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codezeroon Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Well, no, not now they won’t.

codezeroon EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

How fast can you speed run KSP RP/RO?

codezeroon GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.

codezeroon Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

Have a look at your local branch here: https://globalshieldnetwork.com/programs-2/

codezeroon Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

What are you looking at to know that's happening? Is the Toyota downloading/displaying some information only available on your phone, or from the Internet, or something else? Could it have a 4G connection of its own? What's the connection that makes you think the phone connection is letting it upload data over the Internet using your phone?

codezeroon Big Yellow – Inside the Spirit Airlines Repo Operation [video]

I enjoyed this video primarily because it never occurred to me that commercial airlines would have their jets repossessed. Obviously it's a different logistical operation, but still fascinating to see how it goes down.

codezeroon Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

Does anyone have any details on this claim?

  Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota. However, if you use a wired USB connection then it does not do that (see the discussion here and elsewhere), so I exclusively use CarPlay via USB. I wish I had a way to completely disable the car’s Bluetooth functionality, but it’s deeply integrated into the head unit.

How can data via Bluetooth be routed to an active internet connection? I assume this would only work if you have the manufacturer's car application installed on your phone.

Following the thread linked to, the only thing I can find is very unsubstantiated; https://www.rav4world.com/threads/2019-rav4-dcm-deactivate-p... :

  One caveat, if you use bluetooth to connect your phone to the car DCM will use your phone to connect to the mother ship and presumably send your data. I only use my iPhone cable to connect to the car which does not have this effect.

This sounds like pure speculation, and I would love to hear if there is any information that can substantiate what they are claiming.

codezeroon How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

I mean, we did decades of JavaScript, so... I mean... anything is possible, right? :)

codezeroon 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

To keep it alive

codezeroon National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members

thanks, I missed this yesterday.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

I doubt you will find an answer here, but a few bits of anecdata:

1. CIA had recruiting events that invited STEM majors at my university, I suspect they do this very broadly.

2. Our funding came partially from the Air Force and part of the rules was our data and source had to be open. We know from conversations and other details from integrating with Air Force partners that they had models like ours that were an order of magnitude more accurate because they amalgamated models from all academics in our field and had their own career scientists on staff (often coming up through military ranks)

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

We used cvs, but did switch to svn before/around 2006, but I could be mixing that up. We did not switch to git even by 2012 when I left.

The reference to the 70s and 80s code didn’t imply it was version controlled before svn/cvs though if that’s what you meant, but by that time it was and still had old timestamps commented in the text files.

codezeroon Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

Those shoes are gonna sell like crazy now but it would be hilarious if they were to be found to have been giving an unfair advantage because of some mechanical property of the shoe.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

Yes, but even back then I was aware of the sections in executables (wasn’t this where it was found?) and any neckbeard from the 70s and 80s might be even more so aware. That said, yeah, sure, it’s a very possible and understandable oversight, but I’m weary because of all the text in viruses and such as indicators. Seems like a pass over ‘strings’ would be obvious. Though. TIL, strings doesn’t necessarily scan the entire executable.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

I’d be surprised if it were a lot. At that time (open to corrections) not a lot of scientific research was done on consumer intel platforms.

Obviously it was found by a mathematician, but I still suspect it wasn’t obvious in published research or that it ended up not causing significant enough deviations to cause research to revisit the calculations.

My team ran into some interesting but very small deviations when we moved our iterative solar wind model from 32 bit to 64 bit, but the changes weren’t significant enough to revisit or re-do prior research wholesale.

Like my team in the 2000s I suspect anyone who had data crunched by this bug also revisited it and either concluded it wasn’t significant enough or redid the work and it didn’t change the conclusions.

I am curious now if this bug was cited in any papers at the time to give a rough idea how aware or affected academics were.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

None of the science being sabotaged was being published in peer reviewed journals was it? (besides the Portuguese hydrodynamic modeling stuff, but it could have been accidental or had other uses)

And yes, to be clear, I don’t consider it contributing to “science” if it’s not published, reviewed, and reproducible.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

I do wonder if these breadcrumbs were also left intentionally. “Oh look, we are using old stuff, don’t be afraid!” Or for some other reason. It is a little surprising to pull off such a sophisticated attack and miss details you could find running ‘strings’ unless I’m missing something and this part was encrypted.

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

points at the sign.

  Do not feed the trolls.

codezeroon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

My favorite part of this was:

That kind of notation, called SCCS/RCS, is the equivalent of finding a rotary phone in a modern office. Nobody uses it in 2005 Windows kernel code unless their programming background goes back decades, to government and military computing environments

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The astrophysics lab I worked at in 2006 was still using svn and had a bunch of Fortran with references to systems from the 70s and 80s. The code ran perfectly well thanks to modern optimizing compilers and having moved from Vax to Linux in the 90s, it was a surprisingly seamless transition.

It reminds me of a conference talk I’ve referenced before “do over or make due” basically implying rewriting large amounts of mostly functioning code was not worth the effort if it could be taped together with modern tools.

codezeroon Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

I wonder if this app is also an “app clip” - the small size applets that can bypass download size restrictions (and maybe, because of that, other restrictions).

How big is the installed size, and can you go to settings and delete app data before deleting the app? You may also check to see if it’s installed on other devices connected to your iCloud account or if you have any devices you never disconnected including Apple Watch as they have a watch app.

My wife works for macrumors and she once found an incomprehensible HomeKit bug and we had an Apple engineer come to our house to diagnose (we lived nearby to Cupertino)

It turned out to be a bug in the legacy HomeKit after upgrading on the backend. Totally opaque to the end user.

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

I think it likely speaks to how much more common they are as exotic pets than they have been in the past. That she found it before it died is surprising, and the longer I think about this story the longer I wonder if they just bought it as a pet and the river discovery was a gag for online clout.

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

I think her family was visiting Wales, rather than being natives :)

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

Yeah, I didn't want to spoil the article with my comment, it was a good read, but it did immediately make sense why they were so popular now. I've met multiple people in passing who own Axolotl. I used to think I was super special that I met a guy who owned one, and I assumed it was because he was a famous neuroscientist, and had some special permission, but now they're relatively common as pets (to a degree).

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

From the article it doesn't appear they've ever been found alive in the wild anywhere but their natural habitat. This was likely a remarkable chance happening where an owner released one and she found it within close succession or else it likely would have died very quickly.

If there is a wild population, that would be an even more amazing story.

codezeroon Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

It amazes me she chanced upon it at the right time and even knew exactly what it was.

codezeroon Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days

the original founder/CEO left after they were acquired by Hackaday (which was separately acquired by supplyframe)

their operations have been pretty opaque since the Hackaday acquisition afaik.

codezeroon Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

The one I used was fully hosted by a third party. I don’t remember much in terms of tweaks except some client configuration changes, I think I had an account on some webapp or it just let me login with whatever.

codezeroon Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

I don't even remember the name of the server or software, but even back when WoW was contemporary I had a lot more fun playing on free servers with extended XP, even though pretty often bosses would be buggy or not quite the same as in the real game. It was so much more playable and casual compared to the early WoW (or worse, EverQuest which came before). It's a shame game companies can't find a way to embrace or even profit from these kinds of servers.

codezeroon Everything we like is a psyop?

At a previous company our marketing team had a $50k/mo budget with an agency that got their basically verbatim posts posted by all the tech blogs like TechCrunch, venture beat, Huffington Post etc. I got really aware of the tech media and I read every story as intentional marketing.

codezeroon Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)

This makes me wonder if people might be getting Starlink Minis smuggled in by corrupt guards.