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  1. levi

    Rare dev Talks

    Three ex-Rare devs did a talk at the Centre for Computing History which I think is somewhere around Bletchley Park, on the subject of Goldeneye: https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=bNN9XhGZ3Yw And the Q&A session is well worth a watch as well: https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=fdErdHVW-Bs
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    Sudoers and other Security discussions (Split From Box86 Thread )

    Oh, so you can use usernames in sudoers. I don't use that. Instead I have this line in my sudoers: %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL This allows all users in group sudo to use sudo.
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    Noscripting troubles

    Since yesterday, the site's been giving me minor gripes when viewing it. I block scripts by default, which seems to be related. Whenever I navigate to a thread by clicking through from the new posts view, it first loads the page with the correct anchor point, but then it loads a cover page and...
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    Lua Performance argument.

    I don't know if any of us here are familiar with the performance of Lua code to be honest. I assume it's the read in the anonymous function assigned to Updatewheel at least.
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    Your childhood is now 40 years old (ZX81)

    A nice look back at one of the machines that we played with in our childhoods. As it says, the ZX81 was hard to get hold of and had a disappointing keyboard (although no more disappointing that that of the ZX80 according to my recollection), but it did pave the way to the ZX spectrum which even...
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    Looks like this site might be going down later today

    Or at the very least, be hard to connect to from modern browsers. According to this, lots of certs are being revoked at 6pm UTC today. Included in that list is Thawte TLS RSA CA G1, which according to my web browser this site's certificate is based on. So if your browser suddenly starts...
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    5G is coming... not in my lifetime

    At least is seems unlikely in western europe and america for 5G to come any time soon. The main problem is that to install a 5G mast you really need to connect it to fibre. The fibre line near me runs at the bottom of the valley, and I'm connected now via a copper line to a cabinet there which...
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    Why asking Qualcomm for one of their chips won't work

    An interesting write up of the salient points from the register of a trial between the US FTC and Qualcomm, concerning when Apple started using Qualcomm chips. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/14/qualcomm_apple_ftc_trial/ Seems they have a habit of writing some very tough requirements...
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    CSS loads slowly

    On the new posts page especially, the css seems to take a long time to load. Just now I was able to load four threads from there and navigate to the forum to post this thread before it loaded fully. So it seems like the page data loads fully, it just bears that http 1.x hallmark until the css...
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    Sturmwind

    Damn, Sturmwind is already out of stock after only I'd only noticed it around a month ago. Looking at your shop twitter I see it was actually launched just before last christmas on your shop, and I have no idea how many items your produced for sale - but do you have plans to print any more...
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    Weekly Pyra Preorder Stats

    This is the new home for my weekly pyra preorder stats posts, after its original home disappeared off the bottom of the first page of pyra news. It was inspired by vcoleiro's epic first 60 days of preorders, starting here, and my continuation starts here. So, without too much further ado...
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    dirtyc0w - explotitable on Pandora

    Many of you by now will be aware of the ditryc0w exploit, if you follow linux news at all. It's an exploit that allows an unpriveledged program to modify a file it doesn't have access to. So, I built the exploit testing code on my Pandora and ran it. It took a while, but it did modify the...
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    The indicator LEDs - what should they do?

    Seems an opportune time to discuss how the LEDs should convey indications to its users, by default at least. So, we have five LEDs total, two blending together behind the lid logo, and two next to the power button on the keyboard plus the power button itself which are all individually...
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    ASN1C preprocessor bug - does this affect the GSM Pyra?

    See https://github.com/programa-stic/security-advisories/tree/master/ObjSys/CVE-2016-5080 The Pyra's GSM chip presumably runs some sort of OS to parse AT commands and deal with real-time parts of phone connectivity. If the source for that OS was built using a preprocessor named ASN1C to...
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    No HTML fallback for MEDIA=twitter type

    An example is here: https://www.pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/apple-rejects-order-to-unlock-gunmans-phone.76980/page-2#post-1366603 Without Javascript enabled, the last lines of that post are simply a static 'Loading tweet...'. It would be better if it would degrade to a link to twitter if...
  16. levi

    Liking posts clickthrough

    When liking posts (at least those of advanced users and newbies, not sure I've liked a mod on the new boards yet), I have to click 'yes' on a 'do you really want to like this post?' clickthrough page. While testing these boards before release that only applied to certain categories of users...
  17. levi

    GP32x theme is a bit buggy

    I love the retro feel of the GP32 theme, but some of the menus are a bit messy, at least with javascript turned off. The search box partially obscures the links to my profile, inbox and alerts, and completely obscures any notification of new alerts (assuming it's under there somewhere). Also...
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    Latest messages uses wrong username

    In my conversations area (aka PMs) I have a conversation with Ziz, in which he posted last. However, I guess based on his german forum account, his username is currently 'Cyberpuer', and entering the conversation it shows me talking to Cyberpuer. The latest activity mentions in my...
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    Scalable theme truncates board name just after transition

    The default scalable board themes seem to transition between a mobile-like view and a desktop-like view at around 1000 pixels horizontal.  On the new-content page, below the thread title and page navigation icons there is a string that indicates the initiator, when they started the thread, and...
  20. levi

    Setting up ssh on Pandora

    I'm trying to secure down my network at the moment, but I'm having difficulty getting my pandora to connect using ed25519 keys. I can connect over the network using ssh/scp and a password, but I want to get away from that, and connect using keys instead.  The Pandora doesn't have ssh-keygen...
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