@david_rysk

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Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions

The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.

Grist

Want to get a Firmware update? Film these 14 minutes of QR codes. I love and hate this at the same time :D

Edit: The sequence repeats itself after a while so it like 2 Minutes of QR codes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vbNmFQqTGSw

REINER SCT Authenticator Update V2.22

YouTube
Many people don't realize that gatekeeping in open-source communities often also comes in the form of delayed or absent reviews by maintainers. Many times, this is a power play by maintainers to discourage others from expressing their opinions. I've repeatedly observed that when maintainers approach technical discussions as authoritative figures rather than collaborative participants, it ultimately harms the project itself.

Did you know that it is possible to create a fully functional rootfs from an OTA update?
Since the AppleTV HD is so similar to the HomePod 1st gen, we can just use the atv restore ramdisk for the HomePod.

We made a script to create a custom ipsw for the HomePod (using atv ipsw as donor for ramdisk), which you can restore from pwnDFU (using regular idevicerestore) to unbrick your homepod from a software update failure!
Check it out here https://github.com/tihmstar/homepodstuff

GitHub - tihmstar/homepodstuff

Contribute to tihmstar/homepodstuff development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Huge thanks are due to an anonymous benefactor who had a broken IN1606, which runs the same firmware. The poor thing had been drowned by a leaking A/C pipe and was very much the worse for wear... so of course, they did what any respectable hacker would do.
Tore the CPU off and traced the wiring back to the 20-pin connector, hoping to find JTAG, but finding something better.

Sometimes you just don't have the right connector, none of the alternatives you have will fit, and even your smallest crimp terminal is too big.
So you shove a piece of wire over the pin.
And that, friends, is how I got access to U-Boot on an Extron IN1608 HDBT, dumped the NAND flash, and fixed the corruption which was stopping it from booting 🥳 🎉 #ElectronicsRepair

Would you have guessed there was not just a UART, but also an MMC/SD interface on the diagnostic connector? I didn't.

LCM is dead
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-museum-logs-off-for-good-as-paul-allen-estate-will-auction-vintage-items/

and to no ones surprise
livingcomputers.org is gone

will they be nuking the github projects too?
git clone while you can
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

Living Computers Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo

GeekWire
In case anyone's still using v1 or v2 of GitHub actions's upload-artifact/download-artifact: they're being retired in six days. Make sure to migrate your jobs now if you can. https://github.blog/changelog/2024-04-16-deprecation-notice-v3-of-the-artifact-actions/
Deprecation notice: v3 of the artifact actions · GitHub Changelog

Deprecation notice: v3 of the artifact actions

The GitHub Blog
Lol “bias automation” is accurate
I'm doing a talk on DIY cable TV at @emf next weekend, if you're into #AnalogCable TV please feel free to pop by, or find me in the ECHQ (EMF Hams) village :)
https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/203-being-elliot-carver #EMFcamp
Being Elliot Carver: How to run your own Cable TV station (or network)

Electromagnetic Field