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Code of the said robot on github: https://github.com/roksenhorn/puzzle-bot

JDW1023on Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

Doesn't building an iOS app requires an Mac?

JDW1023on Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked

This is an impressive article. I'm not very familiar with hardware debugging, so I would have given up if I saw the exact same input yielding different outputs on the device in wireshark.

JDW1023on A lost X-Files song

The song appears to be Soiree by Helen Jane Long.The song is recognized by youtube on the second youtube video in the description.

https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/soiree_5303

JDW1023on Zenbleed

It seems like there's an wrmsr (write MSR) tool for Windows [0]. I don't know whether it will work the same way as the linux verison.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

JDW1023on Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

> According to the BBC, the entire sub is bolted shut from the outside, so even if the vessel surfaces, the occupants cannot escape without outside assistance and could suffocate within the capsule.

Why is the submarine bolted shut from the outside?

JDW1023on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

same, searches are empty and only showing the "Related searches". .

JDW1023on Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?

I think there are a few patches that can enable HEVC hardware decoding with chromium. Though I am a firefox user so I didn't test whether these patches works or not. https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...

JDW1023on Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11

According to https://www.libressl.org/releases.html, LibreSSL 3.0.2 was released on October 19th, 2019. So it's exactly two years out of date.

edit: on my windows 10 21H1, the timestamp in COFF/File header for ssh.exe shows '1584509394' (Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:29:54 UTC).

JDW1023on Google Gboard Yunomi Version

additional details and video https://landing.google.co.jp/yunomi/

JDW1023on EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

People can have different expectation of privacy at home versus in classroom/testing facility.

JDW1023on Open Security Training: open license training material for computer security

https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1336054258140139521

The founder of OST(OpenSecurityTraining) recently tweet that he's going to work full time on OST.

JDW1023on Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10

This is really cool. One of the software [0] that I am using haven't been update since 1999 but it still work perfectly on Windows 10.

[0]: http://pmdevigne.free.fr/TaskbarActivate.html

JDW1023on Transparent OLEDs

Alot of vendors (Lenovo[0], ASUS, Dell, ) are using Windows Platform Binary Table, WPBT (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095848) to get the OS to execute binary. Dell seem to use it to load the Absolute's Lojack anti theft rootkit[1]. Also on Absolute's website there's a list[2] of manufacturers that are using Absolute Persistance[3].

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenov...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800807

[2]: https://www.absolute.com/partners/device-compatibility/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Home_%26_Office#Absol...

JDW1023on Huawei Hacked My Laptop

it is actually called the "HiLink E353"[0], a 3G usb Modem from huawei.

[0]: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2011/hw-256113/

JDW1023on Ask HN: Is there still a Windows shell replacement scene?

There's also the Cairo Desktop Environment[0].

[0]: https://cairoshell.com/

JDW1023on Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?

I remembered watching a youtube video[0] about it. The "vertical bar" 124 / 0x7C is in the original 7-bit ASCII standard. But the 166 / 0xA6 "Pipe, Broken vertical bar" is in the not so standard high ASCII/ Extended ASCII [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

JDW1023on PSA: Android Q blocks executing binaries in your apps private data directory

This might break apps like termux, that rely on exec(). https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072#issuecommen...

JDW1023on All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

I really agree on the user signed bootloader part. I think we should also have this for Android devices, since most Android devices only have two years of system/security update.

JDW1023on John Perry Barlow has died

Recording of John Perry Barlow reading his "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace": https://vimeo.com/111576518