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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
How much to crowd-source a ballistic anti-satellite ad blocker?
I look forward to a future where humanity has a amateur gray hat space launch community.
Well, an anti-satellite weapon does not actually need an orbit-capable lift vehicle.
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Well this is a thing.
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You gotta admit, breaking copy is a new bar.
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@DogsB by in one the Windows 11 thread - and it's worse than just SMB, apparently
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@loopback0 I assume we're all familiar with this....
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@da-Doctah go direct to the source, http://asciimation.co.nz/
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@loopback0 re: Doom in notepad.
Is notepad scriptable or something now?
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@boomzilla I hazard an external program which either uses some COM interface (why wouldn't notepad have a com interface) or plain old copy/paste.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I hazard an external program which either uses some COM interface (why wouldn't notepad have a com interface) or plain old copy/paste.
- the footage is not sped up
- i have not modified the code of notepad.exe at all
- this is fully playable interactive live, zero fakery. this is exactly what it looks like.
- this is your fault
Sounds more like a code injection exploit.
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@topspin fairly sure there’s a Win32 API you can call to set the content of a text box if you start from the window handle and go downwards - IIRC the Notepad app is a glorified text box element and little more, and this is stuff you can call at runtime without any drama.
But it’s been best part of 20 years since I futzed with the WinAPI. Fairly sure this isn’t COM though because I’m 99% sure Notepad doesn’t hook up to that.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin fairly sure there’s a Win32 API you can call to set the content of a text box if you start from the window handle and go downwards - IIRC the Notepad app is a glorified text box element and little more, and this is stuff you can call at runtime without any drama.
But it’s been best part of 20 years since I futzed with the WinAPI. Fairly sure this isn’t COM though because I’m 99% sure Notepad doesn’t hook up to that.
True, you basically just need a
FindWindowEx
and aSendMessage
withWM_SETTEXT
. (There's alsoSetWindowText
, but that only works for your own process.)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Well, he was awful embarrassed when his cowboy friends found out. "This stuff's made in North Carolina!", said the literate one. "NORTH CAROLINA!?", all repeated incredulously.
How do you live that down?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin fairly sure there’s a Win32 API you can call to set the content of a text box if you start from the window handle and go downwards - IIRC the Notepad app is a glorified text box element and little more, and this is stuff you can call at runtime without any drama.
But it’s been best part of 20 years since I futzed with the WinAPI. Fairly sure this isn’t COM though because I’m 99% sure Notepad doesn’t hook up to that.
True, you basically just need a
FindWindowEx
and aSendMessage
withWM_SETTEXT
. (There's alsoSetWindowText
, but that only works for your own process.)Uh, if
notepad
can follow a file being rewritten, this could even be marginally sane.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Indeed, the Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited six automated cash detection calls from Apple products
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple's precise detection algorithms
I believe the word you want is imprecise.
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On seeing the commercial for that feature while watching football this past weekend my father opined: "With how often I am an idiot and set my phone on the sit only for it to fly off when I hit the breaks they would arrest me for false reports"
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple's precise detection algorithms
I believe the word you want is imprecise.
I believe you mean
inaccurate
, to be unimprecise.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple's precise detection algorithms
I believe the word you want is imprecise.
I believe you mean
inaccurate
, to be unimprecise.I believe you mean 'magical and revolutionary'. As in, you're crashing it wrong.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The dystopian future we’ve been waiting for is here.
How much to crowd-source a ballistic anti-satellite ad blocker?
I think it would be simpler to hack the thing to display, say, hardcore porn. The kerfuffle that would cause would be enough to persuade everyone to not do that again for a long time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB by in one the Windows 11 thread - and it's worse than just SMB, apparently
I don’t read forum
I haven’t seen a toaster with a screen yet but I imagine someone has done that. Has anyone officially but doom on a toaster yet?
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@DogsB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI though this isn’t exactly what you meant.
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In today’s episode of
impostor syndromefeeling woefully inadequate:
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Who could of thought have that?
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Spiders are beautyful. And useful.
Look at some new overview about their silk:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6043
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If I didn't already have zero interest in the whole thing, zero plans to follow it, and negative infinity plans to go there in person, I'm sure I'd be upset about this.
But, yea, sandboxing apps would be neat... Too bad that it would require trusting the OS of the phones, though.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
negative infinity plans to go there in person
Anyone voluntarily going there deserve all the rights-violations they get.
But, yea, sandboxing apps would be neat... Too bad that it would require trusting the OS of the phones, though.
One permission I miss from iOS is the ability to completely deactivate any network connections, per app.
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UK prime minister speedrun completed. 45 days. Not much into history, but that sounds like a record to me.
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@cvi it is a record, yes.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
UK prime minister speedrun completed. 45 days. Not much into history, but that sounds like a record to me.
If not, it's certainly a PB.
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@topspin it is the record, previous holder achieved theirs of 119 days by dying on the job.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
that sounds like a record to me
Yep, especially as it included 10 days of official mourning.
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In particular, the covid-19 app Ehteraz asks for access to several rights on your mobile., like access to read, delete or change all content on the phone, as well as access to connect to WiFi and Bluetooth, override other apps and prevent the phone from switching off to sleep mode.
Oddly enough, the first thing they mention (full storage access based on the description) isn't one of the permissions that the app needs, but it does have some sketchy ones
- directly call phone numbers
- force device reboot
- run at startup
- disable screen lock
- draw over other apps
The combination of reboot/run at startup/disable screen lock is particularly nasty, since that lets them disable all security on the phone
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@hungrier I think "draw over other apps" also makes it possible to snoop the contents of the screen.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Oddly enough, the first thing they mention (full storage access based on the description) isn't one of the permissions that the app needs, but it does have some sketchy ones
- directly call phone numbers
- force device reboot
- run at startup
- disable screen lock
- draw over other apps
The combination of reboot/run at startup/disable screen lock is particularly nasty, since that lets them disable all security on the phone
I'm trying to imagine what sort of legitimate use the combination of "reboot" and "disable screen lock" could be involved with. Running at startup is at least possibly justifiable if it is doing monitoring for other bluetooth-enabled devices — presumably phones running the app — but I just can't see why a forced reboot is something they'd need. OTOH, Android permissions are a bit weird too; they can include non-obvious stuff under such banners just because the calls happen to be in the same API section as something sketchy.
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@hungrier IMO, a bunch of these permissions shouldn't even exist in non-rooted phones.
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@DogsB ShaZOOOOO!
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@DogsB Why did the cow moo so loud? Did the farmer give it a too curvy banana?