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Matt Mar 5, 2023

"Apart from the landing, that was an almost perfect approach and landing"

Flying a helicopter fast is easy. Flying a helicopter slowly is *hard*.

Matt Jan 12, 2023

Have I mentioned recently just how much I detest YAML?

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

The yaml document from hell

As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

Matt Nov 29, 2022

Current status:

Attempting to recreate the enjoyment of the day's first cup of coffee with the day's 6th cup of coffee, and failing.

Matt Nov 25, 2022

Rob Pomeroy Nov 25, 2022

Could I tempt you to boost this post, or get involved in a project to customise Linux for users with special needs/learning difficulties? I have two such children. Adults now (18). I want to do something for my boys and for people like them. 🙂❤️

I've already done a bit, using Ansible, with AlmaLinux and Ubuntu: https://github.com/robpomeroy/BrightOS

Please spread the word - I'm sure someone out there would love to get involved!

#SpecialNeeds #Linux #Education #NonProfit

GitHub - robpomeroy/BrightOS: This open source repository contains an Ansible playbook for customising Linux to help users with a learning disability.

This open source repository contains an Ansible playbook for customising Linux to help users with a learning disability. - GitHub - robpomeroy/BrightOS: This open source repository contains an Ansi...

GitHub

Matt Nov 16, 2022

Mathy Vanhoef Nov 15, 2022

Abusing Wi-Fi to localize someone's devices inside their room. Attacker spoofs beacons to pretend there's buffered traffic for all clients. Every clients will request this traffic and thereby reveal their MAC address. Fake frames are sent to the victim and the time-of-flight of the response (here the response is an acknowledgement frame) is used for localization

Free PDF access: https://randompaper1234.tiiny.site/
Official paper website: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3495243.3560530

This can be done from cheap drones. They used an ultra-light DJI mini 2 drone with two lightweight Wi-Fi chips: an ESP8266 & ESP32. Idea is that you can now "look inside a room" and learn where devices are located. For instance, you can learn the location of Wi-Fi security cameras.