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manwithaplan··on Making Cooled Clothing
Reminds me of the Japanese air conditioned jacket https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/25/fan-jacket-jap...
manwithaplan··on Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist
> "We believe post-handshake attestation alone can achieve level three binding," Sardar told The Register, warning that newer proposals combining both approaches add unnecessary complexity without adding security. His recommendation to the IETF's TLS working group is blunt: developers should abandon intra-handshake attestation altogether.
manwithaplan··on Kelvin versioning
KelVer: Software versioning as decreasing integers in degrees Kelvin, with absolute zero meaning that the program is frozen (with no further possible updates), and its supporting components always strictly cooler (or themselves frozen).
manwithaplan··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
It works perfectly fine under Termux, too.
manwithaplan··on Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
I can recommend https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WiFiAnalyzer for a pretty comprehensive Wi-Fi analysis.
manwithaplan··on 3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]
It should fit on an DMF MF-2HD (standard double-sided, high density, 90 millimeters microfloppy formatted in Distribution Media Format, holding 1'720'320 bytes).
manwithaplan··on Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms
Also: https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/thousands-of-hotel-recor...
manwithaplan··on Reverse engineering Claude Code
XKCD 416: Zealous Autoconfig https://xkcd.com/416/
manwithaplan··on How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet
So she became the first documented spammer.
manwithaplan··on How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
I just loved Nerdwriter1ʼs short analysis of that poem: https://youtu.be/55kqNg88JqI
manwithaplan··on Take the pedals off the bike
I vaguely remember my training wheels were set a bit higher and not touching the ground unless I was leaning a lot. So this setup would aid training to ride properly.
manwithaplan··on Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
And a Dillo developer pours un café con caña.
manwithaplan··on 20 years later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke–because some took it seriously (2019)
Many Y2K “solutions” just borrowed 20 years, and a few of those systems didnʼt actually invest that time in a fix before the 1st of January 2020:

  One solution involved a technique called “windowing” — in which two-digit years are assigned to either one century or another based on one hard-coded “pivot year” determining where they belong. Even back in 1999, HPCWire was describing it as “highly controversial,” citing one expert who said computers using the technique were “little ticking time bombs waiting to go off.”
https://thenewstack.io/how-the-y2k-bug-returned-on-jan-1-202...
manwithaplan··on NIF successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times
The text-only version: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/12/20/climate/nuclear-fusion-energ...
manwithaplan··on Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT
The system confabulated the www subdomain of the “URL provided in the text”, right?
manwithaplan··on Special-Use Domain Names
Also, test IDN top-level domains: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
manwithaplan··on Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius
manwithaplan··on .ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf]
> This server could not prove that it is aninf.ga; its security certificate is from aazerp.ga. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

Sign of competence by the new management organisation.

manwithaplan··on Dune: Part Two – Official Trailer [video]
I stand corected.
manwithaplan··on Dune: Part Two – Official Trailer [video]
The post links to a teaser trailer, instead of the full trailer, e.g. https://youtu.be/wmANVhyPyE4
manwithaplan··on What does "Copy clean link" mean?
> It's so difficult to scroll to the right and delete all the query parameters.

A lot of times, all that's needed is to insert a # character at the right place in the URL, then load that.

manwithaplan··on Facebook and Google hand over user data, help police prosecute abortion seekers
User chat logs and search history released by social media companies to police can be used to prosecute people for abortion, even when they are being investigated for other reasons.
manwithaplan··on “Metaverse is a word I will never use“ – Greg Joswiak, Apple SVP Marketing
> He just did.

He only mentioned it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...

manwithaplan··on Samsung’s “repair mode” lets technicians look at your phone, not your data
I also try to erase data from the phone before bringing it to the service shop. Recently the screen went unresponsive, luckily connecting a USB mouse was enough for some basic control.

I imagine that Repair mode is an enhanced version of their Emergency mode (which disables almost all the apps) while also encrypting the data partition (this way, cloning it to a refurbished phone would preserve privacy).

manwithaplan··on Tofuproxy – Web proxy, TLS terminator, X.509 TOFU manager, WARC/gemini browser
Itʼs so strange that they didnʼt manage to set up a proper certificate for an HTTPS proxy project website: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.tofuproxy...

Edit: I guess theyʼre philosophically opposed to PKI, and are promoting instead certificate pinning, Web-of-Trust: http://www.stargrave.org/Harmful.html

This makes me wonder if itʼs possible to get `Letʼs Encrypt` to cross-sign an HTTPS certificate issued by another CA?

manwithaplan··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
> For 22kW "slow" chargers this is a bit simpler as the actual charger is a lot less complex, it doesn't need to negotiate, it just needs to switch one relay.

To be more explicit, the actual AC "slow" charger is built into the car, so it's guaranteed to work (and indeed, it just needs to signal a contactor to close the circuit).

manwithaplan··on Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
Yeah, asking on a public forum is how they got altoid (Ross Ulbricht).
manwithaplan··on Windows Privacy Dashboard: GUI for Windows 10 Privacy Settings
I disabled the default system Win+S:

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
  "DisabledHotkeys"="S" ; Write out EI to disable the shortcut Win+E and Win+I.
then after a restart set Win+S in Everything.
manwithaplan··on Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding
> The author called it "Dijkstra Maps".

> Basically it's about generating a heatmap for all the squares on the level.

> You can start with 0 at player position, and from that point use a simple floodfill algorithm, putting down increasing numbers with each step.

I’ve always called this Lee’s algorithm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_algorithm

manwithaplan··on The Polygons of Doom: PSX
Tangentially, I’d argue that it’s missing an HSTS policy of redirecting pages to a canonical HTTPS version; e.g. TFA should be linked as https://fabiensanglard.net/doom_psx/
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