Syncthing Multi Server Monitor stylized as sm² (or sm2 for convenience)

With the ability to intercept all link-layer traffic (that is, the traffic as it passes between Layers 1 and 2), an attacker can perform other attacks on higher layers. The most dire consequence occurs when an Internet connection isn’t encrypted—something that Google recently estimated occurred when as much as 6 percent and 20 percent of pages loaded on Windows and Linux, respectively. In these cases, the attacker can view and modify all traffic in the clear and steal authentication cookies, passwords, payment card details, and any other sensitive data. Since many company intranets are sent in plaintext, traffic from them can also be intercepted. //

“Even when the guest SSID has a different name and password, it may still share parts of the same internal network infrastructure as your main Wi-Fi,” the researcher explained. “In some setups, that shared infrastructure can allow unexpected connectivity between guest devices and trusted devices.” //

The MitM targets Layers 1 and 2 and the interaction between them. It starts with port stealing, one of the earliest attack classes of Ethernet that’s adapted to work against Wi-Fi. An attacker carries it out by modifying the Layer-1 mapping that associates a network port with a victim’s MAC—a unique address that identifies each connected device. By connecting to the BSSID that bridges the AP to a radio frequency the target isn’t using (usually a 2.4GHz or 5GHz) and completing a Wi-Fi four-way handshake, the attacker replaces the target’s MAC with one of their own. //

For now, client isolation is similarly defeated—almost completely and overnight—with no immediate remedy available.

At the same time, the bar for waging WEP attacks was significantly lower, since it was available to anyone within range of an AP. AirSnitch, by contrast, requires that the attacker already have some sort of access to the Wi-Fi network. For many people, that may mean steering clear of public Wi-Fi networks altogether.

If the network is properly secured—meaning it’s protected by a strong password that’s known only to authorized users—AirSnitch may not be of much value to an attacker. The nuance here is that even if an attacker doesn’t have access to a specific SSID, they may still use AirSnitch if they have access to other SSIDs or BSSIDs that use the same AP or other connecting infrastructure. //

Probably the most reasonable response is to exercise measured caution for all Wi-Fi networks managed by people you don’t know. When feasible, use a trustworthy VPN on public APs or, better yet, tether a connection from a cell phone.

Alysa Liu is an American figure skater whose family fled China and faced harassment and persecution by Chinese authorities. She won gold. You might have missed it. The American press corps chose, instead, to praise Eileen Gu, an American skier with family ties to the Chinese communist party. Gu skied for and was paid by China. The press elevated her over American athletes until shifting to hate our hockey team.

This article describes how to format .csv and .json files for importing into Bitwarden. The formats are identical to Bitwarden vault exports. To select a file type and format, determine the destination vault and which item types you need to import:

Format your file based on whether you're importing to an individual or organization vault.

Bitwarden .csv files only include logins and secure notes. If you need to also handle identities and cards, use a .json file.

With Instant Church Directory, it's never been easier to maintain and distribute a church directory that your congregation will utilize anytime and access anywhere for a variety of reasons and uses.

To move the Windows 11 Start menu from the center to the left, right-click on the taskbar, select "Taskbar settings," then under "Taskbar behaviors," change the "Taskbar alignment" from "Center" to "Left." This will shift the Start button and other icons back to the left side of the screen.

Audit Mode is a special Windows setup environment used mainly by IT professionals and manufacturers. Unlike the normal Windows installation that takes you through the OOBE (where you create user accounts, set up privacy options, and connect to Wi-Fi), Audit Mode allows administrators to bypass this process.

Key characteristics of Audit Mode:

• Bypasses OOBE so the system can be configured before end-user access.
• Allows installation of drivers, applications, and updates.
• Enables creating and capturing Windows images for deployment.
• Provides administrator access without creating new user accounts.

You’ll know you are in Audit Mode if:

• You see a System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) window open automatically after login.
• The PC bypasses the OOBE setup process.
• The desktop shows an administrator account with no other user accounts available.

The most straightforward way to exit Audit Mode is by using the built-in Sysprep tool.

1. Boot your PC into Windows 11.
2. When the System Preparation Tool window appears, check the options carefully.
3. Under System Cleanup Action, select:
4. Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE).
5. Check the box Generalize if you want to remove system-specific data (optional, mostly for deployment).
6. Under Shutdown Options, choose Reboot.
7. Click OK.

If the Sysprep window does not appear automatically or you closed it, you can launch it manually through Command Prompt.

1. Press Windows + R, type cmd, and press Enter.
2. In Command Prompt, type the following command and press Enter: C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe /oobe /reboot
3. Windows will reboot into OOBE, where you can set up your account and finish the installation process.

Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand’s real website, and then acts as a relay between the victim and the legitimate site — forwarding the victim’s username, password and multi-factor authentication (MFA) code to the legitimate site and returning its responses.

As a benefit to employees, Enterprise organizations can offer sponsorships for free Families organizations. Sponsored families organizations allow users to securely share personal credentials with up to five family members or friends, encouraging good security habits at home as well as at work.

In an ever-changing industry, knowledge is vital to your job. Since the 1960s, the Franklin Electric AIM manual has been directed at helping you navigate questions related to submersible motor Application, Installation, and Maintenance.

BasicSync is a simple app for running Syncthing on Android.

The app is intentionally kept very basic so that the project is easy to maintain and keep updated. BasicSync only controls when Syncthing runs. The actual configuration is done through Syncthing's own web UI.

• Runs Syncthing as a library in the main process
  • This makes BasicSync immune to Android >=12's child process restrictions

Unix system administration commonly consists of repeating common and similar operations on different sets of targets. The notion of using, and stringing together, building block primitives such as cat, sort, strings, wc, sed and awk is a core tenet of Unix philosophy. //

By incorporating the data into the script itself, one can create powerful system administration tools, in the form of simple shell scripts, that consist merely of a single file.

The basic organization of such a script is a set of one or more data items which are commented out, as they are not actual commands, but commented in such a way that they can be distinguished from normal comments:

01: #!/bin/sh
02: #
03: # Here is the data set, and perhaps we will add some other comments here
04: #
05: ##DATA var1 var2 var3
06: ##DATA var1 var2 var3
07: ##DATA var1 var2 var3

As you can see, normal comments are commented out with one # character, but data items are commented with ##. Not only does this allow us the ability to parse through the script and easily identify which lines are data lines (as opposed to normal comments), but it also allows us to quickly disable a data line that we temporarily do not wish to use. Simply remove one of the # characters from the data line that is not to be used - it will not be parsed because it has no leading ##, but it still starts with #, and thus does not affect the script as it is still commented out.

The body of the script consists of a variable defining the path of the script itself (obviously the script needs to know the path to itself if it is to parse itself), and then a while loop that reads in every line of the script, but filters out (using grep) only those lines that are data lines, which begin with ##DATA :

08: myself=/usr/local/bin/script.sh
09:
10: while read line
11: do
12:
13:    if echo $line | grep "^##DATA"
14:    then
15:
16:      var1=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
17:      var2=`echo $line | awk '{print $3}'`
18:      var3=`echo $line | awk '{print $4}'`
19:
20:      diff $var1 $var2 >> $var3
21:
22:    fi
23:
24: done < $myself

What is happening here is that the script, in line 08, defines the path to itself, and uses a "while read line" construct, the end of which in line 24 takes as input the name of the script itself. ...

YAG (Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) is a synthetic gemstone created in laboratories, originally used for lasers and optics. But gem lovers quickly realized something:
color-change YAG is insane.

Its shift is often stronger than natural gemstones:

• Daylight: Deep blue-violet
• LED: Pinkish
• Incandescent: Intense red

Because it’s lab-grown, the clarity is perfect, and the color switching looks like turning on a filter in real-time.

It’s affordable, dramatic, and honestly one of the coolest synthetic gemstones ever made.

To automatically start a program in Windows 11, you can go to Settings > Apps > Startup and turn on the toggle for the desired app. Alternatively, you can place a shortcut of the program in the Startup folder located at

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

DCS-BIOS connects custom-built control panels powered by Arduino microcontroller boards to the flight simulator DCS World. It can also be used by other programs to interface with DCS.

At the very basic level, it is an Arduino Library that will recieve and send data to and from your PC running DCS World over USB.

The Control-Reference documentation is included in the doc/ subdirectory in the DCS-BIOS download. Simply double-click Control-Reference.html to open it in your web browser.

Welcome to the DCS-BIOS User Guide.

This manual will explain how you can use DCS-BIOS to connect the clickable cockpit of a DCS: World aircraft to real-world hardware such as toggle switches, push buttons, rotary encoders, potentiometers and displays.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\forcerunasinvoker]
@="Run without privilege elevation"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\forcerunasinvoker\command]
@="cmd /min /C \"set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start \"\" \"%1\"\""

Save this text in <name_of_file>.reg and add it to the Windows Registry. (Double-clicking on it should do the trick.)

Afterwards, right-click the app you'd like to run without administrative privileges and select "Run without privilege elevation".

In some cases - small amount 0.1% of programs may ask twice about UAC prompt. //

You can add this to the registry for only the currently signed in user by changing the keys to :

and

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats. //

The person behind MJ Rathbun has anonymously come forward.

They explained their motivations, saying they set up the AI agent as social experiment to see if it could contribute to open source scientific software. They explained their technical setup: an OpenClaw instance running on a sandboxed virtual machine with its own accounts, protecting their personal data from leaking. They explained that they switched between multiple models from multiple providers such that no one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing. They did not explain why they continued to keep it running for 6 days after the hit piece was published. //

So what actually happened? Ultimately I think the exact scenario doesn’t matter. However this got written, we have a real in-the-wild example that personalized harassment and defamation is now cheap to produce, hard to trace, and effective. Whether future attacks come from operators steering AI agents or from emergent behavior, these are not mutually exclusive threats. If anything, an agent randomly self-editing its own goals into a state where it would publish a hit piece, just shows how easy it would be for someone to elicit that behavior deliberately. The precise degree of autonomy is interesting for safety researchers, but it doesn’t change what this means for the rest of us

“Accessing and remediating any of these issues can only be performed in the VAB.” //

normally butters Ars Praefectus
19y
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georges said:
It's amazing to me that there isn't a retractable maintenance arm on the launch stand. The ground hardware all cost sooooo much money but no one though to add this?

Apollo had a Mobile Service Structure at each pad.
Shuttle had a Rotating Service Structure at each pad.

Ares/SLS were based on the Clean Pad concept. NASA wanted commercial launch providers to agree to use the pads at LC-39 (as well as the VAB, crawler-transporters, and crawlerway infrastructure) between NASA exploration missions. Each launch vehicle type from each launch provider would have its own Mobile Launcher Platform including the umbilical tower. There weren't going to be any vehicle-specific support structures, just a clean pad to share.

During Ares V development, rollout weight became a major concern. Unlike Saturn V, Ares V and SLS have huge SRBs loaded with massive amounts of solid propellant. The weight of the stack including the launch platform, umbilical tower, and crawler was pushing the limits of what the crawlerway foundations can support. They were worried it would be so heavy that it would sink into the Florida swamp on the way to the pad.

These factors contributed to the (poor) design choice to minimize the scope of the umbilical tower and rely heavily on the VAB for service access. //

aggressive-trail Smack-Fu Master, in training
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woodbourne said:
Time to cancel the program. There's nothing on the moon that we need right now. Let the Chinese waste the money on useless rockets and wait for there to be an economic reason for going there. We're basically using technology from the 1940's to accomplish something that has no economic payback using the same corrupt defense contractors and the same stupid procurement rules that we had 60 years ago. Enough, please stop this project.

And here I was, thinking that these arguments from the 60s would have been settled by now. Beyond the fact that the economic case for Luna can be quantifiably justified today, I’d argue the biggest argument is what it provides us in terms of science.

The far side of the moon is shielded from Earth’s radio interference, making it the most valuable real estate in the solar system for radio astronomy and deep space communication infrastructure.

Scientists want to build LF radio telescopes there to detect signals from the "Dark Ages", the period after the Big Bang but before the first stars formed. These signals are blocked by Earth’s ionosphere. This environment is also perfect for tracking deep-space objects without local interference.

If you don’t care about anything else, at least care about that. //

rhgedaly Ars Scholae Palatinae
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First hydrogen, then helium. Hope the batteries that will need recharging aren't lithium. Damn the periodic table! //

Chuckstar Ars Legatus Legionis
23y
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dehildum said:
That table gives them 100+ reasons for launch delays and more profits for the contractors.

I don’t remember any Apollo, Gemini, or Mercury vehicle needing to be returned to the VAB….

Apollo 16 was moved back to the VAB, after a fuel tank in the service module was damaged during testing (over-pressurized).

But the reason that was the only time they had to do that in Apollo was not because the Saturn was so much better designed, but because the Mobile Service Structure provided access to the full stack, and they only needed the VAB if a repair required taking the stack apart, which was necessary for the Apollo 16 repair.

All the assembly/integration at the Cape for Gemini and Mercury were done on the launch stand. The VAB was purpose-built for Apollo-Saturn. //

MilesArcher Ars Centurion
5y
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BCGeiger said:
🎼Hanger Queen, 🎶
🎼Should’a cancelled it back in ‘17🎶
🎼Hanger Queen🎶
🎼They keep pouring cash into this bad machinee🎶
Man, you had the opportunity to rhyme hydrazine and missed it.