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Adding a link to a malware zip? That seems pretty naive. Where are all the training-data poisoning repositories? Those set up so the next generation LLMs will be trained to include…

Sigrok is amazing! The killer feature for me is sigrok-cli. With it you basically convert from electrical signal to Unix pipe. Super useful for running e.g. timing measurements and…

Looks like you can install the Apache-licensed Docker engine + CLI via Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/docker-engine https://community.chocolatey.org/packages…

Has anyone else here done AoC on a microcontroller? I'm still at it, using an STM32 part with 40KB of RAM. Have never touched Smalltalk, instead I'm using Rust. It's going ok, thou…

My approach to solving problems that span complex systems: 1. Instrument 2. Measure 3. Interpret 4. Act Iterate as necessary. I have come to see this pattern working on electronics…

25cm birch logs surely are fun to split. With any kind of axe. We use to chop 1m (~3feet) logs of a lot more compact wood (oak, beech), and this looks like a toy to me. Has anyone …

You can get pretty fast fairly easily. Just got the first 256 tile in 35 sec, first 512 tile in 1:12.

"I knew, for instance, that the Euro was in crisis the first time I ever saw a euro" So it wasn't for economical reasons, after all!

Looks like I totally missed the parallel to the Cold War, could you elaborate?

So allied governments are basically idiots for not thinking the USA would spy on them? That would mean they should have put into place institutions protecting them from said spying…

4.7gb * 212 ~= 1000GB. But the article says 1000TB!

Those possibilities are especially embarrassing since doing it a lot better takes little effort: TrueCrypt container which contains sensible project-data; .ssh somewhere on that co…

In case anyone else wonders why the day-fraction seems to increment once per second: 1/24/60/60 = .00001157 EDIT: Watch it closely and you'll see the bug. EDIT2: Okay, not really t…

On the slide it shows an SPI- as well as uart-connection. Both should be very straight-forward to use, either relying on external libraries or by writing them yourself.

I liked the gradation of Arduino - Raspberry Pi - Beagleboard [Add further boards to liking]. This Yún thing seems like a step into the direction of "10 different boards, that all …

In my opinion "dumping a child in front of a screen" should really be the last option; only used with a good excuse and balanced by extensive investment of time. (It's of course ea…

One thing about this whole discussion really bugs me: Everyone is just talking about how to keep the children occupied with technology. I really think this is the wrong approach, t…

Low screen/front-size ratio, big fonts to compensate low resolution, flat UI and "clever" menu layout to compensate low contrast. Consumer expectations are high these days...

So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era: cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.

It saddens me how few of the people I meet have this attitude. I learned pretty early how rewarding hard work is, but the opinion I hear most is "life is for living, not working". …

> Beekeeping as it has been done since the widespread adoption of the Langstroth hive has been bad for bees. Actually, without the movable frame system hives wouldn't have much of …

This very well goes with the thoughts I have had about life for some time now. To really be content with what I do, to have the feeling of doing what I'm supposed to do, I have to …

Now that you ask, I realize it's really hard to put into words what I connect with a hacker/hacking. In my eyes it's not something you work towards. Rather, you might become a hack…

No. Following a step-by-step will actually not make you a hacker. That rather goes into the script-kiddie direction.