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Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

mullvad.net
2 points·by jonah-archive·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Investigating a Forged PDF

mjg59.dreamwidth.org
55 points·by jonah-archive·10 mesi fa·5 comments

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jonah-archive
·2 mesi fa·discuss
This teardown and commentary remains a favorite of mine, really worth reading through: https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
jonah-archive
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Originally it said:

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The issue has been identified as a DNSSEC signing problem at DENIC, the organization responsible for the .DE top-level domain. Cloudflare has temporarily disabled DNSSEC validation on 1.1.1.1 resolver in order to allow .DE names to continue to resolve. DNSSEC validation will be re-enabled when the signing problems at DENIC are known to have been resolved.

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(and in case it changes again, now it says)

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The issue has been identified as a DNSSEC signing problem at DENIC, the organization responsible for the .DE top-level domain. Cloudflare has temporarily disabled DNSSEC validation for .de domains on 1.1.1.1 resolver (as per RFC 7646) in order to allow .DE names to continue to resolve. DNSSEC validation will be re-enabled when the signing problems at DENIC are known to have been resolved.

See RFC 7646 for more details: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7646

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jonah-archive
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Exactly this. Many modern PHYs also integrate 802.3az (energy-efficient ethernet, a subset of Green Ethernet) but it's not super common.

I also finally found this old page of using an old dev board to construct a WoL listener for a mobo that didn't support it -- might be an interesting read for the curious: https://web.archive.org/web/20140525022112/https://hackingbe...

> In this script a fifo is created where the output of tcpdump is dumped. For whatever reason tcpdum | grep was not working properly, and would have a “miss” rate of about 50%. So tcpdump output is dumped in the fifo:

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> tcpdump -i eth1 2>&1 | tee > /tmp/tcp_wol.fifo &

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> and it’s grepped in a loop, when the magic packet (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN) is found , a led is triggered, thus powering-up the computer (with a driver and relay, will come back at this).
jonah-archive
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The original paper proposing the technology is actually very good (and surprisingly still online!): https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/archived-te...
jonah-archive
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The Tailscale client (non-GUI) is open source: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

And they collaborate with Headscale to provide an open-source coordination server (with, unsurprisingly, a more limited featureset, but it works fine with their closed-source GUI client): https://tailscale.com/opensource#encouraging-headscale

I use the combination myself and it works quite well, but of course is less convenient than using their product (which I also do in a different context). Overall I'm pretty happy with their open-source stance.
jonah-archive
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I've been thinking about that illustration of Smaug for nearly 40 years and I never knew where it came from (I didn't recall it was from a Tolkien-related thing, but I remember it vividly otherwise)! I must have seen it at a friend's or the library since as far as I know we never had these at home.
jonah-archive
·4 mesi fa·discuss
This someone jogged a memory of an all-time favorite line from a 2005 laptop review (well, more of a rant than a review): https://web.archive.org/web/20090709072628/https://arstechni...

> [The power] light informs the user that the X41 is on—no, really. There should be an ontological indicator next to it to let the user know the computer really exists.
jonah-archive
·5 mesi fa·discuss
The ratio of the length of the diagonal of a pentagon to one of its sides is the golden ratio -- easiest visualization is with similar triangles. Draw a regular pentagon (sides of length 1 for simplicity) and pick a side, make an isosceles triangle with that side as the base and two diagonals meeting at the opposite point. Go one side length down from the opposite point and mark that (F below). Convince yourself that triangle DCF is similar to CAD (symmetry gets you there).

Now we wish to find the length of, say, CA. From similarity CD/CA = FC/DF, and CD = DF = 1, and CA - FC = 1, so the ratio simplifies to... CA^2 - CA - 1 = 0 which yields the golden ratio.

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           .'.
         .' | `.
       .'  | |  `.
    B.'    | |    `.E
     \   F|   |    /
      \   |   |   /
       \ |     | /
        \|_____|/
        C       D
jonah-archive
·5 mesi fa·discuss
In this lovely paper: https://tom7.org/chess/longest.pdf

The author points out that:

"This rule only applied to games started after its introduction, so it is possible that some pre-1561 games are still in progress and may never end."
jonah-archive
·6 mesi fa·discuss
This comment has, I think, made me more sad than anything I've ever read on HN before. David is one of the most thoughtful, critical, and valuable voices on the topic of digital archival, and has been for quite some time. The idea of someone dismissing his review of a much more slop-adjacent article as such is incredibly depressing.
jonah-archive
·6 mesi fa·discuss
That's my understanding as well, but I still wouldn't disassemble a 1960s microwave without protection (I have assisted in the dismantling of a couple microwave communications devices which did contain BeO and were also very well-labeled as such). Anything from the 80s on at least is almost certainly aluminum.
jonah-archive
·6 mesi fa·discuss
As a second regards the microwave, depending on the age, please be extremely careful about the magnetron the insulators on which could contain beryllium oxide, which can kill you.

There are a lot of fun parts inside microwaves (a personal favorite is the high-torque-low-speed-line-voltage motor, which I use to make creepy Halloween decorations) but the caps, transformer, and magnetron are all useful for somewhat... more dangerous... pursuits.
jonah-archive
·7 mesi fa·discuss
There are approaches to real-time ethernet (some industry implementations like profinet or ethercat, 802.1as from IEEE) but support is spotty and it requires specialized gear to be effective.
jonah-archive
·7 mesi fa·discuss
A long time ago I used one of these HDMI-CEC-to-USB/serial bridges: https://web.archive.org/web/20110219131237/http://rainshadow...

(I'd gotten a large LG monitor instead of a flatscreen tv, and it didn't talk HDMI-CEC but it had a serial-over-TRRS control interface, so I listened for messages on the bus and my media PC translated and relayed them to the monitor.)
jonah-archive
·7 mesi fa·discuss
We'll be celebrating this at the Internet Archive! As a lead-up, we're again hosting our Public Domain Film Remix Contest: https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-r...

We'll be having an in-person celebration at our SF HQ later in January as well, details to come!
jonah-archive
·8 mesi fa·discuss
If you have the opportunity, I would strongly recommend visiting the vintageTEK Museum whose site this is on (it's just outside Portland) sometime. Many of the folks working there are retired from Tektronix themselves and the amount of (working!) equipment they have is astounding.
jonah-archive
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Among the many reasons that stretch of 26 is dangerous is that the approach from Portland is essentially a freeway from Gresham through Sandy, and then turns into a rural highway until it begins the climb up to Hood. This is because of a remnant of the Mount Hood Freeway construction, which resulted in a lot of little oddities that linger in Portland to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood_Freeway
jonah-archive
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I'm maybe too close to the problem to evaluate well (studied foundational math) but I know that Lawvere and Schanuel's book "Conceptual Mathematics" has been fairly well-regarded as a path into category theory.
jonah-archive
·9 mesi fa·discuss
It's kinda gimmicky but I found this thing on clearance at a local hardware store and it works fairly well (gets most weeds out without me having to bend over, which is nice): https://grampasweeder.com/collections/grampas-gardenware/pro...

It doesn't get everything but I can do more work on the tough ones when so many come right out.
jonah-archive
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I had the same concerns awhile back and ending up running a slightly modified version of https://github.com/wiedehopf/mlat-client -- not quite as simple as an http push, but much simpler than a containerized feed client.