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surteenon Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI

How is it different than the company making fake rhino horns to flood the market to fill the demand and reduce harm to real rhinos?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fac...

surteenon Make your electronics tamper-evident

Thinkpads have a little switch under the bottom cover that will get flipped up when the cover is removed. There is a BIOS setting to require a password whenever this switch is toggled. When combined with signed BIOS updates it seems like it would be hard to bypass on a short term (like an actual "evil maid" attack).

surteenon Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB

Gosh that's a lot of discussion!

surteenon Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

https://x.com/zephray_wenting/status/1535041457035280392

surteenon DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255949891266

surteenon The Epson HX-20 – A Contrarian's View (2021)

The later Epson PX-8 has a much more usable screen in a similar form factor.

surteenon She Wanted to Make Her Frank Lloyd Wright House Greener

The actual article is at https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/net-zero-frank-...

https://archive.is/4mHXg

surteenon Walmart Store Managers Can Make Up to $400k

Is this astroturfing by Walmart? Why are there two stories on the front page about how much Walmart pays people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39176877

surteenon Textfiles

That site hosts a lot of historical material that many "budget" providers would probably balk at and kick you off their network without much recourse. Having a good relationship with a provider that knows you and will go to bat for you can cost some money. That said, $100/month is not terribly expensive for dedicated hosting.

surteenon Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)

Have your baby fix it.

surteenon The many faces of fsck (2007)

https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/111593487329402102

surteenon Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack

What is the licensing for this code?

surteenon Cool Retro Terminal

I think you mean to use "cat" instead of "pico" to show your text file. Otherwise it should draw pico's interface.

surteenon Camneerg: The Mac Plus Web Server

From the "Old Site Archive" at https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?page_id=47:

Camneerg the machine, as well as the other systems and projects described within its pages have either ceased functioning, were dismantled, or given up on long ago.

surteenon Localhost Resource Permission

RAM and CPU time are resources, so all websites are using "your computer's resources"

surteenon Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards

No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.

surteenon Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

Chromebooks don't use UEFI, just coreboot

surteenon Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password

Because it's a PIN protecting a certificate stored on the device. Even if you know the PIN but don't have access to the device, you can't use it.

surteenon Origin Of The Abbreviation I18n (2002)

In the US, this was the standard phone number to dial to connect to an operator-assisted (and later automated) information lookup, such as "get me the number of so-and-so in such-and-such city and state".

Personally I haven't needed to use it since probably the 1990s.

surteenon Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

Are there other languages where the dominant web framework changes so much? Will Rails ever be "done"?

surteenon Revert for jart’s llama.cpp MMAP miracles

ggerganov commented Apr 2, 2023

So this is pretty stupid - I just lost my Sunday trying to figure out how to salvage this stupid drama

@anzz1 and @jart

You are no longer welcome as collaborators to the project.

surteenon Doors I touched today (1999)

archive.org

surteenon Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust

That's probably a good indication that the design of the page was distracting.

surteenon Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)

Except HP, Lenovo, Framework, Purism...

surteenon FFmpeg 6.0

Under His vi

surteenon ThinkPad 701C with a Framework brain transplant

It's something they designed, but there are existing "iPad LCD to HDMI" controller boards that would be easier to interface with than eDP.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265471676732

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1652

surteenon If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound

This is Hacker News? A file with ^G in it makes the terminal play a sound?

surteenon OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free – Writeup and Proof-of-Concept

The JFrog Security Research team gave this vulnerability a Medium severity rating for the following reasons:

A DoS attack that crashes a forked worker process is much less severe than a DoS that crashes an important daemon, but they will both receive a “High” Availability impact CVSS rating.

How is this even considered a DoS at all? You're forking a process and then immediately crashing it. You're only Denying Service to your own connection that you just made.

surteenon A Quick Guide to Mutt

David Petraeus, is that you?

surteenon A Quick Guide to Mutt

Install lynx (or links or w3m). Add this to your ~/.muttrc:

auto_view text/html

alternative_order text/plain text/html

Add this to ~/.mailcap:

text/html; lynx -dump -localhost -force_html %s | sed 's/^ *//'; copiousoutput