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  • "Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

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  • Thanks a lot for the examples! I have been looking through these, and, as far as I can tell:

    1. In SSL stripping, the site would appear to your client as HTTP, not HTTPS. If that's the case, I think SSL stripping is blocked when using 'HTTPS-Only' mode
    2. For DNS spoofing, the visited site would show up as insecure because they would not be able to generate a valid certificate for the target website

    I still have not had the chance to look into leaky metadata. But, generally, I think metadata issues can in part be addressed by not generating much metadata.

    Probably the biggest vulnerability is the captive portal. There is no way to verify you’re connecting to an official Starbucks router. I think that when connecting to a public router it is wise to assume that it is malicious.

  • "Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

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  • I'm curious about an example that comes to your mind as you say this. In your view, what is a privacy risk associated with public WiFi use that is not easily mitigated?

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • By hand. We are only two people, and we usually clean after we cook/eat. When one is cleaning only 2 plates + a pot/pan at a time, it is easy to use little water. Spray of soap, metal scrub, sponge scrub, and then turn the tap on to rinse for a few seconds. Utensils get individually scrubbed and then all rinsed together for a few seconds.

    Maybe when we have kids a dish washer will make sense.

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  • AGUCUAGCAUAC

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • I have been happy with my Garmin. It is functional without having to connect to anything, and data can be easily exported to a computer for more advanced processing. It is a handy GPS receiver that lets me monitor heart rate and log running metrics.

  • FYI a significant chunk of Chinese IP space has been banned

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  • That's good! There's some hope that this won't last forever then. Thanks.

    And it's interesting that the challenge via old.lemmy.ca was so impactful. The first wave of bots that I noticed also came through an Mlmym front-end that I make accessible via tor. But lately they have been hitting directly via the regular front-end.

  • How do you organize your components library?

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  • Thanks! The problem I run into is that the bags end up taking up a lot more space than the components themselves. Yesterday I started testing printing a small label with the component's code and sticking it into the reel.

  • How do you organize your components library?

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  • Ooh, I like that idea for the larger components that don't fit into the smaller binder. I bought some trading card sheets to test. Thanks :D

  • FYI a significant chunk of Chinese IP space has been banned

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  • Did this spike for you these past weeks? I'm not sure if it just happens to be our instance's turn or if they have up-scaled their efforts. I have been playing wack-a-mole with IP ranges.

  • How do you organize your components library?

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  • I do have a wall with similar boxes. From the image, I am not sure if they are the same size. I just measured one of my small drawers and it is 14 cm x 5.5 cm x 5 cm. Since I have many different tiny components, I quickly ran out of space when I tried to give each component its own drawer.

    But I think that I might be able to do a better job with these if I take everything out and start organizing again. I set the rules for how to place things before I started buying SMD components, and many of the through-hole components I can combine without problem. An improvement would be if I can find something like this but with many more and much smaller boxes.

  • How do you organize your components library?

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  • When you mix different components into one of the boxes, do you have a system to label them? Or are the components easy enough to recognize by looking at them?

  • i hate myself and i want to die lol

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  • Woah! Congratulations!!! 🥳 🎉

  • 2nd page, etc. loading slowly

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  • For mander.xyz it has been bot scrapers. That time that you are mentioning it was scraping via the onion front end that I am hosting for easier access over Tor. Yesterday an army of bots scraping via Alibaba cloud servers made the server unusable for a few minutes. The instance would receive a bunch of requests from the same IP range (47.79.0.0/16), and denying that full IP range fixed the problem.

    Some instances implement anti-bot measures. For example, https://sopuli.xyz/ makes use of Anubis. I think that instances behind Cloudfare get some protection too. I am considering using Anubis for mander.xyz, but for now I have just been dealing with this manually as it does not happen too often.

  • Have you ever noticed?

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  • No, I always yesice

  • Are you outraged?

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  • How dare you

  • WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?

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  • Three kids in a trenchcoat

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • Hopefully the English language is developed and Rick Astley gets to make his song before anyone figures it out!

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • I would take a portable CD player, place a CD with Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up on it playing backwards, hook up solar panels, remove the ability to shut it on/off, and set it up a circuit that will:

    • As the device solar charges, keep it off until some voltage threshold is exceeded
    • Once the voltage is high enough, start a random timer (8 - 100 hours), so that it is not immediately obvious that the sun activated the device
    • When the timer ends, turn the music on on repeat mode
    • Sometimes turn the music off at random, and then turn it on again at random after a long delay, so that in some cases you can have turn 'ON' events without the device being exposed to the sun
    • When the voltage drops below a low threshold, turn the device off until it is charged again

  • What’s a big mistake you made in another language?

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  • I speak spanish natively and at during uni I would hang out with a group of Brazillian friends. I would speak a mixture of portuguese and spanish with them.

    The mom of one of these friends made a Brazilian dish for us (Feijoada) and asked me how it was as it was the first time I tried it. I answered that the dish as 'exquisito', which in Spanish means delicious (similar 'exquisite'). She seemed somewhat disappointed and upset by my response so I probed a little and found out that 'esquisito' in Portuguese actually means 'weird'. She thought I was calling her dish weird tasting. I found quickly enough to clarify, but I did feel bad about making her fell that way... She was very excited about sharing her cooking and she thought I called it weird.

  • (EU) Cheap Prepaid SIM with little to no top up requirement?

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  • No worries! If you need me to test something with it I can this week, just let me know

  • Physics @mander.xyz
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    Researchers discover new kind of magnetism

    www.science.org /content/article/researchers-discover-new-kind-magnetism
  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages

    www.science.org /doi/full/10.1126/science.add7766
  • Astronomy @mander.xyz
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    How Small-scale Jet-like Solar Events from Miniature Flux Rope Eruptions Might Produce the Solar Wind

    arxiv.org /abs/2401.09560
  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
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    Norway’s approval of sea-bed mining undermines efforts to protect the ocean

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-00104-w
  • cryptocurrency @lemmy.ml
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    Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador

    www.science.org /doi/10.1126/science.add2844
  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    License Free Off-Grid Comms (LoRa Meshtastic)

  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    How LoRa Modulation really works - long range communication using chirps

  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    Rutgers University Confirmed: Meshtastic and LoRa are dangerous

  • Science @mander.xyz
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    The science events to watch for in 2024 - Nature

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-023-04044-9
  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Has anyone here managed to interface a National Instruments DAQ card with Arch?

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    Is my quest of finding Chamomile growing near my home over? :D

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    What is this plant with round spiky seeds that look like insects?

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    What is this plant with small fragrant flowers?

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    What is this plant?

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    What is this plant, and why does it have bright purple spots?

  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    I thought this was Chamomile, but the leaves are a bit different....

  • [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemmy.world
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    ....UAPs?

  • cryptocurrency @lemmy.ml
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    What are some minimalist projects in the crypto space for digital cash alternatives?

  • Exercise and Sports Science @mander.xyz
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    Cycling with Low Saddle Height is Related to Increased Knee Adduction Moments in Healthy Recreational Cyclists

    www.tandfonline.com /doi/pdf/10.1080/17461391.2019.1635651
  • Illegally Smol Birbs @mander.xyz
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    What is this Blue Tit planning?...