explodingwaffle

C18 radicals?

Yep. I complained about that on HN recently- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692884 though since then it has, at least started working again.

I didn’t mention it in that post but that is _exactly_ the attack vector I had in mind also- even if someone stole my phone, Touch ID should stop them from getting at my passwords.

Not my work, but I thought this was really cool.

While we’re complaining about Google’s 2FA offering…

The issue described here started happening to me recently: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Apps-Account/Why-is-G...

Summary- Google has added a “match the numbers in the app” style 2FA to YouTube. Makes sense- their video monopoly means that for many iOS users like myself it’s the only Google app they’ve got. Except…

1) It’s the default, and there’s no apparent way to change it, or even turn it off. This is annoying- I prefer TOTP since it’s more secure. There’s a Google Prompts section in the 2FA settings, but it says that I don’t have any supported devices. This actually makes sense, because

2) It doesn’t f*king work! Ever since they changed it from “press yes” to “match number”, the screen opens in the YouTube app and then loads forever. Which means I’ve got a spurious notification on my phone, a screen to dismiss next time I open the YouTube app (or several, because for some reason they can stack), and two extra clicks every time I log into Google on a new device.

Actually, I lied earlier- there is one way to disable it, and it’s to DISABLE ALL 2FA, as you can see people doing in that support thread. I honestly don’t blame them, but clearly less 2FA was not the plan of whoever’s idea this was. Speaking of support forums- I don’t think anyone at Google reads them, but they do read HN :))))

I think this is one of the few things Prusa actually gets right- it takes serious gall to carbon copy something (there are plenty of cheap, mostly Chinese printers out there, but the vast majority are fairly different to the Mk3, not outright clones)- but not even the cloniest of cloners would dare to call it an Original Prusa i3 MK3s sold by Prusa Research by Josef Prusa.

My _favourite_ part of searching on AliExpress is that, when you’re logged in, 90% of any search results have nothing to do with, you know, the search query, and are just (related to) products you’ve previously looked at. Why?!?

Brit here- I usually send money to friends and family using bank transfers with internet banking- it’s instant, there’s no fee (AFAIK) and all you need are someone’s account number, and sort code, which everyone has.

Is this just not an option in the states? It’s insane to me that y’all use (need??) third party apps for something as simple as sending money around.

Woof. Adafruit + Raspberry Pi in a shipped product screams to me that they did not have a real electronics guy on their team.

https://ukdepartureboards.co.uk/ is the British equivalent of this, and it seems to do everything right (don’t own one, but have seen on Twitter)- optional subscription, and nice looking hardware (seems like they contracted out for that). Though at the minute I suppose there are barely any trains running here :)

True, though I imagine the agreement you’re thinking of isn’t the one they’re talking about here.

https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-30-adopters-agreeme... is the agreement- it’s royalty free, basically “sign here, don’t patent our stuff”. Not “open source”, but it’s pretty reasonable for what you get IMO- we live in a world all about IP. Many international standards are worse. Plus, it’s not like they’re gonna sue you if you don’t sign it, unless you attempt patent shenanigans.

The $$$$ agreements for VIDs and trademark rights on the other hand… can’t say I’m too fond of those ones.

…uh, yeah, it is:

https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-type-cr-cable-and-c...

Encrypted iCloud! Never thought I’d see the day- figured intelligence agencies wouldn’t be a big fan- I guess it’s only optional though. Still won’t be using iCloud on my iPhone, but I could at least consider it.

I do wish someone would put up the paid for magic documents that allegedly contain the actual reasoning behind the choice of the E-series. I think this SE answer coould be true, but it feels a little contrived- and, at least to me, this is one of electronics history’s greatest mysteries.

Seems like a huge design failure that the sense pins (which need to be connected for the card to turn on) mate before the power connections are fully mated.

Opinion- these Mini-Fit / Micro-Fit style connectors have no place in PCs. I’ve always hated how much force they require especially those damn clips when you need to take them out, which doesn’t make much sense to me given they barely click in.

I don’t understand why anyone would pay that much for YouTube premium- isn’t it just no ads, and background play? In what universe is that worth £16/$12 a month?? You could get two “real” streaming services for that if you pushed it a little.

I swear there’s something going on with those fake shipping emails- I only ever get them when I’m waiting for a parcel- and no, I haven’t been entering my tracking number into any websites. Very suspicious.

Man, I can’t understand what they’re thinking over at Autodesk. Right now I have the student license for Fusion 360- I was (still am to be frank) thinking about becoming a paying customer at some point- occasionally they do a $100 a year sale, which is a far more reasonable price than it is normally. But when they keep pulling crap like this, it makes it real hard to commit to, especially with Onshape existing and SOLIDWORKS having not-terrible personal offerings now.

If I were pulling the strings, I’d go all in on trying to convert hobbyists and students- pricing at $100/$150 a year all year round and add a monthly tier for $15/$20. I don’t even mind locking features like simulation behind a paywall- 99% of users designing for 3D printing, 2D manufacturing like laser cutting, and basic CNC machined parts don’t need them (though I’d throw in a few free cloud credits for the value-add, and make them a bit less of a rip-off). What do I know though.

One thing I suspect- there are a lot of people using the free license to make money (which is not allowed), so I guess they’re turning the screws on.. their paying customers? Much easier to just make the software good value IMO.

The standard way to do it is just a square matrix, so yeah a lot of pins are required. There are cleverer ways though- I like this writeup https://kbd.news/Improved-square-matrix-1415.html

They should be illegal- the waste of RECHARGEABLE lithium cells in DISPOSABLE vapes is insane. At least in the UK, anywhere there are teenagers these things follow. I'll admit as an electronics hobbyist these can be a good source of free batteries though (hell, it'd probably be cheaper and certainly quicker for me to walk into a vape shop and shuck these for the batteries than it is to buy them online).

Real evil villain stuff tbh- wasting rare metals, getting kids addicted to nicotine, probably shipped by the boatload from China...

22 is far too young. I've been watching his videos since 2017- the picture in today's video of him in a hospital bed with his 10 million subscriber play button absolutely destroyed me. He used to joke all the time about hitting 10 million subscribers as if it could never happen, and the fact that it did is a monument to all the time and effort he put in- should've lived to 100 million. A reminder to us all- life is precious, live it to the fullest while you still can.

They're all good, but if you want a video to watch, I'd recommend his 1 million subscriber special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rnhyu000w

This one has to be my favourite- I thought maybe whoever transcribed the source code listing for the AGC to GitHub took some artistic license- but no, it's there in the original scans!

https://archive.org/details/Comanche55J2k60/page/n1027/mode/...