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Same here. That's made my week.

No, it doesn't. In the following SMTP conversation: MAIL FROM: foo@example.net RCPT TO: victim@example.com DATA From: service@paypal.co.uk To: victim@example.com Subject: We are up…

This is true, and yet DMARC v1 does not require you to use them in concert. Either one (a valid DKIM-signed message with sender alignment or a message that passes SPF checks with s…

The addition of MCAS to the 737 MAX received type approval by the FAA in response to Boeing's documentation, not in response to anything Boeing approved or issued. No aircraft manu…

You can also revoke Location permissions from your Camera app. I've done this. https://i.postimg.cc/LRd1KbPf/scrot-20260630-085733.png

I'm afraid I don't know anything about ThinkPads. Hazarding a guess I'd say it's using Thunderbolt (hence the specific port requirement) which allows you to tunnel PCIe over it. Th…

vPro requires the NIC to be connected directly to the PCH (over PCIe/CNV). This is going over USB, which won't cut it. An Intel WLAN card in an M.2 slot on the mainboard might work…

`errno` is a userland concept; the kernel returns negative error numbers that libc then turns into -1 and sets errno. Thus the correct manpage is errno(3).

> Am I understanding correctly that [...] What I took away from the thread is that they're against services forcing attestation in general, and also pointing out that Play Integrit…

You don't need any setuid binaries. You could just as easily use the vulnerability to add a job to crontab(5) that causes the cron daemon to run whatever you want as root.

If they don't have world-execute permission, an access(2) check for executability would return negative, leading to things like shells not tab-completing it. The kernel would also …

> Without read permissions you cannot execute the binary This is not correct, as when the binary is setuid-someone-else, you are not the one executing it; they are. $ cat hello.c #…

A substantial portion of the things you need to know about layout are summarised quite nicely in the 4 YouTube videos in a previous comment of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

... and yet on more than one occasion, pilots have taken off and prematurely retracted the flaps when they meant to retract the gear! Humans fascinate me sometimes. https://assets.…

> and had to go through the normal process? There is no normal process. The error message clearly states "There are no appeals available, we have closed your application". If the c…

The website formerly known as Twitter has never cared about the username part of the URI; it only looks at the status number and will redirect you to the canonical version if it wa…

> Answer #1: Many UK RCDs/RCBOs are actually single-pole devices and don't disconnect the neutral. This is not correct; all type AC and type A RCDs used in British consumer units d…

This is not an RCD, it's an RCBO. It combines the functions of an MCB (Miniature Circuit Breaker) and an RCD (Residual Current Device) in one device, as specified by BS EN 61009 (R…

Between the phasing out of analog meters (the latter half of the last century) and the introduction of smart meters (2010), a lot of electronic prepayment meters produced for the U…

Yes they are. Current alternates direction, but power usually only flows in one direction, from the input terminal (from the bus bar) to the output terminal (that the circuit is wi…

> > AI training might be copyright infringement. But there’s no cases or laws to establish that. > In September 2025, Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a clas…

I also drew parallels to the Uberlingen mid-aid collision, but for a different reason. The mid-air collision occurred because the Russian air crew maneuvered contrary to their TCAS…

When I went to university 17 years ago, all of the computers (except the Macs) had dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04. I'll give you five guesses which OS I never booted into.

I have a 16 GiB Optane NVMe M.2 drive in my router as a boot drive, running OpenWRT. It's so incredibly fast and responsive that the LuCI interface completely loads the moment I hi…

> Work? Online. Presumably my place of employment would have already verified my identity when I started working for them. > School? Online. Ditto, and for kids enrolling during lo…