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auguzanellatoon Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders

I'm mostly a NFC, RFID and SubGHZ guy so out of the box it does nothing useful for me without having to add external modules, my Zero on the other hand works great by itself except for once in a while plugging in the WiFi add-on board to debug some custom apps I've written for it.

auguzanellatoon Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders

Sigh, all I wanted was a Zero successor with a more powerful MCU to mess around with, this seems more like a mini PC of sorts.

auguzanellatoon Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

The exploit grants arbitrary code execution, it can just fix up the telltale signs of the USB DMA corruption before jumping to an updatable part of the boot flow

auguzanellatoon Hetzner Price Adjustment

Hetzner has a decent terraform provider btw

auguzanellatoon OpenAI Prepping for On-Prem Product?

Full disk encryption?

auguzanellatoon I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

Just saw your comment. I'm not American, but I am a citizen of a nation that's not under any kind of sanctions/embargos (Italy) and some friends of mine managed to get approved.

The fact that my account is new (I tried applying with a business account that was created a couple weeks ago) probably doesn't help.

auguzanellatoon I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://chatgpt.com/cyber

I tried it once and they somehow decided I'm not worth, if I try again it fails with "We couldn't start verification. You may not be eligible for this verification flow right now. Please try again later, or contact support if you think this is a mistake.", not sure if they think I'm part of an APT or whatever.

auguzanellatoon I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

I'd be hypothetically very curious to see hypothetical results if you ever decide to hypothetically run Mythos aginst the code (in Minecraft?)

auguzanellatoon Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

I hope no one ever builds (or even worse, vibe codes) a radiation treatment machine.

auguzanellatoon MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

It’s certainly better than most trackpads on non Macs, especially because it “clicks” ok even on the top part.

auguzanellatoon MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

> it assumes nothing about the user's knowledge except for the ability to read.

Sometimes I question whether some users have that ability

auguzanellatoon Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

Note that the 7.5x multiplier is only for the promotional period (until end of April), then it'll get even worse. If I had to guess it'll be priced at 10x.

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Looks like it's back up now

auguzanellatoon Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

The analogy would be more like a browser that somehow manages to render utterly broken HTML (yes, they actually do)

auguzanellatoon Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

Such products shouldn’t exist by spec, they’re just not compliant.

auguzanellatoon Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing

Even with the alleged education discount a Logic8 will still set you back around 250$ and it only has 8 channels @ 100MS/s, the LA used by the article author is 69$ and does 200MS/s on 16 channels, going up to 800MS/s if you're using just 4ch.

The new Saleae Logic MSO looks like a fantastic piece of kit, but their pricing isn't justifiable for an hobbist IMHO.

auguzanellatoon Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

That’s what OpenAI is doing with GPT-5.2-Codex

auguzanellatoon LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

There’s a bit of resistance sadly. My supervisor is “forcing” me to use LaTeX for my MSc thesis sadly.

auguzanellatoon KDE going all-in on a Wayland future

KDE project is working on plasma-login-manager (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager) but AFAICT there’s no ETÀ for a stable release.

auguzanellatoon Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

Not on web mobile frontend

auguzanellatoon We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

What kind of LA did you use to de bug an Intel core?

auguzanellatoon Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available

Docker is mostly based on the same stuff that LXC uses under the hood.

auguzanellatoon Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch

> RTL8127

That’s not a switch chip. Still great that we’re finally getting cheap NICs tho

auguzanellatoon YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.

auguzanellatoon YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

Do people actually do this instead of just switching to linux?

I thought Windows was the "user friendly" choice

auguzanellatoon Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

There’s usually a fuse you can pull for the telematics/modem unit

auguzanellatoon ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

Another nice tool is CellGuard

https://cellguard.seemoo.de/

It works on iOS devices without any extra hardware, even on non jailbroken devices, by analyzing baseband debug logs exported by the OS.

auguzanellatoon Apple: SSH and FileVault

My Raspberry Pi some time ago had a setup where only public key auth was enabled for LUKS unlock, so I only had to have an authorized_keys file unencrypted.

auguzanellatoon The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

The author disclosed that

> I used an LLM for wording. The research, traces, and AML decomp are mine. Every claim is verified and reproducible if you follow the steps in the article; logs and commands are in the repo. If you think something's wrong, cite the exact timestamp/method/line. "AI wrote it" is not an argument.