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bean-weevil··on Project Mini Rack – compact and portable homelabs
I feel like this concept will be useful in other situations, too, not just homelabs. I wouldn't be surprised at all to spot one of these controlling a temporary venue.
bean-weevil··on Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
If you have tpm encryption on your boot disk, then you can simply store decryption keys for your otyer disks on it.
bean-weevil··on HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone
Yes, they licensed it to HMD. Lol
bean-weevil··on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
I've wanted a linux phone for quite some time. Which phone do you have? How good is the waydroid experience? Can you use apps that access bluetooth devices? Do you have any regrets?
bean-weevil··on [dead]
What does EAs mean?
bean-weevil··on Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox
The configuration being written in xml makes me feel like I am not the target audience for this program.
bean-weevil··on Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs
multiple/week is pretty infrequent for bed bugs. I've gotten more from spiders (proportionally; I vacuumed them up after the first night)
bean-weevil··on DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years
I use divestos and I saw this coming when they failed to port to lineageos 21.0. I suspect they simply couldn't muster the effort (or funding) to continue.
bean-weevil··on Why Are Men More Vulnerable to Depression in Fatherhood?
You're totally right. I didn't think of it that way.
bean-weevil··on Process Creation in Io_uring
Fair enough. It really doesn't bother me. I just click the little restart button and then go on my way.
bean-weevil··on Why Are Men More Vulnerable to Depression in Fatherhood?
> Or you considered a ton of people to be your friends.

That's an awful way to write that. You're insinuating that maybe their friends weren't true. How could you know?

bean-weevil··on Process Creation in Io_uring
This paragraph surprised me: > Furthermore it is the only reasonable way to keep a reference to a binary and a set of shared libraries that can be exec‘ed. In the model used on Windows and Mac, renderers are exec’ed as needed from the chrome binary. However, if the chrome binary, or any of its shared libraries are updated while Chrome is running, we‘ll end up exec’ing the wrong version. A version x browser might be talking to a version y renderer. Our IPC system does not support this (and does not want to!).

I think the Chrome team overthought this. If you update firefox and try to perform an action which spawns a new process, it just politely demands the user restart the browser.

bean-weevil··on Conda: A package management disaster?
As someone with a formal computer science, half of my friends who work in other sciences have asked me to help them fix their broken conda environments
bean-weevil··on Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
When I was a teenager, I would have opposed this. But I also couldn't vote!
bean-weevil··on Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop
Also I should clarify that I'm not trying to say this is your fault. But I also understand why the maintainers acted the way they did. I think it's not unreasonable to expect that a configuration change distributed as part of a new version of a program won't be installed by itself.
bean-weevil··on Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop
> This was caused by installing Debian, then restoring a full backup from the old laptop, which didn't use EFI yet, over the root filesystem.

This really isn't guaranteed to work. I'm surprised nothing else broke! This is why my laptop migration process looks something more like this:

1. Restore home directory 2. Restore /etc (taking care not to overwrite anything hardware-specific) 3. Install the same list of packages that were installed on old machine

bean-weevil··on American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy
This is the most important point in the entire thread.
bean-weevil··on Unexpected Keyboard
I don't like it either. I'm glad they started calling it Source First™ instead of incorrectly calling it open source though.
bean-weevil··on Unexpected Keyboard
I switched to dvorak a few years ago and to thumb-key this year. I would say that thumb-key is much easier to learn than dvorak. I simply switched to it and about three months later, I realized I had gotten up to almost my original typing speed without any directed effort. I originally typed at 45 wpm on AnySoftKeyboard, and now I type at 40 wpm on thumb-key. This is in contrast to dvorak, which took six months of at least 15mins a day of dedicated practice time to surpass my original speed.
bean-weevil··on Unexpected Keyboard
[FUTO Keyboard](https://keyboard.futo.org/) uses a local LLM for suggestions and corrections.
bean-weevil··on Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4
I formerly worked in triage for a bug bounty program. We paid attention to these kinds of reports because it's often possible to bypass the WAF, or at least repurpose the vulnerability in a way the WAF wasn't designed to defend against.
bean-weevil··on Secure and low maintenance password management with pass and Git over network
I was using this for years, but the maintainer of the only (to my knowledge) android app stopped working on it. Now I'm back to good old keepass.
bean-weevil··on Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages
I mean idk about you, but I don't want anymore of these people to die. I might not like them, but they're still people.
bean-weevil··on A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
Have you talked to your doctor about that?
bean-weevil··on Lockheed Martin challenges narrative on GPS vulnerability – SpaceNews
The GPS project began in 1973. Digital signatures were invented in 1976. I'm guessing adding it on after the fact would have been very expensive.
bean-weevil··on Working with PaloAlto to identify CVE-2024-2550
Out of curiosity, is this article partially ai-generated?
bean-weevil··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
They own the cameras. You can still take them down and give them back if requested.
bean-weevil··on Emit-C: A time travelling programming language
> can you send something in future?

Store it in a variable and wait for a while? :P

bean-weevil··on Xogot – Godot for iPad
You should try meeting some trans people in real life. I think it would change your perspective a lot.
bean-weevil··on New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
True, although for a remote attack there's no reason it can't just be reinfected after the reboot.
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