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Pwntastic··on The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up
https://archive.vn/LhQEa
Pwntastic··on Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]
it opens a websocket that seems to be receiving touch events over the network, so my guess is: yes
Pwntastic··on Covid-19 has altered small-sized machine builders' buying habits
Here you go: https://archive.md/V9oBJ
Pwntastic··on Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps
VSCode registers[0] a url handler for vscode:// so you can open a directory or other things in VSCode with just a url

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/command-line#_open...

Pwntastic··on T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
Likely the same reason that a few other comments were downvoted: there wasn't an actual DDOS attack.

Additionally, your linked graph doesn't actually contain any context or resources that could be used to verify it. It is in fact an uncredited photo from [0] which was refuted in the children of a few other comments[1,2] that were available at the time of your post

[0]: https://www.digitalattackmap.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533054

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533510

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Pwntastic··on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms
non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/g1g6E
Pwntastic··on Sailfish OS – Independent Mobile OS
I have one. You're correct; it does not have a sim slot.
Pwntastic··on Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
Can you give more info on pricing without me having to request a quote, or is this a "if you have to ask" kind of deal?
Pwntastic··on Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
It is literally highway robbery, as it is the highway patrol pulling you over and stealing your money.
Pwntastic··on Slack Poker Bot
The Heroku deploy does appear to work, but I was hoping to get it all running locally. Thanks though! It looks like there's a ticket on the lwip project on github that is similar to my issue, so hopefully they'll resolve that soon enough :)
Pwntastic··on Slack Poker Bot
I can't seem to get it installed on windows 8.1... The lwip package in one of the other dependencies fails to build :( sad day
Pwntastic··on How I got XSS’d by my ad network
You could also make use of the sandbox[0] attribute, but that will really only benefit IE10+ users (and chrome, ff, others.)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...

Pwntastic··on Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?
Thanks :) I was pretty excited about that one as well.
Pwntastic··on HTTP.sys vulnerability test
AFAIK a working crash has been released but not the code to actually exploit it.
Pwntastic··on Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?
Lets see...

- beatin.gs

- feloni.es

- comrad.es

- aftershav.es

I'll probably never find real uses for these, but they're amusing to own

Pwntastic··on Jailbreaking the Razer Nabu
Probably through a usb-tether from a desktop is the easier than trying to mitm over wifi
Pwntastic··on A dead man's switch for your computer?
There are tools available to law enforcement that allow them to splice into a power cable and convert it to battery power while still online

edit: i found it:

http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit/

Pwntastic··on Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid
I'm not going to lie, both the game music and the music in the youtube link are right up my alley. If you make an album of either, I'll buy them :)
Pwntastic··on Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid
Oh, well damn. It's awesome! I would totally listen to this on a regular basis
Pwntastic··on Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid
What's the music in this? I see boats.m4a but it doesn't have any metadata.
Pwntastic··on Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
It's only used to generate a confidence level.

"In cases when the risk analysis engine can't confidently predict whether a user is a human or an abusive agent, it will prompt a CAPTCHA to elicit more cues"

So if you have cookies disabled, you'll probably just get a regular captcha

Pwntastic··on Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
I haven't used syncthing/Pulse at all, but have you tried using srvany to set it running as a service?
Pwntastic··on Epidemiologist: Stop the flights now
Am I missing something, or is this just a single-sentence "article?" All I see is a title and a single line of text, followed by 200+ comments...

edit: it appears to be loading an actual article now

Pwntastic··on A strange green organism has spread, clogging up the world's rivers
Are you using ghostery? I was seeing something similar until I allowed Brightcove to load through ghostery
Pwntastic··on Ideal Image Slider
You mean the left/right buttons? It looks like it has them to me.

Edit: I just realized you probably meant bubbles under the photo, not the left/right buttons

Pwntastic··on Firefox OS is a developer's best friend
The phone OS may be open source, but is the sim? The sim card can run applications directly without the phone being aware of it.
Pwntastic··on Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
Yeah I realized that a bit after I posted my original comment
Pwntastic··on Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
Well, all of your contact information is sent as a hash to the Secret servers. I'm not an expert on cryptography, but I think the idea is that if you send your information hashed, and all of your contacts hashed, and then all of your contacts send their info hashed, you only have to find out where the hashes match up and you won't actually need to know what the actual contact information is (the phone, email, whatever).

Everything sent over the wire to their apis is encrypted, but using an easily reversible fashion. The encryption key is a combination of a static salt and the user's session id. The session id is also sent to the api as an http header, so it's pretty easy to decrypt that anyway.

n.b. I wrote the windows phone app

Pwntastic··on Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
Well there are two separate streams, people outside your circle, and people in/around your circle.

So that would kind of defeat the purpose of the "friends" stream entirely.

Pwntastic··on How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever
fwiw, you could convert those wav files to flac without losing any quality and save considerably on file size. you'd also end up with the added benefit of being able to properly tag them
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