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What's the issue with RCS and camera apps? RCS works (from what i've heard) and you get the same image quality as on stock if you install the pixel camera app. Not sure about that …

As part of our EDAcation project, we are building an extension for VSCode to facilitate digital hardware design. We built an FPGA viewer to integrate into VSCode, but since VSCode …

Authoritative zones are not concerned with the DNSKEYs of their parent zones, so I doubt that's the reason. Root zone key rollovers are only really important for resolvers.

The detection process basically boils down to 'server admins need to check CT themselves'. A CA also doesn't have to be malicious; a non-CA malicious actor could also exploit a vul…

Certificate transparency doesn't prevent misissuance, it only makes detection easier after the fact. Someone still needs to be monitoring CT and revoke the cert. I actually believe…

If you use the flake system (which is technically still experimental, but everyone is already using it anyway), all your flake 'inputs' are automatically pinned in a flake.lock fil…

That's a relatively recent development. Repairability has been very poor for quite a while, but now they're finally starting to improve the situation somewhat.

You can (partially) blame Microsoft for that. I still don't understand why it's seemingly OK for device manufacturers to distribute such crapware through Windows update. New keyboa…

Oh I'm getting so tired of this. Lately there appears to have been an uptick in this kind of marketing spam too, there's so many companies trying to advertise their AI products thi…

Yes! YoWASP is fantastic. In fact, that extension came to be after we contracted the dev to create NPM packages for the WebAssembly bundles they're maintaining. We use the exact sa…

I agree, this won't be for everyone. But if you're trying to learn how to use FPGAs, I think it helps a lot to have a tool like the one we're building. The learning process is also…

I know exactly what you mean and I share your frustrations with academic software. In our case I think it helps that our main goal is to provide a good user experience: we're not r…

Ha yeah, I agree the website isn't great. I set it up a while ago just so we have something to fill up the void. Right now it's just me and a professor of previously mentioned cour…

One big issue with FPGAs is how annoying it is to learn how to use them. I did a course on embedded systems a few years ago and nobody could truly get to enjoy it because we spent …

The Typst web app, which is similar to Overleaf, is closed source. Overleaf itself is open source, yes.

Open sourcing a piece of software, especially one that focuses on a broader audience like yours, can convince more people than just developers. The advantages of open source are we…

Actual Airtags rotate their keys on a daily basis (when in lost mode), and Apple can't predict those keys. Theoretically they could tell that you're looking for a tag reported by d…

OpenHaystack has been around for a long time, and they don't really seem to care much

Only if you manage to flash custom firmware on them. But there's already been many efforts on creating firmware for devices costing only a few bucks each, so that's probably easier…

This won't really affect OpenHaystack in any meaningful way. The only additional thing this paper shows is that it is possible to brute-force the key necessary to broadcast a valid…

No, they find the victim's MAC and generate a payload to broadcast from the victim's device, which will make the device appear to Apple devices as a genuine Airtag. Apple devices t…

Technitium is great. Rock solid, plenty performant and it has more features than you'll ever need. Pretty wild when you consider it's being maintained by a single dev.

No, the BLE identities of these tags are currently practically indistinguishable from original tags, and could be made completely identical if necessary. In fact, changing the devi…

Use a prepaid sim ;-)