My BLE proxies keep picking up my neighbor’s toothbrush. I was briefly tempted to install the integration just to see what would happen. I didn’t because that’s creepy, but just… what a weird world we live in.
Badabinski
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Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.
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Badabinski@kbin.earthto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump calls Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'91·8 days agoNo, it’s syphilitic brain damage.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Technology@lemmy.world•Get Your Filthy ChatGPT Away From My Liberal Arts25·8 days agoI fucking hate that the use of emdashes (i.e. —) is associated with fuckass LLMs. I use them all the time and now I’m worried I’ll be mistaken for an LLM.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Technology@lemmy.world•‘I blame Facebook’: Aaron Sorkin is writing a Social Network sequel for the post-Zuckerberg era15·11 days agoYour link is borked. Here’s a fixed version: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/meta-whistleblower-testifies-on-facebook-practices/658354
I mean, yeah. I wouldn’t have found that project and gone to the effort of using it if a simple dehu was all I needed. I wanted something I could control with my local home assistant install, and you can’t just hard power cycle a dehumidifier, it kills them.
That’s why projects like this are great: https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-midea-dehumidifier
My Midea Cube dehumidifier can never be bricked and will never send data outside of my home. It talks to Home Assistant via MQTT and nothing else.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts123·20 days agoI use one of those daily and god they’re all terrible. They’re huge and they all break really easily. My phone is fucking huge, just give me a built in headphone jack!
God I love Taskmaster.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Linux@lemmy.ml•New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions6·26 days agoI dunno, I’d slow your roll on that. Hanlon’s razor came to notoriety in the field of computer science for a reason. I’ve done software dev professionally for over ten years now and you wouldn’t believe the stupid shit I’ve seen people write. The only thing that sucks more than a computer is the human writing software for it.
For those unfamiliar, here’s Hanlon’s razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
EDIT: After a quick look at the CVEs, this definitely sounds like a big ol’ fuckup. It sounds like there might be some unsafe defaults in polkit as well?
EDIT: Here’s the report from the actual researchers which is MUCH more cogent than OP’s article: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/17/4
It’s chaining two separate oopsies together. This overview on GitHub also provides more details about the
libblockdev
side of things: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpgj-hch9-5rvxSpecifically, this section:
However, a local attacker can create a specially crafted XFS image containing a SUID-root shell, then trick udisks into resizing it. This mounts their malicious filesystem with root privileges, allowing them to execute their SUID-root shell and gain complete control of the system.
That really doesn’t sound like something intentional to me. That sounds like a HUGE oopsy-woopsy fucky-wucky, to get technical about it.
Absolutely fucking yes w.r.t. the characters being stupid in the show. In the books, the people from Preservation are incredibly competent.
TV SHOW AND BOOK SPOILERS
As an example, book Mensah would NOT have had a fucking panic attack dragging a sensor up a mountain alone because she would not have been foolish enough to put herself in that situation. Book Mensah does not take needless risks. She only does inadvisable things when her moral code requires her to do so.
Mensah and the other preservation folks are acting too much like the corporates. The books show you that living under a corporate boot makes you stunted and limited because that’s a natural consequence of the profit-focused environment they create. Preservation cares about people, so the people from there are well rounded and don’t do stupid things quite as often.
It’s really hurting my enjoyment of the show. Why can’t we have competence porn like we used to with shows like TNG and DS9?
God damn that cat is chill as hell.
EDIT: just like, really fucking chill as shit yo
Badabinski@kbin.earthto politics @lemmy.world•Utah Senator Mike Lee deletes controversial Minnesota shootings posts amid backlash9·28 days agoI was in a crowd of ten thousand people screaming “FUCK MIKE LEE” and god damn did it feel good and god damn do I want that to happen again where he can hear it.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Free OpenSource Software @infosec.pub•Sly - The Photo Editor That Respects You2·29 days agoHere’s the source code: https://codeberg.org/kramo/sly
It’s licensed under the GPL! That’s a huge plus for me.
Badabinski@kbin.earthtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions1·29 days agoThis also sucks because the CSB produces really awesome videos ):
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity4·29 days agoStill, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.
What uh, the fuck‽
Hey!
Hey assholes!
What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that’s been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?
I fucking hate it. I’m glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.
At least the ACA’s preexisting conditions thing hasn’t been rolled back.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto politics @lemmy.world•'Grounds for expulsion': GOP senator accused of 'mocking' the murder of two Dems20·29 days agoI was in a crowd of people screaming “FUCK MIKE LEE” on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I’m furious that he supposedly represents me.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Technology@lemmy.zip•DARPA sets new records for sending power wirelessly4·29 days agoI wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I’m not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They’re going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they’ll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they’re using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I’m sure they’re working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That’s great and has its uses, but it’s not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we’re talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!
EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?5·1 month agoPig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.
Eley makes the best garden hose quick connects on the market nowadays. They’re hideously expensive and can only be purchased through Eley’s website with slow shipping, but good god damn are they stout and reliable.