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
Show threadMikeFeb 24
@samir @Edent could use an even simpler heuristic of account age. The majority of spam is from "young" accounts that have existed for less than e.g 1y (arbitrary starting choice - pick any time period that balances ease with spam).
MikeFeb 23
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.
MikeFeb 20
Daniël Franke Feb 20
My new t-shirt arrived, tempted to go to tech meetups wearing it...
MikeFeb 16
Andrey KonovalovFeb 22, 2024

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
Show threadMikeFeb 8
@ivor @Edent same.
MikeJan 16
Humor Satire MemesJan 16
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.
Show threadMikeJul 29, 2025
@Edent In Osaka probably already on your radar but worth a visit to Kinkaku-ji "Golden Pavilion" - incredibly touristy (and busy with both national tourists and foreigners) but it is a world heritage site for a reason.
Show threadMikeJul 29, 2025
@Edent Tourist recommendation - when in Tokyo visit Hakone either as a day trip or on your way to Kyoto. Having done it as a day trip on my way to Kyoto I regretted not spending longer and very much rushed doing the "route" (Hakone-jinja Shrine, Sightseeing Cruise, Cable car upto Owakudani - views of Mt Fuji, Hakone Open Air Museum) particularly as could have done more if I staying and spent longer at various things.
Show threadMikeJul 27, 2025
@revk sticking with age verification - you know how they will "fix this"? (because it won't be repeal and rework) with a centralised government run digital ID service...which is better right? Though tbf this _may_ not be entirely terrible with zero knowledge proofs e.g https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.

Google
MikeJul 22, 2025
@accudio yes certainly in the US I don't think robots.txt offenses have been particularly successful from my brief searches. But as a one weak legal argument against another in a game of shakedowns/ fair licencing it would be a good "offensive" argument to have.