I use the magsafe on my laptop. I almost always use the laptop in the same place and only charge it there, so it's not getting mixed into my collection and picked back out, and the magsafe is somewhat easier to fumble into place than USB-C. If I was using it long enough somewhere different to need to charge it, I'd grab a USB-C (probably already nearby), rather than collecting the magsafe from where it's set up.

They could include things like special lines at immigration, rather than just visa requirements. Arriving in Amsterdam with an EU passport is much less of a hassle than arriving with a US passport, but they both count the same on this report. Then there's the question of whether you need a permit to stay indefinitely, or just the passport.

The person who made the report is a professional penetration tester. His usual method is to look for anything that could be wrong and then test whether it actually is. What he found is that the AI tools came up with potential issues he hadn't thought of, and they weren't all wrong, so it's a valuable tool to him because he normally runs out of ideas rather than running out of time to test them. He complained about the UI making it hard to go through large lists of reported issues exhaustively, and he only used the suggested fixes to get a better idea of what the issue was supposed to be. So it's clear that the tool's output wouldn't be directly useful to a maintainer, but it does serve a purpose.

I got a third-party cable for my phone that my phone recognizes as being able to charge it faster than the cable that came with the phone could. They should probably warn you that they don't have a cable or charger, in case you're getting a phone because you lost everything and don't have that stuff, but the first-party stuff isn't better these days.

I think it's even more interesting, in that one or two humans have to decide whether to question a call, and they have to identify calls that were wrong, not just ones they want to overturn, and they don't have a great angle to figure out what the algorithm would do. I think it's going to be fun to see batters try to do the ump's job, while standing to the side and considering swinging at the pitch.

I think the real issue is warm parts of China selling to cold parts of India without including the features that aren't needed near the factory. We know lots about battery chemistry, but rural farmers have had more immediately relevant things to know about up to now and don't have a good source of information on this new thing the government is pushing, so they skip things that sound like luxuries and end up with something inappropriate for their purpose.

Are you referring to the president who humiliated himself and the US at Helsinki? The president who had a negotiation regarding the Ukraine war without including Ukraine? The president who admires Putin? That president?

Perhaps Mullvad Browser, which is a fork of firefox.

It is privacy-focused and they seem to be putting enough resources into it to keep up with security patches for issues with firefox.

On some Dell tower PC's from around 2008, the notification was that at the next boot, the BIOS firmware showed a message saying something like "A single bit memory error was detected and corrected, press F1 to continue."

I have some sticks of RAM (in a box of junk somewhere) that caused the message on the hottest days of the year.

From here it looks like this affects any slashdot user with a space in their username.

I just tried clicking through tot he profiles of a dozen slashdot users with spaces in their usernames and they all say "The user you requested does not exist".

Aside from injecting some PHP code, why not make db changes as well? Surely a bit harder for most people to detect and especially clean up.
Good time to leave GoDaddy for sure though - if they aren't keeping up with WordPress patching, they probably aren't doing too great with OS patching either.

That worked because receivers made before about 2010 all converted the desired station down to 10.7MHz using a local oscillator signal.

The local oscillator frequency can be 10.7MHz above or below the desired frequency so the effect is different between different models of radio.

The local oscillator signal leaked out of the radio very weakly but enough to be picked up on another radio a few feet away.

These days most of the crappy ten-dollar domestic radio receivers use a single chip silicon tuner. They have a couple of chips on a circuit board, they don't contain a load of coils, capacitors and tuning cans like old radios.

Silicon-tuner radios have much lower LO leakage because the signal generation circuitry is in a tiny silicon chip.

No, you can't expect people who buy a laptop with windows pre-installed to know that they should check for bitlocker. If you jump through the hoops to set up a new laptop without a Microsoft account there is no warning if the drive is encrypted.

It is now common for laptops to be shipped with the harddrive/ssd encrypted with bitlocker. Many people are unaware of it.

If you don't create a Microsoft account then later if the laptop goes wrong and won't boot you can't access your files by connecting the harddrive or ssd to another machine. Without a Microsoft account you can't get the bitlocker key.

If a laptop with bitlocker boots to a login screen then the bitlocker key has to be stored in the laptop, in which case it can be obtained by soldering wires to the I2C bus and using a logic analyzer. It is way beyond the technical ability of the average person but can be done.

To mitigate that, some corporate laptops are set up to erase the TPM if the laptop case is opened. You opened such a laptop to add more RAM and can't access the email that was used for the Microsoft account?, any files you didn't back up separately are gone forever.

My main memory of windows ME is a mostly white screen with some text that said "Active Desktop Recovery".

I never knew was active desktop was supposed to do and usually had applications open full-screen covering the desktop. It was just this thing that had always crashed in the background after the computer had been on for an hour or two.