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Before Kali, in the mid-late 90’s, we had had a 4-node dial-in BBS in my area code (813) called The Arena that ran an app called SerIPX - basically IPX over serial - to allow 4 pla…

I spent some time last week tinkering with a SOQuartz board and ended up getting it working with a Pine-focused distro called Plebian[1]. Took awhile to land on it though. Before t…

This looks like a shift away from their old “editorialized” blog-style updates to a data-sharing-centric approach. I’m guessing that this takes less time for them and it allows var…

I had to get an active DAC cable (S+AO0005) for the RB-4011 because of the quirk you mentioned. Works great with the active cable, which was about $50 I think. I was glad I read th…

For awhile I was actually using a UniFi NanoHD for my AP. Performance and stability were great but running a Docker container for a Ubiquti Controller (for a single AP) was annoyin…

Sadly RouterOS isn’t open source. They’ve received a bit of flak for their “available on request” stance on getting GPL sources too. The fact that their GPL patches aren’t readily …

I’ve become a big fan of MikroTik routers and 10G/SFP+ router/switch hardware in the last few years. Their web UI and SSH console are a bit quirky but the performance is pretty gre…

Current job (Java dev, mid sized SaaS, 2019-now): Local specialist recruiter via random inbound LinkedIn message. Worked out really well, despite the horror stories I had heard. Pr…

The main argument in the article (and other places I’ve seen WG discussed) is the relative ease of auditing the core code as well as auditing implementations. In that context it’s …

Increasingly it seems like heavily opinionated foundational tools and frameworks are overtaking more highly configurable alternatives, at least in terms of breadth of usage or popu…

Whether the issue is with the CPU hardware, the mainboard design (VRM, etc), mainboard BIOS, kernel, or the Prime95 app itself still appears to be an open question. Based on oscill…

I’m curious if this behavior defined by something in hardware, microcode, boot-time BIOS flags, or higher level kernel/hypervisor/application code.

Thanks for the recommendations! I have a DSLabs DScope (100 MHz, 2-channel FPGA scope) and while it’s handy I’d prefer to have a proper hardware scope someday. Rigol’s scopes look …

I still have a pair of G5 mice that I use at home and work. It’s good to see Logitech bringing back that design! Other than the MX Master 2S I carry around for mobile use, I’ve nev…

Haven’t reached any degree of publishing quality yet, but it’s something I’m aiming to do if time allows. Ideally I’d prefer to Yep people run their own testing and monitoring. Thi…

I recently put my Telegraf configs/scripts for monitoring RPi thermals and throttling into a git repo. These might be helpful for anyone doing their own comparative testing of cool…

RPi power consumption and power supply is a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface. A large problem is that even “3A rated" supplies suffer large voltage droop under loa…

Wired, before the boom/bust, was a massive inspiration for me. Growing up in Central Florida in a “BBS rustbelt” area code it was one of the only places I could find quality writin…

As someone that grew up on bash the concepts that underlie PowerShell’s syntax are unnecessary reinventions at their best and utterly bizarre at their worst. That’s the primary rea…

This is related to the underlying console/terminal system in Windows 10, which should be shell agnostic. The same infrastructure is used by PowerShell, the Windows command prompt, …

There have been some good quality of life enhancements over the last few years[1] but this looks like it’ll be a big step in the huge shift required in the ancient “console” subsys…