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While that's an interesting thought experiment and there are definitely good reasons to make it more difficult to sit on an unused patent, it's already difficult enough for lone in…

Yeah this seems to be a fairly important missing piece. Is there some special boot mode with a ROM-hosted unmodifiable adb?

Why do you think this is the case across all of Europe? You can definitely buy SIM cards in vending machines in Denmark still.

The author seems to be making an assumption that the average person cares as little about preventing centralization of power and having any semblance of online privacy as they do a…

Is is, in fact, neither silly nor off-topic to discuss the politics, economics or ethics of the product being advertised. The fact that this makes you uncomfortable or annoyed is d…

Nice feature but what is the use case for saving to PDF? If you want to save a web page for later offline reading then epub would be both much easier to implement and more useful g…

Absolutely not an expert here and would love to be corrected but my poorly informed personal impression is that the whole idea of a sustainable amount of fishing and whether all sp…

It's actually simpler than a table of voltages. It's a series of trinary values that indicate whether to use positive, negative or zero voltage. The actual voltage used is static (…

zxing does not have a usable datamatrix decoder last I checked. it's there but it's no good.

It's not great but libdtmx is the best open source datamatrix decoding as far as I know.

Does anyone happen to know where in the Chromium code base the implementation is hiding? The android version seems to use a library that's part of Google Play Services: /** * Imple…

You know what would replace the web app if it was replaced today? Some corporate locked down solution subtly or unsubtly controlled by a single conglomerate or interest group. Rece…

Completely agree that Kobos are better than Kindles for hacking purposes. Generally not as easy to find cheap used though.

Cool! I did not know this existed!

If you just want to modify the existing OS and write apps for it the look at the kindle hacking community on the mobileread forums. The best devices are probably up to and includin…

We're engineering yeast to produce a vegan source of cheese protein and in the long run make Real Vegan Cheese: https://realvegancheese.org We're now hosting Bay Area Applied Mycol…

I'm part of the team so ask away! We're working towards having a larger BSL-1 (bio-safety level) lab for work with safe and well-known organisms and a smaller BSL-2 lab for stuff l…

We all moved in together. Hackers, anarchists, social justice, mad scientists, poets, dancers, documentary film-makers, etc. in one big space in Oakland!