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codezero

7 dagen geledendiscuss

Well, no, not now they won’t.

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16 dagen geledendiscuss

How fast can you speed run KSP RP/RO?

codezero

22 dagen geledendiscuss

The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.

codezero

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Have a look at your local branch here: https://globalshieldnetwork.com/programs-2/

codezero

2 maanden geledendiscuss

What are you looking at to know that's happening? Is the Toyota downloading/displaying some information only available on your phone, or from the Internet, or something else? Could it have a 4G connection of its own? What's the connection that makes you think the phone connection is letting it upload data over the Internet using your phone?

codezero

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I enjoyed this video primarily because it never occurred to me that commercial airlines would have their jets repossessed. Obviously it's a different logistical operation, but still fascinating to see how it goes down.

codezero

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Does anyone have any details on this claim?

  Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota. However, if you use a wired USB connection then it does not do that (see the discussion here and elsewhere), so I exclusively use CarPlay via USB. I wish I had a way to completely disable the car’s Bluetooth functionality, but it’s deeply integrated into the head unit.

How can data via Bluetooth be routed to an active internet connection? I assume this would only work if you have the manufacturer's car application installed on your phone.

Following the thread linked to, the only thing I can find is very unsubstantiated; https://www.rav4world.com/threads/2019-rav4-dcm-deactivate-p... :

  One caveat, if you use bluetooth to connect your phone to the car DCM will use your phone to connect to the mother ship and presumably send your data. I only use my iPhone cable to connect to the car which does not have this effect.

This sounds like pure speculation, and I would love to hear if there is any information that can substantiate what they are claiming.

codezero

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I mean, we did decades of JavaScript, so... I mean... anything is possible, right? :)

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

To keep it alive

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

thanks, I missed this yesterday.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I doubt you will find an answer here, but a few bits of anecdata:

1. CIA had recruiting events that invited STEM majors at my university, I suspect they do this very broadly.

2. Our funding came partially from the Air Force and part of the rules was our data and source had to be open. We know from conversations and other details from integrating with Air Force partners that they had models like ours that were an order of magnitude more accurate because they amalgamated models from all academics in our field and had their own career scientists on staff (often coming up through military ranks)

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

We used cvs, but did switch to svn before/around 2006, but I could be mixing that up. We did not switch to git even by 2012 when I left.

The reference to the 70s and 80s code didn’t imply it was version controlled before svn/cvs though if that’s what you meant, but by that time it was and still had old timestamps commented in the text files.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Those shoes are gonna sell like crazy now but it would be hilarious if they were to be found to have been giving an unfair advantage because of some mechanical property of the shoe.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Yes, but even back then I was aware of the sections in executables (wasn’t this where it was found?) and any neckbeard from the 70s and 80s might be even more so aware. That said, yeah, sure, it’s a very possible and understandable oversight, but I’m weary because of all the text in viruses and such as indicators. Seems like a pass over ‘strings’ would be obvious. Though. TIL, strings doesn’t necessarily scan the entire executable.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I’d be surprised if it were a lot. At that time (open to corrections) not a lot of scientific research was done on consumer intel platforms.

Obviously it was found by a mathematician, but I still suspect it wasn’t obvious in published research or that it ended up not causing significant enough deviations to cause research to revisit the calculations.

My team ran into some interesting but very small deviations when we moved our iterative solar wind model from 32 bit to 64 bit, but the changes weren’t significant enough to revisit or re-do prior research wholesale.

Like my team in the 2000s I suspect anyone who had data crunched by this bug also revisited it and either concluded it wasn’t significant enough or redid the work and it didn’t change the conclusions.

I am curious now if this bug was cited in any papers at the time to give a rough idea how aware or affected academics were.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

None of the science being sabotaged was being published in peer reviewed journals was it? (besides the Portuguese hydrodynamic modeling stuff, but it could have been accidental or had other uses)

And yes, to be clear, I don’t consider it contributing to “science” if it’s not published, reviewed, and reproducible.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I do wonder if these breadcrumbs were also left intentionally. “Oh look, we are using old stuff, don’t be afraid!” Or for some other reason. It is a little surprising to pull off such a sophisticated attack and miss details you could find running ‘strings’ unless I’m missing something and this part was encrypted.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

points at the sign.

  Do not feed the trolls.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

My favorite part of this was:

That kind of notation, called SCCS/RCS, is the equivalent of finding a rotary phone in a modern office. Nobody uses it in 2005 Windows kernel code unless their programming background goes back decades, to government and military computing environments

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The astrophysics lab I worked at in 2006 was still using svn and had a bunch of Fortran with references to systems from the 70s and 80s. The code ran perfectly well thanks to modern optimizing compilers and having moved from Vax to Linux in the 90s, it was a surprisingly seamless transition.

It reminds me of a conference talk I’ve referenced before “do over or make due” basically implying rewriting large amounts of mostly functioning code was not worth the effort if it could be taped together with modern tools.

codezero

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I wonder if this app is also an “app clip” - the small size applets that can bypass download size restrictions (and maybe, because of that, other restrictions).

How big is the installed size, and can you go to settings and delete app data before deleting the app? You may also check to see if it’s installed on other devices connected to your iCloud account or if you have any devices you never disconnected including Apple Watch as they have a watch app.

My wife works for macrumors and she once found an incomprehensible HomeKit bug and we had an Apple engineer come to our house to diagnose (we lived nearby to Cupertino)

It turned out to be a bug in the legacy HomeKit after upgrading on the backend. Totally opaque to the end user.

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