Natanael

@Natanael@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally break this habit? Tips welcome.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just the hole in space-time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks legit. What do you all think?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible if you have an FPGA, except that’s MORE expensive somehow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of decommissioned but still usable batteries are growing fast though, and plenty of storage sites use old battery packs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  then people Microsoft go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud,

  Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can still collaborate old school way. You can publish static mirrors of git, then take email patches lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t override contracts terms that take priority (GPL, which you as developers already agreed to when redistributing it) with a second one (their own ToS).

  GPL explicitly prohibits adding restrictions, so attempting to claim the ToS severs their GPL right is invalid because it is GPL which instead overrides that term in the ToS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a mobile SoC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes maximum chaos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone will gag eventually if this indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry the dog just found a money pile, the dog will be ok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • game devs
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of flight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French scientists discover law that predicts how most objects shatter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In physics, law mostly just means a clear formula which always applies when you’re within some specific parameters (Newton’s laws when below relativistic speeds)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually math for this where you look at the distribution and distances of mass and calculate probability of hitting something based on distance (created to calculate things like how far you can see in the woods)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad terminology choice, I meant the cert issuer. Need to revise the language later. I was thinking of it in terms of who verifies your IRL identity. The issuer can only issue the cert after you met them and they checked your documentation, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like getting a TLS domain cert from a CA both sides recognize, but yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zero-knowledge proofs still require that third party but only once, to issue it initially. Then the user can issue their own proofs locally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, as a cryptography nerd I can assure you that you MUST at minimum have a trusted verifier which met you in person at some point (such as whatever office you get your physical ID card at) and they have to have your information.

  And then you’re trusting both Secure Element hardware and fancy cryptography where both must be flawless in order to protect the end user’s side of it, all while the end user now carries much more personal information with them than before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen mechanical music boxes?

  The ones and zeroes and bumps and flat areas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because it doesn’t, your brain does

  Speakers do the simplest thing possible and literally just vibrate. A recording being played literally just recreates a recorded vibration. It’s a tiny choreography that your ears are incredibly sensitive for.

  All the fancy stuff happens in our brains, after our ears has split up the sound around us into different ranges of frequencies (you can think of the hairs in the inner ears as tuning forks). We learn to recognize which frequencies goes together, and then we learn how the frequencies from multiple sources can overlap, and we learn what it all means

  The real crazy part is how something as simple as sound can carry so much information and how reliably our brains can tell it all apart and make sense of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sold my Ouya and have an original Steam controller still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s steps in between. Rate limiting unverified server federations, etc. No need to inhibit discovery for casual users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost a court case after claiming that reselling its licenses "infringed copyright"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

  It’s not cleanly defined for digital only sales

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as a Linux desktop it would mostly just be interesting for devs and people doing relatively lightweight 3D design work (especially because it will take a while before other distros support it), I don’t see it competing against regular desktops.

  Any company who depend on their employees having a decent GPU will likely want to be able to upgrade/reconfigure new orders at will, and will prefer a tower, and they will prefer the quick repairability of a tower. Those who don’t are increasingly ok with using mini PCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rumors is that the original Zen CPU SoC in the Steam Deck was also the leftovers from another canceled project by “a major OEM”, so it’s plausible. Sounds like Microsoft planned a handheld Xbox much earlier, which years after the Deck turned into the ROG collaboration, could have been related

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The secret trick is that they can do both.

  The actual software target is their Steam Linux Runtime container. So all you need to install is the container environment, and if your 3rd party OS does that for you then you’re already done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re literally memeing on the store page about it being based on Arch (by the way)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some slots for peripherals, so it’s definitely doable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard it from digital foundry