CameronDev
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- Comment on In the far future deployable couches will be designed into pants 1 day ago:
Depending on your definition of a couch, which I think is already a bit loose, they already exist.
- Bike shorts, built in cushions, no structure though
- Avalanche airbags, deployable cushions, built into a backpack, kinda like an inflatable couch? Not in pants though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
$200 + KFC, don’t be greedy.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 3 days ago:
Do you think it worked?
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 days ago:
There are a lot of tfa apps in the store, and search does seem to surface the brand name ones first, but there are a few no-name ones as well:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=twofa.accou… play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.authent…
I don’t know that they are legit or not, but they exist.
I suspect if someone wanted to do this, they would use a fraudulent ad campaign to sent people directly to the store, rather than hope for the playstore search to find people.
And based on my experience with Google, they do fuck all screening, it’s mostly just checks to ensure you have a privacy policy, no checks that the policy is actually followed…
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 4 days ago:
“Just a 2fa code generator” is still a good phishing target. Stealing the 2fa seeds would be incredibly valuable for a bad actor. Which is exactly why it should be audited.
It does look incredibly basic though, its basically a “my-first-android-app”. So extremely trivial to recreate, which does somewhat nullify my original point about app clones.
I would be a bit more interested in the MyID app, which has a lot more risk involved (Uploading ID documents, facial data etc).
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 4 days ago:
Sure, but having the full source makes that even easier.
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 4 days ago:
One plausible reason for hiding the source code is that if Service Australia was forced to fully open source it, it would be trivial for bad actors to make knock-off clones that look and behave identically, while doing other bad things. We all know Google and Apple wouldnt do anything to prevent that happening…
Maybe a middle ground of releasing the code, but not the assets (images, style sheets, etc) could be reached?
Either way, I’ll still interested, and I might contribute after doing a bit more reading of his past case.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 5 days ago:
www.ifixit.com/Guide/…/25068 - Looks easy, barely needs a guide.
www.ifixit.com/Guide/…/3255 - Definitely doable, although I will say that you should be careful with game controllers, they are often full of springs that will escape and be a complete pain to find and reinstall.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 6 days ago:
Retro consoles aren’t my thing, but i have replaced batteries for all kinds of devices, and it’s usually fairly easy to do. Aliexpress et al. have all the batteries you could want, and a little fiddling with some screw drivers and you cam usually get the job done. Fairly safe with some basic common sense as well.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 6 days ago:
Okay, I see we have some confusion, when you said “new retro”, I was thinking of the N64 raspi thing that came out last year. Those did have a manufacturer warranty.
In terms of second hand consoles, yes, no warranty, but, it’s still not messing around with emulators, it should play the games largely as expected.
Phone attached controller might be cheaper, but surely you can see that its a significantly worse experience than a properly built console?
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 6 days ago:
Expensive is relative to income. 300eur is not much money for some. Also, 300eur is cheaper than a steam deck…
Buying a complete product means you don’t have to mess around with emulators not working quite right, and if it doesn’t work, you can just return it. Those two alone are pretty good reasons to get the prebuilt machine.
- Comment on The PS5 has no games! smh 1 week ago:
It’s a good site for that, because it’s a very non-suspicious domain name. It’s also a very bland technical site, so you won’t know it’s about buttplugs until you scroll to the bottom.
- Comment on Suggestions for online petitions 1 week ago:
I don’t know of one, just want to warn you that you’ll likely be collecting personal identifying information (PII), which requires careful storage and protection. You may want to seek some legal advice before going down this road.
- Comment on The PS5 has no games! smh 1 week ago:
Clear win for xbox: iostindex.com/devices/…/xbox compatible gamepad/
(Site is for programmable buttplugs, and all things that vibrate. You may not want to visit from a work PC. Or you might, your call)
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 1 week ago:
Can I introduce you to the concept of “fire” :D
A single bitflip wiping your novel is incredibly unlikely, to the point of being almost impossible. Modern OSs and filesystems are fairly resilient, and the data is likely all still there.
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 weeks ago:
Damp cloth to capture the dust? Or a strong vacuum to capture it once airborne?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if your were a kid and your parents worked for a government intelligence agency, how would you keep secrets / have privacy from your parents? 2 weeks ago:
Even in the US it would be punishable. Morality aside, using a billion dollar NSA malware on a person carries a real risk of getting caught. The NSA might be willing to wear that risk for a high value person, but not for some employees kid.
Purely on a misuse of a valuable asset it would be punishable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Join your countries instance? I’m fairly sure the people in Aussie.zone aren’t American. You could also put your flag in your display name.
- Comment on We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap? 2 weeks ago:
A truly smart criminal wouldn’t get caught. So you could argue any of the unsolved crimes were “smart”. But equally likely that they were just lucky.
- Comment on Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’ 2 weeks ago:
“who programs writers who have a vendetta against Israel and Zionism”
Oh no, not the poor Zionists…
- Comment on Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah 2 weeks ago:
It was meant to suppress all criticism of Israel. And it succeeded. Next time, she won’t be uninvited, they will just not invite her to begin with.
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 2 weeks ago:
Some fine point tweezers are usually useful for getting lint out of the USB port, I have done it fairly aggressively and not done any damage yet.
- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 2 weeks ago:
Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the fronted and the console, but their middleware just hated them.
I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.
I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).
- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno about recommending FreeNAS (Known as truenas now). It is basically an appliance OS, and unless you are using enterprise level hardware, they want nothing to do with you.
I’m currently using it, but it was a very unpleasant experience setting it up.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Eh, that still wastes the energy used to process the material, so still unideal. But probably better?
Could change the model so that the festival provides the tents for $0 (or some tiny fee), but with a $500 bond. Trash the tent, lose $500, look after it and it gets re-used next festival.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What if we just move the tents outside the environment?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing (given you have at least 2 tents) you’re treating it properly and taking care of it though, which inebriated festival goers probably aren’t.
And $50 a decade ago bought you a much better tent than today, there is some absolute garbage out there now.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Tents are cheap: www.aussiedisposals.com.au/…/dome-tents.html
$40. And these tents likely won’t survive multiple uses anyway.
They are still grubs for leaving them behind.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 3 weeks ago:
Exactly my point.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t aware, but that doesn’t change my point. Build another if one isn’t enough, and then re-declare it under US + Denmark + NATO protection.