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  • tal@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@beehaw.org•Ukraine’s SBU said that Russia’s intelligence hacked surveillance cameras to direct a missile strike on Kyiv
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    10 months ago

    Man, I hadn’t thought of that as being a threat.

    There are probably zillions of brands of inexpensive, insecure cameras out there from companies that have gone out of business and which were poorly-set-up or configured. Usually not a huge issue, but for military operations in urban areas, it’s gonna be a pain.

    Countering that is going to be tough.

    Maybe disallow security cameras above the third story or something like that, so that any one camera can only see so much. If you can break into one way up and rotate it, which it sounds like they did, then you have good odds of being able to see a lot.

    Or disguise the military hardware, which also helps address humans who might be spying.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@beehaw.org•Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
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    10 months ago

    I remap Menu to Compose.

    Compose is probably the most-useful widely-available way to enter a number of occasionally-used non-ASCII characters, and the combinations are easy to remember, like Compose-^-6 being “⁶”. And while it’s not available in the console, in X or Wayland, it’s ubiquitous.

    GTK has the Control-Shift-U Unicode codepoint combination, but while that might work for a few Unicode codepoints, it’s hard to remember and obnoxious to type.

    If I’m in emacs, then there are a number of powerful input methods that work fine, but I don’t do everything in emacs.