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unit149on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

>getting software control of the webcam LED on ThinkPad X230 without physical access to the laptop.

adding an LED implant control by flashing a USB, internally on an "8051-based" CPU, where the value's dependence is a feature of a dynamic memory allocator.

going one step further with cron tasks scheduled at irregular intervals would be interesting.

used to be able to do the inverse with an old TV set using a RFID controller back in the early 90's.

unit149on Noise-canceling single-layer woven silk and cotton fabric

>Finally, the fabric achieves a 75% decrease in sound as its vibrations are suppressed up to 95%, and it is controlled to modulate acoustic reflectivity.

If an LLM really did write this, I doubt it would be able to distinguish between the faculties of Active noise cancellation and direct sound suppression.

Within the IoT, SPL has potential blockchain applicability, even in an absence of its incorporation in various fabrics. `

unit149on Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

Was taking a look at pricing features - melted down, paying per month doesn't seem like a bad option; still, the API features 1 hour SLA support for enterprise tier subscribers.

S3 bucket systems for cloud hosting services are typically encrypted through AES-256. SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS are available upon request.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-encryption-se...

Having the API hosted on Regatta's servers but integrating a POSIX-compliant bring-your-own compute would tighten up instance storage fees for the end-user.

[1]:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-encryption-se...

unit149on All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots

In the traditional Python API, the Voyage engine will tokenize blocks of text and output a string of characters. This model seems to be doing that by vectorizing images in space.

Words like 'you' and 'apple' will be a unitary token. More complex terms like 'pikachu' may be divided into pik-a-chu.

[1]: https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/tokenization

unit149on Solo round-the-world sailor Cole Brauer:first two weeks I cried every single day

https://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/

Not quite circumnavigation, but this doc features a crew of anarchists that fix-up a vessel and sail to Haiti.

unit149on Passport Photos

Geneva Convention which established IDPs in the post-war period ran parallel to measures implemented under the Marshall Plan. The regulation of road signs and establishing protocols for uniformity within the EU and 101 member states involved in its ratification paved the way for the re industrialization of the EU.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Cha...

unit149on Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

Thumbing through iterations of PSN client IDs, attempting to sign in to the EA gateway proxy returns 'namespacename' value that's pulled from personal data. 2F-A token info should be hashed in /tokeninfo/ endpoint pulled from JUNO.

Attempting to integrate, post-ex-facto - infrastructure for a C++ API would return the PSN user id.

unit149on Machines of Loving Grace

> of a cybernetic forest > filled with pines and electronics > where deer stroll peacefully past computers > as if they were flowers

This image of an electronic garden - leptospirosis from cat sitting - has flooded nature with server calls. Now, a tree does not grow of its own accord, but in the structure of a system. Furthering its seed, the redwood pollinates through incineration. The technological is constantly in flux.

unit149on Hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio

For a rag-tag group of transcendental audiophiles operating electronic circuitry, it ionizes and atomizes well.

unit149on Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct

Inducing ketogenesis whose byproduct is the retention of water and generation of ATP has historically acted as an epiphenomenal method of apoptosis. Survival rates vary but fasting has proven to be an effective method.

unit149on The Submerged Nabataean Temple in Puteoli at Pozzuoli, Italy

Altar A1, bearing the inscription Dusari sacrum - roughly translating to "sacred Duscari" is an epitaph to Dushara. Nabateans worshipped this pre-Islamic deity that is analogous to All-ot.

This submerged temple may lend credence to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.

More on this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030698...

unit149on HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD

Hand in glove, the only distro with stack zero-initialized by default. As of yet, still no SSL integration in crypto library.

unit149on Rewrite It in Rails

In terms of Go or C, even Rust which is one of the only of the two used in kernel development. Migrating is in line with the principles of the CRUD methodology, whether it takes place by means of a compiler or a junior developer parsing assembly line-by-line.

unit149on Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

Congratulations on the merger. This is not a percentage-based commissary in the marketplace of ideas. Hope to see further uses of the "multidimensional spreadsheet." It sticks out at you in every axis.

unit149on Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]

Reverse engineering the first bit of Apple's flagship M1 CPU, which was implemented in the original iPhone released back in '08, through an ARM-based architectural analysis, and integrating it into Linux kernel system calls is an extreme measure. This reduplication of the original dump, checking its hex value, then altering it to see if the application is functional. Doing x,y, and z, then seeing if it works inside VM hypervisor-space.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024...

unit149on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

Philosophically, these models are akin to scholars prior to differentiation during their course of study. Throttling data, depending on one's course of study, and this shifting of the period in history step-by-step. Either it's a tit-for-tat manner of exchange that the junior developer is engaged in, when overseeing every edit that an LLM has modified, or I'd assume that there are in-built methods of garbage collection, that another LLM evaluating a hash function partly identifying a block of tokenized internal code would be responsible for.

unit149on Rescue Party (1946)

Page source links to a DTD OEB 1.2 doc. Libre Writer does this from time to time when C-c /C-v/ing blocks of text special characters will be left over after the processor undergoes a similar transformation as it compiles Windows-1252, encoding text to ISO-8859-1.

unit149on We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

As per the US Code, title § 1201(D) "noninfringing uses" including but not limited to non-profit or archival purposes aren't a circumvention of the technological measure. No need to skirt DMCA if the fair use doctrine is in place.

unit149on Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

claude-to-sql parser is particularly useful in LLM implementation

unit149on Show HN: Ryde, a Rust Web Framework

With the right script, castled macros avoid string-preprocessing in generated expandable linguistic syntactical trees. One of the three languages incorporated in Linux Kernel development as well.

unit149on An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

Used to be that writers were paid by the word and novels were serialized.

unit149on David Lynch Interview Project

So he uploaded all these in one batch like air dropping digital newspaper clippings on us.

unit149on Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

Beginning with Boolean operators: and / or - this relational service model can distribute queries. Curious why Cypher [0] abandons this syntax.

unit149on Accountability sinks

In the 400 blows, Truffaut plays a schoolteacher whose disciplinary methods in the classroom only accentuate the rebelliousness of a boy. At home, this trickles down and he decides to run and drink milk. At the end, we find him on a beach and the film ends.

Enforcing copyright law through an honest projection of 35mm film footage is a philanthropic endeavour. Making sure that every member of the production team, even the gaffers and stage hands take part in the exclusivity of re-capitalisation efforts, like the Fox complaint, is purely, legalistic sleight of hand.

unit149on Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

Key generation on iOS 12 is unlike generating entropy during AES encryption through a mouse.

unit149on European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

Isn't doomed. Over and above, one must employ language that will disorient in punctuated chronology.

unit149on Unoffice Hours (2020)

Like a Lebanese mathematician in a heterotopia ascetics dial the Delphic node - on an as-is basis.

unit149on Hyprland 0.44

Amongst the Wayland compositors Hyperland is a dynamic WM, unlike KDE and X.

"movetoroot" is discodant - it deletes information.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyprland-git

unit149on Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

Stopped speaking. Or rather, never said a word and the digital twin riffed off of ambient chatter in a coffee shop. Impressed with the turn-based Gaussian splatting AI assistance.

unit149on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

Much like UAW, a union for industrial machinists and academics, this bill has united VCs and members of the agrarian farming community. Establishing an entity under the guise of the Board of Frontier Models parallels efforts at Jekyll Island under Wilsonian idealism. Technological Keynesianism is on the horizon. These are birth pangs - its first gasps.