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I think the whole article is undermined by this paragraph: > We don't know what consciousness is. We don't know why we have it. We don't know why some animals have it and others do…

What you have written here is pretty much exactly the contents of the article we are all commenting on.

Note that this menu item was not used to install Android apps, which is what people often mean by "sideloading", especially with all the discourse around Google's new developer ver…

> You don't need to know how a plane/car/elevator works to know that it works when you use it. I'm sure the 737 MAX seemed to work just fine to Boeing's test pilots. Observing the …

Is there a reason you wired MOSI and MISO together with a resistor instead of setting the SPI_SIO bit in the ESP32C6's SPI controller? The reference manual[1] says that bit enables…

Surely Windows keeps the FVEK in RAM regardless of whether the TPM requires a PIN to initially obtain it. Otherwise, wouldn't you need to enter your PIN every time a block from the…

Kaitai Struct[1] is my preferred tool for parsing binary files. It's open-source (unlike Synalize It! and 010 Editor) and cross-platform (unlike HexFiend). Not sure how it compares…

Did it update the firmware over Bluetooth? Up until Android 11, Android required fine location permission to perform Bluetooth scans[1] because knowledge of nearby devices can be u…

`sl absorb` can turn that workflow into a single command in many cases: it automatically looks at what hunks you've changed and tries to propagate them back to earlier commits in t…

...at least, for the one Bose device I own. Other Bose Bluetooth devices use the same image format and can be updated by the same official update tool (which doesn't run on Linux o…

Realtek drivers on Linux, at least for some codecs, have this feature built-in, no malware needed. On my Dell XPS 13 9350, for example, I can use alsamixer or pavucontrol to choose…

I would assume that eclipxe meant that the software shipped with the Nook does not allow for on-the-fly text modification. Even if it did, this is the only occurrence of text subst…