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New comment by 05 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

05 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:22:31 +0000

There are ways to control a device remotely without letting the device spy on you and call home - Zigbee, Matter, Esphome..

New comment by 05 in "WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations"

05 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:11:05 +0000

20minutes just means a shitty module or lots of ~1.3ghz noise (e.g. from dji o3/o4 or gopro cpu), although bad input filtering and gps located near an antenna could saturate the amplifier even with antenna on a different frequency. 1min is typical for cold fixes but you can make it faster by uploading ephemeris/cache using AssistNow (valid for about a month).

New comment by 05 in "OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026"

05 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:12:28 +0000

20x plan is $200, 5x is $100. Pausing $200 plan signups is effectively doubling prices (you can subscribe to two $100 accounts for the same money and get half as much usage), and that's exactly what they did.

New comment by 05 in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

05 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:38:16 +0000

Disconnect the u.fl to the antenna and it’ll be hard for it to transmit data unless you live next door to a cell tower.

New comment by 05 in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

05 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:32:23 +0000

HDMI breakout and a esp32 module flashed with esphome is another option. The tv most likely doesn’t care that the port that sent on/off command is not the same port the video signal is coming from..

New comment by 05 in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

05 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:28:59 +0000

You can do on/off using an IR blaster (broadlink integration with discrete on/off codes). It’s when you want to read volume etc things get trickier

New comment by 05 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

05 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:08:56 +0000

> They do allow to unlock their bootloaders

Kafka himself would be proud if their unlocking process[0], but technically sure, they allow it

> Press "Apply for unlocking" at exactly 12:00 AM GMT+8 (pressing it too late will cause the "application quota limit reached" error. Use this website to check the time) "Account Error" might show up. If that happens, retry after 10 days

[0] https://github.com/realdtn2/xiaomi-unlocking-rooting-guide

New comment by 05 in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

05 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:36:25 +0000

To be fair print drivers have mostly been user mode. On Windows since win2000, and on macOS - since macOS 10 Cheetah.

New comment by 05 in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

05 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:28:07 +0000

> Also pilot suicide isn't something new and the aviation world has tried to come up with several regulations to ensure it doesn't happen

As AI171 has shown, turning the engines off on rotation does it reliably and there’s nothing that the other pilot or regulations can do to prevent it.

New comment by 05 in "National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]"

05 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:43:28 +0000

> and the likely eventual outcome will be the same for the US as it was for the USSR.

Split into a bunch of states with only one of them getting the debt burden and the nukes? and they try to invade some other 'ex-US' states a couple decades later?

New comment by 05 in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

05 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:26:36 +0000

> Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock.

Is Neo a $20 toy? LIDARs are getting cheap quick, at some point when ToF sensors add $10 to BoM they will be in all drones.. I guess except US only SKUs? Not like you can't get pretty much the same data using just a single camera, GPS+IMU fusion and structure-from-motion..

New comment by 05 in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

05 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:02:58 +0000

US companies don't even sell consumer drones, so are they going to stay competitive by forcing consumers to buy $4000 enterprise models for their kids to play with?

New comment by 05 in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

05 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:01:22 +0000

> And banning the foreign ones means they can order domestic-made drones to have firmware that prevents them from operating in certain (government) areas, among other things.

Yeah because DJI drones are well known for their easy to hack firmware and lacking support for no fly zones..right? And they would openly flaunt any US law making any drones sold or flown the US to obey the NFZs? But wait, that's exactly what DJI drones used to do even without a law on the books, before FCC banned them.

New comment by 05 in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

05 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:38:13 +0000

Feels like having touch calibration procedure built into firmware and documented in the manual (remember those?) would also work.

New comment by 05 in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

05 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:18:46 +0000

Esphome+hdmi breakout board+llm (or use an existing project like [0])

[0] https://github.com/Palakis/esphome-native-hdmi-cec

New comment by 05 in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

05 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:45:48 +0000

> The only way to detect it from what I can see is to profile writes then append a "password:" string multiple times to measure the write-delay,

- Have the first check be a simple 8bit hash that filters out most passwords in microseconds, or use a customizable prefix instead of “password:”.

- have your password checking thread run in background at idle priority

- when you get an async password match, force usb disconnect and reconnect and the system will rescan the bus and mount your real drive.

Short of adversary dumping drive firmware (or them figuring out your hn account t, having a LLM scan the messages and finding this conversation) it’s not really easily detectable..

New comment by 05 in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"

05 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:54:58 +0000

> hell Google doesn't either, and they're a lot bigger than them

It’s more likely that Google is trying to boycott EU initiatives to the extent it can since giving them any support would only turn the public opinion more favorable towards more US tech regulation, and that’s very much against Google’s own interests.

New comment by 05 in "Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone into the Perfect Kids' Dumb Phone"

05 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:09:03 +0000

Also refuses to activate with alphanumeric passcode enabled..

New comment by 05 in "Drone Physics"

05 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:19:02 +0000

The main anti prop wash thing in BF seems to be using a good frame design so that you don't get frame resonances below ~100+ Hz and that allows you to raise the lowpass gyro filter threshold high enough to let the PID loop handle propwash.

New comment by 05 in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

05 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:14:29 +0000

I think there should be mandatory courses the owner needs to take to own these breeds (and pass the exam with satisfactory marks), loose or not if one slip of a leash can lead to a kid getting mangled then it's not safe for the owner to walk even a leashed untrained dog.