[-] aard@kyu.de 26 points 1 month ago

The problem is - is it just a mass storage device? Or is it maybe also a USB keyboard that will try to enter some payload? Or maybe it even contains a radio, and can communicate with an attacker nearby?

You can't tell from the outside which protocols a USB device implements.

You can fit all of that functionality into the space of a USB-A plug - so if it is a thumbdrive you have way more space to work with than you ever need.

At minimum restrict your computer to only loading mass storage drivers - but as you quite likely habe USB input devices it is just a lot easier to investigate such a device on something like a raspberry pi.

[-] aard@kyu.de 24 points 2 months ago

Ukraine took hundreds of prisoners so far, and a fair share of that probably are conscripts. That already is a bit of a mess he'll have to solve.

[-] aard@kyu.de 21 points 5 months ago

That's already the friendly variant. Traditional find has a mandatory path as first argument, so to find in the current directory you need to do find .

It also doesn't know if it really is a path - it just prints that as a likely error. You might just have messed up quoting an argument.

[-] aard@kyu.de 21 points 9 months ago

Wow. Do you have a product name so I can gift that to people I hate?

Also, who exactly did you piss off to get that as present?

[-] aard@kyu.de 22 points 9 months ago

I'm a father of two young kids nowadays, and I also was a teenager in the 90s with internet access when my parents didn't really know what it is.

I think her statement should read "no unrestricted/unlimited smartphone access for children", but I think for a child time limited, guided smartphone access is important - just by letting her use my phone now and then I don't think I'd be able to have her build up the media competency required for not wasting her pocket money on nonsensical predatory games when she's a teenager.

She's 7 now - she generally can chat with a limited amount of people (family members and some friends), make pictures, and request app installation. I'm approving pretty much every free app nowadays - at the beginning I was curating, but we went over game mechanics several times, so she's now recognizing predatory or low effort games herself, and gets rid of them after trying them out. I have my doubts educating a teenager with significantly more technical skills, disagreeing with everything you say, and some ability to throw money at the problem will be as open as her to slowly learning those kind of pitfalls.

[-] aard@kyu.de 21 points 10 months ago

Summary judgment seems unlikely given the vagueness of the email.

In other circumstances that kind of phrasing would be interpreted of intent to commit illegal activity - so I'd hope large companies can't just get away with openly planning shit by just ensuring vague phrasing.

[-] aard@kyu.de 22 points 10 months ago

I'm not aware of any correct email validations. I'm still looking for something accepting a space in the localpart.

Also a surprising number of sites mess with the casing of the localpart. Don't do that - many mailservers do accept arbitrary case, but not all. MyName@example.com and myname@example.com are two different mail addresses, which may point to the same mailbox if you are lucky.

[-] aard@kyu.de 23 points 10 months ago

Systemd has a feature to shorten lines too long for the display, which is a pretty stupid idea, as you can see here.

The service failing here would be initrd-switch-root.service.

[-] aard@kyu.de 23 points 11 months ago

Because it isn't. This impacts when the scheduler kicks in, not on how many cores stuff is running on. With fewer cores scheduler is faster triggered again, and and at 8 cores the adjustment for that stops. Which may be an intentional decision to avoid high latency issues.

[-] aard@kyu.de 23 points 1 year ago

From the perspective of the CI guy: Just cross compile from Linux.

You can get the Windows compilers for free - just CLI build tools are enough for your case. The setup can be a bit messy, though. Also, if it's a GCC only codebase so far there's a decent chance it has constructs which will not compile on MSVC. It will not necessarily be faster, though.

[-] aard@kyu.de 21 points 1 year ago

As an American who didn't get a driver's license until I was 21 (gasp! so old)

I'm now 41, never made a license - there wasn't really much of a need until now. I can get anywhere I want with a combination of bicycle and public transport.

[-] aard@kyu.de 25 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how much NFC stuff is still badly done - and how bad the response to discoveries is. I recently got a police report filed against me here in Finland for pointing out that guarding personal details of kids and parents on a phone used in daycare by an empty tag, just by the tags UID is probably a stupid idea.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

aard

joined 1 year ago