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  • Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected.

    https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

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  • Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses

    [NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line of Ray-Bans. A project in progress, it’s currently focused on how to reliably perform detection without resorting to using a camera itself. Right now, it plays a well-known audio cue whenever it gets a hit.
    Once software is nailed down, the device aims to be small enough to fit into glasses.
    Currently, [NullPxl] is exploring two main methods of detection. The first takes advantage of the fact that image sensors in cameras act as tiny reflectors for IR. That means camera-toting smartglasses have an identifying feature, which can be sensed and measured. You can see a sample such reflection in the header image, up above.

    As mentioned, Ban-Rays eschews the idea of using a camera to perform this. [NullPxl] understandably feels that putting a camera on glasses in order to detect glasses with cameras doesn’t hold much water, conceptually.

    The alternate approach is to project IR in a variety of wavelengths while sensing reflections with a photodiode. Initial tests show that scanning a pair of Meta smartglasses in this way does indeed look different from regular eyeglasses, but probably not enough to be conclusive on its own at the moment. That brings us to the second method being used: wireless activity.

    Characterizing a device by its wireless activity turned out to be trickier than expected. At first, [NullPxl] aimed to simply watch for BLE (Bluetooth Low-Energy) advertisements coming from smartglasses, but these only seem to happen during pairing and power-up, and sometimes when the glasses are removed from the storage case. Clearly a bit more is going to be needed, but since these devices rely heavily on wireless communications there might yet be some way to actively query or otherwise characterize their activity.

    This kind of project is something that is getting some interest. Here’s another smartglasses detector that seems to depend entirely on sniffing OUIs (Organizationally Unique Identifiers); an approach [NullPxl] suspects isn’t scalable due to address randomization in BLE. Clearly, a reliable approach is still in the works.

    The increasing numbers of smartglasses raises questions about the impact of normalizing tech companies turning people into always-on recording devices. Of course, the average person is already being subtly recorded by a staggering number of hidden cameras. But at least it’s fairly obvious when an individual is recording you with a personal device like their phone. That may not be the case for much longer.

    hackaday.com/2025/12/09/making…

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  • @Zambunny ti abbraccio virtualmente, per quel che vale ❤❤❤

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  • In tutto l'ordine degli ingegneri non ne trovano uno che sappia far funzionare la PEC.

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  • We report: all of the wind of these past few weeks has stripped the trees bare here. The ground is all mulch and rotting wood, and we are bound to get a foot stuck in there at some point tonight. With no leaves on the branches, and barely a breeze, the night is eerily quiet.

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  • @SecurityWriter the first season took everything good about 80s horror and fantasy and teen movies, and the fifth season seems to be taking everything bad, including 30 year olds playing high schoolers. (This last bit I could forgive if the 30 year olds and the scripts were good, but they aren't, so...)

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  • Has Gaza done better with Donald Trump or Joseph Biden as President of the United States?

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    #decemberAdventure day 9: back to #gopher A number of years ago I setup my own search tool for the gopherspace. I've not re-done a full crawl since getting it working, and due to some design issues, it eventually stopped working reliably enough to keep running. Due to RSI issues, I have prioritized other projects in the intervening years, but have slowly made a list of notes and plans for fixing it. Today's adventure is the first part in implementing my plan and getting it back to a useable state. I've rewritten the crawler. The new one is a lot less buggy than the original, and has a number of improvement including a correctly working filter (supporting robots.txt and a defined list of servers not to index), better discovery of servers from the gopher maps, tracking when servers were last scanned, request rate limiting, and facilities for avoiding recording duplicate entries.My initial tests have been on my main gopher server (forthworks.com:70) and a number of my private ones. This totals 32k selectors across 3 servers. I'm going to start a broader scan of the public gopherspace soon, so will update once I get through the initial scan of a few servers.My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025
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    #decemberAdventure day 5: Wrapping up the new ilo implementations, today I did GNU Smalltalk. It's in the repository at http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/dir?ci=tip With this I now have implemented ilo in 25 programming languages.This isn't yet good Smalltalk, it's very much like the C original in structure, though I did make some notes on things I need to improve. I might revisit this later this month.My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
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    #decemberAdventure day 4: I wrote an ilo implementation in Oberon (for obcn). The code is in the repository and the adventure log is at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/Tomorrow I'll be attempting to do one in Smalltalk.I've also used a bit of awk to clean up the log formatting (which are extracted from my blocks under my konilo system) for improved readability.
  • #decemberAdventure has begun.

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    #decemberAdventure has begun. I'm posting my logs this year at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/Today I wrote an implementation of my ilo vm in Free Pascal.