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The ThunderScope design is done. It's out for quotation. The hard part is over.

https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/tree/master/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope_Rev5.3/Outputs

That one zip file represents the culmination of almost 7 years of work. I need a break... and a stiff drink

ThunderScope/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope_Rev5.3/Outputs at master · EEVengers/ThunderScope

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Hey #infosec folks join me this Tuesday for my pal Nikki’s talk “Software from the Inside Out: Reverse Engineering as Method”

Attend in person at MIT or online via Zoom.

Details: https://nikkistevens.com/posts/2024-09-20-mit-talk/

#reverseengineering #infosec #academia

MIT Talk: Reverse Engineering as Method

I’m so excited to give a talk at MIT on Tuesday. I’ll be talking about reverse engineering. If I need to sound fancy about it, I will tell you that “reverse engineering is a logic and approach that is core to my method.” Put more plainly, I use reverse engineering and other “take it apart and figure out how it works” approaches to academic software research. Details (and poster!) below.

Dr. Nikki Stevens

air purifiers are probably more effective at preventing covid infections than the vaccines are now. shame society refuses to put them in schools, offices, and public buildings 🙄

in fact most places that had them are like "wow what are we gonna do with all these air purifiers now that covid is over"

idk man, aside from the fact covid isn't over, have we defeated all airborne viruses? no? then maybe keep using the fucking air purifiers you fuckwits

How did Wine64 manage to handle macOS?

It has been a major obstacle for decade. It was reported as impossible. Forum talks referred to issues related to setting and restoring GS. Wine HQ FAQ still refers to ABI incompatibility page whic...

Stack Overflow

Premier Doug Ford renames the Centennial Park football stadium after his late brother, Rob Ford. Torontonians have already dubbed it the 'Crack Track'

#toronto #onpoli #dougFord #Cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/renaming-centennial-park-rob-ford-stadium-1.7217641?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

Toronto renames football stadium in Centennial Park after late former mayor Rob Ford | CBC News

City officials renamed a football stadium at Toronto's Centennial Park after the late former mayor Rob Ford at a ceremony on Tuesday.

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The list of working Steam games is getting longer~ ✨

All running on an M2 Pro Mac Mini with Asahi Linux, krun, and FEX-Emu! 🎮

Subnautica was cool to see working!!

One side effect of the current corporate AI fad is website users deleting their posts and accounts in protest. One prolific user of a site was responsible for posting sooooo much information that I've used to learn 'retro gamedev' on multiple platforms; and they've killed their account and every post as part of a wider protest against the site's new policy to explicitly scrape all posts for LLM training data 😢
Um, yeah. Why commute when as senior engineer you can dictate terms. If only there were a large tech workers union.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2024094
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

Ars Technica

interesting thing of note: if you're looking to buy a GaN USB-C charger above 75W, compare the price-per-watt to a few 65W ones.

chargers above 75W are required to have an active PFC stage, typically requiring four more transistors and a fancier controller, which adds cost, so you can often tell if they're penny-pinching on the design if the price-per-watt is close to that of a 65W one. you should expect to see at least a 20% price-per-watt jump if they're doing it right.

Started working on a tool to create PDFs for printing backups of cryptographic keys. Uses @bcrypt 's niceware format/encoding. Meant for use in storing offline copies of yubikey/disk encryption keys.

⚠️ Not ready for use yet. Please do not use in production and lose your keys.

Just sharing the initial prototype.

Still todo:

  • Make PDF look pretty, with clear instructions.
  • Add option to encrypt (pbkdf+memorized master passphrase, or a static key) before encoding.
  • Move go port of niceware to it's own repo/lib.
  • Add recovery command/flow to the cli
  • Print and ✨Laminate✨ some keys :)

https://github.com/Tethik/papercopy

GitHub - Tethik/papercopy: QR Code + mnemonic + encrypted?

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