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jogu commented on Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit   economist.com/culture/202... · Posted by u/andsoitis
ecshafer · 11 days ago
Its interesting that elementary kids have this kind of evergreen introduction to Pokemon. There is always a new set of games coming out, cards to buy, toys, anime. So kids see older kids with it, they want to get it, then they get introduced. So this "fad" has gone on for 30 years.

However, even as someone who plays JRPGs. I can't for the life of me understand how adults are playing the games. The pokemon games are painful games to play, full of grinding, massive amounts of rng and just boring turn based combat (compared to other rpgs that exist). Why as an adult you would play Pokemon over SMT is something I can't get. Every time Ive tried ive bounced off newer games hard.

jogu · 11 days ago
> The pokemon games are painful games to play, full of grinding, massive amounts of rng and just boring turn based combat (compared to other rpgs that exist).

As someone who was played every entry since the 90s I can't even imagine how you could come away as Pokemon games being "grindy", assuming you're talking about just playing through the story. EXP share has been a standard mechanic for the past few generations that have effectively eliminated any grinding.

I'm also not really sure where you're getting "massive amounts" of RNG from either. Sure, moves can miss but it's never consequential enough that it could ruin a run or something. At most you lose a few minutes having to run back somewhere.

jogu commented on Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system   bbc.com/news/articles/c3e... · Posted by u/tartoran
worthless-trash · 22 days ago
I mean, the mitsubishi logo, makes it pretty obvious who the donor is.

Edit: i mean, we can't possibly figure out who donated, thank you kind donor.

jogu · 22 days ago
Mitsubishi Group has a lot of companies, including a bank, so no the logo doesn't say anything about who donated it.
jogu commented on Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more   mayoclinic.org/healthy-li... · Posted by u/mooreds
jauntywundrkind · a month ago
What are some good decaf teas people enjoy?
jogu · a month ago
I like Barley tea as my go to caffeine free tea.
jogu commented on Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)   shonumi.github.io/article... · Posted by u/mosura
vessenes · 2 months ago
I wasn't sure whether this was emulating the sewing machine, or driving an actual sewing machine from the emulator -- it's the latter.

Followup request - digital emulated sewing machine! Should be a breeze based on the blog!

jogu · 2 months ago
In the video at the end you can see it’s the former. They’re drawing a digital representation of the commands the emulator is sending to the “sewing machine”.
jogu commented on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed   jasoneckert.github.io/myb... · Posted by u/jasoneckert
danans · 2 months ago
I was pleased to discover recently that Ubuntu is supporting my NVidia Jetson going forward after NVidias official support period ends:

https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-now-officially-supports-nv...

So there is at least one ARM devkit with long term Linux support.

jogu · 2 months ago
Jetson is such a confusing product and it's difficult to tell exactly what they're supporting. Looking at the image download page it seems to be only Orin and newer?

https://ubuntu.com/download/nvidia-jetson

jogu commented on Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]   media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluet... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
bethekidyouwant · 2 months ago
Neat. It appears my headphones have to be in pairing mode. Which is a very short window, at which point the attacker can impersonate your device. this allows him to answer phone calls for you or make phone calls, but you would notice right away. It’s not like cloning the audio and eves dropping. so yeah it’s a nothing burger.
jogu · 2 months ago
Some devices are/were only vulnerable during the initial pairing but a key point from this talk was that most of these devices were vulnerable during normal use.

The RACE protocol could be accessed even if the device isn’t in pairing mode. Then once you have a target device’s key you can carry out the attack at anytime, when they’d be unlikely to notice.

jogu commented on Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]   media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluet... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
krick · 2 months ago
Ok, so TL;DR: there's nothing that can be done about it? Just hoping that nobody (like not a single random person, eh) around me knows about that?
jogu · 2 months ago
It can be fixed if the manufacturer releases a firmware update for the affected devices.
jogu commented on Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]   media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluet... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
bethekidyouwant · 2 months ago
This is just a chip with debug mode left on and does not allow anyone to hijack audio stream or anything interesting. (Just in case anyone’s checking the comments because they don’t want to watch a long ass video and they notice all the comments are essentially off topic)
jogu · 2 months ago
Sounds like you should have actually watched the “long ass video”.

It allows the pairing key to be exfiltrated from the compromised device and an external, attacker controlled device to perform any function the original device could. This includes retrieving the paired devices phone number, answering phone calls, and receiving the audio. They live demo hijacking a whatsapp account using this.

jogu commented on Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]   media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluet... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
epakai · 2 months ago
Razer isn't mentioned, but I know they're using Airoha AB1571DN in Blackshark V3 Pro transmitter. Not sure what is on the headset end.

Don't see any mentions on their last firmware update, and I can't find older ones.

jogu · 2 months ago
Important to note that usage of an Airoha chip doesn’t imply being vulnerable, so each device has to be checked individually.

It’s possible they weren’t vulnerable to begin with, it’s also possible they silently patched it.

jogu commented on Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot   enzom.dev/b/passkeys/... · Posted by u/emadda
jeroenhd · 3 months ago
I don't think this is a security vs usability thing. A lot of UIs are intentionally confusing.

Apple wants you to use iCloud passkeys, Microsoft wants you to use Microsoft Account passkeys, Google wants you to use Google passkeys. Even if you have a dedicated USB device plugged in, browsers keep defaulting to the cloud accounts.

Bitwarden's approach is to simply hijack the passkey request before the browser can respond and throw itself front and center. It's a terrible hack but it works on every browser at the very least.

If these companies cared about their users more than they cared about throwing up walled gardens, they wouldn't put a USB key behind "Choose another method" -> "Dedicated device" -> "Security key" -> "Confirm" while offering one-click login with their cloud account. And they would offer a proper API for third party applications to integrate into the native passkey storage.

jogu · 3 months ago
Yeah, the passkey provider management is absolutely horrendous and is the biggest blocker to passkey adoption in my eyes. I have 3 different sources (iCloud keychain, Yubikey, and Enpass) and in the best case it's some extra clicks like you mention, in the worst case it just simply won't let me select the correct provider.

I've resigned to registering a passkey into all of my providers and just letting the most platform native option win for now.

u/jogu

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