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lima··on Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables
Dubious utility aside, this is a solved problem using mmWave.

Google even ships it in some Nest displays for sleep tracking...

lima··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
What do you mean by "consumer clouds"?
lima··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
...on a single-zone persistent disk: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15056#57195...

> GCE instances and Persistent Disks within a zone exist in a single Google datacenter and are therefore unavoidably vulnerable to datacenter-scale disasters.

Of course, it's perfectly possible to have proper distributed storage without using a cloud provider. It happens to be hard to implement correctly, so apparently, the SK government team in question just decided... not to?

lima··on Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
It's the same with ISO27001. A bad actor can always weasel their way through.
lima··on Helium Browser
You're not wrong, but there are organizations which could hard-fork Chromium, it just happens to be more productive to collaborate as long as Google remains a good steward.
lima··on Helium Browser
Your copy&paste does not support your argument. Just looking at the top items on your list, it's basically a bunch of Safari-only features which no other browser vendor ships:

- CSS Canvas Drawings is not a web standard. It's a WebKit-specific feature, only Safari implements it. Chromium removed it in order to replace it with an actual web standard (CSS Painting API).

- Likewise, the CSS filter() function is Safari-only.

- U2F API has been deprecated for years, was replaced by WebAuthn, and only Safari still implements it.

- Same with SPDY, which was replaced by an actual web standard (HTTP2). Only Safari still ships it, but has marked it deprecated.

- SVG Fonts were removed from the SVG spec.

- HLS, JPEG-XL, HEIF/HEIC are essentially Safari-only as well.

CSS hanging-punctuation and audio/video tracks are new features that haven't been widely implemented yet.

lima··on As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day
Soni
lima··on GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources
Yep, people have been reversing huge Windows patches for decades and it never stopped anyone from figuring out what the fixes were.
lima··on Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
Even simpler tools like Solid Edge in synchronous mode will do a decent job of editing STEP files, as long as they're not just full of polygons.
lima··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Merkel era politics were anything but "woke". It was 15 years of overly conservative policies, stalling economical and societal progress.
lima··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
This. The time for new nuclear plants was 20 years ago. Now it's too late, and too expensive, even in purely practical terms without the question of safety.
lima··on GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources
The stupidest part is that, according to the thread, OEMs are allowed to provide binary only patches before the embargo ends, making the whole thing nonsensical since it's trivial to figure out the vulnerabilities from the binaries.

Fun fact: Google actually owns the most commonly used tool, BinDiff ;)

lima··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
Using Security Keys/FIDO2 instead of TOTP codes completely solves trivial phishing attacks like this one.
lima··on Show HN: React Web Camera – Fix <input type=file> single-photo limit
Last time I tried this approach, the problem was that the native camera input had much better quality, while ImageCapture was essentially a still frame from a video (worse exposure/processing).

Is this better now?

lima··on Vet is a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern
The only distros that are cleanly customizable are declarative ones approaches like NixOS or guix.
lima··on How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024)
seccomp-bpf, for instance.
lima··on New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
Chromium OS gets very close, they also have fully-functional VM-based isolation for Linux applications with GPU acceleration.

Unfortunately, there's no popular non-Google distro of it.

lima··on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
Source: https://delta.chat/en/help#pfs

It's basically GPG with better UX.

lima··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
I'm in the EU, I used HONSVR and paid $50, which seems reasonable.
lima··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
Sounds like eye strain rather than any sort of physical damage. What would the mechanism even be?
lima··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
There are prescription inserts for it, including astigmatism and dioptries
lima··on AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
Thank you
lima··on AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
Theoretically yes, if the court can be convinced that it is relevant to the case.
lima··on AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
There's no privilege, so yes, if the AI chats are retained, they may be subject to discovery.
lima··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
> They don't explain it, but I'm assuming that the API is something like api.cercadating.com/otp/<phone-number>, so you can guess phone numbers and get OTP codes even if you don't control the phone numbers.

They mention guessing phone numbers, and then the API call for sending the OTP... literally just returns the OTP.

lima··on Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
That's very nice to hear! I've been a big fan for a long time, and this has been a blocker for many deployments.
lima··on Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
Energy Star is entirely voluntary.

Manufacturers make energy-efficient appliances because consumers prefer them over less efficient appliances, not because the government is forcing them.

lima··on Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
I'm fine with paying for it, but what's worse is that the notifications aren't end-to-end encrypted, and the plaintext passes through their server and Google's.

For some use cases where self hosting is required for compliance reasons, this is a deal breaker. And spinning your own mobile apps isn't quite practical.

lima··on Tilt: dev environment as code
Much more flexible than Skaffold thanks to Starlark config vs. a rigid YAML structure.
lima··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
Editorialized by the reporter, not the original report.
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