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alufers

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About alufers

Front-end developer, dabbling in some hacking

hn@alu.dog (you can try other things before the @sign, I will probably get a lot of spam on this particular address)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48592396

    The few pages I've looked at seem to be mostly (if not completely) AI hallucinated, with semi relevant photos from WikiMedia linked. Despite the name there is no way to edit the ar…

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    Comment #47955162

    Update: Checking the kernel config indeed confirms this. adb shell zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API # CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH is not set # CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_…

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    Comment #47954389

    I rewrote it quickly to C [1] (and changed the embedded binary to be aarch64). Unfortunately it fails on calling bind() on my device, so probalby Android doesn't ship with that ken…

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    Comment #42422999

    A bit tangential, but in Poland we also had such traffic cameras with public access (it wasn't a live feed, but a snapshot updated every minute or so). It was provided by a company…

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    Comment #42288472

    Wouldn't a switch with ONIE [1] and Sonic NOS support [2] do the trick? (I don't know the prices of such switches or whether they are available to prosumers, which would explain wh…

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    Comment #41355137

    I don't know how much you have used Telegram, but it's ridden with absolutely vile stuff. You open the "Telegram nearby" feature anywhere and it's full of people selling drugs and …

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    Comment #40836097

    Not OP, but have to use the cloud version of Jira and Confluence. My biggest complaint is that they put the "Yes! Send me news and offers from Atlassian about products, events, and…

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    Comment #40486162

    Some gun calibers are measured with inches, so maybe they have some imperial markers on hand to measure bullet casings?

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    Comment #40046376

    Probably one time use recovery codes you are supposed to print and keep in a safe place. In case of a bank this could also mean a trip to the nearest branch for ID verification. Th…

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    Comment #40046156

    I know everybody says how bad SMS 2FA is, and how we should replace it with the next cool thing $BIGCORP invented (thus requiring you to have an account with them, which only defer…

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    Comment #39873413

    Is that true? Large companies producing software usually have bespoke infra, which barely anyone monitors. See: the Solarwinds hack. Similarly to the xz compromise they added the a…

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    Comment #39651632

    I'm not sure where you live (probably the US), but here in Europe you can easily get GPON ONTs from different manufacturers. There even are whole communities dedicated to replacing…

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    Comment #39201937

    For me as a person who learned programming in the times of Github/lab/whatever, the idea of sending patches via email is fucking ridiculous. The typical interface for handling merg…

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    Comment #39201037

    Does it work for touchscreens too? When I plug in a portable monitor with a touchscreen into my macOS laptop the touch input gets sent into the screen where the cursor is (ie. I to…

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    Comment #39067011

    I wonder how bulletproof Apple's macOS license is. Perhaps one could find a country where the "you can't run it on non-Apple hardware" clause is not valid, and get some good lawyer…

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    Comment #38792083

    You can just use the browser.

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    Comment #38628070

    I still have a drawer full of phone holders and bluetooth receivers that I used in my previous car with a "dumb" radio. All of the holders were annoyingly rattling when driving ove…

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    Comment #38620970

    I used to live in an old apartment block with thick concrete walls, and away from a cellular base station. VoWifi was really helpful if I wanted to make calls from my home. I guess…

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    Comment #38384994

    Huh, their diagnostic software is a Puppy Linux ISO that you are supposed to run in VMWare. That's one way of software distribution :O https://github.com/teslamotors/roadster/blob/…

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    Comment #38151752

    If you take some basic precautions - disable interrupting the boot process, serial console, etc. then bypassing that requires significant effort. As an attacker you need to know th…

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    Comment #38150621

    Convenience, faster boot. Or if you have a headless server with disk encryption, but you want it to come back online without intervention after a reboot or power failure. It's all …

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    Comment #37813104

    Yup, also the userspace application that does the actual streaming is closed-source as well: https://github.com/OpenIPC/majestic (The git repo is for bug reports only, no source-co…

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    Comment #37668011

    Why is the proposed solution HomeKit? It requires an Apple device to control it and an iCloud Account. Are account requirements from some companies better than other?

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    Comment #37479233

    I've tried a few Amazon Basics ones, and on all of them power switching per-port worked. Uhubctl's compatibility list. seems to confirm my experience. The only problem is that the …