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hag··on Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?
I recently bought an RTL-SDR. I've had so much fun with it so far and learned so much, which was my goal. I designed my own antenna in Fusion 360 and built it. I'm currently developing my own SDR application with a custom spectrum display etc. So far I can demodulate AM/FM/SSB and I'm trying to get into decoding digital modes as well.

There is so much to learn and enjoy even without transmitting. I like to listen in on air traffic control and download weather satellite images.

hag··on Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
Thank you! I was going to mention StumbleUpon as well, but couldn't remember the name, haha. Used to use it way back.
hag··on Pledge() and unveil() in SerenityOS (2020)
Nice! I would probably have used bitmasks in this situation, but as usual there is a reason behind the choice and I get the reasoning.
hag··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
Totally agree. I was expecting to get this feature as part of my Pro subscription.
hag··on A CIA hacker’s revenge
I just listened to an episode of The Darknet Diaries with an ex-CIA (I think) agent and he was talking about MICE. I'm pretty sure he said the C was for Coercion, but that does include blackmail as you said.
hag··on Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify
In Windows 11 there's also a setting to make the "Print Screen"-key work in the same way as Win + Shift + S. The setting is called "Use the Print screen button to open screen snipping".
hag··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
A lot of great personal sites here. Mine is just a simple GitHub Pages site which I recently set up. It contains some of my hobby projects and CTF writeups.

https://heinandre.no/

hag··on How to Write a Computer Emulator
I started programming at a pretty early age and I've always (probably from the first time I saw an emulator) had a goal to code an emulator myself. I start and abandon hobby projects all the time, so it took me quite a few tries to actually get some traction. But when I finally did, and I got to the point where I could see the BASIC prompt on my C64 emulator it was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. It was a great learning experience, not just making the emulator, but the whole journey to learn enough to finally make it happen. I highly recommend it if that kind of thing interests you, if not, then don't do it, do something that interests you instead.
hag··on QEMU Internals
I've always been intrigued by virtual machines and emulation as well. I've always wanted to try and make an emulator of some kind. I don't know much about the internals of VirtualBox, but my suggestion would be to start "easy" with one CPU/Computer System/Game Console and go from there. That's what I finally did with the 6502 and Commodore 64.
hag··on The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card
I'm wondering if `binwalk`'ing the initial dd-image would have worked. That's the first thing I would try.
hag··on #include </etc/shadow>
`#include </etc/lsb-release>` gave some interesting errors. Looks like it's running Ubuntu.
hag··on Stripe CLI
Same here. We have a platform with multiple sellers and we use Connected Accounts. Our first integration years ago was so easy and I loved how easy it was to work with the Stripe API. When we needed to update our integration for SCA support we had the exact opposite experience. The migration guides didn't fit our previous integration, maybe because we use Connected Accounts. Also the documentation had multiple bugs and was missing information, we had to make guesses to finish our migration. On top of that we had to upgrade our Stripe.NET-package which also caused a lot of issues for us because of a lot of broken functionality (we still have issues that we need to fix).
hag··on Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
I have the same issue on Chrome on Android and I always reload the page (not the Twitter reload button), which always seem to work for me. I don't know if they do this on purpose, but it does make you wonder. I do not want the Twitter-app on my phone.
hag··on Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
Which the post clearly states and is, as far as I can tell, because Windows and DirectX is the only platform that supports it.
hag··on 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
You CAN check breached passwords here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords, if it's a common password it doesn't mean that it's necessarily your account that's been compromised.
hag··on Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?
The salt should always be random. If it's based on some account information it's possible that the salt can be regenerated if that account information would become available, in a DB dump like this for example.