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Copy Fail 3 months ago

Could this be used to root Android devices? Does Android ship with algif_aead?

First thing that came to mind is that he might have been secretly working for Israel's nuclear program but this is all very speculative. It does feel plausible though given that Israel has already assassinated plenty of Iranian nuclear scientists; so there is some precedent for it.

As part of our ongoing work to protect customers using React against a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, we started rolling out an increase to our buffer size to 1MB, the default limit allowed by Next.js applications.

Why would increasing the buffer size help with that security vulnerability? Is it just a performance optimization?

Tunnl.gg 8 months ago

I've seen lots of weird tricks malware authors use, people are creative. My favorite is that they'd load up a text file with a modified base64 table from Dropbox which points to the URL to exfiltrate to. When you report it to Dropbox, they typically ignore the report because it just seems like random nonsense instead of being actually malicious.

Tunnl.gg 8 months ago

This is a great idea but I'm a bit concerned about your bandwidth costs and illegal/malicious content being hosted used under your domain.

For the second point, you might want to implement some kind of browser warning similar to what Ngrok does.

Images over DNS 10 months ago

Huh, my image viewer claimed it's HEIC specifically. My camera also seems to conflate HEIC and HEIF in the settings. It provides HEIF as a format option, when I guess it should be specifying which codec is actually being used. I had no idea HEIF isn't tied to just HEIC though.

I tried out NextDNS and this feature doesn't seem to work anyway. Enabling "Bypass Age Verification" has no effect. I tested it out on PornHub and XVideos.

I also can't find anything different in the returned A/AAAA records compared to my standard resolver.

This is exactly why the whole "vaccine causes autism" got started. We need to improve science literacy before we could say things like that to the general public.

When a layperson hears this, they'll think that there's a small but possible chance that vaccines do cause autism; when what the scientist means to say is that "it's highly unlikely that vaccines cause autism."

The current dictatorship in Egypt deals with the Muslim Brotherhood in the same way pro-US capitalist dictatorships dealt with communist groups. The Muslim Brotherhood is still very popular in Egypt, and in the last legitimate election won close to 50% of the vote. I don't support them but their views are generally closer to Christian Democracy/socialism than you'd think.

Fact is that Egyptians are opposed to this, just like most other people in Arab or Muslim majority countries are. Their government is authoritarian and just does what suits it best, which in this case is to appease the US.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that Egypt is currently under a US-aligned dictatorship. I'm not saying it's under US-control, just that the current dictator stands to benefit by being in the good graces of the US...despite his people's demands.

Also I don't believe that Egyptians are incompetent and incapable, you're putting words in mouth. It's just easier said than done to remove a dictator from power, especially when the power structure is so entrenched. It took Syria over a decade of civil war to get rid of theirs...

We don't live in a Hollywood film. The French Revolution didn't take a month to transition to a republic...