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Once I tried to reverse engineer a simple checksum (10 ASCII chars + 1 checksum byte), gathered multiple possible values and fed it to Gemini 2.5 Pro. It figured out the calculatio…

Wireless earbuds microphones are famous for poor quality audio, even in the top of the line models. The microphone is indeed closer to your mouth, but the sound in the human speech…

It's called operational leasing and it's quite popular in Europe. Examples include: https://www.ayvens.com/en-pt/leasing-with-us/how-it-works/ https://www.drivalia.cz/en/fleet-mana…

There's a broader area protected by a high fence with barbed wire. They had access there, cause the father is a radio engineer and have friends on various sites.

Does anyone else remember the clone Art for Kids for Atari [1], or more specifically, it's Polish version for Windows, Zostań Małym Picasso? There's no screenshot I could find of t…

I wouldn't suggest hosting publicly open services from own local network. Without proper maintenance and experience, this is asking for trouble imo. VPSes are so cheap these days (…

One feature missing from the Windows solution, which flux has and it works tremendously, is an automatic trigger to disable the color/brightness change when a certain app is opened…

It's also accessible from context menu in the editor, I use it from there.

I'm a software developer on a daily basis, whose native language is not English. In this environment, pretty much all keywords are in English and having this perspective, I automat…

Analog encryption schemes are infinitely interesting to revisit today. The ingenuity of these folks trying to create an unbreakable encryption scheme with limited resources of 80's…

In Poland in 60s, there were also some post-related records sold: http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/postcards.html

Is it still possible, when you cannot mount your /system partition as rw, because of well... permissions?