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Same issue, but instead I convert the USB-C signals of the laptop to HDMI/USB-A plus charging port with a cheap adapter. Then a KVM with HDMI/USB switching

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me


Funny how the manufacturer proudly claims that the protocol is encrypted, but completely forget to mitigate replay attacks,thus making the encryption completely useless


Which raises the question whether the OP now unknowingly also controls the heater in the apartment next to his...


Unlikely. This kind of wireless thermostat has two parts: the thermostat itself, and a separate receiver box that's directly connected to the boiler. There's usually a pairing process that you can go through where the two parts negotiate a shared value used in the protocol; this prevents one thermostat unintentionally controlling other boilers. You can see this described in the Installation Guide for the thermostat linked from the article (it's called 'binding' in the guide).


Probably not otherwise the original would also potentially run that risk


Good point!


The thermostats are paired, if my setup was able to control another apartments boiler then the original thermostat would also do that


And so the heat-stroke-killer was born, offing his victims with rapid changes between coldest and hottest setting, natural death has never been this human-made.


Ah yes, the classic problem of people using crypto primitives without fully understanding the problems they're trying to solve. Anyone even remotely interested should look into a full protocol like TLS or PGP to see how many primitives like block ciphers, hashes, etc. are involved and why.


In fact I'm quite surprised by this announcement. Gl.inet is famous for claiming that their os is based on openwrt, while it can be some vendor SDK that is based on some decade-old version of openwrt and have little in common today


Only for simple pcb. If you are making multi-layer pcb with complex stacks, pcb manufacturing and soldering (with associated tooling setup, validation and so) are easily 2 months of turnaround


Well to be fair if you add "validation" the turnaround for any noncomplex piece of software can reach months pretty quickly as well.

But yeah I'm not gonna argue that sw isn't faster than hw in 99% of the cases.


Up to 4 layers is pretty standard these days. It's more than 8 where you start running into issues.


Well, for that you need to fit it on a 720k floppy :) Unless you modded it with a 1.44 drive



Much later, the HX DOS Extender (https://www.japheth.de/HX.html) had something vaguely similar called Win32 emulation mode. Meaning that you could load a Win32 PE image, and it could call quite a few Win32 APIs, all while running under plain DOS (in 32-bit flat mode), with HX DOS providing the implementation.

It had just enough parts of the API implemented to be able to run Quake 2 in DOS.


Thanks

”Win32s lacked a number of Windows NT functions, including multi-threading, asynchronous I/O, newer serial port functions and many GDI extensions. This generally limited it to "Win32s applications" which were specifically designed for the Win32s platform,[4] although some standard Win32 programs would work correctly”


It was a strange time back then for anyone who wanted to get online. Win3.1 had no TCP/IP stack so many folks used a third party download called Trumpet Winsock. IIRC you might have needed win32s in order to use it.

Looking back, Microsoft were clearly in an incredibly complicated transitioning phase, with very little margin for error (no patching over the Internet!)


Trumpet Winsock works on a 286, but apparently NCSA Mosaic version 2.0 needed Win32s.

So I guess there would have been a time in 1994 where many people were forced to retire their 286es. Though Mosaic was quickly replaced by Netscape Navigator in late 1994 which worked on Win16.

And then Windows 95 came along, and it really needed a 486 with 4MB of ram, ideally 8MB.


1994 wasn't a time where everyone was using a web browser.


Availability :) a RTG requires Plutonium 238, which needs to ne created almost on purpose in a nucleare reactor. Not all nations have this ability or they are running such expensive programs. Also in the USA they are reserved for programs where there is very little light available


"If it wasn't for him, it would be someone else." wow, I will use this defence, it's perfect!


I already was someone else actually. Many times over and over again. He is not the inventor of social media. His site (or acquiring Instagram) was just another tool someone else already created in the past. His stuff was just more popular. China and Russia have their own versions too. If his stuff shuts down now, tomorrow someone else will create similar ones and fill the void in no time.


Then someone else is liable too.

You could say the same about drug dealers, if one stops another one replaced him


A german philosopher once said, that is a stupid response to renounce responsibility, at this moment someone in Berlin rapes a woman, if I don’t do it …


Not the OP, but his past (very significant!) achievements doesn't excuse him for present or future behaviour.


But what specific behaviour? I went and looked at his last couple days of X posts before posting my second comment and I see a lot of things posted. I see lots of blunt language and opinions that "lefties" would not like but are not mental illness. They were said in a blunt format that hints at some autistic/ADHD traits, but almost certainly not enough for anywhere near an actual diagnosis. So tieing this all back around, saying things you don't like and/or in a way you don't like about issues you feel strongly on does not a mental illness make and I'm extremely tired of this trend to claim that. It's the kinder (so far), gentler (so far) version of othering so that one does not need to think of someone as a human being as one does horrible things to them that is pretty common throughout human history.


He self-sabotaged himself and employees of Twitter by telling advertisers to fuck themselves like a flustered thirteen year old. He has a very obvious personality disorder around rejection and not being seen as the smartest person in a room. He said he knew more about manufacturing than anyone in the world. He’s not just a megalomaniac, he’s unable to perceive reality. He lies over and over about his businesses and about his political ambitions. He is erratic, capricious, and vindictive. Something is clearly not right.


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