I thought this was going to be a comedy skit lmao

“If I go 5 plus 3, and then equal… If I can find it… Oh it’s up here this time”

Yea I’d love an unpredictable operating system where everything is constantly re-hallucinating. “Sorry boss, I can’t open that report. My word processor hallucinated itself into forgetting this file type.”

The way BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) works is that each device has various registers (called GATT characteristics) that, if you’re connected to the device, you can write to, read, subscribe to notifications for, and so on. What’s important to note is that to connect to a device, you don’t need to (necessarily) pair with it. You can often just connect with a device and immediately start reading and writing data to characteristics. Pairing establishes encryption, but a connection can be made without it.

To my surprise, upon reading the characteristic 9e9daaeb-3a10-4fe8-b69f-7397aff77886, I was greeted with the full version string. This means anyone can just connect to any Katana V2X over Bluetooth and start sending CTP commands to it, reading information, changing settings, etc.

I thought of the implications for a bit. The speaker has a microphone. An attacker could, theoretically, upload a custom firmware that effectively turns the speaker into a covert monitoring device, listening in on conversations and forwarding them to a receiver over Bluetooth.

What was more interesting to me was the fact that the speaker is, in a standard setup, connected to a PC over USB. It’s by all means a trusted USB device.

What if we wrote custom firmware that forced the speaker into acting as a keyboard, sending keystrokes for opening up the terminal and executing arbitrary commands? We would turn the speaker into a Rubber Ducky, but remotely, without ever having to plug anything into either the speaker or the PC.

I think it’s an intentional strategy. Whether the “news” organization is doing it for clickbait or through malicious intent, I think such articles should be removed by moderators. If it becomes a pattern, then the user or source should be banned.

Looked up the source, and yep

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ndtv/

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New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) presents world affairs from an Indian perspective, providing National News formerly critical of Right-wing populist current PM Narendra Modi. According to an article published by the NY Times, NDTV was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), searching the residences of the NDTV’s co-founders Dr. Prannoy Roy and Mr. Nariman. They have since moved to a Pro-Modi perspective after an ownership change.

In December 2022, the Adani Group, led by billionaire Gautam Adani, acquired a majority stake in NDTV. The acquisition began in August 2022 when the Adani Group announced plans to acquire RRPR Holding, which owned 29.18% of NDTV. Subsequently, the Adani Group increased its stake through an open offer and by purchasing additional shares from the founders, culminating in a total shareholding exceeding 64.71%. Revenue is derived from advertisements.

I think you replied to the wrong comment

For those who may not have clicked on the link

There are several instances of remains that have been found through excavations at former residential school sites. A site near Regina, Sask. found evidence of roughly 600 graves using ground-penetrating radar. A fragment of a child’s jawbone was found at a site in Saskatchewan. Ground-penetrating radar found evidence of 215 unmarked graves at a site in BC. Child-sized skeletal human remains have been accidentally excavated over several years at a site in Alberta, buried without caskets. The remains of a child under five were found at a former school near Edmonton. Three unmarked grave sites were found at a site in Manitoba. A further 158 potential gravesites were found in British Columbia.

It’s cruel and completely false to suggest that the claims of human remains have been “disproven.” That’s simply not the case, and it’s revisionist history to suggest otherwise.

Feel free to downvote this comment instead of the post

To those down voting:

People should know where the prime minister stands on the issues, and that this event took place. Downvoting a news article makes people less informed.

If you disagree or are frustrated by the content of the article, and want to downvote something, you can do so on my next comment.

I opened up Fdroid to check, and I found this one. I think it might be my new favourite calculator. I’ve always wanted something like speedcrunch on mobile.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vishaltelangre.nerdcalci

At a previous job, they used to send them fairly often, using various tricks to keep people on their toes. I found it fun

What would that be testing, whether the users are psychic? If the email sender is legitimate, then what else would users need to do?

It’s still FOSS, and you can either download it offline or selfhost the server if you want to use it without paying. Services cost money to run, I’m not going to ask for them to run that for free indefinitely 🤷

The xcancel thread with the video: https://xcancel.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2060164928472854821#m

This makes a lot of sense, but it might take some getting used to. I think people are more self-critical and embarrassed about their coding ability and mistakes than they should be, and they might worry about all that being public.

Assuming this is about duck.ai, I didn’t know they got shit for it. People I’ve talked to generally enjoy having that option available. It’s free and about as private as you can get with the current LLM chatbots, unless you self host one yourself.

At least until Confer gets off the ground. Once that happens, I’m hoping DDG switches to a similar model

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

That’s a bit of a stretch?

People who pay for Kagi likely tried the trial and found the results to be far enough better than google/microslop that they are willing to pay for the ongoing service. Or they want to support a business model that isn’t based around the advertising industry, so that someday Kagi can realistically compete with the incumbents. I don’t need to search for things often enough to justify the cost, but I know people who use it for work and consider it to be worth the cost.

Meanwhile people who bought NFTs thought that they could sell a copy of a digital image for lots of money.

I think they’re talking about DDG, not google

I’m surprised it took this long. The skill argument makes no sense, since you could just as easily try to apply it to any form of traditional gambling.

My bad, I missed that 😄

The links are dead for me, maybe it’s set to private? The first one doesn’t open anything, and the second one takes me to a login page