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1 month ago
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on: Signal's Censorship Circumvention is susceptible to AiTM attacks
Signal’s built-in “Censorship Circumvention” feature can be exploited by Adversary-in-The-Middle (AiTM) attacks under certain conditions, but it does not compromise its end-to-end encryption and mainly poses a realistic risk only to high-value targets or state-level actors.
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2 months ago
Why switch to Hypervault when established options like Bitwarden and 1Password already exist?
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2 months ago
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on: NewPipe 0.28.1 released bringing tons of fixes and improvements
A de-enshitified YouTube experience.
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2 months ago
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on: 2025 Letter
Dan Wang's annual letter (2025) is online.
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4 months ago
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on: The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022)
TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone.
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6 months ago
How is this different from Linktree and why is signin with Google the only option?
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6 months ago
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on: Manipulating India's Stock Market: The GST Portal Data Leak
Imagine if you could peek into the books of India’s biggest companies — before quarterly earnings were announced.
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6 months ago
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on: Delhi High Court Orders Sci-Hub, Libgen to Be Blocked in India
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6 months ago
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on: Delhi High Court Orders Sci-Hub, Libgen to Be Blocked in India
The injunction remains in force until the next hearing, scheduled for December 1, 2025.
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7 months ago
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on: An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)
Google has a long history of performing networking research, making changes, and pushing those changes to the entire internet. In 2011, they published one of my favorite papers, which described their decision to increase the TCP initial congestion window from 1 to 10 on their entire infrastructure.
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8 months ago
Really? Asking a third-party dev to vouch for testing counts as risk assessment?
Feels like classic Big-4 CYA checkbox theater.
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9 months ago
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on: Address as a Service (AaaS) by representing physical locations digitally
DIGIPIN is an open-source, geo-coded addressing system developed by India Post in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and NRSC, ISRO. It enables “Address as a Service” (AaaS) by linking physical locations to its digital representation, allowing seemless encoding/decoding.
This is region specific (India only).
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11 months ago
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on: Lost and Found
Is this a good way, for the person who's lost his/her wallet to contact the person who's found it?
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1 year ago
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on: Cyberpunk a short story by Bruce Bethke Foreword (written in 1997)
In the early spring of 1980 I wrote a little story about a bunch of teenage hackers. From the very first draft this story had a name, and lo, the name was--C Y B E R P U N K
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1 year ago
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on: A better way to sell Coldplay tickets
When Coldplay decided to play two shows in Mumbai early next year, they vastly underestimated how many Indians desperately wanted to see them live.
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1 year ago
Was pleasantly surprised, seeing a hackernews post on films!
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2 years ago
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on: Reading academic papers while having ADHD
If you do research, you have to read a lot of papers. Reading papers is challenging for most people, especially when you're new to it, but what if on top of that, you're fighting against a brain that would rather be doing literally anything else?
Read on to learn how real live ADHD academics manage this challenge in practice.
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2 years ago
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on: Built to Last
The notes you write now should be there for you in a 100 years. That's the killer feature.
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2 years ago
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on: Why Books Don't Work
Books are easy to take for granted.
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2 years ago
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on: Tinkering with the First Amendment
A case out of California may force a reckoning with the past 50 years of free-speech jurisprudence.
