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@nprofile…fmv3 depends
If PEN splits into PE and N before RCD, and then these two wires are connected again after RCD, then it should trip all the time. Like, you shouldn't be able to turn it on when there's any load at all, because ~half of the return current goes not-through-the-RCD.
If "PE" after RCD is only connected to N after RCD, and not to PE before RCD, then the test button should trip the RCD, but a leakage to chassis won't trip the RCD, which is bad.
I'm not a certified electrician btw.
1/

2026-07-25 20:35:07 GMT

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@nprofile…pm95 no audio? :(

2026-07-15 23:41:54 GMT

You can keep morality personal. But ethics is, by definition, a subset of moral norms that a group of professionals have agreed to follow in their work.
Fortunately, programming is not a profession, there is no liability express or implied, no standards to hold ourselves up to...
oh, wait
https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

2026-07-13 22:23:15 GMT

If you have a test matrix with two boolean variables, A and B, and you don't have a test framework that'd generate all the combinations for you, which order do you run the tests in?
A=false, B=false
A=false, B=true
A=true, B=false
A=true, B=true
or
A=false, B=false
A=false, B=true
A=true, B=true
A=true, B=false
?

2026-07-11 20:31:40 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u yeah, I'm aware.
But copyright isn't given to all human-created stuff, right? If something is so simple that there is only one obvious way to do it, and you use that obvious way, then what you did isn't creative and doesn't get copyright?

2026-07-11 11:25:37 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u "nothing creative here" ? :P

2026-07-09 20:37:49 GMT

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@nprofile…50n2
this was a wild guess, and the following may be a wild goose chase, but:
it has different hostname than the other ones, right?
What happens if you
getent hosts $(hostname)
?

2026-07-09 20:27:43 GMT

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@nprofile…50n2
you could probably drill down further by either:
- tracing functions inside systemd using uprobes - eg. through bpftrace or iovisor/bcc
- tracing syscalls - either with tools mentioned above, or even manually by toggling flags in /sys/kernel/tracing and cat-ting the trace pipe
however, if I was to guess, it's DNS

2026-07-09 19:59:29 GMT

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@nprofile…a284
is this specifically about which type to use for indexing an array?

2026-07-08 19:44:58 GMT

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@nprofile…zvuc @nprofile…4jr4
Information accessible to experts is still information.
A register map for an obscure chip is a piece of information, even though it's accessible only to experts.
These days, even if it's on the internet, it's likely impossible to find.
What's easy to find is an article that pretends to know something but doesn't actually say anything.

2026-07-08 19:32:21 GMT

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@nprofile…4jr4 we're way past wealth of information. Now it is deception fighting for attention with other deception.

2026-07-04 15:38:06 GMT

Does using fruit pictures as variable names actually make algebra more approachable to children?

2026-07-04 15:28:07 GMT

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@nprofile…u622
> I'd like to respond to this, but after more than a month and a hundred other packages I've been working on, I've already lost all the context here.
That's what happens if you don't put your heart into the patch.

2026-07-03 19:34:11 GMT

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Counter-Strike CD - the most feared item a student could bring to primary school.

2026-07-03 08:21:18 GMT

If there was Counter-Strike 1.6 on GOG (so DRM-free), I'd buy it just to burn it on a CD, and be able to bring a Counter-Strike CD to a LAN party or other social gathering.
Unfortunately, no Counter-Strike 1.6 on GOG.

2026-06-30 12:50:38 GMT

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@nprofile…3zps
Do you think any of the ones I metioned are excessive and should be split to an external library whose API is not mandaed by the language specification?

2026-06-30 12:49:34 GMT

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@nprofile…3zps
All good suggestions.
yaml/toml/ini fit in the same category as "json parser", so I'd assume if someone says "no json parser" they're against these three too.
CLI parser is a good one I didn't think of.
Helpers for higher order functions sound really depend on what kinda language it is, but in general "pure helper functions that support the paradigm of the programming language" sounds like something everyone would agree should be included.

2026-06-29 23:27:23 GMT

what should an stdlib include?
- data structures (list, hashmap, bst tree, set, queue)
- event loop (or at least an abstract interface for one)
- locks, atomics
- logging API
- common error types
- regex
- cross-platform filesystem API
- abstract IO stream API
- json parser
- compression algorithms (deflate, bzip, lzma, zstd)
- implementation of tar and zip file formats
- sha256
- popular cryptographic primitives (AES, chacha20, RSA, ECDSA)
- network sockets
- DNS resolver
- https client
?

2026-06-28 12:44:58 GMT

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@nprofile…j9hp I see two ways in which this could go.
One is synchronous & walled - BBSes, Discord wikis, invite-only websites, etc. I
Another is more document-oriented, public replicated data structure, like git, usenet, or torrents. In hopes that even a badly written scraper for those will have a working deduplication and won't download the same things twice.
Not sure which I like more, but if you know anyone running an inn...

2026-06-27 18:31:40 GMT

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@nprofile…26t9 @nprofile…22w0
makes sense....
I should start doing that in Golang then!

2026-06-26 19:57:53 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
I've heard that this approach - struct-of-arrays instead of array-of-structs - also works well on JVM, for example Minecraft was initially written like this.
Allegedly, if you write your code like that and avoid doing anything object-oriented, Java is as fast as C.

2026-06-18 14:03:01 GMT

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@nprofile…jz9g
and civil wars are the worst, because the government cannot credibly promise not to kill the rebels after they lay down their weapons. So they tend to drag out.

2026-06-18 14:01:51 GMT

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@nprofile…jz9g
Countries don't respect treaties because of signatures, they respect treaties because it's more profitable than war. If Tehran negotiated a treaty that is attractive to the soldiers on the ground, the soldiers on the ground will go home and enjoy a renewed flow of imported goods.
If Tehran negotiated a treaty that is not attractive to the soldiers, and has no coercive power to make them stop the attacks (eg by cutting supplies) that means it's a civil war...

2026-06-18 12:51:09 GMT

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@nprofile…n36s
let's not get carried away: AFAIK internally to Russia, the war is a significant wealth transfer from the oligarchs to the working class - the contract soldiers (or - if they die - their families), the people employed in weapon factories, and the people employed elsewhere who now need to be paid more in order not to change jobs to the weapon factories.
Though I agree RUS was making average citizens poorer in the past, and this is what allowed the war to happen.

2026-06-08 12:50:38 GMT

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@nprofile…8epn
is lifting weights also busywork for the sake of busywork?
@nprofile…yz28

2026-06-08 07:52:47 GMT

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oh come on, it works now? I haven't even gotten to work...

2026-06-08 07:32:06 GMT

I'm finally seeing one of those mythical GitHub outages that people have been talking about for the last few months

2026-06-07 10:47:26 GMT

I don't think ISPs should be responsible for the content of traffic they carry (that'd lead to a ton of censorship, surveillemce, and net neutrality issues).
But they should be responsible for the volume.
If an ISP's customers are infected by a botnet that bypasses rate limits, that should be the ISP's problem.

2026-06-06 06:32:38 GMT

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@nprofile…c057
I think their "permissive AI policy" covers a very wide range. If a project holds an AI-generated patch and its human submitter to the same quality standard it'd treat a human-written patch - expecting the code to be understandable, each change to be justified, and the author to understand he change - I think that's very different from a situation where maintainers commit AI-generated code without review.

2026-06-04 10:41:14 GMT

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@nprofile…4jr4 oh come on, it's better than that

2026-05-31 13:15:44 GMT

I just realized:
The only reason to have datacenters in orbit is to prevent an angry mob from destroying them.
Ofc AI is only useful at replacing employees if you can use it in the place where you need the employees. But SpaceX also has Starlink, so it can deliver AI at any place in the world, in a way that is not vulnerable to angry people cutting fiber cables...

2026-05-30 11:59:38 GMT

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@nprofile…us9r
if you find an RCE in a popular piece of software and the upstream refuses to fix it,
and you exploit that indiscriminately against random users
with the intent to cause data loss
that's still malware and morally wrong

2026-05-28 15:42:48 GMT

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@nprofile…n36s the truckers that are just standing there in the traffic jam must have nerves of steel...

2026-05-22 16:00:30 GMT

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@nprofile…tpfq
oh, is this a big LIR vs small LIR vote?

2026-05-22 15:56:35 GMT

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@nprofile…tpfq
was Scheme A the status quo?

2026-05-22 13:47:05 GMT

DId you know: if you have a link to a youtube short, you can replace the `/shorts/` with `/watch?v=` and watch the short in a normal video UI?

2026-05-20 18:35:50 GMT

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@nprofile…a284
I heard ddg is bing under the hood :/
Question is do you want a different index, or just a different frontend + possibly different ranking

2026-05-18 17:20:18 GMT

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@nprofile…9eh0
there are three versions of Signal, and you don't know which one you're talking to:
A) is doomed to shut down
B) can be saved by your donation
C) will survive either way
All versions of signal are incentivized to pretend they're B.
Therefore, by observing the statement "Signal needs your support", you learn exactly nothing.

2026-05-17 19:03:23 GMT

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@nprofile…6srv why in every log message instead of one at the start of the log? Because the start of the log may've been days ago, rotated somewhere else, and also people tend to send around individual log messages when talking about problems.

2026-05-17 19:01:35 GMT

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@nprofile…6srv because I often end up looking at a different version of the source code than the one the binary was built from.
Either I'm looking at the latest version on a public forge, or at a local git clone of the upstream repo that may or may not be on the same commit.
So not only the line numbers likely won't match up, but also the code I'm looking at may already have a fix for the bug I'm looking for.
So being reminded of which version I should be reading would be very helpful.

2026-05-17 18:51:25 GMT

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@nprofile…6srv by error message I mean the one you print to stderr, not something you'd send to a user over the network.
I can see how the function name could help. I don't remember encountering a situation where the error message wasn't unique, I could've forgotten it though.
Regarding line numbers - I think putting an abbreviated git commit hash in every log message would be a better use of space.

2026-05-17 18:33:00 GMT

what's the purpose of including the function name in a runtime error message?
Naively, I'd think that it's to find the place in the code that printed the error message.
But I can usually do that just by grepping the error message in the repo... do people have so generic error messages that the same string can appear in more than one place in the code?

2026-05-15 19:16:51 GMT

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@nprofile…w4y9 that'd be nice

2026-05-15 19:03:49 GMT

Is it better if
a) some rando watches security fixes being committed to the Linux kernel's git repo, develops exploits within hours of seeing them, and publishes them for everyone to use, or
b) only nation states do that, and they don't share these exploits with anyone
?
Like, for an average computer-using company, obviously (b) is better because nation states are unliekly to target them.
But for the rest of us?

2026-05-11 21:37:36 GMT

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@nprofile…tgjm oh, that's very different from okidata then - that one sounds like
bzzzz-ttttt
bzzzz-ttttt
bzzzz-tttt
bzzzz-tttt
bzt-bzt-bzt-bzt

2026-05-11 21:36:09 GMT

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@nprofile…tgjm what does a zebra sound like?

2026-05-06 15:15:13 GMT

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@nprofile…tpfq
but shouldn't there still be a sharp latemcy bump from the firewall?

2026-05-05 20:14:00 GMT

silly idea: could dbus in desktop distros be replaced with OpenWrt's ubus?

2026-05-02 10:43:24 GMT

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@nprofile…tgjm
> Space Shuttle
some things have changed a lot
> Tomahawk
others have not

2026-04-28 19:50:14 GMT

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@nprofile…gpjx writing retro-scifi books for other burned out tech workers

2026-04-22 10:20:52 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
counter-intuitive fact: when Buddy Holly was Paul McCartney's age, Paul McCartney was *not* Paul McCartney's age.

2026-04-19 09:13:44 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
kinda sad that all the cool things were already discovered in the 60s by IBM and no cool things were discovered in the 2010s

2026-04-18 19:09:16 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0 should've seen that coming...
oh, and IBM 360 was an out-of-order machine with register renaming?
anyway
how is this dealt with in contemporary uArchs?

2026-04-18 19:04:50 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
> the insight is much older
TIL!
Was it known already when ARM and MIPS were designed?

2026-04-18 18:59:26 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
this is the same insight that lead to Mill CPU's belt

2026-04-18 18:50:27 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
"in these node graphs, everything is used at most once or twice"
I bet in a moment you're gonna talk about the inner workings of a compiler
*1 mintue later*
damn, an interpreter

2026-04-16 21:51:03 GMT

Should I update BIOS on an ASUS B650 motherboard if current BIOS seems to work fine but is 2 years old... and there are several versions in between with "after installing this, you cannot downgrade" ?

2026-04-16 09:38:21 GMT

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@nprofile…s997
I admit a large part of it is min-maxing for fun
@nprofile…9eh0

2026-04-16 09:37:18 GMT

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@nprofile…s997
well, more like "would like to, if possible without buying another cooler"
@nprofile…9eh0

2026-04-16 09:35:53 GMT

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@nprofile…s997
I want to have a margin for 36°C ambient in the summer. Currently it's 21°C ambient.
@nprofile…9eh0

2026-04-16 09:29:51 GMT

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@nprofile…9eh0
Pretty sure the 3D-vcache is on top of the die that has cores, but yeah this one is off to the side, and the IO die (memory controller + pcie + misc IO) is in the center.
But yeah, I've heard if offset cooler mounts. If it turns out this OC struggles in the summer and I end up buying a better cooler, I'll look into those.

2026-04-14 22:30:31 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u cause like
I wouldn't expect companies to deal with double standards
they create double standards, and other people have to deal with them (or give up), right?

2026-04-14 22:22:59 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u I mean, do lawyers hired by companies and countries, and lawyers hired to litigate against companies and countries, have to deal with such double standards often?

2026-04-14 21:49:31 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u
wait, so this kind of double standard isn't something lawyers deal with on a daily basis?

2026-04-14 21:35:55 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u
so if they were to accidentally leak the code, they'd have no way of preventing further redistribution of that code?

2026-04-14 17:04:14 GMT

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@nprofile…rdqe
yeah I was planning to repaste but wanted to do proper testing first (logging with hwinfo, writing things down, etc).
Which I just finished, so repaste time.

2026-04-14 16:45:44 GMT

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Also, is it normal that this CPU cooler - Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 V2 - can't get the CPU below 86°C at 120W load? (21°C ambient)

2026-04-14 16:34:11 GMT

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1.04V is the default VSOC btw
Somewhat relatedly, enabling EXPO adds 8W to the idle CPU power draw, and increases temps under full load (prime95 smallFFTs + furmark on iGPU) by like 5°C.
Even if I can't get UCLK to 3000MHz, surely it should be able to do 1500MHz at a way lower VSOC, since it's doing 2400MHz at 1.04V...
Hopefully that would lower the temps?

2026-04-14 16:11:08 GMT

I've been building a PC for a family member.
7800X3D
2x16GB DDR5 6000MT/s CL36
Asus TUF B650-E
EXPO profile says 1.35 VDD and VDDQ for the RAM
and when I enable it, BIOS sets VSOC to 1.24V (pretty high) and yet UCLK is 1500MHz, implying 1:2 ratio...
so the memory controller cat hit 3000MHz even though it has 1.24V? really?

2026-04-13 16:10:04 GMT

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@nprofile…hcxx
:text
"Hello!"
:text2
:html
p
:text2

2026-04-11 17:09:37 GMT

I miss being excited about my server having months/years of uptime, and comparing uptimes among friends...

2026-04-06 18:00:12 GMT

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@nprofile…8r3h @nprofile…j6pd
> [in the office] emergencies are rarely this immediate
Was about to comment the same.
It sounds like this advice would be great if you have to make a decision in seconds.
But in the office, where you usually can slow down to gain more time to evaluate your options, but management is overeager and wants you to go fast, I think that making them aware of the severity of a problem and reasons why the current approach won't work is half of the work...

2026-04-03 14:21:02 GMT

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@nprofile…gd52
AFAIU that validation is when uploading a new sticker, not when using an already-defined one.
> everything you say or send on Telegram goes trough their servers in plain text
where did they say that?
Also AFAIK they only ever claimed that the special "secret chat" mode that nobody uses is end-to-end encrypted, the regular chats were never claimed to be end-to-end encrypted, so obviously the server had access to it...
But that's neither news nor RCE.

2026-03-31 17:21:29 GMT

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@nprofile…tpfq yeah it's crazy how at 7 PM it's still bright outside

2026-03-31 13:09:26 GMT

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@nprofile…n36s
On one hand, he's right. We barely received the first few batteries of Patriot, we're nor in position to spare one.
On the other hand, Russia is laughing at the sight of the deepening cracks within the alliance :/

2026-03-31 05:41:07 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u
AV:L/AC:H/.../UI:R ?

2026-03-30 21:56:34 GMT

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@nprofile…z99u more like, is not exploitable / is exploitable only by their servers

2026-03-30 13:38:14 GMT

Looks like there's a bit more info on the zero-click Telegram RCE and holy shit this looks bad:
> This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's device simply by sending a specially crafted animated sticker or media file. No user interaction is required
> A Telegram spokesperson denied the vulnerability's existence, claiming the research was incorrect.
https://github.com/gameworkerkim/Telegram-0-Click-RCE-SECURITY-VULNERABILITY-ANALYSIS-REPORT/blob/main/Telegram%200-Click%20RCE_ENG.md
#telegram #security

2026-03-30 10:38:18 GMT

Anyone here got an account on dramexchange.com?
I'd like to see the DDR5 spot price history charts, but looks like it requires registration, and their registration form requires an onerous amount of information :/

2026-03-29 08:58:38 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
an incandescent lightbulb pumping a laser? What is this, the 60s?

2026-03-29 08:40:56 GMT

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@nprofile…22w0
sounds like golemancy

2026-03-28 20:45:22 GMT

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@nprofile…waqh I see.
Do these dedicated BLE chips respond with some unique ID to everyone who asks, or only to requests signed by some appleid- / google-account-specific key?
If the former, I think a nation-state attacker could use this to track people even if they're not logged in to their respective account :/

2026-03-28 18:47:17 GMT

> Instead of building the biggest thing in the smallest amount of time, I am now trying to spend the most amount of time building the smallest thing, and there's a lot of joy to be had in that
-- MumboJumbo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nd5UsAPC5I&t=1422s
So much this.

2026-03-28 12:55:06 GMT

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@nprofile…waqh
Yeah, I know that. But what you're describing requires the phone to be *turned on*, right?
And I'm explicitly asking about the statement from OP's article that says a *turned off* phone still communicates via bluetooth.

2026-03-28 12:31:13 GMT

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nvm you cannot "just" run PPP over wireguard, PPP needs a serial port, i.e. a bytestream...
well I don't know if it really needs all of its properties, but to send PPP over IP I'd need another layer like PPTP or sth...

2026-03-28 12:25:53 GMT

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or I could just use PPP over wireguard :thinking_hard:

2026-03-28 12:19:07 GMT

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@nprofile…7tjh
oh, and a Flamingo lets UA destroy targets that, unlike refineries, do not have their own explosives?
@nprofile…n36s

2026-03-28 10:49:01 GMT

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How hard is it to contribute to OpenWrt?

2026-03-28 10:46:01 GMT

You know how in OpenWrt, if you change some setting through LuCI and click "save and apply", the router will wait for 60s for your browser to reconnect, and if it doesn't, the router will revert to the previous settings?
That doesn't work with WireGuard.
I mean LuCI still does its thing, but some of the settings don't affect the WireGuard interface immediately. They only apply when you restart the interface, which is a separate step you have to do afterwards
And there's no rollback from that.

2026-03-28 10:18:37 GMT

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@nprofile…0u3c
yeah but does he? I can't find evidecne that he does, and wireguard website still has the banner of EdgeSecurity at the bottom...

2026-03-28 10:14:23 GMT

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@nprofile…0u3c
does Jason work for Tailscale now? o.O