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alxjsn··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
Another method is to disconnect the antenna and add a resistor so it acts as a dummy load. Here is an example with a Tacoma: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/simpler-solution-for-dis...
alxjsn··on Court Rules Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements Are on Hold
https://archive.is/wy5Eq
alxjsn··on FinCEN Extends Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Deadline
https://archive.is/Eq39a
alxjsn··on Tsunami Warning for Northern California
Final update: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2024/12/05/so1aq0/3/WEAK...

> * The Tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon

alxjsn··on Starlink Direct to Cell
How exactly are you using iMessage with your VoIP number? I thought it requires a valid SIM card to register the number. Also, aren't SMS, MMS media, and MMS groups super finicky with VoIP services?
alxjsn··on Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies
https://archive.md/3Ofki
alxjsn··on BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software
Outline is another great wiki that I have been self-hosting for a couple years now: https://github.com/outline/outline
alxjsn··on Sensorwatch pro – Hackable ARM Cortex M0 brain upgrade for Casio's iconic F-91W
I've been wanting to buy a sensor watch for a while now. I'm actually really glad I waited to back this now!

I would love an SPL meter on my watch with weighting filters! Don't know much about piezo buzzers but I wonder if it could be used as a microphone for this purpose.

alxjsn··on New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
I rather just buy used Lenovo Thinkcentere PCs on eBay. Way more power, cheaper and relatively small. There’s a lot of different CPU/RAM/DISK configurations you can find.

I’ve been buying these, throwing Fedora IoT, docker, and Tailscale on them and running them from different locations for personal projects.

alxjsn··on Golang is evil on shitty networks (2022)
Here's another related post: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
alxjsn··on Show HN: Slice Tap Toy
https://www.koalastothemax.com
alxjsn··on Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance
Why is the title "Claude Team plan and iOS app"? Did this submission get renamed incorrectly?
alxjsn··on HiDPI support in Xwayland rootful merged
You’re right, just updated the title. Thanks!
alxjsn··on LubeLogger: Self-hosted, open-source vehicle service records and tracker
I’ve been using Road Trip MPG on iOS for everything car related. It saves a CSV to Dropbox or iCloud and lets me use it between multiple devices. Really happy with it!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg/id298398207

alxjsn··on The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)
I highly recommend the book Practical Doomsday: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

It was originally a long-form blog post by Michal Zalewski and he turned into a book with even more content.

alxjsn··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Didn’t see it mentioned anywhere but this is a great espresso resource: https://espressoaf.com/
alxjsn··on Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles
I love the story! Excited for the next challenge!
alxjsn··on The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)
As kids at a buffet we would all load up on way more food than we could eat. Naturally, we would just play with that food, mixing up all the things we could in cups and dare each other to take a sip. I bet we weren't the only ones who did that.
alxjsn··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
JJTech is a high school student. Neat!

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/

alxjsn··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
I love Sheldon Brown’s site. If you’re into motorcycles this website is also gold: http://www.dansmc.com/mc_repaircourse.htm
alxjsn··on Ask HN: How do you find airline tickets?
For domestic USA I get a companion pass with SW for two years right at the beginning of the year. I rinse and repeat and only book with SW. Credit card offers are the best way to do this and there’s plenty of sites talking about it.
alxjsn··on Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on the state of AI today [video]
Is this a deepfake? His lips don’t seem to be aligning with his words and something just feels odd.
alxjsn··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
633
alxjsn··on Show HN: A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites
Created a Goggle based on submissions from /r/netsec as well: https://github.com/forcesunseen/netsec-goggle
alxjsn··on Show HN: Doublespeak.chat: A ChatGPT Escape Game
Sorry about that, it should be fixed now.
alxjsn··on Flip Phones: Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over
Relevant subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/
alxjsn··on GrapheneOS Lead on Linux (In)Security (2019)
I thought this was an update on his last post from 3 years ago, but it’s the same one. Maybe it should be tagged?
alxjsn··on Saying “sup” with `net send`
This brings back good memories from High School. Here's a bunch of things we used to do:

1. Set fun messages on all the HP Printers: https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/jetdirecthack

2. Bypass firewall restrictions by setting http:// to https:// (later had to resort to SSH tunneling using Putty). Got me banned from our library for a month when I was on Facebook and a teacher passed by.

3. Our student directory set a cookie to a 6 digit identifier in the cookie. We could access any student's grades and details by just setting it to another ID, or looking at their lunch card.

4. During finals we wouldn't be allowed to see our grades until after all the finals were submitted into our grading portal. Somebody picked up on the fact that if you stop the page load before it finished that the grades would show up. Using JS to block our grades after they loaded didn't stop even the least technical people.

5. Some of our labs had monitoring software to make sure we were working. We could just kill that process and they would lose access.

6. Invert MacOS screen colors using Control + Option + Command + 8. Teachers didn't know how to recover from this and would resort to restoring the entire Mac.

7. CTRL + ALT + Down to flip the Windows screens. Again caused issues for a lot of people who didn't know this shortcut.

What a bunch of troublemakers we were...

alxjsn··on Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?
A lot of people struggle with this, but they can learn to communicate more clearly and effectively. I recommend the short book:

How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less by Milo Frank

alxjsn··on Pinboard vs. Raindrop
Even though the main site isn’t really actively being developed anymore, the Pins for Pinboard iOS is a third-party app that is continuously getting updates and is very polished. If it weren’t for this very functional and pretty app I probably would be more annoyed.
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