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Hightec also have an ISO26262 qualified compiler focused on automotive: https://hightec-rt.com/rust So there's lots of focus on having a good alternative to C/C++

There were a few vendor-specific VLBish busses: Opti local bus was the most common, and had a few different boards: https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/tag/opti-local-bus/ Gig…

Check out the `--shutter` option for `libcamera-vid`, it allows you to tweak the camera's exposure time which might help with the screen refresh banding. `--shutter 60` sets the ex…

https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot... For context, this is the page the cease and desist was referring to.

I wonder how legit this site is. It says: > These SVG images were created by modifying the images of Pixabay. And indeed, the images seem to be taken from pixabay (e.g. [0], [1]), …

Or even find the /etc/shadow contents in the hexeditor and empty the root password field. Searching for "root:" usually gets you to the right place. Most *nix systems are happy if …

I'd never heard of this documentary, so I took a look. I assume you meant "The Bit Player"? ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5015534/ ). It looks interesting, and it's on Amazon prim…

Adding to this: f-droid also encourages reproducible builds: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ This means you can verify the APK on the f-droid store matches what's …

Why not also add the kitchen sink! http://www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers/html/roc... :)

Rust has a lot of good IDE options these days: https://areweideyet.com/ They decided to focus on the "Rust Language Server", which many IDEs use, rather than on one specific IDE.

As well as the IMA Appraisal feature that mjg59 mentioned, you can also integrity check your entire filesystem with verity[1]. Android uses it to make sure the system partition isn…

The embedded version of CLFS (Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch) covers building a musl + busybox system: http://clfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/x86/ But the more resources available o…

As somebody who uses numerous keyboard layouts on a daily basis, this is an interesting idea! I wonder how hard it'd be to make a script where you specify which keyboard layouts yo…

> Also note the lead weights used here to make the product feel more substantial Are these weights really made of Lead? Or is "lead weight" just an industry term for anything heavy…

Google Apps has a few more knobs at least: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2368132?hl=en

I believe all NTSC equipment is required to support Black&White System M signals, which are exactly 60Hz[1]. It probably made their equipment much simpler to forget about colour en…

Small correction: The MinnowBoard MAX only has 8MB of on-board flash, not 8GB. (It's an SPI chip to hold the firmware)

While I agree that they likely store much less data than five zettabytes, your assumption that all their storage is on constantly spinning hard disks seems flawed. (Tape libraries …

Indeed it's rare, but not unheard of. For example the "nocash" series of emulators has extensive debug support (breakpoints, memory viewers, disassemblers, hardware traps, etc) htt…