steckerbrett

The multi aperture thing doesn't make much sense, it appears to have multiple lenses which will have debilitating parallax error due to the positioning. I don't see how that's possible. I'm also struggling to see why they laid out the sensors in such a non geometric pattern too.

Lots of things work fine, and then you go to some new startups page which loads JavaScript from 35 different CDNs and refuses to do anything until they are all whitelisted.

I don't see how that protects anything, if the information is around for the webserver to use it's around for whoever has root on your box.

Encrypted with what? This is a total dump of Patreon including their SSL certificates by the screenshot on ars.

That's pretty devastating to anybody who gave up their data to support things they enjoy. I would really like to see services getting hit with massive fines so they actually "take security very seriously" before they get owned. It's far too late to care about it now, there's a lot of compromising data in that leak.

That's because the product was first announced half a decade ago.

Cheaper than I expected, but not cheap enough I'm willing to buy one just for the screen.

I was quite stunned by how long it was, I don't think I've ever seen a longer product page before. Once you get down to it though the resolution of that thing is quite impressive, I didn't know that you could get 1080x1440 px 6.8” e-ink panels. That's impressive. Not sure you could ever use it like they are picturing though, some of the examples have lines close to the edge where it is surely impossible to actually get the stylus.

OLED have terrible burn in though, they don't like being turned on for long lengths of time.

I meant it destroys the superconducting-ness rather than the whole magnet. The costs of not having a MRI machine are probably even higher than operating one, though I'm not sure how you'd go about quantifying that.

Other photos of SCRAM buttons show signs of wear too, from my limited knowledge I think a SCRAM is also used in normal operating procedure as a rather extreme "off" button.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram#/media/File:NS_Savannah_...

I think the most important button ever created is the SCRAM (emergency shutdown) button on a nuclear reactor, they don't fuck around making it look pretty. You know where the button is and you never ever want a seconds hesitation in getting it pushed.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7244/7300035260_8e872e201c_b.j...

Probably somewhere close on the list is the MAGNET STOP button on a MRI machine, it destroys the superconducting magnet and vents the incredibly expensive helium into the atmosphere.

http://a406.idata.over-blog.com/0/01/25/36/magnetic-field-st...

No cover, no toggle, no delay, you want them big and red and able to be pressed by someone with two broken wrists.

Probably avoid using Reddit as a performance metric, they like their 500 errors.

Here I am using `ls -1` for years without realizing the redundancy.

Limitless in the sense of applicability to tasks.

If you have the computing power? If you're compromising peoples boxes you likely also have a botnet, which has practically limitless potential.

> Signal uses your existing phone number and address book.

Failure, why restrict your users to their phone numbers?

I played with this application with a friend and it is horrific, don't waste your time. You inexplicably can't communicate between the different platforms without having isolated accounts on each one. The very first thing it does as an "encrypted" "private" communication system is call home over plaintext HTTP with a UUID. https://i.imgur.com/HPadlpr.png Total failure right off the bat.

Yes, that's an exception though. Very weird device really.

Yeah that was definitely a late change.

Induction basically.

SSL added and removed at CloudFlare :)

CloudFlare pipes all traffic through an interception proxy and delegates signing of SSL certificates to their own infrastructure. A domain behind CloudFlare can be monitored (they see everything in plaintext), the content tampered with, or the origin completely changed without a single notification to the outside world anything has been altered.

If you're sitting back in your evil chair, this is the perfect vantage point through which to intercept what seems like the majority of all browsing traffic in the world. Even if you're not planning world domination, this is an otherwise unobtainable amount of user metrics you can package up and sell.

Did you know reddit is? You wouldn't know it from looking at the WHOIS, I'm betting lots of places are behind it without showing the normal indicators.

    Name Server: CNS1.REDDIT.COM
    Name Server: CNS2.REDDIT.COM
    Name Server: CNS3.REDDIT.COM

Doesn't look like it from here..

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    CNS1.REDDIT.COM.	172246	IN	A	   173.245.58.24

Delegated to?

    OrgName:        CloudFlare, Inc.
    OrgId:          CLOUD14

There we go! CloudFlare after all.

Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. It is already quite ubiquitous, a surprising number of websites use it even if it's not completely obvious, reddit.com has some sort of stealth configuration that bypasses the normal DNS setup for example.

It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.

Sure, but this is surely pitched to people building things rather than companies. I don't think anybody in their right mind would integrate something so expensive into their product, and a Raspberry Pi while cute is really not useful inside something commercial.

I can still source original 2007 iPhone parts, I think it'll be safe for the foreseeable future, even if it is just salvage.

A Retina iPad display is cheaper, takes DisplayPort in, and is significantly higher resolution. I don't think anybody has reverse engineered the digitizer but I doubt that matters for a lot of applications.

> Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text.

That's not unexpected given their signup flow, it's pages and pages you have to click through where it automatically follows hundreds of celebrities unless you uncheck the boxes.