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@siracusa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-discontinues-mac-pro-desktop-in-favor-of-the-mac-studio 😭

Nate Schaffner Feb 20

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Stuart Gibson Feb 19

@stroughtonsmith multiverse simulation confirmed to not be thread safe.

Nate Schaffner Feb 20

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Steve Troughton-Smith Feb 19

This is the plot to The Man In The High Castle, isn't it? Lost artifacts showing the 'true' timeline? 😛

Nate Schaffner Feb 20

Steve Troughton-Smith Feb 19

Speaking of the quality of Apple's Private Cloud Compute model…

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Nate Schaffner Feb 6

https://c.org/CN8NqzbCS5 I’m opposed to Google building a data center where my family lives in Irwin County, Georgia. I used to work in data centers. There is typically one person staffing the NOC 24/7, and a few others maybe during the day - not hundreds of new jobs. Huge amounts of water are used for cooling, evaporating into the air to remove heat from industrial glycol chillers on the roof. This will decimate the local wildlife population, which we value. Please sign this petition in protest!

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Protect Irwin County from DATA CENTERS

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Nate Schaffner Feb 2

Zhuowei Zhang Feb 1

Here’s the super high level summary of the Meta Ray-Ban’s Bluetooth protocol (DataX/Airshield framework), based on traffic capture, decompiling the Meta Wearable SDK, and disassembling the Meta AI app:

To connect:

Get PSM (port) for the L2cap connection by looking at BLE service ID FD5F and characteristic 05ACBE9F-6F61-4CA9-80BF-C8BBB52991C0

this is 4 bytes - the last 2 bytes (little endian) is the PSM

Open L2cap connection

Datax sends messages on “channels”; each channel is connected to a “service”

Both the phone and the device do this handshake:

in the first message, open channel 1 by connecting to service LINK_SETUP (0x05) and sending RequestEncryption message

wait for the other side’s RequestEncryption message

in the second message, on channel 1, send EnableEncryption

wait for the other side’s EnableEncryption

perform ECDH to get a shared secret, setup encryption

This is all done in native code even in the Android phone app/SDK. Once the initial connection is open, though, other services are implemented in Java on the Android Meta AI app and SDK.

For pairing in the Meta AI App, the phone app sends IdentityRequest after opening the connection.

When I tested connecting to the device, the device also opens:

channel 0x1e (identity/applinks) and sends com.oculus.applinks.EnableTrust
channel 0x4f (CONSTELLATIONAUTH) and sends com.meta.constellationauth.EnableTrust

The SDK doesn’t have the applinks service (not sure if the phone app does), but does have code for handing CONSTELLATIONAUTH, including sending app manifests - this is probably how it checks if the SDK app is allowed.

Nate Schaffner Feb 2