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brohee

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Random hacker, Paris, France.

Contact me at bruno@rohee.com

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brohee··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
What is your source, I get $2 billions at the box office, which is indeed a triumph.
brohee··on Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"
Battery tech is an upstart in the grid stabilization world, the standard is actually huge flywheels https://www.gevernova.com/power-conversion/sites/default/fil...
brohee··on Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"
ASML says 1.3 MW for a single system. So off by three orders of magnitude.

https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2024/a-sustainability-m...

brohee··on Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"
Yes, the huge rotating mass is inherently more stable than a diesel. They key to grid stability is mostly huge rotating mass, either producing or consuming.
brohee··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
They did post on BlueSky, but not every update so I assume someone is cut and pasting manually...

https://bsky.app/profile/redelectricare.bsky.social

brohee··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
Some people close to power in Russia (Dugin) actually seem to believe Russia natural range is from Lisbon to Vladivostok.

"Putin channels ultranationalist discourse, such as the Izborsk Club and the neo-fascist Alexander Dugin, in calling for quasi-religious rebirth of Russian dominance, an agenda that seeks to swallow “Little Russia” into a renewed Russian empire that stretches from “Lisbon to Vladivostok,” a phrase popularized by Dugin and repeated by Putin."

https://brill.com/view/journals/joah/4/1-2/article-p126_10.x...

brohee··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
Edit : I was misreading the confusing Rte site... Entsoe actually a lot more readable. France went from importing to exporting around the incident.

https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-echanges-commerciaux-...

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/transmission-domain/physicalF...

brohee··on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
The purest survivor bias in a while, and even some of the few survivors are in freefall, e.g. Litecoin.
brohee··on Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
Damn I was about to post that, one of the best Ableton showcase ever made.
brohee··on Debian bookworm live images now reproducible
TBH security is someone the source of the issues, as it often involves adding randomness. For example, replacing deterministic hashes by keyed hashes to protect from hash flooding DoS led to deterministic output becoming nondeterministic (e.g. when displaying a hash table in its natural order).

Sorting had to be added to that kind of output.

brohee··on My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
The fact that the scammer was in Russia was pretty credible. It'd be pretty odd for a scammer in Myanmar to alter the metadata to appear as to be from Russia and not from Kazakhstan as the "woman" claimed to be.
brohee··on My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
brohee··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
In the case of planes celestial navigation is a realistic alternative as they fly most of the time above the cloud cover...
brohee··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
If you have a good local clock (e.g. rubidium), you can now detect the signal is from the past and correctly conclude you are jammed and trust INS, starnav or whatever instead...
brohee··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
If you ever received unspoofed data, and have a somewhat accurate local clock (rubidium is fairly cheap), you can detect the spoofing.
brohee··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
It's not white noise jamming it's replaying with a delay, so the receiver is getting a meaningful signal.
brohee··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
Galileo can use TESLA (no relation), see RFC 4082, to mostly protect from the issue. Getting away from GPS is actually the simplest way.

An explanation of how it works here: https://www.euspa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/expo/osnma_p...

brohee··on Poland says it may need alternative to Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine
Rubio is not called enough for not knowing Poland does have a border with Russia (Kaliningrad). And one with Russia lite, Belarus. So Starlink or not, Poland already has a Russian problem, as it did for the last few hundred years...
brohee··on Is X Down?
It's back. But ironically saw it reported down on bsky first... It lasted a good 15mn by the look of it...
brohee··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
The effect of overcapacity is null or negative price, which has the property to make more storage viable (who cares if it only gives back 25% if the input is free or very cheap), so I'd say intermittent sources overcapacity is an enabler of on grid storage.

E.g. today in Germany you can buy MWh at 14€ at 13:00 and sell it back at 180€ at 18:00. I didn't look all of Europe but it looked like the biggest spread today... You can make money with crappy storage under those conditions...

brohee··on I Went to SQL Injection Court
If you are mature enough to do that, you're mature enough to net SQL injections in the first place. There shouldn't be that many handwritten queries to review in the first place as most mundane DB access is usually through a framework that handles injection properly...
brohee··on Skybox Security's dramatic shutdown stuns employees and industry
I don't think the Hezbollah pagers have been good marketing for defensive security products either...
brohee··on Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
Terminally online yet unaware of the Streisand effect. Such an odd combination.
brohee··on Aluminum Batteries Outlive Lithium-Ion with a Pinch of Salt
Energy density is only an issue if you move the battery around, grid storage doesn't care so a bit concerning they don't mention that usage either.
brohee··on Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license
Hopefully Qualcomm stops trying to derail RISC V then.
brohee··on Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
A morbidly obese 78 year old with signs of early onset dementia. What are the GAAP depreciation rules on such an asset?
brohee··on Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
The fact that no one will go on the record can mean two things: that there is no story or that people are afraid bad things will happen to them if they do. "Bad things" being rather unbounded if this is effectively a coup.

So it's either lots of news outlets (journos but also fact checkers) being fooled, or that people are only willing to speak of the record because they fear for their career/freedom/life. All feds fear at the minimum for their career right now...

brohee··on Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can offset this?
EA starts to be undistinguishable from its satire at this point, but you could have made good satire for a lot less effort, so I'll have to go with genuine.

How did the movement even survive SBF antics?

brohee··on Cut undersea cables has increased 25-fold in Baltics during 2024
To quote Darth Putin, the only reason we don't call it a war is because then we'd have to do something about it.

The level of cowardice among the western elites is astonishing.

brohee··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
I had to truncate the title a bit from:

'Go haywire': Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system

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