andreasley

Usually by exploiting holes in some code that does parsing, e.g. for images. Here [1] is a nice write-up.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/04/fuzzing-image...

"The TDP of the [AMD 5850U] APU is specified at 15 Watt (default) and can be configured from 10 to 25 Watt by the laptop vendor (most chips are configured higher than 15 Watt)." [1]

I'd love to see actual measurements for both chips.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-5850U-Processo...

Not only is it fast and inexpensive, it's also regular ethernet (no PON weirdness), so you can use any router you want – as long as it has an SFP28 port. ;)

My 16-inch MacBook Pro sleeps just fine.

I assume you have Power Nap disabled and no devices attached that try to wake the MacBook?

Similar incident: On October 21, 2016, Belavia flight B2-840 from Kyiv to Minsk (of all places) was told to immediately return to the departure airport, or fighter jets would be scrambled [1]. They were only 50km from their destination country's airspace. After the plane landed in Kyiv, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies escorted a passenger off the plane.

Not quite the same, of course (no third-party country involved and passenger in question was released shortly thereafter), but forcing commercial airliners to land seems to be somewhat more common than I thought.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/378383.html

Chrome and derivates require the user's account password to view the stored passwords. Safari uses the macOS keychain and won't show passwords easily. The trick you mentioned only works on Macs without Touch ID and requires more work, so not really the same.

This reminds me of the fact that Firefox, by default, allows anyone to view stored credentials – no authentication required, as no master password is set. It boggles my mind.

More like $10/month, not a penny.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLevCLNnLmg

Interesting. But it makes sense: Vaporization of detergents and other elements in the water.

Some sources: [1] https://www.haywardscore.com/articles/is-your-dishwasher-imp... [2] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/826

The article says 400 miles south of French Polynesia, so it's not cold water. Since he was able to see a football-sized fishing buoy, the water must have been very calm. Still extremely scary, imho.

Looks more like a russian company to me (with a mailbox in Switzerland). Pity; I wish there was more revolutionary engineering happening here.

From 2016: "THE LOC’S DIGITAL COLLECTION currently comprises over 7 petabytes (7 million gigs) with more than 15 million items, including 150,000 print books. In an ideal future scenario, the LOC estimates that it could digitize a further 3-5 PB a year" [1]

So only the raw texts, probably. 10TB sounds about right for that.

[1] https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-library-...

While ENTSO-E does have a map [1], it's not as nice as the one described above.

[1] https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

It's always about trade-offs. For our use-case, I trust it well enough to prefer it over something cloud-hosted in another country. But I don't doubt that Seafile contains security holes and I wouldn't be surprised if there were backdoors. But I assume that for quite a lot of the gear I manage, so... :)

We've been using Seafile for two years at my workplace. So far it's been very reliable and much faster than Nextcloud for file transfers. The current drive clients work well, but aren't as polished as Google File Drive Stream, for example. On macOS, I hope they will transition from macfuse.fs to the new FileProvider framework soon.

Seafile's file storage format has the advantage that it's easy to revert a file or folder to some earlier revision, for example after accidentally deleting files.

Previous discussion about this incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685646

"Europe: close to power grid blackout (49,74Hz power line frequency)"

I wonder if this unintended transparency actually makes for a safer world. The cold war might have been shorter if both sides would have been able to see that their enemy does not intend to escalate the situation.

Assuming the stated information is accurate, it's both remarkable and quite scary how much information is being leaked just by doing everyday things like calling and travelling – even for people that try to fly under the radar.

Considering that most of this information is publicly available (well, at least on the grey market), I would think that some intelligence services have a complete, way more detailed directory of every person on earth. I'd love to know just how extensive we all are documented in there. :)

Did you mean "available on Windows and Linux"?

A Linux version is available (based on Qt).

Here's PDF that has specs for some Omnisec products: http://www.universal-defense.com/UD/Communication_files/11_C...

It's probably 20 years old, but still interesting I think. They also seem to have sold a VPN client.

Thanks; I followed a broken link on the About page. Just sent them an email about it.

While not directly assembled by state intelligence services, some of today's "independent" reports surely are supported or financed by them.

I'm not saying this one is, but verifying the independence and financing of any organisation is quite hard. A lot of work has gone into this fantastic presentation, and somebody had to pay for that. Since I watched it for free, it wasn't me...

Gaming on the Mac was basically dead and will be revived with Apple Silicon, I believe. Even the MacBook Air now has enough power to run modern games smoothly, and more powerful models are to follow. A considerable amount of iOS games are suddenly playable on the new Macs, too. And yes, native support for Apple Silicon and Metal is clearly the way forward.

Even worse, other stuff is breaking because Apple's infrastructure is on fire. Apps don't launch because signature checks are failing (ocsp.apple.com and crl.apple.com seem to be unreachable for me) and my Mac Pro hangs randomly for a few seconds every minute or so. It's quite ridiculous. :)

Also GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/1799092?bas...

The Vega II is even faster (but quite a bit more expensive).

If the Geekbench scores are to be believed, the M1 in the MacBook Air scores 7,500 multithreaded. So yeah, the 28-core Mac Pro is quite a bit faster (and can sustain that performance), but the performance of the Air looks extremely good.

What people? Vetting how? The problem remains: If you don't read and understand all the code (which is basically impossible for most people), then you have to trust some source of information, which in turn is based on some other source etc.

In short: You can basically never know for sure if any complex product is completely secure. You can make guesses, and the more research you do, the closer you get to an answer. At some point, you have enough information to deem a solution "secure enough" for a specific use.

For regular users, it's mostly a question of belief.

The actual report, in german: https://www.parlament.ch/centers/documents/de/bericht-gpdel-...

Interestingly, the report states that the collaboration of the Swiss Intelligence Service with the CIA and BND was known to only a small group of people; even the Federal Council supposedly did not know about it.

That's simply not true.

To the people saying it's obviously a joke: The App Store Review Guidelines have become huge and I wouldn't have been surprised to find something like this in there, although not in these exact words. Actually, I wish the App Store Review Guidelines WOULD state exceptions like the one mentioned. At least that would be transparent.