It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.
That somehow doesn’t surprise me
That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)
I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.
Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.
Even after the Internet was invented probably 99% or more of users would have no clue about digging into the systems.
I’ve mentioned this before, but on one of my early contracts I found an ‘encryption’ function with a keyspace of 32… values. I don’t mean 32-bit. The key was prepended as the first byte to the stream, and the decryption function could accept the full 8-bit range.
Fortunately that was replaced by real encryption some time before I left. But I’m pretty sure nobody actually cracked it before then, because I think nobody thought to try it.
The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine
Yeah, the log entry made it extremely clear that it was a pun on the existing term.
This is from November, and is about the ‘student accounts’ thing which doesn’t at all help the central issue of being forced to make an account to distribute your app
I believe it’s also not a proper picture in the wider sense: The whole thing was probably generated, not just the water, “plastic”, and device.
If you are genuinely asking:
Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.
And that’s before invading PoGreenland.
And yet on my phone I wish websites would stop hawking the native app and just let me use the site. In a way I suppose this is the same complaint since the native apps are often a web wrapper with telemetry.
I will never buy a phone directly through a carrier instead of the OEM. They are offering me some nice discounts right now, but I have no interest in a phone where I can’t unlock the bootloader. (Or the carrier lock!)
Make sure it’s not muted. The audio is the vehicle for this journey.
Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more cost I would hope.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
I once saw an ‘encryption’ function where the key had a range of 32. Not 32 bits. I mean there were 32 different keys. And it was prepended as the first byte in the stream, so the decryption function didn’t have to go out of the way to find it.
Thankfully I noticed that it got torn out and replaced with real encryption at some point.
These emails were released before the vote on ‘the rest of it’.
I actually had to do that with my phone’s hotspot name because I used to play Pokemon Go on a tablet which was Wi-Fi tethered to the phone. Before I renamed it to opt out, the game would randomly jump me to wherever the network had last been scanned any time the tablet’s GPS got too flaky.
But then they won’t be able to use arch.
When I saw the headline I was thinking it’s hardly new, being from 2012, but they covered and explained that well. I’m glad progress is accelerating.
That would only hold if the law were consistent. This very obviously only goes this single direction.