That name jumped out at me, Hans Jansen is the name Dominic Monaghan used when posing as a German interviewer with Elijah Woods. Not that it can't be a real person
Barely related, but reminded me that a recent comment here linked to this DEFCON talk from a former darknet vendor. He claimed to use WiFi from a house a mile away using a Yagi antenna
With the right directional antenna you can already go like 10 miles and more. I certainly went over 1 km like 17 years ago just by using a grid reflector antenna connected to a cheap consumer 802.11b access point using legal power and a normal PCMCIA card with no external antenna on the other side. The point of the technology should be to allow long range communications with some speed restrictions but without sacrificing portability, which of course using a big directional antenna is not possible.
Yes, connecting a directional antenna is illegal because its gain "amplifies" the power in a given direction at the expense of all other directions. We of course didn't tell anyone, and back then there weren't many services that we could disrupt by pointing the antenna from the 9th floor of a building to a nearby hill:)
Using directional antennas is legal if you compensate by turning down the transmission power so that in the direction you are still transmitting the signal is no more intense than it would have been with omnidirectional antennas. That doesn't entirely defeat the purpose of using directional antennas because it still means that the receive side is focused specifically at the direction of interest and not picking up as much noise from irrelevant directions.
It's not illegal if you have a ham license, though. This allows for interesting hacks such as AREDN, which uses off-the-shelf WiFi hardware to run a mesh network, using high-gain (and usually directional) antennas to link larger nodes to each other:
Pringles can wifi hacking has been around since 2005ish. I also remember someone using a spider strainer as a cheap handheld dish with a USB stick wifi transceiver placed near the focus.
Even 20 years ago, WiFi distance records were mostly a matter of geography. The limit quickly became the curvature of Earth's surface, so the ideal geography was two mountains, separated by empty ocean in the middle, with easy access up their facing slopes.
There's troposcatter...bouncing off the troposphere. That's been around with microwave transmission for quite a long time. Requires a little more power though.
15+ years ago, my friend made a Yagi from a piece of wood and some nails, to connect to some open WiFi network from a block of flats a couple hundred meters away, in order to use it as a backup connection during semi-regular outages his ISP suffered from.
Ah, the joyful age of high school. No money or power to do things "the right way", but ample free time to skill up and hack your way around.
On 115.0b9 on macOS the list is empty (`extensions.quarantinedDomains.list`), guessing it's intended to be set by school/company IT for their managed devices
Arch is my ideal distro, but since my motherboards started using UEFI I just haven't been able to install it. I followed the instructions from the Install Wiki[0], but just couldn't figure it out. Manjaro's been a nice in-between with a painless installation process
That may be a good idea, but I honestly haven't looked into it. My preference is for operating systems to just work, rather than me change all my motherboards to accommodate them
Arch does "just work" it's more of an issue with booting from a live image you are encountering by the sounds of things. Ironically your preferred OS is derivative of Arch and considered less stable by many users of both systems.
I think Karabiner(-Elements) is way more popular and probably more flexible, but I've had a lot of success with Ukelele for 6-7 years. I exported one layout and just copy it to each new macbook. Specifically it lets me set `option` as a dead key so I can have `opt+i`, `opt+j`, etc... shortcuts in editors.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. What those instructions explain is (1) removing macOS permissions, (2) removing logs/temporary files, (3) removing config. These are normal things that some may want to keep after uninstalling the program. Calling it bloatware is misleading and dilutes the meaning for things that are actually bloatware.
The Mac keyboard layout system is good; it's basically a tree of states, so it's both simple and capable. Ukelele is a decent layout editor; the only down side I recall is that it's not easy to create chains analogous to X11 Compose. Editing or generating keyboard layout XML directly is also possible.
Karabiner and hidutil are at a lower level; they modify the key codes that are the input to layout.
If you're interested in how records are cut, Amanda Ghassaei had a really cool project 3D printing records that goes into detail. She later used laser cutting
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