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jpablo··on Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
Didn't Facebook had an internal employees only support system that was quick to respond a was encouraged to be used on friend and family issues?
jpablo··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Isn't that basically the same Nintendo and Sony? Save for the cloud platform.
jpablo··on DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same
Another big market for dslrs is studio photography. I haven’t come across speedlite/studio strobes that can sync with a phone (tbh I haven’t looked either!)

A pro camera with a speedlite pointed at a white ceiling world produce amazing indoor pics everytime, unlike a phone which would be dependent on ambient light quality.

jpablo··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
This kind of looks like purple fringing but it's not, see other comments saying this is lag in a multi shot image.
jpablo··on 80386DX ISA single board microcomputer
Another way is to use Stratagus, it can import the WC2 assets from an original CD and play using that. We used to play on huge maps many years ago with several people playing over lan (It was called freecraft back then). I'm not even sure it's maintained anymore.
jpablo··on Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions
Then half your apps will look blurry because they don’t support scaling, this includes quite a few built in utilities.
jpablo··on On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
I'm sorry, but this is 100% incorrect. In fact the opposite is true.

Hash collisions are 100% impossible to avoid. You are mapping an infinite set (the set of all possible images) to a finite set (a fixed length number).

Cryptographic hashes are designed so that collisions are hard to construct at will. But this is not a cryptographic hash at all and I wouldn't be surprised that constructing an image that matches a given hash is easy.

jpablo··on Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
35mm film has equivalent resolution of about 90megapixels, way better than DVD quality.

If a movie isn't issued in better than dvd quality is because nobody has cared about remastering them to better formats.

I guess there maybe super budget, made for tv films that were filmed on tape and those certainly have reached their digital quality maximum.

jpablo··on AirPods Max
My main gripe with paying $550 for headphones is, they still revert to 90s landline quality when using the microphone?
jpablo··on Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing
I have VMs specifically for running garbage that I find/need to but I don't trust. These have 0 personal information and gets wiped to a clean state afterwards.
jpablo··on Bad times in corporate wireless networks
Mac address restriction provide zero access control. It's trivial to sniff and spoof them.
jpablo··on Bad times in corporate wireless networks
Seems a bit complicated:

1. Find some one to steal a key from but which I don't care about. 2. Locate a third person that I want to target and move close to them in non office hours. 3. Create a clone of their wifi and try to spoof some website. Hopefully I can be close enough to their device that it would join my clone instead of their other preferred networks.

At step 2 seems like a better idea to move close to the office and start probing around?

jpablo··on Bad times in corporate wireless networks
So the attack is:

1. Have access to their computer to retrieve the wpa key. 2. Create a clone of the wifi network, spoof a bunch of sites and hope to catch one that doesn't use http.

Why can't I replace step 2 with: Install a root kit since I already have access to their machine.

jpablo··on Bad times in corporate wireless networks
Wait you already have the wpa preshared key? Why would you go the trouble of creating a clone network when you can already join the actual network and arpspoof at will?
jpablo··on Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
Also in the PI 3A, but needs a weird cable.
jpablo··on Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
While Web Bluetooth seems like a good idea to us making BLE devices, the truth of the matter is that only google adopted it, and only such a small subset that you have to design your device around Web Bluetooth.

I recently had to make a iOS app that embedded a webview that catches web bluetooth calls and implemented them natively, to work around the fact that Web Bluetooth doesn't work on Safari. I think that would be a maintenance nightmare going forward.

jpablo··on Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
You can get a refund trough your credit card I guess.
jpablo··on Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
¡Madres!
jpablo··on I made a smart watch from scratch
It does look very similar to the nrf52 line. The nrf52850 even has double the SRAM (256kb).
jpablo··on PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi
sd card access doesn't go trougth the USB controller in any of the rpi models. You are confusing it with the Ethernet port which is connected trougth USB.
jpablo··on Public access Linux system: Your non-profit shell provider since 2002
2usd/year with a public IP? Link?
jpablo··on Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?
Where my wife's family is. There wasn't much question about it
jpablo··on HiFive1 – Arduino RISC-V Dev Board
What kind of board is everybody waiting for than the Raspberry Pi(zero) isn't providing?
jpablo··on Don’t sign a CLA
Wait, Free Software Foundation requires a CLA itself!

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

jpablo··on How SSH port became 22
Are you proposing a ipv8? Put it in the queue, we will get to it about 50 years after IPv6 is implemented.
jpablo··on The Complete History of Lemmings (2006)
I haven't played Lemmings, but a quick glance suggest the recent Mario vs Donkey Kong follow the same idea.
jpablo··on What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills
I mean juction box. I already have switches that control three lights (https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q2vZH.jpg)

The neutral wire requirement is really a killer for me, as I'm not going to rewire me entire house. There are some switches that only require the hot wire (they pass a very small load to the light, but not enough to lit up even very efficient leds).

As of the gateway I don't really care the interface. I'm prepared to write code myself or whatever is needed.

jpablo··on What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills
Hey, can I ask which smart switches are you using? I have been searching for a smart switch that:

1) Can have up to 3 individual switches in a single outlet. 2) Can work with just a single hot wire (no neutral). 3) Can be queried about it's status (on/off) back to the gateway.

There are a bunch of Chinese ones that meet 1 and 2. But I haven't found 3 so far.

jpablo··on Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013)
There is also retrace (https://github.com/riboseinc/retrace)
jpablo··on Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
Any website where I can order a few for testing?
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