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finnn··on Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
Would you care to elaborate on what you believe makes the GPL a non-FOSS license?
finnn··on Washington State AG Bob Ferguson Sues Uber Over Data Breach
Original source (that i should have linked... mods wanna gimme a hand?): http://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-files-m...

Actual text of the complaint: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Ano...

finnn··on How a Radio Shack Robbery Could Spur a New Era in Digital Privacy
> In the case of the second amendment the laws are usually created by people who don't even know how guns work at a fundamental level.

That's funny, I've described a lot of computer laws like that, often specifically with regards to government search of people's data.

finnn··on Overlock – IoT Exception Tracking
I can run a full copy of Sentry from source, which is a major difference from "large parts" being open sourced. Admittedly, I can't do any of the payment stuff and run a direct competitor, but the rest is there.
finnn··on Overlock – IoT Exception Tracking
So this is Sentry but closed source and specifically focusing on embedded platforms?
finnn··on Micropython code to implement a GSM mobile phone
I understand that it's much cheaper than a 3G/4G/LTE connection, but if it's going to become non-functional in the foreseeable future, I'd like to at least be aware of that before building something on it.
finnn··on Micropython code to implement a GSM mobile phone
so the core GSM is done by a SIM800L module. Will that work on any normal cell network? I know a certain class of cheap GSM chip only works with a 2G network, and (as I understand it) T-Mobile is the only operator of such a thing in the US, and they're trying to phase it out. Is this correct? Could someone enlighten me as to how all this works?
finnn··on SearX: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
I wonder what the rationale behind listing the site's CA in the public instance list (https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances).
finnn··on .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
>To our surprise, we found out that NIC.io could only be reached via phone between 7 AM to 12 AM UTC Monday through Friday and did not expose any status about the health of the service.

That doesn't sound very reliable to me...

finnn··on Show HN: CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time
heads up the <title> isn't getting set, it just shows the URL.
finnn··on Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations
Google Maps navigation feature listens for verbal input (although it's supposed to be triggered by the wake word) to do things like add stops and such without touching it
finnn··on Movim 0.12 – Lovejoy, a responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client
As another commenter pointed out, the registration process seems broken, but I was able to use an XMPP account that I registered with a different client, and it seems very slick. I may have to run a copy of this for my own XMPP server.

Some things that occur to me as I browse around:

* what possible reason would you have for having a "gender" and "marital status" field? those feel out of place

* The pre-defined places to put Twitter, Yahoo and Skype accounts seem weird, why not allow a list of account names

finnn··on Show HN: Appraise – Visual test automation
That's a nice domain, didn't realize .qa was a ccTLD
finnn··on Alarming number of DNS requests made by iOS devices
Is there something in particular that's wrong with it? It seemed fine to me.
finnn··on The Source Code for NYC's Forensic DNA Statistical Analysis Tool
It seems that the source code for any computer program who's output is used as evidence in a court of law should be available for inspection.
finnn··on Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
Cool! Looks like the Accept-Encoding header is being set to "gzip, deflate, sdch" regardless of what i send.
finnn··on Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
yeah, i'd definitely try sending it all sorts of weird things. Can you setup a path that will respond with a ton of data? Maybe a bunch of things that it will try to parse? etc
finnn··on Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
I wonder what the requests look like coming through the proxy. Is there a distinct user agent? or some other header send with the request
finnn··on What If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices?
Couldn't the same be said about all the other shitty cloud-connected surveillance cameras? Not saying that justifies it, just that this is a bigger problem then just those awful internet of doorbells
finnn··on NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site
you're not missing much.
finnn··on Inside Story of a Texas Grocery Chain Running in the Chaos of Hurricane Harvey
>Join to create your newsfeed for free

Paywalled, I am not interested in signing up and spamming all of my friends.

finnn··on VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”
Or using HSTS (especially with HSTS preloading)
finnn··on How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
lmgtfy: https://signal.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
finnn··on Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order
Obviously not, but that's not what happened here. The app is still available in other countries: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cat.onvotar1oc...
finnn··on Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200
This reminds me of a power box I built for Burning Man this year. The I had ~700W of solar panels, and in a box I put an MPPT charge controller, rather than the PWM charge controllers shown here, I had a 1kW inverter rather than 150W one shown here, but also tried to make most people in my camp use DC when possible, offering 2 USB plugs for each person in the camp, radio charging with a DC-to-DC converter, and a fuse box to prevent accidents. It worked out quite well, and we successfully ran a chest freezer and a number of other things off solar in the middle of the desert for a week.

Also, I used 2x100Ah deep cycle marine batteries + 2 additional batteries of unknown capacity, probably between 50 and 100Ah

finnn··on Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness
The guy whos runs that bot is super weird about sharing his recordings/code. I'd love to implement this on my PBX but he won't share to "prevent abuse" (unclear what abuse he's afraid of). Idk, it sketched me out.
finnn··on Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services
Is it even possible to use this for a private business? The title literally says that it is "to simplify access to public services"
finnn··on JavaScript Studio publicly available
A brief scroll through makes this sound like a JS-specific version of Sentry, is that correct?
finnn··on Legacy extensions disabled by default on Firefox Nightly 57 starting August 11
I wonder if we'll see an increase in the number of out of date/vulnerable Firefox instances after a while
finnn··on Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network
sounds like you might like cjdns
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