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EricBetts

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EricBetts··on Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble
What's the law about the challenge of differentiating extreme sarcasm from an honestly held extremist viewpoint?
EricBetts··on Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
I'm an NFC enthusiast as well! Technically the flipper zero meets your criteria, but I'm guessing there's something else about it that doesn't quite meet up to your needs. When you say programmable, although the Flipper zero is "programmable", it's more like apps and you don't have full control over the device, which could be a limiting factor for whatever you're doing.
EricBetts··on The future of Flipper Zero development
Sometimes you can clone them. My 20+ year-old condo uses non-rolling code "MegaCode". It's hit or miss.
EricBetts··on The future of Flipper Zero development
It's sort of a self imposed problem as well because the community produces a bunch of pull requests, but only the corporate staff members can approve and merge them into the official firmware. It begs the question why have an official firmware if it's not at least slightly maintained.
EricBetts··on Flipper One – we need your help
I'd be more enthusiastic if they hadn't left the flipper zero community in the lurch and basically abandoned it over the last year (and more obvious in the last 6 months). A new product doesn't mean as much when the business behind it doesn't demonstrate follow through in their first product (even something as simple as giving the community the ability to merge PRs or do releases of bugfixes).
EricBetts··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
I think at least they're following the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064959
EricBetts··on Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y
Do you know where I can find that video?
EricBetts··on How people woke up before alarm clocks
I think we might need another term for working both remote and with a flexible schedule. I'm working remote, have been at a few jobs, but while my location isn't an office, my schedule is fixed, the same as if I were going in.
EricBetts··on America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
> code—really code, not just copy-paste from Stack Overflow—with the precision of a top engineer.

Having seen the mistakes it still makes in my industry, I can't take as factual the other claims the article makes about what AI does.

EricBetts··on Why Arab states are silent about Iran's unrest
I believe they're trying to highlight the character to make clear the difference in the two similar names
EricBetts··on Creating custom yellow handshake emojis with zero-width joiners
I did a project in a similar vein for family emoji: https://familyemojimaker.netlify.app/ (https://gitlab.com/bettse/family)
EricBetts··on DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
Have you heard of, or considered, a elgato stream deck?
EricBetts··on Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation
Yup; it isn’t a realistic show, but entertaining.
EricBetts··on Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag
My read of the proxmark code (https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/c...) is that the `ndefformat` formatted the tag MAD (https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN10787.pdf), which you'd do for NDEF, then had a single TLV TERMINATOR at the block where the NDEF message starts. Then he used NFC Tools to write on an NDEF text record (which iOS background reading would ignore) and maybe something else? After that he then used `ndefwrite` to write on a URL record. I wonder if he could have skipped the NFC Tools and written the URL record and gotten the same result. Proxmark dumps before and after using NFC Tools would be insightful.
EricBetts··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
Do you recall any of the details? "Rolling code" is not a term often associated with RFID/NFC. The Portland Custom House WeWork used HID Prox.
EricBetts··on HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Their project that I am most familiar with is there CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli
EricBetts··on Teen arrested in England after felling ancient tree
There is the quote attributed to Stalin:

> The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.

EricBetts··on Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter
Flipper zero was legit
EricBetts··on Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school
There was a topic about micro seasons in Japan, that were each five days long, recently
EricBetts··on The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet
PICK is giving be flashbacks of my tenure at ADP’s dealership services (I think it became CDK)
EricBetts··on San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
As a software developer already living in Portland, I'm loving this. I have no quantitative proof, but it feels like, even as recent as 10 years ago, the high tech in the Portland area was very hardware oriented. These days it seems like there are more software startups, and more high profile software companies (Amazon, Google, Ebay) with offices in the area.
EricBetts··on Cloudkick (YC W09) raises another $2M
Go Polvi!