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arthie commented on Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests   olegkutkov.me/2024/02/12/... · Posted by u/alphabettsy
temp0826 · 2 years ago
I don't imagine we'll be getting the upgrade anytime soon (in Mexico, and logistically in general I don't know how an upgrade/swap would be handled).

The jitter/etc fixes look great, but we are off-grid here on limited solar power (we have to unplug the fridge every night or we won't have any battery left in the morning). So a little disappointed to see increased power consumption (glad that we would never need the snowmelt feature here).

arthie · 2 years ago
A mobile dishy will be released sometime later this year. I imagine this version will prioritise power efficiency and size. This version should have lower power consumption at the cost of network performance.
arthie commented on Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules   wired.com/story/developer... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
dkuznetsov · 2 years ago
Let's say a subscription costs $10. Why not charge $14.29 through app store and $10 through online registration? With both logins acceptable in the login form... If Apple users want to pay more for the privilege of paying through Apple, why not let them?
arthie · 2 years ago
Apple does not allow different pricing
arthie commented on Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs   blog.checkpoint.com/secur... · Posted by u/chha
fwlr · 2 years ago
Capabilities-based security prevents these supply chain attacks! (Even though in this case most of the downloads were of packages including unwanted telemetry and not something more dangerous.)

“…And now if a [color theme] wants to read your data and send it to a server, it needs a filesystem capability and a network capability. It should be an obvious red flag if a [theming addon] were to ask for those dependencies. And this makes it hard to hide malware.” https://borretti.me/article/how-capabilities-work-austral

The original quote talks about a leftpad dependency but it’s a drop-in substitution to apply it here, too. It’s right there in the screenshot:

    const https = require(‘http’)
    const os = require(‘os’)
Both of those calls ought to error out with “Error: Network capability not provided” and “Error: filesystem capability not provided”, respectively.

arthie · 2 years ago

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KarmaCake day7August 6, 2018View Original