Posts by anonymous cat herder 28 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2024
yes, but do you remember how much car theft was reduced when decent loocks and immobilisers became standard? Making it harder cools the whole ecosystem, even if it isn't a magic bullet that stops it entirely.
According to perplexity, "The standardisation of electronic immobilisers and improved locking systems has led to a dramatic reduction in car theft—by about 40–50% in the years following their widespread adoption, and by over 80% in the UK over two decades."
I still can't shake the feeling that requiring the TPM is a trojan horse tactic. Once every PC is running windows with a TPM, the screws will be turned, signed drivers will be a non-negotiable requirement, and anything not approved by Microsoft can be hard blocked. It feels like a move to be more like Apple where you don't really control your own device any more.
If only there was some way the formatting style could be saved along with the files themselves, then every editor would be able to convert whatever keystrokes you use into the preferred representation for saving. Some sort of platform-independent editor config file perhaps?
Every (decent) code editor in existence can support .editorconfig and it makes the code look consistent whoever edits it. I find myself writing custom editorconfig files for all sorts of imported projects, just to preserve their historical, sometimes arcane, tab/space conventions.
According to BBC scam interceptors program, establishing a remote connection to the phone with e.g. anydesk is a fairly standard part of the script. OTP authenticators on a phone can be set to require a fingerprint before they generate the code; this is much harder to obtain without the local user's interaction and unlikely to be enforceable on a pc. The scammers then presumably use social engineering to bully the user into providing it anyway, but it gives the bank a plausible excuse to claim the user is culpable.
According to grammarly, retch is a verb that means “to vomit,” and wretch is a noun that means “an unhappy or unlucky person." Even Merriam Webster agrees with this UK speaker that they are separate words with different meanings. The sense here is definitely retching.
I use comskip on recordings, which detects adverts and generates a cut list so the player automatically jumps them. It's getting a bit long in the tooth though, and some broadcasters have learnt how to game the clues it uses to decide. Sounds like a perfect problem for deep learning; has anyone done one that can be used?
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