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oh hey, it's doing that analog-buttons trick!
See, There's only 3 wires for eight buttons: voltage, ground, and "key".

Each button has a resistor inline, and the microcontroller on the other end measures the resistance of the keypad, and can figure out which key is pressed based on that.

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i get recommended this youtube video and the only thing i can think of is saddam hussein

We're proud to announce the official release of Fedora Asahi Remix! 🎉

Learn more:
asahilinux.org/fedora/

December 17! It's a Mavica!

Here is a later model that was lightly used back in the day. This platform-agnostic camera was revolutionary for its compatibility and ease of use. The optics weren't bad either! 📸

These are also very reasonably priced, and new batteries are affordable and available. Highly recommend!

oh you need to store a sha256 hash? long long long

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This is your regular and very unwanted reminder that it's not "heli+copter", but "helico+pter", with "pter" being the same root word meaning "wing" as in pterodactyl.

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You know I think animals might be onto something with the whole nuzzling thing

You ever rub your face into a pillow like super hard? Most satsifying thing ever

‪look upon the world with the eyes of a game developer and everything looks pretty because wow the real world is so good at diffuse reflections and lighting (for real though)‬

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my cold take on the Threads federation thing is: if you simply consider them not as some mystical "platform" but as any other "instance", then they're an over-sized under-moderated data-scraping instance housing many vile users right up to the point of "technically legal free speech"... and we've all suspended instances before for much less.

‪this is but one tiny example of what i mean when i say: THIS WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL, AND WE MUST PROTECT IT‬

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Some of my favorite papers are the ones where you can go back and look at other, non-vulnerable constructions and see "oh, that's why they did it that way". Here: SSH doesn't do handshake transcript integrity --- they felt like it was good enough to just authenticate the _parts_ of the handshake that went into key negotiation. Compare with (say) Noise, or TLS.

Result: attackers can inject no-op messages into the handshake. "Who cares”, right, except that SSH keeps implicit sequence numbers and the NOPs bump those sequence numbers, allow attackers to edit the underlying handshake.

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