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762 karma · joined January 31, 2013

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/opless; my proof: https://keybase.io/opless/sigs/s_SHHejTOUEdtKSLKwxpaEz4aEHdXVDGPh2jGqxgrvI ]

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opless··on Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead
You forgot TCL and Perl. Both have been dead for many more years...

At least C (and C++) will never fully die.

opless··on Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead
Php has been dead for years.
opless··on TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone
Certain BYOD email suites use https encapsulation of another protocol (also using TLS) to ensure that the data can go through firewalls that do MITM attacks on clients for security reasons. Bluecoat do this for example.

I believe they also certificate pin the tunneled protocol.

opless··on Big-endian mode supported for Raspberry Pi with bootable images available
SDIO used to be quite common.

Back when PDAs didn't have WiFi as standard, SDIO was the only way to fit them.

In fact, if I recall correctly my GPD Pocket doodah has SDIO wifi.

The bus isn't unusual, at all.

As for weird broadcom stuff ... I'll give you that, as you're absolutely correct there ;)

opless··on GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions
Ping with embedded +++ATH worked too on some modems!

Of course you needed to have the nous to do this in the first place and a IRC server that showed users host names/ip adresses- I fear that I’m showing my age !

opless··on HomePod Mini
I also hooked my CCTV through homebridge recently with the aformentioned plugins ... it was a bonus, because with IFTTT effectively going payware, I needed to move my automation somewhere else
opless··on Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
NVidia drivers b0rked rebooting my box for a long time.

A couple of months ago, I removed all the references in apt sources, and followed the newer instructions (several times to get the right driver/cuda/tensorflow match) and my reboots are great, and only one GPU lock up so far (probably due to overheating - I've had to replace a couple of components flag as failed due to the heatwave in summer)

Jupyter hub is just great, I'd like to implement better diagnostics though ... have yet to find a good tutorial for that as yet.

opless··on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
Then you're clearly a statistical outlier :)
opless··on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
That's incredibly tenuous.

Also I don't think you know much about asymmetric encryption or the SSH protocol either.

opless··on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
It's not even that.

I have certain hosts behind a single IP and forward SSH to them on arbitrarily chosen ports.

Do I still get random logins on those ports?

Why yes I do.

Does putting SSH on a different port make any difference?

No it doesn't.

Putting SSH on a different port is either done for a specific reason, or you're just deluding yourself that you've somehow reduced your attack surface.

opless··on What’s Next in DevOps: AIOps?
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opless··on The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s
Mantis by winchymatt perhaps?

A two ton diesel powered hexapod.

https://youtu.be/1h9Mw-s9mzI

opless··on Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
You'll find that regular fertilizer has explosion retardant additives. Which made me think (and was confirmed later) that the Beirut explosion was 'weapons grade' ammonium nitrate, rather than the stuff sold to civilians.

For instance; https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v073n022.p006

opless··on Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
Came here for the cluster.

Was disappointed.

opless··on A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness
Thanks!

I know about lesswrong, and you’re not wrong

opless··on A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness
Hi, can you explain what a ' Yudkowsian self-optimizer ' is? I've googled it and the only page that it comes up with is this one! :-)
opless··on Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
Best thing for ARM to do is IPO.

As far as I understand this is all rumour still.

opless··on Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
Certainly would like to see this also;

Would be quite good content to let other places know too - hackaday for example.

opless··on The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams
Sometimes the solution is 'not to do that bad thing' and quite often there's no going back from that.
opless··on Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
There's clearly no planning for a solution, I think that's what GP is getting at.
opless··on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
... as I said ‘where appropriate’.

However I don’t think for one minute that you’re going to get that super fast data everywhere. :-)

opless··on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
I said ‘where appropriate’.

It’s unlikely to be rolled out fully throughout the entirety of the providers network. So you’ll see it in high density areas where people are mostly outside. As I said, malls etc. Also higher speeds at the regular sub-ghz frequencies are achievable through beam-forming.

opless··on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
That'll no doubt be down to the configuration of the terminal device. It'll likely only TX on the available bands allowed in the devices home region for licensing/compliance issues.

Back on the tracking side of things...

AFAIKR 3G and above do not leak their IMEI/IMSI unencrypted. Of course nearly zero phones show or warn if encryption is used or not (though I think that's a setting in the SIM card).

opless··on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
> 5G operates on higher frequency and requires a larger density of base stations

No that’s not required, 5G uses the same old frequencies as 2/3/4G for the bulk of the traffic, it only uses the >1Ghz frequencies for microcells in malls and other dense areas where appropriate.

opless··on Atlas of Surveillance
Why is there nothing in the UK or EU ?
opless··on The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
Agreed, it would be nice if HN was less opaque about such things.

Thanks for the clarification though, it’s much appreciated! As was the article!

opless··on The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
You missed my point ...

The (current?) title of the HN news item is:

The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture

Which is technically incorrect.

It doesn’t even vaguely match the articles title of:

“Why Wait For Apple? Try Out The Original ARM Desktop Experience Today With A Raspberry Pi”

opless··on The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
The first desktop to use the ARM architecture was the BBC micro, it was used as the second processor when it was being developed.

The Archimedes was the first ARM desktop computer.

An important distinction I feel.

opless··on New Google default wipes users' location, web history after 18 months
Blimey!

That’s a rookie mistake!

opless··on New Google default wipes users' location, web history after 18 months
Thankfully older accounts are set to auto delete being “off”.
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