

If you don't enable DHCPv6 that entry is used as the rdns entry.

BUT...

That means that if you read through this there is no easy way to prevent a DNS address from being distributed, and it is quite common to want to do that. One of the reasons is that I want my clients to use IPv4 so I can track them, but still allow them to use SLAAC (and thus privacy protections) to talk to the outside world. But if they use SLAAC to talk to my DNS, I get WAY too many addresses in there.

The trick is to set:

    dhcp-option=option6:dns-server

an empty value... Not sure if you can add the comma or not.

I could only find 1 reference online: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...

I firmly believe that this design choice has made it as such that no commercially available, customer router has support for SLAAC without rDNS.

[0] https://dnsmasq.org/docs/dnsmasq-man.html#:~:text=By%20defau....

WirelessGigabiton Smishing scam regarding debt for road toll services

I thought of the same thing with those automated calls asking to make a donation for breast cancer research, or inured fireman.

The whole thing is automated, from asking for a donation, asking you to send it with a credit card vs a letter in the mail, to telling you 'oh I'm a real person' when CLEARLY they're not (or they all talk the same... /s).

This money goes somewhere. It's the same voice. It's the same scammer. Nothing is being done about it. You'd think some breast cancer organization would sue them to make it go away.

WirelessGigabiton Feds expand investigation into Honda's automatic emergency braking system

I would love to see a comparison of phantom braking on Tesla's fitted with the radar before and after they switched off the radar to go full camera. To my understanding radar works better in conditions where sunlight might be blocking the camera.

WirelessGigabiton I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes

I've seen this in React where an autofill doesn't do anything in terms of invoking the changed callbacks. As such, adding 1 character invokes the callback, and sets the value for React. You obviously remove it.

WirelessGigabiton What IRS Directfile looks like

I meant the post was 1 day too late.

But there are many people around me who make > $300,000 married with simple returns. Married filing jointly, 1 state, renting. No reason to be excluded.

WirelessGigabiton What IRS Directfile looks like

1 day too late!

Also ridiculous that there is an income limit of $79,000 (AGI).

There is no reason for that arbitrary line to be there except for lobbying by companies like Intuit.

WirelessGigabiton RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

AllTrails does this too, to an extend. When you create a route it asks for a couple of questions (think checkboxes). But it then writes it out as human written text as a way to make you believe someone has actually curated a piece of text describing this hike, which actually ends up being an overgrown trail on someone's private property.

What's worse is that they have the condensed information and decide to make it harder to consume.

WirelessGigabiton Personal VPN services are snake oil

It does not. DoH and DoT is a real lifesaver for the privacy-minded people.

And it's hell for the security minded people. Before I could do DNAT on my router to redirect everything to my Pi-Hole, even the Google Mini that staunchly ignored the handed out DNS, but used 8.8.8.8.

But soon they'll start using DoH and I can't do anything anymore at all.

I believe IMDb on iOS already uses DoH.

WirelessGigabiton Swatch Internet Time

Hopefully we get it done before the French get involved, otherwise it'll end up being LTC.

WirelessGigabiton An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data

I built a house in 2014 there. Triple pane. Pointless. You never recoup the cost.

WirelessGigabiton Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploitation

Company I worked at turned on MITM TLS for everything.

Suddenly a lot of stuff stopped working, because not every piece of software on my machine uses the OS's certificate store.

For example Docker containers who then curl to set up stuff.

WirelessGigabiton I Lost Faith in Kagi

Sounds like a cool place to work. I'll check back for an opening in TypeScript / Rust backend.

WirelessGigabiton An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data

They're as noisy as an AC. So here in Arizona no one cares. But in Belgium this was an issue as they run more in winter and in winter sound travels further.

WirelessGigabiton Verified curl

I went as far as building code in PRs and reusing those blobs when the code gets merged in into main. I find it super weird that in many projects the code gets rebuild and packaged on merge to main, and when released, all while a lot of underlying processes aren't locked.

    apt install xyz

can be different.

a python requirements.txt as well. (which is why we use Poetry).

WirelessGigabiton Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

I aspire to be you when (if) I retire.

WirelessGigabiton Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

In Belgium I know of at least 1 provider who blocks you, once per hour, from being able to FF advertisements on recordings.

WirelessGigabiton Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

I do the same, either my Dock, my Laptop or my screens, or all together give some weird issues where the screens turn on every 5 minutes and go to sleep.

And searching for 'Dock screen wakes up during sleep' just floods <search engine> with 'screen does not wake up after sleep'. And with <search engine>'s removal of respecting + and -, I am not sure I'll ever find a solution...

WirelessGigabiton Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-remember-win...

You can ask Windows to try and remember the location. It's not fool proof, but it works 90% of the time.

In fact, I've got more issues with windows opening on a non-connected screen (and then having to do Winkey + right a couple of times until it shows up on my laptop screen.

WirelessGigabiton TCP connection timeout mystery

That's weird. I get nothing there.

WirelessGigabiton A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores

It's even worse, even with an Apple Developer account you still need to beg them for certain entitlements. No entitlements means no VPNs, no invisible push notifications etc.

WirelessGigabiton Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?

Volume is too imprecise. It can vary. E.g. flower. 1 cup can mean a lot based on how rough the ride is from the factory to the store.

Salt & sugar have same issue. Based on grain size volume can differ while weight (and thus cooking properties) are maintained. (Yes, you use big chunks of sugar for Liège waffles, but that's an exception).

WirelessGigabiton Execute your best ideas with Google Registry's .exe top-level domain

Sadly, the .zip tld wasn't a joke.

Edit: holy **** I just realize this is googel, not google. And yes, I had to fight autocorrect to correctly misspel googel.

WirelessGigabiton America's Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright

I'm glad you posted this. I moved to the USA 7 years ago, and my eyes have aged. All I remember is less glare in Europe because the ECE design is better than DOT, even though ECE shines further, the cut-off is better.

But from what I understand from your post is that even in Europe, with the ECE ones, there is still glare because of the sheer brightness?

WirelessGigabiton Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

I bought a house full of zigbee sensors. Any recommendations for a good USB dongle?

WirelessGigabiton Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124

I wish it would all be disabled. On iOS it is absolute hell to load any page due to it jumping around, and then you scroll and some video starts playing. Do you want me to read the page? Or get distracted? Either PIP with a too small x, or inline, making me think it's part of the story, but it's just another story about Mary eating 36 pastries and winning the eating contest.

For the longest time Ars Technica did this too, with the same video over and over. I can't imagine the bandwidth wasted there.

WirelessGigabiton Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?

Human language is also way more ambiguous. One of the reasons I love coding is a massively reduced vocabulary and a way more strict grammer.

WirelessGigabiton Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works

But it will not contain my address right?

So if I use Apple Pay in store, at say Kroger for 100 times, can they track me? Or do I get a new credit card number every time?