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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Suddenly I realize why so many games didn't have a real pause feature, but a view maps feature that did the same.
Comment · 7 months ago
Even before I clicked on the article, I had a strong feeling this person was using CloudFlare DNS and the related API. (They are.)

Given the immense popularity of Cloudflare DNS + API + ACME DNS-01 challenge, why are not other DNS providers stepping into this foray?

Comment · 10 months ago
Its funny, this is another of the billions of reasons why Mullvad should be the VPN of choice. But so many fucking people can't ever get over that their favorite social media influencer/Youtuber is offering a code for 200% off of NordShark VPN, now with extra AI.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
100000% Agree.

Here in Germany, I'm convinced the Police simply don't care about motorcycles with modified mufflers. The sound is deafening. In the last decade the noise has gotten worse and worse.

Once one of those small penis motorcycle owners saw that I was covering my three year old child's ears as he passed by, and only then did he put his bike into neutral and walked it by us.

Comment · 1 year ago
The headline is not great because Google will obviously appeal the ruling to the appeals court of DC, and if they have to, the Supreme Court.

A lot can happy from now and then. And this may take many years to grind through the court system.

I wonder if there exists AI models of all the super senior and important judges so we can venture how this will play out through the court system.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The article about the study writes: `The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.`

We should just stop reading the article then and there. This is a major method of how a single study can perpetuate fake science and fake news.

Comment · 1 year ago
I always thought the begging for support by critical infrastructure open source projects would eventually not be a thing. I, could, not, have, been, more, wrong.....
Comment · 1 year ago
In the conclusion Google writes:

> It took less than 3 months of research to discover 6 separate bugs in the adsprpc driver, two of which (CVE-2024-49848 and CVE-2024-21455) were not fixed by Qualcomm under the industry standard 90-day deadline. Furthermore, at the time of writing, CVE-2024-49848 remains unfixed 145 days after it was reported. Past research has shown that chipset drivers for Android are a promising target for attackers, and this ITW exploit represents a meaningful real-world example of the negative ramifications that the current third-party vendor driver security posture poses to end-users. A system’s cybersecurity is only as strong as its weakest link, and chipset/GPU drivers represent one of the weakest links for privilege separation on Android in 2024. Improving both the consistency and quality of code and the efficiency of the third-party vendor driver patch dissemination process are crucial next steps in order to increase the difficulty of privilege escalation on Android devices.

Does this mean the vast majority of Android users (who are on Qualcomm chipsets) are vulnerable to these zero day attacks?

Comment · 1 year ago
As an aside: Why can't DSL modems be a single USB dongle?

Those of us with DSL connections must suffer either an extremely limited selection of DSL modem/routers that can run Linux/OpenWRT, or have to suffer running a Linux/OpenWRT router behind a DSL modem (that often has proprietary and out of date firmware).

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I completely believe in evolution ........ but sometimes I find myself wondering how did evolution allow for something so intentionally diabolical to come around at the MOLECULAR level.
Comment · 2 years ago

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