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New comment by bsharper in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

bsharper — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:21:38 +0000

There is a choice, but almost nobody uses it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

New comment by bsharper in "How to turn anything into a router"

bsharper — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:22:34 +0000

There are some difference in client wifi interfaces (STA) and access point wifi interfaces (APs, like you'd find on a good router). For example, some wifi interfaces don't have promiscuous mode, or can't scan while maintaining an active connection, etc.

It's like the difference between softmodems (aka winmodems) and full hardware modems. I know there are some projects that use Raspberry Pis as an AP, and it could do like 10 devices stock and 20 devices with firmware changes. Even a low-end router could handle more clients than that.

New comment by bsharper in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

bsharper — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:43:19 +0000

You mean you DON'T want to see every utility installed via snap listed as a mount point? /s

New comment by bsharper in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

bsharper — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:45:44 +0000

There is a Jackbox game called "Talking Points" that's like this: the players come up with random ideas for presentations, your "assistant" (one of the other players) picks what's on each slide while you present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnprQpQONw

New comment by bsharper in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

bsharper — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:59:30 +0000

You only need $25-30. It'll be locked to a carrier, but that doesn't matter and is perhaps preferable (no monthly fee for a subsidized device) if you are able to use wifi. There's an ETA prime video which explores using a 2025 Moto 5G as handheld game console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ad5BrcfHkY

tl;dw it's quite capable for the money and would could easily get on social media apps/sites.

New comment by bsharper in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

bsharper — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:00:46 +0000

You can have a multiuser system but that doesn't solve this particular issue. If they log in to what you claim to be your primary account and see browser history that shows you went to msn.com 3 months ago, they aren't going to believe it's the primary account.

New comment by bsharper in "Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza"

bsharper — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:38:46 +0000

Miguel de Icaza is kind of a legend, I know him most from his work on Mono and Gnome. Whatever he works on today will likely be part of a stack you work on in a few years (at least that's my experience).

New comment by bsharper in "Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely"

bsharper — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:48:55 +0000

I end up using a combination of scp, LocalSend, magic wormhole and sharedrop.io. Occasionally `python -m http.server` in a pinch for local downloads. It's unfortunate that this xkcd comic is still as relevant as it was in 2011: https://xkcd.com/949/

New comment by bsharper in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

bsharper — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:02:25 +0000

The user can change anything they want, but a process launched by your user doesn't inherit every user access by default. You (the user) can give a process full disk access, or just access to your documents, or just access to your contacts, etc. It's maximizing user control, not minimizing it.

New comment by bsharper in "Jailbreaking RabbitOS"

bsharper — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:29:58 +0000

Not specifically related to your point, but government provided weather APIs might not be a thing in the US in the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...

New comment by bsharper in "Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?"

bsharper — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:58:57 +0000

It's funny when you look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelli...

The original bump-and-turn Roomba is listed for 2002.

New comment by bsharper in "Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?"

bsharper — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:57:37 +0000

It's also how Google generally brands consumer-facing products, which is just Google + Noun. Most of their non-enterprise products tend to have unambiguous names (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Translate).

New comment by bsharper in "Pdf.tocgen"

bsharper — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:43:25 +0000

I've found EasyOCR to work much better at pulling text out of irregular or unknown images. Requires more resources than tesseract but gets much better results in my projects.

New comment by bsharper in "Meta Horizon OS"

bsharper — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:58:47 +0000

Amazon used AOSP to create tons of their products. Even if most Android devices have the Play Store, there are successful variants that don't. And I'd even include Meta's Quest line here: every headset since the Go has the ability to sideload apks using standard Android tools.

New comment by bsharper in "Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model"

bsharper — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:16:05 +0000

Check out ollama: https://ollama.ai/

It's easy to get running and doesn't require you to manually download models.

New comment by bsharper in "Node.js v7.0.0"

bsharper — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 05:58:56 +0000

I just use JS scripts, because if node is not installed you aren't getting very far anyway.

Actions like "copy this file", "clear this subdirectory", and "pull these files over the network" are easy to write synchronously in node, are there are modules for things that aren't.

For more complex actions, there are modules like env-cmd or cross-env for setting environmental variables on different platforms. If you had something really complex, you could check os.platform() and then call scripts written for each OS.

But you're right, you can't write a .sh shell script and expect it to magically work on Windows.