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Sway-wm used to be spawnable as a child window, not sure if that is still possible.

I think you should also be able to get multiple ctrl-alt-fX graphical sessions.

I’ll come back and update this comment when I get to my PC and give this a try.

Edit: seem Max-P’s comment.

That’s just what CMG claimed to have.

But to be useful for an advertising network, it kinda needs to be installable on everything. And if it failed to suppress the mic LED on a single device, it would be very easily noticed?

Family Link. You can whitelist apps, get screen time stats, and if your kid needs an app, when they try install it it will ask your approval.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.kids.familylink

Bit of a pain getting the accounts setup, but otherwise works very well for preventing my grandma filling her tablet with junk.

Sure, except we are defenceless to the rampant dropbears. /s

Australia is a funny example for gun control. Yanks seem to think we have no guns at all, but the reality is that as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely, they aren’t that hard to get.

Any idiot and chatgpt could knock up an overt always listening app in an afternoon. I have no doubt shady apps already can do this. Its not hard or expensive. (Backend storage and audio processing costs are a different kettle of fish, and I think those make this fairly prohibitive as well, but that’s a funding problem, not a technical problem.)

But as soon as they make the claim that it doesn’t trigger the microphone LED on iOS and Android, across all devices, then that’s a “technically hard” problem. That’s multiple zero days across multiple devices. Its just not feasable for an ad tech firm. They would never be able to recoup that investment.

I’m happy to be proven wrong, but so far all the researchers in the world have found nothing.

So I’m attributing near 0% chance that anyone outside of nation states have the later tech (device agnostic covert audio recording).

The capabilities TLAs have costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, and once caught, are worthless. TLAs are extremely careful with their toys to avoid them being caught.

This Adtech company is claiming to have something at that level, which they are deploying everywhere. If it existed, it would have been found the day after they announced it, the security researcher industry would be all over it. They are very intelligent people who do understand those devices inside and out, if it existed they would find it. Remember, these are the same researchers who frequently out actual TLA tools.

You can’t prove a negative, so it definitely is a probability thing, but I put the probability at basically 0 that they have what they claim.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/no-a-marketing-firm-isnt-tapping-your-device-to-hear-private-conversations/

The capability they were claiming to have would make a three letter agency very excited. If they truely had the ability to listen to your microphone, transparently without notifying the user, they could sell that tech to every regime that wants to snoop on people, for millions of dollars.
Instead they claim to be using it for Ad-tech, where if it existed, would make it trivial to discover and flag as malware.

Apple and Google would also be very keen to find and squash whatever loophole let’s them record without showing the notification.

Its just an extraordinary claim, which if true would have been exposed/validated by security researchers long ago.

Not disputing the three letter agencies, but there is zero evidence that that ad company ever had the tech or ability. They were/are just full of shit.

This was pretty clear when observing the output of tldrbot. It would just randomly select paragraphs, ignoring surrounding context, and call it a summary.

Unsafe doesn’t let you just ignore the borrow checker, which is what generally tripped me up when learning to write rust.

You have a notebook. On the first page, you put a table of contents. As you fill in pages, you note them down in the table of contents at the start.

When you want to delete a page, instead of erasing the whole page now (there are hundreds free still, why waste the effort), you erase the entry in the table of contents.

Now if someone finds your notebook, according to the table of contents there is no file at page X. But if they were to look through every single page, they would be able to find the page eventually.

This is loosely how file systems work. You can’t really use it to boost storage, the number of pages is finite, and if you need to write a new page, anything not listed in the contents is fair game to be overwritten.

My purely anecdotal opinion, once you get into university and higher education, everyone is a bit autistic and socially stunted. Its almost a prerequisite.

Not sure what the exact law is, but there are noise restrictions after 10pm in my area. So not just domestics, lawnmowers, reving car engines, drumkits etc are all prohibited. Its at the polices discretion to how they handle it, whenever I have called it in, usually the cops tell them to be quiet, and that theyll swing by a bit later to make sure its peaceful.

I’d call the cops on the noise alone. Its their job to decide whether to, and how to intervene. Of course, the police in my country aren’t trigger happy morons, so that does change it a bit.

The NSA has two semis conflicting jobs. They are meant to gain access to foreign adversaries, as well as protecting american interests. Publishing ghidra goes towards the later.

There is also a law in the US that stuff developed by government agencies needs to be open sourced. I can’t find the law, but there have been other bits of OSS stuff released by other agencies.

Selinux was developed by the NSA.

You could be right, in any case, it was a 30s iso3200 exposure in a dim room, it should have blown out, but instead it was very dim and noisy.

Could be a camera module limitation? Fwiw, on my s10+, I can set it to 30s, but I don’t think its a true long exposure anyway. Seems more like a series of short exposures stacked together, with all the noise that goes with it.

Have you tried lowering the resolution to see if you can expose longer?

Yup, I mispoke, but essentially yes, they could be DC, but at a significantly higher voltage than 12v DC.

Some appliances use the AC frequency to timekeep as well, but given almost all appliances have microcontrollers now, that hardly matters anymore.

I would have thought DC motors would have worse longevity, given they have a wear surface due to the split ring commutator? Unless they are talking about ESC DC motors?

All the small stuff is low voltage DC, but just about every appliance requires AC (ovens, dishwashers, kettles, toasters, washing machines, aircon). Running an oven on 12v DC would be insane.