Mike Sliczniak

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Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

oh my god i patched the binary to disable the CRC check in transformer mode and it's *different* and *even better*

(here i just XOR a random hunk of the file with 0xAA)

Opinion | José Andrés: Let People Eat

You cannot win this war by starving an entire population.

The New York Times

I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc. Profiled sshd, showing lots of cpu time in liblzma, with perf unable to attribute it to a symbol. Got suspicious. Recalled that I had seen an odd valgrind complaint in automated testing of postgres, a few weeks earlier, after package updates.

Really required a lot of coincidences.

Marc Stevens came up with a new kind of MD5 collisions:
alphanum, no space, single byte difference (always +4), and not even 2 blocks!

No more high entropy collision blocks!

md5("TEXTCOLLBYfGiJUETHQ4hAcKSMd5zYpgqf1YRDhkmxHkhPWptrkoyz28wnI9V0aHeAuaKnak")
=
md5("TEXTCOLLBYfGiJUETHQ4hEcKSMd5zYpgqf1YRDhkmxHkhPWptrkoyz28wnI9V0aHeAuaKnak")

Use `echo -n` to test otherwise it outputs a newline char, which will get wrong results.

I'm currently in the process of designing an #ExpansionCard for my new #FrameworkLaptop.

I need the #Unifying #dongle (lower latency), but don't want it sticking out and losing a whole slot.

So I'm going to throw a USB hub and the peeled dongle on a PCB and hope it all works out :D

As a further experiment, I routed the USB A SS lines past the hub (USB 2 D+/D- connected to port 1 of the hub).
Not sure if this will play nice with USB drivers, but it's worth a try.

#USB #DongleHiderPlus

Our hardware memory tagging support for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro has uncovered a memory corruption bug introduced in Android 14 QPR2 for Bluetooth LE. We're currently investigating it to determine how to fix or temporarily disable the newly introduced feature as a workaround.
I ran @coprolite9000's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk #bbcbasic
Owlet BBC BASIC Editor

Jeff Koons Killed Her Review

The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay about his work created “a chilling effect on the critical culture,” a journalism expert said.

The New York Times