Viewing profile — StudentStuff

Huawei promised to fix these horrible security issues after a code review in 2012 and the establishment of the HCSEC oversight board in 2014, yet HCSEC found Huawei had not fixed t…

I just picked up a Mac Mini for recompiling a handful of apps. If I were developing daily on it, a better specced machine might be worth it, but 2 to 4 year old Mac Minis are cheap…

Who is permitted the time and resources to develop breakthroughs and innovations? Surely not the proletariat in modern America, where the vast majority are getting poorer year by y…

The browser version of Zoom seems to require a free account be created, and it was audio only in Chromium, I could not get it to use my camera. Zoom refused to work in Firefox. Jit…

I couldn't get it to work in Firefox ESR on Debian 10, and audio was consistently choppy for me in Chromium 80 after I went through their forced account creation process. Zoom woul…

The spread may appear low in your city, but how much of that is from lack of testing? If your employees can work from home, it is best for you to implement work from home ASAP. Bus…

Many sales environments are just fucked, look at the shit happening at Toyota of Kirkland, the town that is the epicenter of the Pacific Northwest Coronavirus infections: https://w…

The healthcare industry can't afford to exist if they don't get paid by someone (whether that is the insurers or Medicare/Medicaid). We've seen mass closures of rural hospitals and…

1. A store location or locations was compromised 2. January 10th was when we notified T-Mobile of the attack 3. Likely sometime between January 17th (the last successful SIM swap a…

I was affected by this, they SIM swapped a line on our account twice, both times on Friday at 5:23pm (followed by swapping the old SIM back at 5:42pm). Just received the CPNI notic…

The insurance policy seems super sketchy, take a look at its caveats: - If your balance loses under 20% in value then the loss is not insured - If there are any code changes in a c…

Some card types will force usage of the EMV chip when used in a card present transaction. By instructing the cashier to manually key in a card (albiet using a barcode to expedite t…

Every release mentions the word error rate, its interesting to watch the WER improve over time: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases

What value does this provide compared to SSLPing.com? How are you planning to ensure the longevity of your service?

Mozilla DeepSpeech has seen significant improvements in the quality of results it provides (and RAM/CPU usage) since early December, the accuracy of transcriptions has substantiall…

Those two aren't mutually exclusive, and attempting to frame it in this manner is disingenuous. The ability to book a place to stay is regulated by hospitality law to prevent exact…

If a company acts to suppress & hurt a community then attempts to participate in said communities events, they should be ejected from said event. Pride organizers need to grow a pa…

Running games on Linux is trivial at this point, Valve has made WINE so easy to use that all my games from Windows work without me lifting a finger. Civ 5? No problem. Random Indie…

The enterprise support contracts state that the EOL date is the one listed publicly: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en This means the Thinkpad X131e had unde…

Google EOLed Chromebooks that were sold 3 years ago, they do not give a crap about maintaining a stable ecosystem. These 3 year old Chromebooks don't even get Chrome security patch…

>All these years later Matrix only has... The ambition to some day try to offer the core privacy features Signal already delivered back then. E2E on Matrix works, plus key verifica…

Thank you for working on Matrix, it has been smooth sailing (after some database cleanup) for me to operate since taking over a homeserver from a frustrated operator nearly half a …

Yet KaiOS ships on tens of millions of phones every quarter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS Mozilla did not want to maintain XUL or Fennec (which was hard to develop for, jump…

Could I get more details on T-Mobile's abuse of the FCC's TV Whitespace database? I know they currently do spectrum hijacking with License Assisted Access in the 5Ghz band, I'm cur…

Most eBike batteries are half to 3/4ths a kilowatt hour, though if prices were lower you'd almost certainly see 1kwh & 2kwh batteries becoming standard. The market is already heade…