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kramerger··on Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai
So you mean Ukraine should request these to be disabled i aide the occupied territories and if Musk refuses he has basically taken side with Russia in annexation of Ukraine?

:) :)

kramerger··on Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
Remember when Microsoft told you you can't have Windows 11 because of your missing/old TPM wouldn't be secure enough?

Turns out it's all security theater.

kramerger··on The Ladybird browser project
No, I blame it on front-end people.

I've seen them putting all effort on eye-candy while ignoring that the page only works on "retina" display and then only on Safari.

kramerger··on The Ladybird browser project
Don't criticise people hacking for the fun of it, on Hacker News of all places.
kramerger··on The Ladybird browser project
I would love to use this as my daily driver, but a lot of popular sites don't even work with Firefox.

I hate what a small group of lazy front-end people have done to our world...

kramerger··on Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks
Didn't we already have a smart dildo incident in 2022?

Something about the sound recordings made by the accompanying app leaking?

kramerger··on Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort()
But is this really exploitable?

And i had always thought networked services avoid using plain qsort due to risk of dos

kramerger··on Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone
Edit:

Nevermind, I confused HiSense and Huawei's HiSilicon :(

With that said, HiSense is more of a white box OEM outside Asia, so maybe this is them trying a new thing with direct sales to West?

kramerger··on Conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl are spreading
Please explain to a foreigner, what the hell happened to make her enemy #1?
kramerger··on Apple fixes zero-day bug in Apple Vision Pro that 'may have been exploited'
That should be illegal. It removes a huge part of your field of vision.
kramerger··on USB-C power for your Amiga 500, 600 and 1200
Didn't know this was possible!

I have a bunch of old thinkpads and need to keep around 3 different chargers (round, rectangular and usb-c). Could be great to go all in USB-C at some point.

kramerger··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
Now this is my kind of engineering!

KISS in action is beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

kramerger··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
I think the author is not an embedded guy and assumed that ESP32 is the generic name given to these sort of devices.

Either way, I am sure this was a fun project and he achieved what he wanted to do. But if this happened to me I would probably try to reverse engineer the device to free it from PetNet cloud. It would be fun and cool and interesting and I would probably never finish it..

kramerger··on Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years
> ...Tesla improperly labeled and disposed of materials like “lead acid batteries and other batteries,” paints, brake fluid, aerosols, antifreeze, acetone, diesel fuel... Tesla also allegedly improperly disposed of the waste, both on-site and at landfills that can’t accept hazardous waste.

Not good for Tesla if true

> Tesla could be on the hook for as much as $70,000 per violation per day, according to Reuters, which first reported the suit

Or in the end they will be fined $10,000 and that will that.

kramerger··on EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
But after the trade war with Huawei and zte they don't really have a choice, do they?

A multi billion dollar company will not just lay down and die when its shut out from the open market, it will use its muscles to create its own.

Hisense is not the market leader, but they have done a significant leap in the last 5 years (Not all of it through legal means thought)

kramerger··on Making Rust binaries smaller by default
I think most debug info is in its own section. On a real OS the pages are loaded lazily so no (significant) performance hit.

Still, I hate big Rust binaries as much as the next guy.

kramerger··on Ask HN: Any legal way against forced software upgrades and feature removal
On the contrary, I let older relatives use Linux so I don't need to support macos and windows constantly breaking.

In 5 years I've had 2 family support calls: one to setup a new WiFi on a Chromebook and one for turning the Chromebook on and off.

kramerger··on What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems (2022)
While your hypervisor may not implement it, ARM allows you to configure this kind of operations.

See for example

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0595/2020-12/AArc...

kramerger··on Notes on Emacs Org Mode
Org mode is standardised, markdown is not.
kramerger··on ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, and El Reg talks to the project founder
Sorry, which book is this?
kramerger··on Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
There have been multiple stories about EVs getting stuck in snow then running out of battery and being towed.

But the particular cases where the car itself has broken down seem to be limited to Teslas.

Even in the heavily moderated Tesla Club Sweden forum people have started questioning the reliability of these cars in the winter.

kramerger··on Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
Why do you think Amazon published an AI model for detecting nudity? :)

Joke aside, probably the same way Roomba employees posted pictures of people in the bathroom or Apple partner leaking recording of people having sex: horny employees + zero oversight from mgmt.

kramerger··on Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
Looks like China has known about this for years:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/business/tesla-barred-chi...

kramerger··on Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
Newspapers in Sweden are having a field day with Tesla after last week's heavy snow.

Seems like all the horror stories about people being stranded in 20F with a dead car and no heating come from Tesla owners.

I'm happy nobody has died yet, but from what we saw it's just a matter of time before whole families are found dead

kramerger··on Notes on Emacs Org Mode
See this

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/aaol8t/why_...

kramerger··on Notes on Emacs Org Mode
I know it is not the primary use of Org mode, but does anyone uses org mode for documentation (instead of .md or .rst markdown files)?
kramerger··on Rare Shot of POTUS Inside a Sensitive Compartmented Info Facility
They had a Faradays cage for meetings.

Unfortunately they didn't always close the door

kramerger··on Google will add new search choice screens for Android phones in Europe
Will there be a "No search app, thank you" option?

The unremovable search widget on the home screen is probably the most annoying thing about "clean" Android phones

(Yes, I know that you can install a different home screen to get rid of it)

kramerger··on Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
Even if its just a one-liner, they need to redo all testing and possible certification including those mandated by local carriers.
kramerger··on Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
This is good news (and honestly not a huge surprise given the current trajectory)

But what is with all the negative comments here? People are complaining about completely irrelevant things just so don't have to say anything positive about Samsung?

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