Viewing profile — braunshedd

The Xbox 360 was hacked in a simpler but nearly identical way [1]! Amazing that despite the various mitigations, the same process was enough to crack the Xbox One. [1] https://cons…

Our GCP workloads are unavailable across several US regions. The GCP console is intermittently unavailable for most pages. Crossing my fingers for a quick resolution.

When I was commuting daily in the SF fog, I discovered that putting on of these [1] on my helmet did wonders to keep cars further off my tail. It moves the brake light up to eye le…

I also use Netflix to great effect for practicing Chinese, especially when paired with the Language Reactor[1] extension in Chrome. * Note: Netflix has much more Taiwanese content …

You're probably thinking of "The Island"[1]. Good movie, I saw this myself a long time ago. [1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

TLDR: When electronics burn out, they often release "magic smoke" that is believed to be the source of their power (since they almost always fail to work afterwards). https://en.wi…

I just disabled all of these warnings on my Toyota with a third party OBDII reader and the Carista app, which also comes with lots of other fun options to fiddle with. Only thing I…

He's traveling around Australia! (Check bio, great YouTube channel)

Update: they approved my A2P use case! There is hope yet for using twilio for personal purposes :-)

I'm actually in this exact same boat (I ported my US number to twilio when I had a long travel stint abroad to retain access, have since built a forwarding system to keep using it)…

I read this and wondered "how many other people could be out there that fit this description besides the road-chose-me guy?" Sure enough -- it's the road-chose-me guy xD

Very interesting! How close are we to achieving said noise threshold?

https://everynoise.com Search for your favorite bands using the bar at the top right corner. Find the associated playlist on Spotify via "The Sound Of X" where X is the genre name.…

The degradation is the real problem. They hold up for the first tens of charges but quickly lose 20-50% of capacity. It might have to do with the lack of OEM charging circuitry on …

Genuine Apple batteries are miles better than any of the secondhand ones I've replaced them with (even the iFixit batteries). Very exited to get my hands on the OEM replacements an…

If we're using anecdata, I've seen $20 plywood sheets going for $40 which is double the normal price, but not 7x.

There's essentially no new housing being built in the Bay in general, so I suppose the cost of lumber is moot.

Definitely sarcasm with 'And stop asking questions.'

Exercise windows are a super important issue that are touched on briefly here, but worth expounding on. Early-exercise mitigates some of the issues of a short exercise window but o…

Ah! This is classic, wonder if this is based on the old flash game... * https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/186896

I'm curious about how you're tackling some of the problems I've seen with prior recycled-plastic-to-filament projects. IIRC printer filament is very sensitive to moisture and impur…

I'd love to see this done in Forza, although I'm sure that's optimizing for the wrong kind of driving behavior (lol) Amazing work!

Próspera Honduras just launched. It's a ZEDE (aka SEZ), the legacy from Paul Romer's time in Honduras. It has a huge amount of regulatory autonomy which they are tackling in an int…