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diftraku commented on Kevo app shutdown   kwikset.com/support/answe... · Posted by u/asperous
privatelypublic · 6 months ago
One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability. But other than that it's vendor lock-in (heh), and lack of availability in the US.

With most so called locksmiths being drillsmiths in the US, not being able to clone DD and dimple keys.

Puck one. Or maybe the OP is just bitter they can't pick it for their next "belt" after getting chuffed with themselves picking average american garbage.

diftraku · 6 months ago
> One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability.

I'm assuming you're referring to the VingCard vulnerability from 2018? (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43896360)

Digital locks aside, this is more applicable to any lock you buy and rely on (substitute US with your local region):

> lack of availability in the US

I wouldn't go out of my way to find something like Schlage here, when Abloy (Assa Abloy) locks are available in abundance with locksmiths able to duplicate usually all the key variants.

diftraku commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami   community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster
MathiasPius · 6 months ago
Between the VMware licensing changes and this, it looks like Broadcom is making a serious play at dethroning Oracle as the most evil software vendor.

It's a shame that competition for this position has been ramping up lately.

diftraku · 6 months ago
They're still technically Avago Technologies, just wearing the name of Broadcom after the acquisition in 2015-2016. Not sure if there's much of Broadcom left, beyond the name and what IP they had at the time which was not sold off, like they did with the IoT related IPs.
diftraku commented on AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI   engadget.com/ai/amc-theat... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
SirFatty · a year ago
Yes, Kung Pow is a great example of how jarring it can be! :-D
diftraku · a year ago
"YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?"
diftraku commented on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)   fangpenlin.com/posts/2024... · Posted by u/leonry
CaptainJack · a year ago
I've used beancount extensively, spent many hours a few years ago. Built importers parsing bank PDFs (in UK, plaid doesn't work. Plus I'd rather also keep all the original statement PDFs).

Probably built 10+ importers, plus some plugins to do automated transaction annotations.

I have not made any update for many years now, because: - Downloading statements is still a pain, have to manually go through all websites. Banks are bad at making the statements available, and worse making it possible to automate it. - The root of the issue is actually that beancount is too slow. Any change/update takes ages. Python is both a blessing (makes it easy to add plugins/importers etc), and a curse (way slower than some other languages.

I believe the creator of beancount has started working on v3 with a mix of C++/python, relying on protobufs, a C++ core for parsing, etc. AFAIK, that is not production-ready yet.

diftraku · a year ago
I'd be really curious on how hard programmatic access to your own, personal banking data might be in the PSD2-era.

I can link my secondary bank account to my main bank's app so I can see the balance in one place, but the catch is that I need to refresh this authorization through the app every 90 days.

Ideally, you'd just use your banking credentials to authorise the API access and pull data through that. What this requires in practice, I have no idea but it probably involves a bit of bureucracy.

diftraku commented on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now   theverge.com/2024/11/6/24... · Posted by u/redbell
jpnc · a year ago
There's a reason Windows went from 'MyComputer' to 'This PC'.
diftraku · a year ago
"Our PC"
diftraku commented on Do not put plastic in the microwave   bonappetit.com/story/can-... · Posted by u/say_it_as_it_is
aeternum · 2 years ago
Amazon referral link to the glass containers. The real question is: how many of these articles are complete BS just to sell a product?

Definitely Do Not trust what you read when there is a referral link.

diftraku · 2 years ago
I opted for Ikea glass containers partly for wanting to avoid plastics (except the lids) and partly to not have to deal with tomato sauces staining the pristine white plastic containers after a single use

Micro/nanoplastics are a secondary consideration overall, primary was just to reduce my usage of plastics a bit, even how infinitesimal it really is. I only realized how much plastic packaging I go through once I moved to an apartment with plastic "recycling", I still separate out most plastics but not everything.

I personally am not really swayed towards ditching whatever plastics I still have, given how ubiquitous it is and I am already happy with my Ikea glassware.

diftraku commented on Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter   rtl-sdr.com/flipper-zero-... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
AviationAtom · 3 years ago
Some very cool videos from lineman showing high voltage air switches opening under even a reduced load.

I think most folks don't understand electric components don't like being manipulated under a load.

diftraku · 3 years ago
At the same time, I'm in awe and in horror of seeing those high current, high voltage disconnects being opened only to end up with a few meter high arc of current jumping through the air between contacts.

I was taught the procedure of disconnecting a 10/20kV disconnect for an on-site transformer (alas, only an old one that had been decommissioned) and that thing scared the crap out of me when I first heard the spring loaded high voltage disconnect actuate.

Having a 3 meter fibreglass pole to actuate the thing, just incase, tells you there is a real risk of the thing blow up in your face, on a good day.

diftraku commented on Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter   rtl-sdr.com/flipper-zero-... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
diftraku · 3 years ago
> In the video it appears that Peter was using the Flipper Zero to wireless turn the power meter on and off, which also controlled the power to a large AC unit. Eventually switching the meter on and off while under a heavy load resulted in the meter self destructing and releasing the magic smoke.

Calling out Flipper Zero for someone (ab)using the meter's remote control features cuts me the wrong way: you could've done the same with any other SDR, not just the Flipper Zero.

It's not even a surprise this happened, the cut-off is not meant to be operated constantly to cut heavy loads. Similarly you should not use a breaker to turn off heavy (or any, in that matter) loads as you're needlessly wearing down the protective device, instead of a separate cut-off switch that's designed to be replaceable. Especially since it can be positioned downstream from the protective device.

It all boils down to which part of the circuit you can easily repair in case of a fault, in this case the meter is by far the least accessible.

diftraku commented on Closing a stale SSH connection   davidisaksson.dev/posts/c... · Posted by u/granddave
tjoff · 3 years ago
One caveat here is the note:

> (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.)

This means that it is easy to pick up a habit to smash the enter-button a few times before doing this dance, and as noted on a nordic layout it can be a bit tricky and since you might seldom do it you might do it a few times.

Problem can be that sometimes the connection is only broken one way, what you are typing goes to the server but the responses don't. So you might end up wreaking some kind of havoc on the remote server when you just want to kill the session. Maybe you had a half-written command. Maybe you had just done an up-arrow to get to the previous command, maybe you redid that up-arrow one or more times before you realized that the connection was broken. If you press enter now you will re-run one of your previous commands. Could be quite scary.

To save you from some of that, you could do a ctrl+c which will clear your current line, before pressing enter. But whether that is a good idea depends on the context...

The most apparent issue this has been for me is if on the remote you have IRC or something and you type a bunch of garbage to whatever channel you are on. No biggie, but the old restart the terminal isn't too bad either.

diftraku · 3 years ago
Another note for nordic layouts and Linux: tilde (~) is considered to be a "dead key" on most nordic layouts, meaning you may need to follow AltGr + ~ with a space before typing out the dot. Otherwise you might get weird looks from the terminal trying to figure what you meant with the tilde-dot.

Incidentally, while testing on Windows (in both WSL and cmd.exe) with a Finnish layout: you do not need a space after typing out the tilde.

diftraku commented on Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move   wsj.com/articles/google-c... · Posted by u/stingrae
JoshStrobl · 3 years ago
Meanwhile as an American living in Finland, I just wish I could have my directions in English, use Metric system, but have the names of streets and the like use the Finnish pronunciation. Instead it absolutely butchers the pronunciation almost beyond comprehension and gives me the streets in both Finnish and Swedish as further punishment.
diftraku · 3 years ago
Another source of constant hilarity is when the voice guidance tries to pronounce the names of ring roads in Helsinki metropolitan area: Kehä I / Ring I. They're numbered using roman numerals (I through III) but Maps has no such knowledge of this so it just ends up rattling off the route number and "Kehä / Ring" with the ring road numerals as if they were just a literal letter I.

Sometimes the lane guidance also likes to pick up on the destinations from the overhead signs, trying to pronounce the Finnish and Swedish names with less than stellar results.

u/diftraku

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