• njordomir@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Now when I lose my keys I just shine bright spotlight into the room and look for the flash of alu foil.

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    This is actually really helpful it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil and that’s pretty helpful because it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil

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      i tried this , it’s a new testicle maxing technique from Andrew Taint, ended up at 4am dipping my balls in a bucket of ice cream gasping “oh blessed Jesus , so fucking good!” Alas my wife and daughter opened the door to the kitchen to see what all the noise was about, seeing me spread eagled and naked on the floor, my balls in a tub of ice cream, my daughter looked me in the eye and slowly her eyes went dead, she and my wife said nothing, packed up and left there and then.

      I did however notice i needed to clean under the refrigerator

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        Lol that was great.

        Okay story time. My wife told me she found a trick to cure her athletes foot. You guessed it, Vapor Rub. She swore by it and I didn’t think much of it because I never really got athletes foot.

        Fast forward a year or so later and I get athletes foot, only it isn’t on my feet…it is on my balls and taint area. It slowly built up over the course of a couple of days and one evening after I got off work I just could not take the burning and itch anymore.

        I remember the Vics Rub trick and think hey if it works so good on your feet why not your balls and taint area. So I go find the plastic jar and slather up my balls. At first nothing happened. Then a burning sensation a hundred times worse than I ever had struck me.

        When wife found me after she got off work, I was in the tub crying and begging for anything to stop the pain. After a couple of hours it began to subside. It was one of the more painful things I had ever experienced.

        Oh, btw it did cure my athletes crotch thing but even though it worked I would definitely give it a 0 out of 10.

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        So putting Vicks vapour rub on your balls will:

        • Bring you closer to Jesus
        • Reduce your sugar intake
        • Save you 2/3rds on your grocery bills
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    At least this one is fake. Not like the Flock Camera one where it turned out that they actually each have about 2.4lbs of copper and 0.28oz of gold.

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    Isn’t there a thing where car thiefs use an RF booster to make newer cars think the keyfob is right next to the receiver?

    Personally, I’d want an antenna on/off switch that gets activated by shoving it in the keyfob hole. Seems reasonably secure.

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      Oh god I always hated those cars that start by pressing a button. Fuck off let me turn my key. I like the thing where the car unlocks automatically if you are next to it and all that but for the love of god the press button to start car thing needs to die.

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        Heh, it’s on the right track. But as an IT guy and tech nerd, I’d want to go for something like this. I’ve even set mine up for computer logins back when I had an Active Directory test environment for learning.

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        Nono, you see that would actually be user serviceable and convenient for the consumer!! You’re fired Smith. Johnson, tell me again about your llm powered brain mounted key fob with ad injection and $20 a month subscription? I love it! You’re promoted!!

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      Maybe just use an rfid coil in the ignition and turn a key to start like immobilizers have done for like 20-30 years at this point.

      Better yet use physical contacts in the key and use an on key cryptographic controller to do public key authentication.

      That way key material never leaves the key itself after being manufactured making it basically impossible to steal the car without the key.

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        That also solves the problem of the dealership needing to continue charging hundreds of dollars to replace a lost key.

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          The solution to that is open source tooling to download backup and re-upload your private key material to a set of keys.

          Doesn’t solve the issue of the key cut though.

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      Yes, but you can usually just disable the proximity unlock feature on the car itself if you are worried about it

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      They pretty much already do this. Most modern fobs turn themselves off if they’ve not moved recently, which protects against relay style attacks.

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      But does it work with the foil? We found lots of metal containers didn’t block the signal. Hell even a pouch advertised to do it still worked.

      Thick metal containers with over lapping lids worked best.

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        I tested with bolt EV, 2019?, model, because while the keys are in my house they would still allow kryless start to my car in the driveway. 2 layers of crumpled aluminum foil worked to fix it from ~15 feet away

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        Heavy duty Reynolds wrap. Fold to desired thickness and you have to wrap it fully without gaps. You’re tying to contain light.

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    “Steamed Key Fob” is one of my favorite gourmet meals. 5 stars, would eat again!

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    The other day I saw a guy who had a little tin foil “folder” for his credit card. I guess he was trying to block criminals from getting his card number?

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      RFID for contactless payments.

      You can just hold your NFC phone with a payment app to someones butt & give yourself a few monies.

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        Yeah, in a serious country, it’s easy to identify the criminal and send them to jail. So this tends to happen in short and localized bursts where people don’t steal a lot.

        But it does exist.

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            I mean, arguably that’s what visa and mastercard and whatnot are. We need one with infrastructure controlled by the gubmint because it’s a utility, not a service. In the following 500 pages I will prove…

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              Oh, 100%, it’s core infrastructure!
              It’s just mad to have that privatised. And held by monopolies. From an unstable third-world country.

              In EMU we just got/are getting Wero, which is getting adopted to serve this purpose (and in the same way as payment cards too, eventually).
              (Basically all the big banks already support it, even tho they many offer similar in-house services, and the countries/makers are set for adoption in the coming years. Overall the initial one-time infrastructure cost per bank is laughably minimal, basically less than annual fees to MasterCard/Visa.)

              We however don’t have a clear timeline on digital Euro, a digital currency that can be used as regular “traceless” “cash” (that means offline as well) payments.