Mike "Pez" Hasko

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(he/him)

"Ovrdrive is a purpose built security focused usb drive. If the user doesn't plug it in three times rapidly, the drive it will appear completely blank."

huh

https://github.com/o7-machinehum/ovrdrive

GitHub - o7-machinehum/ovrdrive: Security focused USB drive.

Security focused USB drive. Contribute to o7-machinehum/ovrdrive development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide

#tech #politics #digitalsovereignty #alttech #donaldtrump

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Disconnect

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

You know, LLM in place of complicated regexes might be the first good use of the tool. I never fully trusted the result of complex regexes, so I'm at the same level with the result through an LLM, but at least I get a user friendly interface.

Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I created a collaborative, realtime nonogram web game where you can help solve all 24,976,511 possible 5x5 nonogram puzzles. When you solve a puzzle, it solves it for everyone in realtime.

So far 289 puzzles have been solved.

Help out at:
https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

#nonogram #picross #webgame

The existence of Norway implies the existence of Nandway.
Array indices start at 0 in C, but start at 32 in F.

@erincandescent @k4m1 @alina the funny thing is that we designed systems to support a multitude of protocols. then we proceeded to only ever (commonly) use three of them (ARP, IPv4, IPv6)

but fear not! we designed IP to support a multitude of protocols too! and then we proceeded to only really use TCP and UDP. For an unwritten reason everything else has to match one of those now :))))

but fear not! we designed TCP/UDP to support a multitude of protocols too!!! and then we proceeded to block every port other than 80, 443 and 53, because everything is HTTP(S) or DNS now

but fear not! we designed^W slapped websockets on top of HTTP because THERE IS NO GOD