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ycombinatrix··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
The "soap opera" effect is real, I don't enjoy it.
ycombinatrix··on Spherical Cow
Could this be made no_std/no_alloc?
ycombinatrix··on Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: Full Disclosure of Airoha Race Vulnerabilities
Damn, these guys are supplying all the bluetooth SoCs. My XM5 is vulnerable.
ycombinatrix··on Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
At the very least, I would be angry that my inbox is getting spammed by a bot run by 3 obnoxious "entrepreneurs".
ycombinatrix··on Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
Isn't that the thing SBF kept talking about?
ycombinatrix··on Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
NativeActivity is already a thing and can be implemented in Rust
ycombinatrix··on Amazon non-consensually forced TikTok onto my family's device
Getting a 404 from the link
ycombinatrix··on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
git already uses a blockchain lol
ycombinatrix··on PlugOS – An isolated OS that runs on an untrusted phone
What's the threat model?

Similar devices like those from Ledger or Trezor have trusted inputs (buttons) and/or trusted outputs (screen) which make the whole thing work.

ycombinatrix··on PlugOS – An isolated OS that runs on an untrusted phone
How is this secure if all the I/O is untrusted?...
ycombinatrix··on PlugOS – An isolated OS that runs on an untrusted phone
Is there a link?
ycombinatrix··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
Then go ahead? Not sure why you're so surprised that some of us don't like running spyware on our devices.
ycombinatrix··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
You also need to block outgoing UDP traffic to port 53 in your router, in case the IoT devices fall back to a preconfigured resolver. And even that doesn't 100% work because they can use DNS over HTTPS.

Best to just airgap the device.

ycombinatrix··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
Good luck getting widevine decryption to work without a locked down OS...
ycombinatrix··on Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links
Doesn't this violate the court order?
ycombinatrix··on svc-hook: hooking system calls on ARM64 by binary rewriting
So this would potentially run faster than eBPF to hook syscalls?
ycombinatrix··on Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers
How does fork() work with vm.overcommit=2?

A forked process would assume memory is already allocated, but I guess it would fail when writing to it as if vm.overcommit is set to 0 or 1.

ycombinatrix··on Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
"Your honor, the defendant took steps to hide their activities, showing that they knew it was wrong"
ycombinatrix··on SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA
Dunno but I have used samba to load model weights from my NAS
ycombinatrix··on California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing for Autopilot
>if the terminology were truly unacceptable, the FTC would likely have intervened much earlier.

Lol wtf? Next you're going to tell me Bernie Madoff wasn't that bad because the SEC didn't intervene earlier.

ycombinatrix··on Pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force plane near Venezuela
Why would both planes have to be transmitting? The military plane can read the commercial plane's transponder.
ycombinatrix··on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
This is Google's doing, just like the Client Authentication EKU debacle.
ycombinatrix··on Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo
The video is pretty funny, I recommend watching it.
ycombinatrix··on Defrag.exfat Is Inefficient and Dangerous
>We prioritized simplicity and correctness first, and plan to incrementally introduce performance optimizations in future iterations.

Sir, this is a correctness issue.

ycombinatrix··on Drinking the Largest Beer at the Airport Makes Everything Better
+1. I came to the same conclusion independently.
ycombinatrix··on FDA approves first at-home device for depression
At home electric shock therapy? Hmm.
ycombinatrix··on TerraUSD creator Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years over $40B crypto collapse
>Kwon agreed in 2024 to pay $80 million as a civil fine and be banned from crypto transactions

Being banned from transacting cryptocurrency seems overly harsh. Like how Samy Kamkar was banned from using the internet. You can't really live a normal life without internet access anymore.

ycombinatrix··on Carbon-steel knives are high-maintenance. And that's the point
I don't disagree - I just think this "show of confidence" take is nonsense.
ycombinatrix··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
I think GP was confused - Titanfall 1 from 2014 is the one with the massive volume of uncompressed audio. Though I think your point still stands.

I was trying to point out that the decision to compress or not compress audio likely has nothing to do with the download size.

ycombinatrix··on Sam Altman's World (formerly Worldcoin) unveiled a new "super app"
Scam Altman
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