Mike

@blu3id
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Technology, Healthcare, Developer, Troublemaker, Libertarian leaning. Strong views that may not be my own. Toots may or may not be contemporaneous.
Location🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, United Kingdom
Websitehttps://blu3id.uk
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/blu3id
Absolutely continue to be delighted with my ~3y old @frameworkcomputer 13 laptop. Managed to break my fingerprint reader (dodgy USB electronics from AliExpress 🤦). Painlessly ordered the replacement part and fitted it now good as new. Haven't owned any other laptop that this would have been possible on.
My new t-shirt arrived, tempted to go to tech meetups wearing it...

Wrote an article about turning a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen laptop into a programmable USB device by enabling the xDCI controller 😯

Now I can emulate USB devices from the laptop without any external hardware, including via Raw Gadget or even Facedancer 😁

The overall process included fiddling with Linux kernel drivers, xHCI, DWC3, ACPI, BIOS/UEFI, Boot Guard, TPM, NVRAM, PCH, PMC, PSF, IOSF, and P2SB, and making a custom USB cable 😱

https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci

🤫 Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices

Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen

Andrey Konovalov
Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know: It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Just a QR Code

A free QR code generator. No ads, no trackers, nothing to buy.

Als nens se'ls hi ofereix just el contrari del que necessiten.
The trailer for season two of Andor is out! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to watch an earnest show about an ultimately successful revolution against a fascist government. https://kottke.org/25/02/andor-season-two-trailer
Andor Season Two Trailer

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to watch an earnest show about an ultimately successful revolution against a f

kottke.org
This morning's weather (looking towards Beinn Alligin).