The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[SnarkBe]

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”

[Az_F]

@invalid_signal

and could fight your friend’s monsters

Yes for that, the rest is a bit different, theoretically of course.

[invalid_signal]

I’m intrigued! Can’t wait to see it!
Since you’ve got experience with making android apps, any tutorials you’d recommend for getting started? I’ve got a couple Udemy courses I’ve bookmarked. Now that I’ve got more free time, I want to get back into programming and work on Skannerz clone.

[Az_F]

@invalid_signal

any tutorials you’d recommend for getting started?

Coding on Unity is inherently multiplatform, that means you can build the same game to pc or android with ease. Hence you don’t really need to learn anything android specific but rather learn how to use Unity. For that I wouldn’t recommend paying for courses. Unity is a very community driven platform and has a LOT of online resources. Unity themselves has a pretty extensive collection of code-along tutorials and there are many well established unity tutorial channels.
Brackeys is probably the most famous and has quality content but I just don’t like him personally so not my favorite.
Blackthornprod on the other hand I like a lot and is very inspiring for me.
But above all, Sebastian Lague’s coding adventures will show you the true potential of a game engine which I think is much more important than step by step tutorials if you already have some familiarity with coding.

I know this is all unity specific but that’s my jam
Things you want to look into once you start scripting: Events, Coroutines and Scriptable Objects
One last thing: if you use a game engine, take the time to understand how it’s made and why it’s made the way it is. Maybe watch a 40min superficial video on game engine architecture. Everything will make more sense and your learning curve will improve drastically.

@invalid_signal

I’m intrigued! Can’t wait to see it!

Don’t I’m not commiting to this until the basics of my nfc app are finished and by then things might have changed

[invalid_signal]

Thank you! I’ll watch a video about Unity, then look up those channels!
I’m stuck in TX and CA til the middle of next month when I can get back to my PC, but it’ll give me time to expand my knowledge of Unity beyond knowing what their title screen looks like when I launch a game XD

Well I am more intrigued by your NFC app than the NFC game, so I’m fine with that! Lol

[Pilgrimsmaster]

[NatalieKnox]

@Pilgrimsmaster

It really demonstrates inconvenience as deterrence, I think they forgot people without cars exist though.

[invalid_signal]

Anyone know when are the FlexLungs coming out?
I’m getting a little fed up with needles in my butt for bronchitis/pneumonia every year lol
Curse the person who came up with the idea for injecting meds in people’s butts!

Also, on an unrelated note because the lung issues are definitely NOT my fault…I need to quit smoking lol

[tac0s]

Nicotine is insidious. I smoked for a decade and the last five years were spent trying to quit. What finally worked for me was patches until I hit the smallest one then those foul tasting lozenges until I just didn’t want them anymore… And, of course, telling myself that I could never have so much a drag on a cigarette or a vape ever again. I hope it’s easier for you to give up!

[invalid_signal]

Dang! Glad you were able to find a way to quit!
I was cig free and vape free for a bit until work just got insane and stressful. I really need to get on quitting again!

[invalid_signal]

Also, it’s fun visiting Texas. The doc said I’m not contagious, and my cough has been good, so I went out for some fancy healthy food. And maybe some medicine for the soul in a rocks glass. I ordered tuna avocado something on toast and it came with a redneck twist of Pringles on top XD

[Az_F]

So I’ve been following this thread lately

Apex Flex - applets no longer install

My Apex Flex can’t install applets anymore. I received my Apex Flex and started testing applets prior to implantation. I successfully installed Free Memory, NDEF (8KB), Tesla, OTP applets, then attempted the FIDO U2F. It took a long time trying to install (as expected) but failed, saying I may not have had enough space. I removed the other applets one at a time and reattempted the U2F install, unsuccessfully each time, until I removed all applets - thinking the U2F applet must need all the Fle…

And it got me wondering how foolproof the apexes are and will be. Can you brick one and if so how probable is it?
Also is it inherent to the tags or are they going to become more and more reliable as the software side gets ironed out?

[amal]

There are ways to brick it… simply try to authentucate the ISD just a few times with the wrong password… poof… there are other attack vectors as well which are all built around triggering tamper protection to burn things vs possibly allowing data to leak… just in case… which is annoying.

As far as accidental bricking, after the P40 and P60 debacles, we’ve done a bunch of poking and prodding it… switching power off mid-write… etc… so far, stable

[Az_F]

So if you use the dedicated apps properly there’s virtually no risk for the newbie user? That’s cool

[amal]

Pretty much. There are risks at every level of course, from breaking the hardware through ISD attack and simply walking up with a Fidesmo app and removing an applet from the chip along with all it’s keys… We are talking to Fidesmo now about trying to work around and mitigate this particular issue… But the point is, if used as intended, you’re pretty safe.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Pilgrimsmaster

@cowbaby

Has anyone taken a look at this?

I have now

Man there is a whole lot of FLUFF in that campaign.
But, whatever, I still grabbed the combo deal

I cant wait until Amal start stocking these

FYI

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@amal

I was recently annoyed by seeing some examples of accredited sources indicating that “peaked” and “piqued” are functionally identical in “contemporary English”.

Same as the consistent and incorrect use of the word “Literally”

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

[Eriequiet]

Did We Change the Definition of 'Literally'?

[Az_F]

I didn’t wnat to put this in the show-off-using-your-implant thread since it’s not a video and I don’t see how I could possibly get it on video. But I still wanted to share, and I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before here:

Before I moved I used to do quite a bit of long exposure and light painting. I also did a lot of urban exploration and my thing was anything underground so of course I combined the two.
If you’re unfamiliar with photography terms what I did involved leaving the camera perfectly still for a few minutes to gather as much light as possible in complete or partial darkness. Sometimes I would work with a friend and the procedure went as follows:
Set up the camera, my friend gets in place, we turn all the lights off, I start the shot, he does whatever light painting. But then he had to come back to me and the camera in complete darkness. Usually we would just talk and use sound as a guide.
But as you might expect in some urbex locations you might not want to be noticed. In fact you would try and be completely silent. This is where my glowy doNext came in. I used to use it as a beacon to guide the other person. It is just bright enough to be seen but doesn’t shine on the environment which would ruin the photo. Also it’s always there, no need to switch it on or off and that makes the whole choreography much simpler.

I have used it a couple other times in contexts where the voice is not practical. For example if the person must give me something so I can relay them. With the implant they directly see my hand.

That’s it, just a little anecdote