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Genwald commented on Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System amoses.dev/blog/wifi-loca... · Posted by u/nicosalm

bigiain · 3 months ago

I assume that smart comp sci kids already have some sort of proxy running on an Android phone that publishes the current in-classroom WiFi environment, and a browser plugin or Linux hack that their stay-at-home friends can run that intercepts the geolocation calls and spoofs the responses with what the in-classroom android phone is seeing.

Genwald · 3 months ago

The API just returns coordinates to the website and it's fairly easy to spoof on major browsers. You'd just need to know where the classroom is.

Genwald commented on Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason buttondown.email/hillelwa... · Posted by u/JNRowe

Genwald · 2 years ago

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768909 I thought it was pretty funny.

Genwald commented on Netflix Ships Last DVD about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/caution

skeaker · 2 years ago

Is this true? A friend tells me that torrents for new episodes of ongoing stream-only shows are typically up within minutes to hours of being released.

Genwald · 2 years ago

Both are true. There is more significant DRM on most streaming services than DVD, but also pirates are still consistently beating it. Hard to say if that had much of an impact on this decision though.

Genwald commented on A forum engine written in Assembly asm32.info/fossil/asmbb/i... · Posted by u/utf_8x

Genwald · 2 years ago

I don't understand this all or nothing rebuttal. You can avoid supporting an individual that you don't like without doing background checks on everyone involved with everything you use.

Also, not supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not about not supporting communism.

Genwald commented on Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story kotaku.com/nintendo-pirac... · Posted by u/danso

causality0 · 4 years ago

Team Xecuter are heroes in my book. They risked and lost everything to fight for my right to do what I want with hardware I bought, and I don't really care if they made a couple bucks doing it. Their end also brought the end of the xecuter community, probably the friendliest and least hateful gaming community I've ever seen.

Genwald · 4 years ago

As someone who followed this scene pretty closely for a while, they absolutely are not seen as heroes by most. The primary controversies being their use of Atmosphere components and promotion of piracy. Atmosphere being a free open source gplv2 project that does much of the same thing as Team Xecuter's SXOS. They benefited greatly from this existing project while violating its license by keeping SXOS closed source and profiting off of it. Their main addition being tools to support piracy. Additionally, at one point SXOS contained anti reverse engineering code that attempted to brick or at least temporarily disable the console of those investigating their cfw. https://twitter.com/hexkyz/status/1012363017957380096 Definitely not a group to idolize imo.